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The smear campaign just won’t stop.
Every time you turn around, there is another article attacking the Jets on the Darrelle Revis’ contract front.
Clearly a lot of the info is being fed to them by agent Neil Schwartz.
I’m not criticizing the writers. They are just doing their jobs.
But I’m really getting tired of it.
Especially the latest venom attacking the D’Brickashaw Ferguson contract in an article by Manish Mehta.
“In essence, Ferguson is guaranteed only $5.32 million through the end of 2010,” wrote Mehta. “If he suffered a career-ending injury this season, he won’t see another penny. If he suffered a serious injury like Leon Washington, for example, this season, the Jets could conceivably rip up his contract, sign him for a lesser amount or cut ties altogether. Ferguson will get more than $22 million in guaranteed money if he remains healthy through 2010. There’s also some unrealistic landmarks in the deal like this: Ferguson will earn $1.3 million in incentives if he takes part in at least 97 percent of the special teams plays in 2015 and 2016 and blocks at least seven punts in each of those years. So, what does Ferguson’s deal mean for Revis, who has three years remaining on his six-year rookie contract?Not much.”
Good. In the mind of the Revis camp and Mike Florio, Ferguson got a lousy contract. Who cares? Brick likes the deal. Just because he’s not greedy, does that make him a sap?
All of sudden it’s become a crime for an agent to work well with the other side? Remember Leon Washington fired Alan Herman last year because he has a good relationship with Mike Tannenbaum. Now it seems like Brad Blank is taking heat for not getting a landmark deal for Ferguson. What a heinous crime – working a deal that both sides like.
Schwartz (who else could it be?) also told Mehta that the cornerback will likely hold out of training camp.
Go for it Darrelle. Who cares? This whole dispute is getting boring. Schwartz and/or Revis trash the Jets, and the Jets don’t respond because they don’t want to disparage their best player.
Writers can’t even get Tannenbaum to respond to Revis’ contention that the GM told him he should be the highest paid cornerback in football.
If Tannenbaum did say that, then the team should give Revis $16 million a year.
But you know what – I don’t think he said it. You have to be an idiot GM to come out and tell a player that when you in the middle of a negotiation.
Why do I keep taking the Jets position on this one? Because I think Revis and Schwartz are being unreasonable.
I tell like I see it.
I think the Jets made a big mistake not re-siging Jay Feely and James Dearth. That was foolish. The amount money they saved at those two positions isn’t worth the potential headache.
Also not re-signing Marques Douglas was shortsighted. He was one of their most effective Front Seven players last year. This was also a cost-cutting measure that wasn’t worth the cost-cutting.
But right now, the country is in a recession with 17 percent unemployment (when you include the people who gave up looking). And wait until next year when major tax hikes will kick in.
If you don’t think NFL owners are feeling the pinch of the bad economy, you are kidding yourself.
And the NFL is on the brink of a lockout.
Revis has been offered a deal in neighborhood of $12 million per year in an awful economy, in a league where must teams have a locks on their wallets.
That is a heck of an offer in the current climate.
Take the damn money and forget about beating Nnamdi Asomugha.
It’s just not happening.
Take the $12 million per (maybe you can get it up to $13).That is a heck of a contract and $3 million more per year than the second cornerback. The realistic ones, if you will.
Check your ego at the door, Darrelle.
Tell Schwartz to get you $13 million a year, and then sign the deal.
Enough already.