that's a big IF. this is the first time Revis has been seriously injured in his entire football career (this includes high school and college).
Maybe so, but the Jets don't have a stud WR. They don't have studs at any position other than C and CB. You keep these studs and build around them. This isn't a difficult concept to grasp. I'm sick of these 'you only pay top tier positions, like QBs, DEs, OLB. That's such bullshit philosophy. You pay your top talent; value added is value added, it doesnt matter where it comes from. The 49ers two highest paid players are a fucking TE and ILB; why? Because they are some of the best at their respective positions. Revis is the best in the game and it's prob not close. You build your defense around him and Cromartie (which is what we were doing by drafting our young d-linemen). You don't hand out contracts by positional tier in a vacuum. Now, if Revis wants $17 million, then fine, trade him. But what other team in the NFL would pay him that much? That's as much as an elite QB makes.
Injuries can happen anytime anywhere. To ALL players. How about we get rid of some of these overrated players first. Holmes, Sanchez, Harris, Pace, Thomas. Lets start there. It would be one thing if Revis was on the backside of his career but he isn't. We can field a competitive team with him. Simply fix the offense. Funny everyone is now on the trade Revis bandwagon, and thats suddenly how we will fix this team. How about fixing the offense, and simply having a better balanced team? We weren't that far from making the playoffs this season, and I don't count the buffalo game as any measuring stick, they clearly mailed it in at that game. This team just simply didn't do enough on offense. Lets start there.
No, I'd rather keep the best corner to play the game on this roster than try and trade him for what anyone "hopes" to pan out as a good pick in the draft. You'd rather give him away and pray you draft someone worth a damn, then hang on to him and move Cro? Cromartie just came off an awesome season! Put him on the market. You know how many teams would die to have a guy like Revis? We need to keep him a Jet the rest of his career. He needs to die a Jet
We can't cut some of the players you listed because our dumb fuck previous GM gave them contracts that would cripple our team were they cut. Keep them and keep overpaid Revis, and we can't field a competitive team. Take your emotional man love of Revis out of this, and realize that this is a very smart business decision. We were very far from making the playoffs this season, in hindsight. At best, we would have finished 9-7. Cincy got in at 10-6.
I think he means that required extensive surgery or rehab, pulling a hammy hurts but its hardly serious.
Because this is simply not true. No personnel guy in the NFL would agree with this. Four cornerstone positions - QB, Left Tackle, DE, and CB.
Pace is all but gone due to his cap number. Thomas is not even under contract. With our cap situation moving Sanchez, Holmes, or Harris is not reasonable. All would cost an already thin roster over the cap 8 figures in dead money and they have very low value in any trade situation. Only Holmes would offer any cap relief (1.25 mill) and you remove the best of an already thin receiver group. Revis is the only player on the roster that could bring back good value in a trade. Add to that he is reportedly looking for a new huge contract that would be a big hinderence to our cap moving forward it makes sense to get value for him while we can.
I'm guessing Cromartie is also on the market. The Jets could offer him as an alternative to suitors who don't want to pay the asking price for Revis.
Its hardly a smart business decision. If your team makes its living as a defensive team, you field a good defense. So whats smart about this? An unproven commodity if draft picks? Were losing Landry....so lets lose another awesome secondary player? You want to sound smarter than you are, but all you're doing if becoming a sheep. Whatever the popular opinion is on the site at the time is the smart thing to do. Its not smart, you dont get rid of your best player PERIOD. That is stupid. What do you people think is going to happen if we get rid of him? The next Brady comes here? Is there really that much talent in this draft that we need another number one pick?
I believe we can get great value for him. maybe a 2 and a 4, from TB or Det. both teams are in need of a playmaking CB.
I understand your thinking, but i doubt most of the players we just discussed will be on the roster in 2014 which you can pay Revis, and it will more that alleviate or balance itself out.
This might sound crazy to some. I have been a fan all my life and there have only been a handful of players that I would be proud wearing their jersey. I remember watching games at Shea with my Namath on and at the Oakland Coliseum with my Curtis Martin on. Without Revis, there is not one player on this whole roster I like. I am sick of having to go to road games every year with a throwback on because our roster is a complete joke. Tebow, Cro, Holmes, and Sancho? They have turned the Jets into a laughing stock. If you think trading our only future hall of famer with give us a chance to improve, you are kidding yourself. Any picks we will get will just lead to more busted picks. I feel like I am the only Jets fan here in California. and if the Trade Revis, I am throwing out all my Jets jerseys and buying a 49ner Jersey. I am done with the punishment.
If we lose Revis, I'm sure we can use that money to sign Landry, a couple of other free agents, and some good draft picks. I'm not sounding like a sheep. Judging from the two threads on this topic, it seems pretty evenly split in terms of whether or not we should trade Revis. I personally want to keep him here under a reasonable contract. If he doesn't have a reasonable contract, trade him. Maybe you're the sheep. We had a good defense without Revis. We need to pour resources on offense. The only game in which the defense absolutely screwed up was the second New England game, the Steelers game, and maybe the second Miami game. Every other game, we either won or kept it fairly competitve until the wheels fell off (think Seattle, San Francisco, Buffalo) thanks to our defense. Revis is a great corner, but we need to think about offense. Offense gets you to the playoffs and defense wins championships.
Since trading Revis will NOT help the cap this year, you have to wonder whether the pressure is on Woody to spend less than the cap. Anyone know how Woody's trust fund is doing? Something tells me the team is not making much money selling Tebow jerseys lately.
Exactly why you keep him. They can improve the offense with him. They need to put the money to good use, rather than waste it on players like Holmes.
We can't improve the offense because we have too much money tied up to the wrong players. Holmes is debatable, but Sanchez is NOT worth the money he is getting paid. That's part of the reason why Tannenbaum is unemployed right now. We have to bite the bullet, trade some guys who we know are valuable, and get to work in rebuilding through the draft. It's really the smart thing to do. I bet you and many others were in the 'we gotta rebuild slowly and painfully' bandwagon before this announcement.
