if revis plays, fantastic, if not whatever. once the season starts the jets will be playing. football existed without revis and it will continue to do so. (until next yr lol) I for one dont lose sleep over this shit, obviously some of you do. greed is a season ending injury for Revis, or its heading to that point. but ill wait till official offers and declines come out before i get the pitchfork lit
That's the second time you've equated the Revis situation to a couple JAGS. Really? The only similarity is that the FO acted appropriately in all 3 cases.
How so? Some punk kid held out on them so they gave him a contract above his draft status. Less than 3 years later he's holding out again after our owner offers him $120,000,000. I already made it clear who's juggling who's nuts in this debate.
Um, no, I mentioned them because they have the same agents, fenwyr. Like, uh, they are familiar with the agents' tactics - unreasonable and public. I think that's been posted something like 5000 times already on this subject. I thought you of all people would make that connection.
He's had that location on his twitter page for quite some time. If you do a google search of 40.871516,-74.057074 there are plenty of results. There is "cached" pages that have all sorts of dates.
That I'm fine with. The agents are obviously a problem. Tell me how that makes the FO's action in this case inappropriate?
Did you even read my post? Where did I say anything like that? I said I hope it gets fixed. I don't care how it gets fixed.
I am not sure how you get what you are saying out of what he posted but any person that does a lot of negotiations will tell you is who ever talks money first generally loses. When they approached him, even though everyone knew he almost definitely would not play for $1M this year, they lost position and Revis gained position. Had they waited for Revis to approach them they are in a better negotiating position and it is very possible that the 10Yr $120M contract would have already been signed. Of course the numbers they eventually will come to is unknown, what is known is that when they approached him first they lost some bargaining power.
They played the agents' game. They went public, announced figures back and forth and it got bush league. And it all starts in January. That's the part I have a problem with. I've kind of been kicking around the situation for a while, and the only thing that makes sense to me - the one where the Jets offer to give a new contract to a player with 3 years left on his deal in the locker room in January - is that is was Woody himself that did it out of emotion. It didn't occur to me until he made his smug response in an interview the day before the media blackout, where he said 'That's the beautiful thing about contract; they make verbal agreements meaningless' or something close to that. I understand the business side of things, and I understand that verbal agreements ARE meaningless in the context of contracts, but when your owner comes out and basically admits that his word outside of a written contract is worth dirt... that doesn't make me feel all warm and fuzzy and think the Jets are the clearcut good guys in this situation.
I did read your post, and you said by talking to the DR, the Jets handled it terribly. Try to keep up now. So, I asked, if you think they handled it terribly by talking to him, do you think if they did not talk to him, he would be playing for $1m, or signed for 10/120? I don't think its that tough to follow. Let me try it this way for you. If the Jets did not talk to him end of the year, where do you think both sides would be right now.
