Schefter: Revis will go to where best deal is

Joker:

You are giving them too much credit for being diabolical. I think it was just mindless drivel on 'EEI sports talk radio. They got talking about Revis and Schefter made the observation that any semi-conscious football fan would make: Revis always gets top dollar. Hardly the stuff of breaking news.

But, now, as it echos around the twitter-sphere, it's morphed into "Schefter Reports Revis Demanding Top Dollar" as if there is some actual news when there isn't.

Last week, Revis said that he's only focused on the next game and the future will take care of itself in the future. This was reported as news, too.

I know, HWC...and if anyone is searching Google, MY post will come up given certain key words. It's an EFFECT I'm looking for. I WANT this goon to know he's being closely scrutinized and that to defend himself he will have to come into the light of the real world and EXPLAIN EXACTLY his moronic twitterings ,in real time,on air. Eventually I would hope that this sports megaverse will come to include a "Respond To The Fans" segment/program wherein actual fans get to ask, point blank, why these morons blab these pathetic rumors as if ANYONE finds them remotely believable. I'll probably be long gone by the time the pendulum swings back from this Reign Of Error created by Goondell and the privileged few of the sports media....but at least I'll have left a number of cyberprints for posterity

Is this a surprise to anyone? Revis has always publicly said he is about the money

Last week, Revis was just sticking to the "we're on to Cinncinatti" media strategy. This became the news: Revis Unwilling to Commit to New England....

Media pundits = pond scum. It is what it is. Best thing is to just ignore anything with a direct quote (in context) from a named source.

I am hopeful that best deal incorporates a winning program and clubhouse culture.

1) The best way for Revis to excel in his career is to start practicing new roles right now with an existing team. The Patriots will find a way to use him on defense (or offense) even as his skills start to decline. The best chance to win more Super Bowl rings and more endorsements is to play for another 10 years in multiple positions earning 60 - 95% of top cornerback money for 10 years, rather than 100% for 5 years.

2) Belichick is always willing to bring good players who already know the system back at the right price (Branch, Blount), even many years later. Even if Revis gets a much better offer in 2015, Talib and Revis will be back to play for the Patriots a few years later. I can announce that with as much certainty as this reporter's comments about Revis.

If you go back to Shefter's comments, you will quickly see that he said absolutely nothing. He covered all bases i.e. Revis wants a nice contract and Revis would be happy to stay in a winning program at NE. He said nothing, nada, nothing, nutting, zero, zilch. Yet this has somehow spawned detailed discussion as if responding to breaking news. The truth is that there is nothing new on the Revis front....yet.

I never thought Revis would be in NE. Now that he is, I don't want him to leave. That is all.

This just in......

An employee will choose to work for the employer who offers the most money.

wow, thanks Adam, we never would have been able to figure that one out!

In all seriousness, I pray that the Pats come up with the money for Revis. he'll I'd be fine with him playing next year for the 25 million. Hopefully the Pats have great success in the playoffs, that would entice Revis to stay and make a legacy as a champion, which is much better title in your non-playing years, as ex-NY Jet.

ausbacker said:

I am hopeful that best deal incorporates a winning program and clubhouse culture.

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It may, but it should also include the Brinks truck. He's the best CB in the game and (at least IMO) it isn't very close from 1 to 2.

All this talk about Revis's agent fielding comparative deals is garbage. His agent can't talk to another team about a contract until he is cut. Once that happens and the Patriots no longer have that $5 million in play, he's done as a Patriot. So comparing deals is meaningless.

It will be just like when Wes Welker left. Revis will have an expired offer from the Patriots that would take into account the $5 million they had to pay him and other teams' free agent offers. He's going to get a comparable offer from another team and be able to pocket the Patriots $5 million so you know he's going to do that. He'd be dumb not to.

If he wants to stay with the Patriots, he has to negotiate an extension. If he gets cut, he's gone.

Has any player ever gotten cut and them re-signed for big $$ with the team that cut him? I can't remember one.

bresna said:

It will be just like when Wes Welker left. Revis will have an expired offer from the Patriots that would take into account the $5 million they had to pay him and other teams' free agent offers. He's going to get a comparable offer from another team and be able to pocket the Patriots $5 million so you know he's going to do that. He'd be dumb not to.

If he wants to stay with the Patriots, he has to negotiate an extension. If he gets cut, he's gone.

Has any player ever gotten cut and them re-signed for big $$ with the team that cut him? I can't remember one.

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The Pats and teams pay players for future services, not past. Why then the Patriots ask Revis to consider the $10 million signing bonus received in 2014 as part of any 2015 extension?

Revis already got the $10 million signing bonus. The 2015 $5 million figure is just an accounting mechanism.

I will never Fault an athlete for getting as much money as he can. These guys have a very small shelf life in terms of making money and they have to capitalize on it

meatface said:

Is this a surprise to anyone? Revis has always publicly said he is about the money

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Well he said earlier he doesn't have to be highest paid CB...just in the ball park. And if I were him I would want to be in the ball park of top CBs as well. If that is about the $$ then so be it.

Questions for all those who are OK with having Revis having a $25 million cap hit in 2015?
1.) What are you doing about Revis in 2016?
2.) Are you placing the franchise tag on McCourty?
3.) What are you doing about Nate Solder's $7.4 million salary?

Miguel said:

Questions for all those who are OK with having Revis having a $25 million cap hit in 2015?
1.) What are you doing about Revis in 2016?
2.) Are you placing the franchise tag on McCourty?
3.) What are you doing about Nate Solder's $7.4 million salary?

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Rework Solders deal?

Um, assuming he gets a ring this year then that box is checked so go for the $$. Ross Tucker (a journeyman Guard who actually started for the Patriots in the Flutie drop kick game - and says that is proof that BB did not care about winning ) points out that professional means, um, professional. It is not like YOUR college or YOUR High School. He played for 5 different NFL teams and has no emotional attachment to any of them. It was a job.

Revis has a history of doing what he perceives as in his own self-interest. IMO, there's nothing wrong with that and it is unlikely to expect that that will change.

We can have no way of knowing how it would factor into the equation of what he might perceive as being his "self-interest" if the Pats were to win an SB this year with the likelihood of a another strong returning team led by a still Prime Brady. Would the prospect of going down in the lore of the NFL as the shutdown Corner who helped bring two SB's to the final years of the Brady/Belichick era be worth a couple million dollars off his contract? Who knows? I sure don't.

But I do think that he'll be going to the highest bidder if he's not riding on a Duck Boat in February.

PatsFanSince74 said:

But I do think that he'll be going to the highest bidder if he's not riding on a Duck Boat in February.

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See I don't know. That core on D is strong and young and Brady still has 2-3 prime years left..with gronk. This won't be our last shot

I don't think Revis would take less than 5/75. We'd have to pay him as one of the top corners in the game. His pride demands it. Revis held out twice with the Jets while under contract to get paid better.

I think he likes it here in New England because he loves winning. But he wants to be paid handsomely to play for any team, even New England. And who can blame him when he is one of the top at his entire position in the NFL.