Because having Darrelle Revis is more important than having a well-balanced roster with enough talent to compete well?
Because owners will magically cut their profits in half so that little lambs and daisies sprout all around the fans that want to go to a game? Ticket prices are going to stay at the maximum level they can be sold at. That's just business.
Hopefully for round 2 with Revis he still just asks to be the highest paid corner in the league and not the highest paid defensive player (or player)...
A guy as good as Revis at the cornerback position can make an unspeakable difference on defense, especially against teams without depth past WR1.
Maybe you don't understand that the Jets are currently sitting at $130 mil for the 2013 season with only 31 players under contract, including players such as Ellis Lankster, Garrett McIntyre, Nick Bellore, Taylor Boggs, Caleb Schlauderaff, Josh Baker, Royce Adams, and Damarcus Ganaway. Most of those players will end up on the practice squad anyways, and maybe a couple make it to active roster. That leaves us with 25 players under contract and our cap would be around $127 mil after 6 of those are moved to practice squad. The $127 mil also doesn't include any draft picks for 2012 AND 2013, likely to be be over $8mil. That pushes our cap to $135 mil with probably around 35-40 players on the roster, and needing starters at WR, FS, ILB, OLB, RG, LG, RT, SS, TE, RB, DE, Long snapper, and a few backups. Some of these will be filled via draft picks. Lets just say we find 6 starters out of the next two drafts. We will still need 5-7 more starters via FA. Assuming those replacements costs us $20 mil for those 5-7 average starters, our cap would be at $150 mil. A few releases (Pace, Bart, Hunter, Eric) can push the cap back down to $130 mil. We are still $10 over the cap and all this is assuming that we replace our FAs with average FA AND draft as many as 6 starters over two years, something we haven't seen in a long long time. Our 2013 situation is pretty bad. We can get out of it by pushing money back to 2014 and beyond, but in return, your future year cap situation becomes foggy. I predict a trade in 2013 for Either one of Tebow or Sanchez, and either one of Revis or Cromartie (Cro most likely). I also think Jets will try to trade away Santonio and save a few mils as opposed to cutting him and saving $1.25 mil (same as Cro). These three moves could cut the Jets cap by as much as $25 mil in my estimate, although depending on the language in the contract. There is a reason why the Jets have been very quiet this year. They will make some noise next year, but will likely be by the players traded away or cut.
If they had utilized him properly he would have only been in for RZ plays and then who would have been on the field the rest of the time? It was just a bad signing and hopefully there's an upgrade this year. As far as the cap goes, whether there's an increase or not, I don't see how the Jets would be more effected by that than any other team. Whether it goes up or stays the same, all teams will be dealing with the same limits.
A bit of both I think. Could the owners be afraid that revenue(minus the tv deals) is stagnating? That the cap in recent years was propped up with money borrowed from future caps and the new deal?
IMO we gotta keep Revis, we need that cornerstone to our franchise. The Ravens would never trade Lewis, the Steelers would never trade Troy.
He is the only player on our defense that is great. Harris is good. Pouha is good. Cromartie is good. Without Revis we go from top 5 D to around 10.
all this could be settled by simply playing the players we draft. If Tanny drafts a WR who can't catch the ball, then live with it, or fire Tanny. Don't run out and grab a $10M/yr FA WR just to cover up draft fuck-ups.
He is undoubtedly our best defender and I agree at making him the cornerstone of this franchise. However, he will be a FA in 2014. He will not sign with the Jets before his deal expires. And knowing him, you will enter in to a bidding war that can vanish a ton of cap space. He won't sign the $12mil a yr deal like Nnamdi (he already signed that in 2010 while he was under contract). I think it might eclipse $15mil on the open market, being that he'd have atleast three more years of his prime left in him (28yrs old in 2014) unlike Nnamdi who was 30. I don't know if I wanna tie up elite QB money on a an all-world CB. Depending on how our next two drafts go (2012, 2013), I might want the Jets to take a back seat on this unless we find couple of elite pass rushers and couple of all-pro OL in the next two drafts.
Agreed. Thats why our next two drafts are very critical to this teams near future success. Its make or break for Tanny and Rex and will push both of these individuals to either become elite GM/HC tandem, or the ones claiming unemployment.
...or get a sweet ass package of picks that would stock our roster with talent AND give us money to fill in the rest of the pieces/retain what we got. Lewis is the type of leader on the field and in the locker room that we need and Revis will never be.
If the Jets let Darrelle Revis get to free agency it'll be a screw-up of insane proportions. You either lock him down to a deal the team can win a Super Bowl under or you trade him.
But ya all other moves shows he wants to win or get the back page of the post maybe reverse that order above...
bullshit-it's greed how american to confuse the two try not to be a sucker/enabler for the rich please
Business = Greed and Greed = Business. Nobody goes into business with any idea other than maximizing what they get out of it. If Woody or the other NFL owners had altruistic motives they'd be putting their heart, soul and money into doing something altruistic.
No player in the HISTORY of the NFL with a last name of Revis Christ has EVER even made it to the Super Bowl. Just sayin.....
most of those players were on the 53 last year but theyre going to be on the practice squad this year? that makes sense a simple restructuring of harris and mangold frees up at least another 10 mill ... and 5 average starters are not going to cost $20 mill against the cap in year one, thats an over-projection every year people claim were in for cap problems yet those problems never arise
