Sans a lucky penalty, the storyline today is how Vincent Jackson's catch put the Bucs into position for us to lose the game. If you think lucky penalties make us awesome, that's cool I guess. I just don't see it that way. We had 1 weakness on defense today: the inability to lock down their star WR.
If you walked in on Michelangelo painting the Sistene Chapel you would look up and yell at him that he missed a spot.
That's your story and maybe the media's story. The Jets defense was very good today and the offense struggled. If the Jets lost the game it would have been primarily on the offense not scoring enough points and giving up a fumble inside their own 10 yard line. If you think your story is awesome, that's cool I guess. I just don't see it that way.
Revis played well today. He shouldnt have been booed by fans. It's not his fault he was traded. He was a great Jet. I still love Revis.
It kind of is his "fault" he was traded, in that he demanded a contract that 31 out of 32 NFL teams would not offer.
Imagine if we still had Revis and picked Richardson at #9? Holy crap. That said, Revis did this to himself. You don't pay a CB 16 mil a year. No matter how great he is. The only way you could justify it is if that CB is dominate on mostly every play, and that's just not the case with that position.
Yeah would be awesome to have this game mic'd up. Wilson was getting into a mini tussle with another Buc player. And as Wilson walked away with the ball tucked under his arm Revis came up behind him and tried to slap the ball away playfully. Wilson was like WTF? Would have been cool to watch Wilson's reaction once he found out it was Revis messing with him.
Revis played as well as you'd expect. The ACL injury doesn't seem to have any lingering effect. I wish him nothing but success; against every other team but us.
Idzik's first move was his first mistake. He shouldn't have avoided Revis and his agents at the Owners meetings (though the fault may lie with Woody here). He should have went out with Revis to a nice steak dinner, sat him down, and told him "Look, you are the greatest at your position, but you're coming off of a major injury. We want to keep you, but we have to safeguard ourselves against injury, and we have to safeguard ourselves against you holding out. If you are willing to put clauses in your contract that protect us in case you are injured and that insure you won't hold out for a new contract for at least 3 years, we'll give in to your salary demand of 16 million a year". It would have been that simple. Man to man over a steak dinner, the way John Elway worked things out with Peyton Manning to get him to Denver. Instead we gave him the old cold shoulder and sent him away. You can't tell me we couldn't have afforded to keep him. We are paying him this year anyway and paying Antonio Cromartie 15 million next year (unless you think we are cutting Cromar and running a Milliner-Kyle show). It was not a financial decision. It was a "Woody is real tired of your shit" decision. Woody let emotions cloud his judgement and Idzik let it happen. He should have pointed out to Woody that with the right contract we prevent future holdouts, and really aren't killing ourselves on cap all things considered (because then we could cut Cromar without leaving ourselves with a talent gap). It's done with and sadly we have to move on without him, but it was absolutely a mistake to trade him. Anyone who says otherwise is simply operating on emotion instead of logic.
I see it 180 degrees the other way. We weren't getting a hometown discount. There was too much negative negotiating history. We couldn't afford him. We have too many big contracts. We needed to rebuild. Logic dictated that we trade him and those who wanted to see him stay were operating solely on emotion because they hated to see our best player leave.
Of course it was his fault he was traded. The Jets knew they could never meet his demands and refused to allow themselves to be manipulated by him with another of his holdouts.
Well, he can rot on that team. They will strugel opto win 6. But he gets 16 million, reap what you sow.
Jet fans had every right to boo him..every right. He was a pain in the balls the entire time he was here. When the Giants built their front line and won Superbowls a few years back...nobody was saying they had the best cbs in the game. You make you good cbs great by a front line. In order to afford that front line you cant give most of your money to a cb. Have said it a million times.....BB up in New England drafted 10 tight ends to just show you can let Revis play in Revis Island all you want...by himself with a wide receiver and the Pats will just use the other 80% of the field. It does not work giving all your money to a CB and the Bucs will find that out in the next couple years...guaranteed. He will be a waste of a signing for them
