Jets should tell Darrelle Revis to ‘take it or leave it’
This Darrelle Revis situation has become like a bad movie that I just can’t stop talking about. I want to stop, honestly I do. But I can’t. I just can’t. I’m sick with it. So now I’m just going to give into it.
God help us.
Earlier today, head coach Rex Ryan essentially told the media that the Jets would be just fine without Revis.
“Don’t feel sorry for us,” the Jets’ coach said. “We have everything we need here on defense.”
“We have a great collection of individual talent,” Ryan said. “These guys will play great as a team. That’s what we’ll do. Obviously, Revis is a tremendous player. Ray Lewis, a tremendous player. Ed Reed, tremendous player. Kris Jenkins, too. But it’s about the unit, and we’ve been selling that from the day we walked on here.
“We can get it done,” Ryan continued. “We’re not afraid of anybody.”
Good attitude. Maybe the Jets’ front office should share in Ryan’s sediment and give Revis an ultimatum: Either accept the latest offer or sit out the entire year.
I’ve gone back and forth on this topic over the last couple of weeks, but I keep coming back to the same mindset: Revis is wrong, the Jets are right. The Jets shouldn’t have to pay for Al Davis’ mistake (and it was a mistake) with the Nnamadi Asomugha contract. Revis has every right to feel entitled to make more than Asomugha, but the Jets have every right to tell him to take what they’re offering or shove off.
The Jets have already offered him a long-term deal that should not only work for him, but the team as well. The Jets have to worry about paying 52 other guys and also have to consider that a lockout could be coming. Seeing as how Revis still has one more year left on his current deal, he should feel fortunate that the Jets are working with him at all.
Like Ryan said in his comments – Revis is a tremendous player. In fact, he’s the most important member of the Jets’ defense because he can play one-on-one with any receiver in the league, and often does in Ryan’s scheme. And because he does, the Jets essentially are playing with an extra man on defense because they don’t have to double team an opponent’s No. 1 receiver.
But enough is enough already. The Jets are trying to win a Super Bowl – not ensure that Revis gets the moniker of highest paid cornerback. Woody Johnson and Mike Tannenbaum have drawn a line in the sand and they shouldn’t cross it. Revis can take it or leave it.
Johnson said on Monday that he has a “gut feeling” that Revis won’t play for the Jets in 2010. Ryan said today that his defense would be fine without him. Maybe tomorrow Revis will wise up and realize that winning a Super Bowl and being a part of a team are much bigger than being the highest paid cornerback in the NFL.
If he doesn’t, then he should feel free to sit out. I hear Kyle Wilson wouldn’t mind seeing some PT this season.
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This guy should man-up, he has a contract that he was happy with…now he isn’t…too bad.
I don’t like my contract either…oh wait, I don’t have one, my Boss can launch my ass tomorrow and I’d have nothing.
This guy isnt going to get 100 million so he’s pissed while the guy in the stands just paid a weeks wage to watch him play..
I say F-em………….
Sounds great in theory, but that’s assuming you agree with Ryan’s assessment that the Jets can win a Superbowl without Revis. Personally, I very much doubt that they can.
Then that doesn’t say much about the Jets as a team, snd_dsgnr.
I’m certainly not suggesting that Revis wouldn’t be missed, but there’s only one position that can control whether or not a team can win the Super Bowl and that’s quarterback.
Yes, well, I don’t necessarily think all that highly of their chances with Revis either.
We agree:
http://www.scoresreport.com/2010/08/06/2010-nfl-question-marks-new-
york-jets/
I couldn’t agree more. How is an athletic young player not going to play in his prime? It doesn’t make sense, especially with the potential of a lockout coming in the next year. So he will lose two years of his prime as well as losing out on some major cash. I think he signs before opening day. If not then you have to question this guys motives.
Ditto what “Jets” said, and I think he’s a Tampa fan….
Numbers aside, wasn’t Asomugha’s contract about to expire; whereas, Revis has 3 years left on his current contract? Has he outplayed it, yes. Is there any other team in the league that renegotiates a player contract when there’s 3 years left on it, I can’t think of an example???
Also, Tennenbaum will have every agent beating him down for extensions if he does it. How angry would all-world lineman/center Nick Mangold be if Revis (holding out) gets his way and Mangold (being a professional) is at camp and acting like a professional sans the new contract?
Good points all the way around.
Mike – well said on Tannenbaum. He gives in here, other agents are going to be asking for the same treatment for their clients. He and the Jets’ front office are in a tough spot.
Jets are not going to do well this year. Revis and Rex need to give it up.
Hard Knox on HBO was very cool last night.