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NY Jets brass including owner Woody Johnson, snubs Darrelle Revis' agents at NFL scouting combine in major sign star CB may not return

The brushoff, which new GM John Izdik and Rex Ryan were also involved in, comes one month after reports surfaced that Johnson wanted the Jets to explore all options involving Revis — who can become an unrestricted free agent after this season — including trading him.

By Manish Mehta / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Published: Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 12:28 AM

Updated: Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 2:21 AM.Could Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis be on another sidleine next season? If the attitude of the team's leaders at the NFL combine is any indication, the answer may be yes.



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INDIANAPOLIS — During a week in which team executives and agents huddled at seemingly every Starbucks, hotel lounge and restaurant in Indianapolis to talk shop at the NFL Scouting Combine, Jet brass avoided the Darrelle Revis camp, failing to meet with his representatives and raising the question of whether owner Woody Johnson wants to re-sign the All-Pro cornerback.

 

The Daily News has learned that the Jets’ contingent, which included GM John Idzik, Rex Ryan and Johnson himself, didn’t meet or contact Revis’ representatives during the combine, fueling speculation that Johnson simply doesn’t want to pay the Pro Bowl cornerback as the team enters a rebuilding phase in 2013.

 

The brushoff comes one month after reports surfaced that Johnson wanted the Jets to explore all options involving Revis — who can become an unrestricted free agent after this season — including trading him

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The two camps are separated by three-tenths of a mile. The walk from the downtown J.W. Marriott, where the Jets brass is based, to the Westin, where Revis’ agents are staying, takes six minutes.

Idzik & Co. met with representatives of Santonio Holmes, Dustin Keller, Jeff Cumberland, Austin Howard, Shonn Greene and LaRon Landry during the week, but elected not to talk to Revis’ agents.

 

A team spokesman declined to say whether Johnson and/or Idzik had met with Revis’ reps.

Revis’ agent, Neil Schwartz, confirmed that he was in Indianapolis for five days with partner Jonathan Feinsod before they left town on Monday, but he also declined comment about whether they had met with Idzik or Johnson.

 

 

Owner Woody Johnson has no interest in making Revis the NFL's highest paid defensive player, according to one executive from an NFC team.

 

One NFC executive told The News that there is a sentiment around the league that Johnson not only isn’t interested in making Revis the highest-paid defensive player in the league, which would mean a salary of around $16 million per year, but that the owner doesn’t want to sign the cornerback to a lucrative long-term deal at all given the dire state of the franchise.

 

The cap-strapped Jets do not figure to be in the playoff conversation entering the 2013 season. They aren’t likely to make a splash when free agency opens next month either, as they quietly try to rebuild with younger, cheaper players.

 

Johnson appears to have prioritized paper green over Gang Green for the 2013 season, which would not sit well with disillusioned PSL holders at MetLife Stadium.

 

The organization’s handling of the Revis situation is the most puzzling of all.

A source told The News that Idzik hasn’t opened the lines of communication with Revis’ representatives since he was hired a month ago.

 

Idzik's phone call to Revis last month only lasted a few minutes and appears to be a transparent attempt at damage control in the wake of reports that Johnson wanted the Jets to explore all avenues involving Revis as he rehabs from a season-ending torn left ACL suffered last October.Last week, Idzik wouldn’t divulge whether he had scheduled a meeting with the Revis camp to discuss a possible contract extension or if he was even interested in a long-term investment. Per terms of his contract, Revis will reach unrestricted free agency after 2013 if he doesn’t skip any mandatory offseason team activities. Otherwise, he’s tied to the Jets for three more years.
 

Ron Antonelli/New York Daily News

Revis is easily the Jets best player on either side of the ball.

Idzik has spent the better part of his first month on the job creating a strategy to clean up the mess left by former GM Mike Tannenbaum, but his decision to not even discuss the Revis situation with his agents at an event tailor-made for such talks is surprising.

The organizational narrative toward Revis has drastically changed in recent months. It wasn’t long ago when Jets brass was spouting that it wanted Revis to be a “Jet for Life.” His reworked contract before the 2010 season was supposed to be a bridge to a long-term deal to keep him in Green for the rest of his career.

Revis’ season-ending knee injury complicated matters, but he remains ahead of his rehab schedule and is expected to be ready for the start of training camp.

Although Revis is coming off that significant injury, he holds a fair amount of leverage if the Jets are contemplating trading him.

Any team interested in dealing for Revis, who is scheduled to earn $6 million ($3 million base salary plus $3 million in three separate bonuses) in 2013, would want to come to terms on a long-term contract with him before pulling the trigger on a trade. Revis, therefore, can control where he would go in what essentially amounts to a no-trade clause.

Ryan said last week that the Jets have not had internal discussions about trading Revis. The Jets’ cap hit would jump from $9 million to $12 million if Revis is dealt.

Because he hasn’t been on the field since the surgery, Gang Green wouldn’t be expected to get anything close to fair market value before Revis is due a $1 million roster bonus on the third day of the new league year (March 15). The Jets likely would not get fair compensation before the draft in April, either.

 

Revis seems to be on his own island when it comes to trying to get a new deal out of the Jets.

If Revis plays out the fourth year of his $46 million pact, the Jets would incur a $9 million cap charge for 2014. More importantly, Revis would reach unrestricted free agency — he can’t be given the franchise tag per terms of his contract. He could then potentially haunt Johnson by playing for the Patriots or Giants.

A league source said that it was a red herring to suggest that a lucrative long-term contract for Revis could cripple the Jets’ salary cap for years. A six-year contract extension, for example, with a significant signing bonus and relatively small base salaries each season, would spread the cap hits out to manageable amounts.

However, it looks like Johnson isn’t willing to dole out the cash for a player who has said he wants to play for the Jets, a team that has missed the playoffs the past two years, changed half of its coaching staff this offseason and asked a new GM to inherit a head coach who will be on the hot seat entering 2013.

Revis has told friends that he wants to help the troubled franchise reverse course rather than go elsewhere.

The Jets used to tell Revis that he wanted him to be their version of Derek Jeter.

Now, they’re not telling him much of anything.

Twitter.com/MMehtaNYDN


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/corner-jets-brass-snubs-revis-agents-combine-article-1.1273500?pgno=1#ixzz2M0qpOEru


 

 

 

 

 

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Bleedin Green

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In fairness, there really is no urgency to talk to Revis' agents right now.

 

Bingo, with the exception of Holmes, who reports say the Jets are trying to get to agree to a paycut, every other player who was listed in that article as the Jets having spoken to their reps are all set to be FAs in the coming weeks.  That's no coincidence.  Revis is signed for another year and, oh yeah, he is still recovering from an injury.  Even if the Jets do decide to give him a big new contract, there's absolutely no reason for them to do that right now.  They have much more urgent priorities than worrying about opening up negotiations that, if the past is any indication, are likely going to take quite some time and be a bit of a mess.  The Jets will worry about free agency and the draft, then see how Revis' health is doing and go from there.

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I wonder what this "snub" looked like.

 

Did the Agents come over to the Jets Brass all ready to hive five everyone and they got dissed?  Or was it one of those scenes where they were all walking down the same hall way and the Jets Brass all turned their cheek in the opposite direction and acted like they didnt see them?  Did they walk up trying to talk business and the Jets Brass gave them a polite GFY?

 

I need answers!

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I wonder what this "snub" looked like.

 

Did the Agents come over to the Jets Brass all ready to hive five everyone and they got dissed?  Or was it one of those scenes where they were all walking down the same hall way and the Jets Brass all turned their cheek in the opposite direction and acted like they didnt see them?  Did they walk up trying to talk business and the Jets Brass gave them a polite GFY?

 

I need answers!

 

So much worse than any of that.  You see, Revis' agents were staying in a hotel 3/10s of a mile from the Jets execs, and the Jets didn't go over there to say hi.  Can you believe it?!?

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Maybe they are hoping he doesn't show up for the "Offseason" workout next month.

 

Per terms of his contract, Revis will reach unrestricted free agency after 2013 if he doesn’t skip any mandatory offseason team activities. Otherwise, he’s tied to the Jets for three more years.
 

 

This way he's stuck until 2016.

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I just came in to say that I can't read Mehta. He used to be alright when he first started, but hes shown himself to be yet another desperate dummy.

 

This. 100%

 

His early work was the type of stuff you'd expect from an idealistic journalism student... the filth he writes now is that of a jaded, disgusting pig.

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Il Mostro

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In fairness, there really is no urgency to talk to Revis' agents right now.

 

 

Exactly -- a non-story if ever there was one.  All of the guys they met have contract issues that need to be addressed.  This begs the question, who is the bigger idiot?  Manish or Cimini?

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Exactly -- a non-story if ever there was one.  All of the guys they met have contract issues that need to be addressed.  This begs the question, who is the bigger idiot?  Manish or Cimini?

Throw in Francesca and take your pick

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This is a non-story but yet merits the back page of the paper.  I have to wonder if the sports editor at the Daily News pressures these guys to fabricate stories as Mehta and Cimini before him were are both muckraking douchebags.

He just using the Cimini mold.

 

Lets face it the paper media is dead.  No future.  Cimini was one of the biggest jerks on the NY Jets beat, and he got the premier job with ESPN.

 

Every time there is some dumb story about the Jets Rich is on Cowherd, or some other ESPN show.  Lots of face time.

 

Cimini is Mehta’s idol, and role model 

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Revis has told friends that he wants to help the troubled franchise reverse course rather than go elsewhere.

Twitter.com/MMehtaNYDN

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/corner-jets-brass-snubs-revis-agents-combine-article-1.1273500?pgno=1#ixzz2M0qpOEru

 

Bullsht. He wants to be the next guy with a 100 million dollar contract. Helping the Jets, or any other team for that matter, is secondary to him. 

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Bullsht. He wants to be the next guy with a 100 million dollar contract. Helping the Jets, or any other team for that matter, is secondary to him.

Yeah MEVIS! You don't care about winning! All you care about is robbing some poor owner of his money and yourself! MEVIS! Get out of here you worthless non-QB!

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Mike Mayock said on NFL Network that "'why should Jets meet w/Revis agents in Indy? They are here to scout players and Revis already under contract"

 

Mehta said this is news!!!! He wrote a long story about it!!!!!  They didnt pick up the tab at the Continental breakfast!!!!

 

CIRCUS!!!!!!!!!!

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I wonder what this "snub" looked like.

 

Did the Agents come over to the Jets Brass all ready to hive five everyone and they got dissed?  Or was it one of those scenes where they were all walking down the same hall way and the Jets Brass all turned their cheek in the opposite direction and acted like they didnt see them?  Did they walk up trying to talk business and the Jets Brass gave them a polite GFY?

 

I need answers!

Woody left Revis' agent hanging on the fist pump and Rex gave them the finger. 

 

Soon, Rex will diss them in his next rap song.

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Manish is a sh*t-stirrer, but don't put it past Revis' agents from contacting Manish to complain that they didn't meet with the Jets.

 

We have seen from the prior negotiations that Revis' agents can come off as aholes.

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