Everything that goes around comes around. It's kind of a rule of life. I don't see the Jets and Tannenbaum as particularly unethical in the way they handle players and agents, although the Kendall situation was an utter fiasco that the Jets have paid and continue to pay for. Winning the Darrelle Revis situation outright would probably be a disaster for the Jets moving forward. It would send the wrong message about the management-player relationship and there would be cascading effects down the road, as there were from the Leon Washington negotiation last year. It's easy to find fault with Revis agents in all of this, and there's no question that their hardball tactics have turned this into more of a confrontation than it needed to be. There's a lot of history between them and the Jets at this point and they've effectively painted themselves into a corner, along with Revis, as a result. That said, the Jets need to find a way to resolve this - after Revis indicates a willingness to do so, that doesn't look totally one-sided. They need to throw Revis a bone somewhere to gnaw on so that the next negotiation with a star player that turns a bit ugly does not totally blow up in their faces. AJ Smith is showing us what happens when a management team tries to lower the boom on its players. I'll bet the Chargers have to pay through the nose to get players to go there for the next few years. Every agent in the business is looking at Smith right now and marking a little red X on the back of his neck where they'd like the axe to fall.
I tend to agree more with this position than the opposite, the one you quoted Thunder as putting forth. You are not saying the Jets are wrong and Revis and his agent right, as I see it and also think, but merely that there's a cost to being TOO hard on this sort of negotiation. The big picture here is that the Jets should not be looking to use their star player as an example to the others, because that is a mixed bag, in addition to a problem on the field if the Jets actually go forward without Revis. The mixed bag part regarding negotiations is as you say - in any market, people will tend to shy away from from parties who are not seen as prepared to enter into fair deals. As a practical matter the Jets will need to throw Revis some kind of bone to break the logjam. It's just plain too high stakes for the Jets to play total hardball at this point, imo.
And oh yeah I am thrilled the Jets have solved the Mangold situation. Among other things he's my favorite player right now.
I am interested in seeing how Mangold's contract compares to the complexity of Brick's. I wonder if he accepted the rolling guarantees that Brick did.
The best part of this story is a Mangold-centric Hard Knocks this week. They should just call Nick Mangold's HBO comedy special.
The contract pretty much has to, all though Manish said there was some clever things added so I'm curious to see what the final deal is also.
I hope so. Rex Madbacker and Jenks are obviously funny and have been featured, but I think Mangold is as funny and entertaining as the rest of 'em. He's hysterical
I think it does...somebody reported it was very complex and that is why it took the league office longer than usual to approve it.
Rex sent the right message right now by holding Nick out of practice this morning. He said Nick's signing this afternoon and he didn't want him to step in a hole. Good time to send a clear message that we're taking care of our own.
Nope he only loses any weight at all so that the beat writers have something to talk about. Every pound Rex carries on him as pound of pure win.
Thats my #1 reason for being so upset with Revis. Why would you not want to be with Rex and the team? Sounds like a fun place to be. Wait, you can have $120 million and hang out with Rex and the team and win multiple titles possibly? What is he thinking?
Was just coming on to check on the status of the agreement. Very cool by Rex. Man, I soooo hope there's no lockout next year. The free agents we may able to land will be sick!
