"He will honor his contract ..." Are kidding me, he wouldn't honor it even when they were going to give him an additional couple million bucks of free money. He has two advisors and a greedy agent whispering shit in his ear. If he missing one f@cking game I don't want him back at all. This division will be a fight and if he is too selfish to be there then trade the ass.
At this point, Tanny needs to call up his agents and say, "Darrelle is NEVER getting that type of crazy offer from this franchise, so he can either sit out for three consecutive years until he becomes a free agent, or he can resign now on a more reasonable, but still very well-paying deal while his value is at its peak. Because if he doesn't sign now and continues to hold out, our offer is only going to go down since he'll have been away from the field for a longer period of time. This is the BIGGEST offer he will see from this team in the next three years, at which point he'll be 27 and not even able to get an offer as big as the one we are currently offering on the open market anyway."
This is how TB should negotiate. Start at: $120M for Ten Years $55M for Five Years $40M for Four Years $21M for Three Years and honor the f@cking contract or Final offer, sit out for three years and see what that gets you...
I could be wrong, but I don't think those three years would count towards his contract. We definitely aren't going to pay him for sitting out. I think his remaining three years start from the year he steps on the field. That is why it is insane to skip a year in your prime for contract hold outs. Best thing for Revis would be to agree to a one year fix and work on it next off season or accept the freaking deal Jets have on the table so they can talk guaranteed money.
I continue to maintain that there is virtually no chance that he holds out the entire year. Everyone keeps comparing the situation to that of his uncle without emphasizing the key difference: Revis has three years left on his contract and has no chance of being a free-agent anytime soon. Revis is in the prime of his career and simply can't afford to miss an entire year (particularly entering the last season of a CBA that some think won't be successfully re-negotiated until there is a lockout) without doing major damage to his overall market-value going forward. That's what is so comical about people proclaiming that the Jets have no leverage and no choice but to pay him what he wants. (Fatcessa has been a strong proponent of this view) Simply put, it's utter nonsense. It has no basis in logic or reasoning.
You're correct. They own his playing rights UNTIL HE PLAYS THREE MORE SEASONS. That's why holding out over what is basically a merit raise is insane.
Revis is going to get an extension and there is no chance in hell he holds out for regular season with a potential lockout looming
Man, it's a good thing Tanny didn't just set $40 million as his "take it or sit out" number on a 4 year contract.
