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Our secondary was very good due to Cro and two upgraded safeties.  We may lose both of those safeties.  We either need a consistant pass rush or two top shelf corners, I'd prefer the pass rush...

 

 

Really good point.  Wish we could re-sign Landry.  Just scary cause of his injury history.  A top tier pass rusher in the draft would go a long way towards making the secondary issues easier to deal with.

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Wilson is probably an average to slightly below average corner. Though it's  tough to say. Offenses were waiting for the Jets offense to screw the pooch each week, and the LBs were so awful that may be long passing to WRs was pointless if you played the Jets. It might have been a very different story if the Jets offense was a threat to put up 3 or 4 TDs each week and opposing offenses faced pressure to score. In that case perhaps Wilson would have either stepped up or been more exposed. I'd suspect the alter but I don't know.

 

 

Nice point Bugg.  Monkey mentioned that earlier.  Teams really didn't have to push the pass that much so our secondary may not have been tested the way it was if we had an offensive threat.

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Lay a 3 yr/$36 million dollar ($21m guaranteed) extension on the table. If he declines it, go on Francesa and heavily imply that all options are being considered. Wait until the day before the draft and let Jerry Jones offer you his whole draft for Revis. Someone will overpay for him because someone will think they're one great corner away from a title.

This 100%.  If he wants to play for a fair contract, great, I love the guy.

 

If he wants to sign a 4 year contract that he is going to start squaking about in two years after he has been paid 34 million, lets get the most we can. 

 

it might be a surprising amount

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Revis' comments don't sound like a guy who cares only about money and/or wants to get traded. It sounds like he wants to be a Jet.

 

No, just his entire 6 year history with the Jets sounds like a guy who cares only about money.  If he truly just wants to be a Jet, badmouthing the organization and their new regime isn't really the best way to do that.  There's nothing this guy does that's not calculated; he didn't go on this show without talking to his Uncle and agents.  What he said was for a purpose.  

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How about the drop off from Cro to say Kyle Wilson?  That is where the real problem is.  We will still have a stud lined up on one side of the field, and where once stood Cro now stands somebody who is in a completely different league as Revis or Cro.

 

Yet they still had the league's 2nd best pass D. 

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what was the purpose? These are not the comments of a man who wants to get traded. 

 

I don't know his purpose, but it sure as hell wasn't to smooth things over with the front office.  If the man doesn't want to get traded, you tell the GM and owner that, not piss and moan to the media. And you sure as hell don't pit your Head Coach against the FO and ownership like he did.  What does that accomplish??  You're not really toeing the company line when you say your boss wants you to stay, but you're not sure about the owner? You just don't do that if you don't want to burn bridges.   All I know is that there hasn't been a single thing he's done since entering the league that wasn't 100% calculated.  He's held out twice, got hurt on his return because he pushed himself too hard and slacked during said holdout, but then complains when he's not treated like Joe ******* Jet who's done everything for the team.  The dude is all about himself.  If Idzik's smart, like Tom said, offer him top CB money, the highest CB contract offered and when he turns it down because it's not the highest contract in defensive history, you can then go to the public and say the guy is not about the team.

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I'm sure others have beaten me to the punch on this point, but where does Darelle Revis off all people have ANY room to talk about how to handle business?  This guy holds out twice in three years, once while under contract, and yet the team is supposed to go running to him before they even consider the possibility (which is all the rumors have said) of trading him?  The guy is as full of himself as any player in this entire league.  What a douche.

 

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An easier explanation of the issue is from his own mouth via ESPN:

 

 

 


Darrelle Revis Not Happy With Jets

Jane McManus with the latest on Darrelle Revis and the New York Jets.

 

Darrelle Revis has been listening, but he still hasn't heard anything from the New York Jets to make him feel confident that he'll be on the roster next season.

 

"No," Revis said in an interview taped last week in Arizona with NFL Network. "I don't know if they're doing that because they think that I'm not going to get back to 100 percent? I'm a Jet until they tell me I'm not a Jet."

 

The cornerback, who is rehabbing an ACL injury, gave support to the idea that team owner Woody Johnson might not want to pay him what he believes he is worth. Despite that, Revis reiterated that he wants to remain in New York.

 

"If I do get traded I'm not going to sit here and pout and cry," Revis said, "but I've told them numerous times that I want to be here so it's up to them and management what they want to do."

 

Revis tore his ACL on Sept. 23 against the Miami Dolphins. NFL Network has been following up with the cornerback on a regular basis as he rehabilitates the injured knee. The report aired Monday night and was taped after the fallout from John Idzik's first week as the team's new general manager at Jets headquarters in Florham Park, N.J.

 

In his first interview with reporters, Idzik did not deny reports that Revis could be traded, and said the cornerback would be evaluated like any other player on the roster.

 

"To me it was kind of rude because it was John Idzik's first day on the job," Revis said.

 

Revis tweeted that day that he was "speechless," and explained that was because Idzik hadn't even reached out to Revis beforehand.

 

"I was speechless because I didn't get a phone call," Revis said. "I know it's a business -- just call me; don't have it lingering out there. I need answers and I'm not getting any. Just the fact that that was put out there instead of contacting your best player on the team. If that's how you want to do business, then that's fine."

 

Revis is under contract with the Jets next season, but given reports that the Jets are open to dealing Revis, and Idzik's tepid response when asked about the all-pro corner, anything is possible. He has a year left on his deal but considered it a Band-Aid and was of the understanding it would be reworked before the 2012 season. Revis has held out twice with the Jets when negotiating contracts, and even considered a holdout before last year.

 

He spoke with Idzik soon after his tweet.

 

"He was a straightforward guy," Revis said. "He didn't cut no corners he just said he don't know he don't know what's going on, that it didn't come from him. Just from talking to him that one conversation, I respect him."

 

Revis said he thought it started at the top with Johnson, the Jets owner. Kremer asked Revis if he thought Johnson might not be willing to pay what Revis is worth.

 

"That might be a situation, that might be an option," Revis said.

 

Revis said he also spoke with Jets coach Rex Ryan after the incident, but it was more personal than business.

 

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Lay a 3 yr/$36 million dollar ($21m guaranteed) extension on the table. If he declines it, go on Francesa and heavily imply that all options are being considered. Wait until the day before the draft and let Jerry Jones offer you his whole draft for Revis. Someone will overpay for him because someone will think they're one great corner away from a title.

He's not gonna take that. 

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This 100%.  If he wants to play for a fair contract, great, I love the guy.

 

If he wants to sign a 4 year contract that he is going to start squaking about in two years after he has been paid 34 million, lets get the most we can. 

 

it might be a surprising amount

Scary thing is as good a player as Revis is, who is lining up to devote that much cap room to a Cb, no matter how great? Only logical landing spot I can see is Denver,and they already have a serious fraction of their cap tied up in Manning. This is what Revis is going to face up to sooner or later. The Mario Williams/Bills contract is instructive; a sensible team is not going to pay any defensive player as well as a QB ever again.

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No offense to Idzik, I really hope he is great. But, he hasn't had a draft here to be evaluated on. So I am in the keep Revis camp. Draft picks are great but the Jets track record isn't that good with them. So let's just keep the one hall of famer we did draft.

It's a chance we have to take. Two or three extra high picks could put them in a spot to trade down for more picks for future drafts and not lose out on drafting someone in that round.

Revis is a top 5 player but he's not going to win us a SB and his contract will handcuff the team in the future.

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Scary thing is as good a player as Revis is, who is lining up to devote that much cap room to a Cb, no matter how great? Only logical landing spot I can see is Denver,and they already have a serious fraction of their cap tied up in Manning. This is what Revis is going to face up to sooner or later. The Mario Williams/Bills contract is instructive; a sensible team is not going to pay any defensive player as well as a QB ever again.

There is always a team willing to take a player like that. And he's paving his way out of town with his constant bitching.

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Best player that I ever remember the Jets drafting

Re-defined his position

No character issues

Sure bet hall of famer

Never quits, never takes plays off, 100% effort all the time

 

It's amazing that all of these things can be true and yet I STILL feel kinda lukewarm about him...

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Best player that I ever remember the Jets drafting

Re-defined his position

No character issues

Sure bet hall of famer

Never quits, never takes plays off, 100% effort all the time

 

It's amazing that all of these things can be true and yet I STILL feel kinda lukewarm about him...

It's because he plays CB. If he was a QB playing at that level it wouldn't even be an issue.

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They hadn't stood next to each other all season.  Just never saw the radical drop off in our pass D when Revis was injured and absent.  Though if we do move him 100% agreed we have to look beyond Kyle Wilson. 

 

I asked Kyle Wilson the other week(he goes to the same barbershop as me) if he plans on having a big year with the Jets next year with Revis potentially being traded...his response was: "yeaaaaa man.... I don't know, maybe...we wont trade him"

 

He seems to carry little confidence in himself as a CB IMO.

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Best player that I ever remember the Jets drafting

Re-defined his position

No character issues

Sure bet hall of famer

Never quits, never takes plays off, 100% effort all the time

 

It's amazing that all of these things can be true and yet I STILL feel kinda lukewarm about him...

 

Not so sure about all of that.  "Re-defined" is a bit of a strong term.  I would say his repeated need to call out the team with things like this qualify as "character issues" and he seems more than happy to quit on his team if he thinks it will gain him more money (see: holdouts).

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you guys who hate Revis think he cares about money. it's not about money. Its about respect. when you are the best player in the locker room and the team isn't paying you as such, its a respect issue. When revis was the 7th highest paid DB, behind Eric Smith, that's a lack of respect.

 

This interview, sounds like Revis doesn't want to leave. If he really cared about money over all else, he'd be happy to leave. There's more money to be made as a former Jet than as a current Jet. It sounds like he just wants to work it out but Woody isn't answering the phone. 

 

as a side note Woody is on a plunge emotionally. He invests all this money in the Romney campaign. He asks Mike Pettine to choose him over Rex and Mike says no. then the Jets bottom out and he has to fire his trusted friend Tanny. He has to sit with Rex as a news conference and pretend they are all friends.

 

This "trade Revis" thing is like a losing gambler asking for more markers from the casino. Woody is on a terrible cool streak and there might not be a limit to his self-destruction. 

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as a side note Woody is on a plunge emotionally. He invests all this money in the Romney campaign. He asks Mike Pettine to choose him over Rex and Mike says no. then the Jets bottom out and he has to fire his trusted friend Tanny. He has to sit with Rex as a news conference and pretend they are all friends

 

 

He's in a plunge emotionally because Romney lost and Mike Pettine went to Buffalo? Who's your source?

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Best player that I ever remember the Jets drafting

Re-defined his position

No character issues

Sure bet hall of famer

Never quits, never takes plays off, 100% effort all the time

It's amazing that all of these things can be true and yet I STILL feel kinda lukewarm about him...

Agreed.

Huh? No.

The guy referred to himself as the best player on the team, tweets about sh*t he gets mad about, uses the media to leverage his situation and holds out every 2 years. I guess you could say those arent character issues.

No doubt.

Except when he holds out.

He's a me first guy. Thats why.

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Revis' comments don't sound like a guy who cares only about money and/or wants to get traded. It sounds like he wants to be a Jet.

Yeah, I agree to some extent.  He never mentioned money or contract.  He mentioned a phone call.  He just wants to know if he's going to have to start preparing to uproot his entire life and move elsewhere and start over again on a new team in a different part of the country.  The Jets FO is notoriously bad at communicating with its players.  See: Pennington, Washington, Ellis, Coles Etc.  I don't think Revis being frustrated with a lack of communication is an indictment on his character at all.  Idzik did finally call him, but only after the fact.  Perhaps if that call came a few days before the "leak" this would never have made the news.

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I asked Kyle Wilson the other week(he goes to the same barbershop as me) if he plans on having a big year with the Jets next year with Revis potentially being traded...his response was: "yeaaaaa man.... I don't know, maybe...we wont trade him"

 

He seems to carry little confidence in himself as a CB IMO.

Your hair must be awesome.

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Scary thing is as good a player as Revis is, who is lining up to devote that much cap room to a Cb, no matter how great? Only logical landing spot I can see is Denver,and they already have a serious fraction of their cap tied up in Manning. This is what Revis is going to face up to sooner or later. The Mario Williams/Bills contract is instructive; a sensible team is not going to pay any defensive player as well as a QB ever again.

From a pure logic stand point I agree with you.

 

He’s just not worth the money he’s asking for.  NFL player decisions frequently defy logic.

I really believe out there some where is a GM that has convinced himself that if Revis was on his team they would be Super Bowl champions.

 

If there is two of them, the money and draft picks flow.  Your mentioning Denver is interesting.  Elway went all in with Manning.  Manning has one, maybe two years left.  If they don’t win it all in the next two years it was all a waste.  If he feels Revis puts them over the top.  They will be players.

 

I also think perhaps Seattle will be a player in this.

 

What I would like to get for Revis is a 2nd this year, and a conditional 1 and 2 next year, if they can get him signed.

I know your on record as not agreeing he has that much value.  And your probably right.  I think there are 2 desperate GM’s out there who disagree 

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