I didn't see a thread about Revis getting into the hall. I know he wasn't a lifelong Jet, and it got messy and he won a ring in NE... But congrats to Revis getting into the hall. Honestly the ring in NE didn't hurt me. The Jets were garbage and the Pats were in the middle on their dominance, it felt like was going to happen the moment he went there. 2009 Revis was the most dominant thing I've seen on a football field. Not only did he shut down potentially 6 HOF receivers, he barely allowed completions period. It was a unique having a feeling that when a pass went to his side, the worst thing that would happen was an incomplete pass. Automatic. I did not see Klecko, so it was cool to see Revis get in.
Fair but the piece of shit praised Belichick in his interview and couldn’t even wear a Jets shirt or hat? Said nothing about the Jets? Dude did put together the best two cornerback seasons in NFL history in a Jets uniform but what a shithead for not saying a thing about the Jets.
It does not really bother me because the Pro Football Hall of Fame recognizes all teams that players played for
Fuck Mevi$$, didn't watch a second of his induction but watched all of Joe's. Klecko was what a true Jet should be, Mevi$$ was all about himself, not the team
Revis made Ocho Stinko cry with frustration on the sidelines when we beat them in the playoffs. I'll always love him for that. However, his holdouts were no fun, and led to him being traded to TB which hurt all of us. Then he hurt us again by taking big money from us - and then being "stinko" himself. It's unfortunate for Revis that he goes in on the same dance card as the great great Joe Klecko, who stole the limelight of yesterday for most of us long-time fans.
I don't listen to HOF speeches, but it appears he did say a few things about the Jets. https://www.newyorkjets.com/news/da...KPcAosBuJj-Semmfevagp9j-LqlCFrmoRbf-BjmaKFrU8
He said of Jet fans "You will always have a place to stay on Revis Island." Which I thought was very nice, although given how he looks now, we might have to change that to Revis Continent.
Gotta admit though - some of the career video highlights of Revis - all while wearing a Jets uniform, are some of the best CB videos you will ever see. Ultimately as time passes, that will be his legacy. When he goes up from behind and climbs the back to break up a long pass that's leading the receiver. Man, you never see that.
Very glad that more and more folks are waking up to this! He’s a talented SOB, the best CB I’ve ever seen, but I never liked him. The fact that he didn’t enter the hall as a jet (as far as I know) is telling but not surprising. He was asked a few days prior to the ceremony by Jake Asman if he would, and he declined to say, which means no. Even though he wasn’t as good, I always preferred Cromartie as he seemed to actually wanna be here. Plus, he’s (Cromartie) more humble and perhaps rational. I remember he never had an issue switching with Revis if he couldn’t handle his assignment (Dez Bryant). Contrast that to Revis when had a bad wrist, played off in coverage and still got beat up by Sammy Watkins and cost us the playoffs in WK17. know he didn’t get safety help and while it’s possible Cromartie would have been a worse matchup, I find it hard to believe Revis woulda been ok with switching receivers with Cromartie. He then ducked out and didn’t answer questions immediately after the game, but weeks later he said him vs Watkins as “a draw”. Watkins had something like 11 catches -170 yards. The signs of him being a jerkoff were there early, though. I can certainly understand going for your $, but I really believe that if the Dollar Tree corporation offered him $.01 more than the jets to work for them as a cashier, he’d leave the Jets and work for them. Younger jets fans (I’m 35) might not know this, but his nfl career started off with a holdout. He then holds out again heading into the hard knocks season, and if he’s to be believed, he was prepared to sit out the entire season. Think about that! First shot at a championship for a franchise that hasn’t had one in 191719 years, and he’s prepared to wreck it if he doesn’t get exactly what he wants. If this was his last chance at a pay day it could perhaps be forgiven, but he was like 24 or something. Not even TO would do that, that’s other otherworldly selfish. He ends up reporting to camp after missing the entire preseason, pulls a hammy week 2 and is out for a few weeks. Then, 2 years later (12 season) I’m convinced he would have held out again but he tore his ACL and was traded. Then he returns via free agency years later (15), has a mostly good season and fires his agents after the season ends, perhaps to milk the jets one more time if he had a better 2nd season. Hilariously, towards the end of the season he realize he can’t milk the Jets for more $ and they are likely to cut him. He then says the jets should, “handle him with class and not cut me” thus allowing him to receive his $. And more recently, he attacked Klecko for seemingly no reason! Soooo long fat boy! Enjoy the chineese buffets and continuing your other passion in life, attacking college kids and stealing their cell phones!!
My argument with him was would you rather have the best CB in the league or the best Edge/linebacker. Both impact the game way more than a single CB. I'd take Lawrence Taylor or Reggie White over Revis in a nanosecond.
I'm not going to make a big deal about your problem with Revis negotiating the best financial deal possible for him and his family in his limited time in the NFL because I don't have any idea how much money you have passed up in your fifteen or twenty years of working to do what you believe was the "right" thing to do. I wonder if all the unknown people you did that for appreciate it enough. I wonder how much more you'll give up over the next thirty years or so just to pacify a bunch of people you don't even know. So, you're pissed that Revis did not enter the Hall of Fame as a Jet? Are you also pissed that Joe Namath did not enter the Hall as a Jet? You must be really pissed that Curtis Martin also did not go in as a Jet. Don Maynard didn't either - not even Weeb Ewbank entered the Hall of Fame as a New York Jet. You must be apoplectic about all of this, Stevie.
Your juxtaposition of me and Revis as it pertains to pacifying unknown people isn’t applicable. Mainly because there hasn’t been a contingent of folks, management perhaps not with standing, who wanted me to take less. Not at any point did I reference me and the fans as it pertains to how his financial motives should have been undertaken. You erroneously ascribed this, Ralebird. On an unrelated note, I’m curious as to what, “Ralebird” means/references. Per my previous post, a few paragraphs in, I don’t begrudge someone trying to maximize their value. My issue is more with the continuous nature of him holding out which would impact other folks, forget me, I’m talking about the team. The better they do, theoretically the more money those players are worth and can bring in for them and theirs, correct? Him not playing weakens the team, weakens the record, weakens their value etc. Perhaps I’m not being 100% as honest as I think I am, and he’s not without some level of merit in his actions, but to you I ask this. And let’s throw out fans in this equation because I assume you don’t have unknown fans like he does. Presumably your value has risen in your chosen profession over the years, the second it has, have you withheld or threaten to withold your services until your demands for increased remuneration were capitulated to? And while I’m at it, his last year here he realized the jets were considering cutting him, he then blasted them and said if they cut him and didn’t honor his contract that would be “classless”. But when he doesn’t honor his contract he’s justified and classy? Seems hypocritical to me, but who knows, maybe I’m wrong. Any clarity you could provide, if possible, would be appreciated. Now for your 2nd point, please refer to my first paragraph in my original post. Specifically him being asked if he would enter as a Jet and him declining. That’s the heart of my issue, the other gentlemen you referenced never (to my knowledge) publicly denied or omitted answering definitively (which is a denial) when asked about which team they’ll represent. If they’re on record as doing such, and their reason(s) don’t seem plausible to me, you’re right I wouldn’t be happy with them.
The reference to you and others is quite appropriate. Nobody has the right to tell me or you or anyone else how they should value themselves in negotiating how much they get paid unless they are part of the transaction. You're not a party to the action of his salary negotiations, why should they be offensive to you? The guy owes you nothing. Your second point is ridiculous and is born of misunderstanding or ignorance. I kind of think at least some of both, but I haven't heard the conversation you cite. It seems that probably Asman and definitely Revis would know that no one goes into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a player of any specific team, they simply enter as a player, coach, team official or media worker; there is no team selection to be made. As far as the name is concerned, it is simply a play on words pronounced the same as "railbird," a common name for a horse racing fan but with the added twist of the "rale" spelling as in a rattling or crackling sound from the lungs.
The holdout is just part of Revis' story and at the time I defended Revis even. If that was the only thing about him, he held out in a big important year, I think most Jets would/could forgive him. unfortunately it is not, he's been a prick on multiple occasions, even most recently talking trash about a fellow Jets HOFer in Joe Klecko. Should've been an easy win for him, we could've celebrated as Jets fans with two of our own going into the hall. But he had to make it a Revis vs. Klecko thing, which in terms of Jets fan's choice, was no contest, nobody dislikes Klecko. He wanted that beef and he got it
