The one fact we do know , its not doing Revis any favours at all sitting out. I think you're right he would have been a nickel back and be looking to move on maybe at the latter end of the season.
this is sad, ridiculous. hopefully they will get something done tonight so he can go out there and practice on monday
I'm really beginning to doubt it. This sucks. We trade away half our draft to get this kid, then Tanny wants flex his muscle, and we get no first round pick. Sickening.
How are the Jets asking for something unreasonable? After pick sixteen in the first round, the most you can sign a pick for is a 5 year deal, but for picks 1 through 16, the team's can negotiate a 6 year deal. Thus far, per the post earlier by Sunday Jack, picks 2-6, 10, 12 and 16 were all 6 year deals. If Revis gets six years, that would be 9 of the first 16 picks that get 6 year deals. I find that far from unreasonable on the Jets part.
http://www.packersnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070727/PKR01/70727201/1989 The Green Bay Packers signed first-round pick Justin Harrell to a five-year contract today, the team announced. ----------------------------- stop trying to spin your way out of it, its a 5yr deal, just like the one marshawn lynch signed. besides, it doesn't even matter since the jets are not willing to offer revis this kind of contract. the only guy who signed a 6yr deal between pick 6-17 is okoye, so don't tell me it would be reasonable to offer revis a 6yr deal.
Two sources with competing information. Hmm. . . . mine cites an author. Why don't you email the guy and see if you can divine the correct answer to this oh-so-pressing peripheral question. No spin here, killer. Just citing a source. And, before you replay what I do or don't think is reasonable, reviewing the posts above would be helpful. Too much chest thumping, not enough careful reading. I don't mind, but it's just not helping whatever point you're trying to make. Fret not - I'll still play along.
it says the team announced they have signed harrell to a 5yr contract. does it get any clearer than that? who knows. here's my point:
Not at all. Except for that sticky point about how it's a six-year deal that voids to five at certain playing time benchmarks.
says who? that journalist? it's a 5yr deal. thats what the team announced and thats all i need to know. otherwise they would have said...lets say...its a 6yr deal. whatever, thats not even the point. even if its a 6yr deal, thats not the kind of contract the jets would be willing to offer revis, so you (whoever made that comparison) cannot compare the 6yr deal okoye signed to the 6yr deal harrell and lynch signed
Actually, it wouldn't be at all surprising if that contract scenario - what you call unlikely - is the solution to this contract impasse. A six year deal with a voidable final year, like the contracts signed by Harrell and Lynch, allows the team to stake a claim to the six years it wanted, and allows Revis to void the sixth to the five that he wanted. A pretty clear middle-ground, with precedent in the first round.
I know. . . . I know. . . I blame network television. Nothing else of value to distract me this evening.
