Just a little 'math fun' I posted in the other Revis thread: June 1st, 2094. That's 82 years from now. If Revis took his pay from the first 2 years of his current contract (money he's already received) and spent $1000 per day, June 1st, 2094 is when he'd run out. That's $1000 per day for 82 years on money he's already gotten from the Jets over the last 2 seasons. I'm trying to feel sorry for him, I really am. edit: $15M + $15M / $1000 / 365 = 82 years.
Exactly. Which is why it makes no sense really for him to do it and I wouldnt give a shit if we traded him because of a hold out... The guy is set average 11 mil or so over the next 3 years... I would say he’s pretty set. Be a leader and forget about this shit. Play some fucking football Revis.
Rex needs to cool it with praising Revis in public. All he does is give Revis' agents more leverage. "If you think he's one of the best players in the NFL why don't you pay him like one?" Self inflicted wounds like this can be avoided.
When you won't come out and say that you're not going to hold out, you invite this type of speculation. Even with this interview, he didn't say he wouldn't hold out.
Let me say it for him. He's not going to hold out. Why? Because it's stupid. He can make just as much if not more money by playing out this year without starting any big war that he can lose at if the team tells him to fuck himself and forces him into retirement. He'll wait til next year. Then he'll fuck with our wallet. Oh well. It's his prerogative.
With the possibility of a flatlining salary cap over the next couple of years, I wonder, is there a way to structure a contract that just says "You'll get a straight 10% of our salary cap each year for the next 4-5 years, so if the cap goes up, your pay goes up"?
You know they won't tell him to fuck himself. They'll all make a pilgrimage to his house and plead with him to take their money. That's why I want to see them on hard knocks, it'll play just like a sequel.
I respect Revis on the field. However, his insistance on playing the hold out game is tiresome. I kind of hope we see him after he retires on Outside the lines where he is pennyless because he fell for a Bernie Maddoff scheme or he throws it all away on cocaine and whores. Screw his greed. Play football.
His greed suggests very strongly that what you'll see twenty-five years down the road is a guy who owns like 5 beer distributorships and a couple of auto salesrooms and a resort hotel in Miami Beach. The guy spends all his time figuring out how to maximize his money. The guys who wind up broke and down in the dumps are the guys who don't worry about the money while they are making it and then suddenly discover they left a lot on the table and have none in the bank. Every now and then you get a really bad businessman like Mark Brunell who tries to manage things and can't but most of the time the guys watching their money do really well in the end. The only way Darrelle Revis is broke in 25 years is if his agents screw him somehow.
I like it. But unfortunately Revis is only 1 of 53 paid soldiers (1.8%). So for every 'Revis' making 10%+, you have 8 other scrubs making less than 1%. And we STILL have ppl on TGG screaming to pay Revis whatever he wants AND they wonder why we don't have solid back-ups at every position. We actually DO have backups at every other position...unfortunately, they're starting. :rofl:
