Right. There is an agreed upon media blackout. He isn't allowed to respond. Obviously negotiations have been ongoing and obviously they cannot discuss those negotiations or how close they are to having a done deal.
Dude also like consider like the fact that this is like the 8th month of the year and today is like the 3rd day of the week. Dude what is 8 x 3? 24 !!! Ding Ding ! its like synergistically right in front of us.
This... throwing 120 mill to a CB is a pretty juicy bone. If Revis get's offended by the biggest contract ever offered to a CB, with uncertainty over how next year will look like financially, he's the asshole... not the Jets.
No. That's 2012. 12. Which is half of 24. We're now halfway through the preseason. Time for the holdout world to end.
As of now TC still has not back down from his posts of yesterday. Not even a little waffle. You have to assume that he has unimpeachable source or at least he thinks is unimpeachable otherwise he would not have wrote a column about it in the Dallas newspaper. He will either be a hero or come up with egg all over his face. Since I doubt he wants the egg option you have to presume he knows something that at this moment none of us us nor our hack beat reporters are privy to
It really makes no sense for the Jets to up their offer or rework it in any way at this point. The Revis camp is dead set on a $16 mil/year contract. Even if the Jets did up their offer it would still be rejected if it fell short of $16 mil per. The contract on the table is already more than generous.
Why would the leak come from hard knocks if TC says he's used this source before. I subscribe to the theory that it's someone in Mevis's entourage
because Hard Knocks has covered more then one team, and it's possible that this source has become friendly enough with the hierarchy of other teams that they may confide some stuff in this particular person, leading to him being a source for Cowlishaw.
If it is in fact a drop dead date scenario the DR camp wouldn't want that news to get out. Once it gets out, he loses the little leverage he has. In that scenario Revis told someone he thought he could trust but they broke his trust. In that scenario, you'd also be sure that Schwartz & Feinsod would scream to every reporter that would listen that nothing was imminent.
So, now that Cowlishaw has gotten every jet fan in the world worked into a frenzy and every other writer, reporter, or other jock hack spending all there time denying it, if he doesn't show up tomorrow is he going to be even more hated that he is by some now? I think the answer to that is a resounding yes even though he did nothing himself to bring it down on him.
If that's true, then there's a good chance that having that drop dead date leaked will cause Revis to call an audible and ultimately decide to hold out into the season.
Because NYJ and the Revis camp agreed to a Media Blackout. That means they are not discussing negotiations in public with any type of media. This includes the beat writers, their sources have been told to hush up, but either an HBO contact leaked the info, or someone in the Revis camp leaked it to Colishaw (Possibly Schwartz himself?) to start stirring the pot a little bit. I'm not convinced in any way this rumor is real or unreal, or who the source is, I'm just hoping this gets done by Wednesday.
Maybe. He probably chose the specific date for a reason though. Maybe so he could play in the 3rd preseason game.
I'm just not sure who would both have and break Revis's trust that quickly. It stands to reason that if it were someone close enough to him to get that kind of information, there would be little reason for that person to have close ties to a semi-visible reporter like Cowlishaw and use them to disseminate incredibly sensitive information.
