Darrelle Revis Appreciation Thread

Darrelle Revis came here and gave us a fairly sizable discount. For those of you who are too ungrateful, short-sighted, and petty to recall, we were mired in one of the most agonizing stretches in sports history, unfilled greatness on so many levels, a historic championship drought considering our accomplishments, whispers about "Spygate" from idiots all around the sports world.

And you know what? We won a championship in large part because of Revis. Would most of you whiners prefer that he had never come here at all? I think that most of you didn't deserve him by the way you are acting.

It is absurd (irrelevant too) that many of you are saying the Patriots were played and never had a chance because Revis wanted to leverage them for a better off by the Jets. In fact, you know that isn't true. Revis would have stayed with the Pats with an equal offer, and the Pats chose to move on. Belichick sure has a better track record than Woodforbrains Johnson. It's classic salary cap stuff that has happened about a million times: Patriots get a player when the value is ripe; other team gets a player when the value is sour. In this case, we'll see. As for Revis and his "greed", you are certainly entitled to your opinion, but I'll just say that no matter how much money you have, millions of dollars more is quite a lot more money, and it's not for me to judge why someone may want to have it. It could be for charity, education for kids/nephews, or whatever the reason. Either way, I don't fault any athlete for taking more. Not everyone is Tom Brady, a special and unique person whose likes we may never see again.

I can't say I'm not extremely disappointed that Revis isn't coming back, but other than giving us a huge discount, winning us our most redemptive championship in team history, and offering us a chance to keep him, albeit at a very high price, I am more disappointed in the overall sentiment and attitude of many posters and the "what have you done for me lately" attitude.

So, I'd just like to say, thanks to Revis, a true professional, competitor, and teammate who is everything you'd want out of one of your players. Obviously I won't root for him playing for our biggest rival, but I also don't resent him, think he is "greedy, selfish" or in any way tainted. No one can ever take away our Lombardi, the most important in the history of this team.

I'm sure I'll get flamed for this post, but I don't care.

****ing pissed beyond belief but took the time to tweet Revis (doubt he actually reads it) to say thanks for #4. Don't win it without him. Guess you can't blame him for wanting to go "home." Hard to believe he'd rather play for that circus but he's free to make that terrible choice.

eff him

He can go **** himself, I hope he chokes to death on Jet's cash. If I ever meet him in person I will spit in his face.

We used him for a ring, he didn't come on a discount, he came here for 4 mil less to get 40 million more 12 months later. I appreciate that he was a member of the TEAM, but Gronk being healthy was more important than Mevis

Froob said:

****ing pissed beyond belief but took the time to tweet Revis (doubt he actually reads it) to say thanks for #4. Don't win it without him. Guess you can't blame him for wanting to go "home." Hard to believe he'd rather play for that circus but he's free to make that terrible choice.

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The money offered was not equal. Suppose he blows out his ACL tomorrow. $39M guaranteed from Jets; $35M guaranteed from Pats (if they even went that high.) $4M isn't a lot of money?

I don't think the Jets were his first choice, clearly, but what's he going to say after signing with them?

Brady2Moss said:

We used him for a ring, he didn't come on a discount, he came here for 4 mil less to get 40 million more 12 months later. I appreciate that he was a member of the TEAM, but Gronk being healthy was more important than Mevis

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Complete BS. He was offered more for one-year from several other teams and chose the Pats to get a chance at winning a championship. If you don't believe he came here on a discount, you are delusional.

Ice_Ice_Brady said:

The money offered was not equal. Suppose he blows out his ACL tomorrow. $39M guaranteed from Jets; $35M guaranteed from Pats (if they even went that high.) $4M isn't a lot of money?

I don't think the Jets were his first choice, clearly, but what's he going to say after signing with them?

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In the end of the day is he really going to spend all that cash? I don't know I just feel like the memories spent competeing in the playoffs would be more valuable. We'll probably never know what the Pats actually offered.

It was a GREAT year and he was a huge part of it. Don't blame him for going back.

This isn't meant as a knock but he's shown in the past he's all about the money, so this is what I expected would happen, to be honest.

I have no ill will towards him for leaving though. It was a pleasure to watch him for an entire season and I'm glad he helped win #4.

Ice_Ice_Brady said:

Complete BS. He was offered more for one-year from several other teams and chose the Pats to get a chance at winning a championship. If you don't believe he came here on a discount, you are delusional.

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He took a discount one year, to re-establish himself in the spot light when everyone had forgotten about him and moved on to Sherman, championship was a bonus. Stop looking at things year by year and see the bigger picture. He traded 4 million for 40 million.

$39 Million guaranteed? Does that mean we don't have to feel bad for him if he gets injured? He's already got what he cares about.

We knew he could have been an one year rental going in. We all agreed that if that was the case and he helped bring a championship to Foxboro, he was well worth it. He did. He helped to give us one hell of a year. I appreciate everything he did.

Now though he is a Jet and I hate everything about him going forward.

I'm with the masses, once a mercenary always a mercenary. He is what he is.

Just glad we won the SB so signing him worked out. Guess winning isn't THAT important to him, though.

Froob said:

In the end of the day is he really going to spend all that cash? I don't know I just feel like the memories spent competeing in the playoffs would be more valuable. We'll probably never know what the Pats actually offered.

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It is not just about him. This is the type of money that takes care of generations. Kraft has far more money and did not want to pony it up. Goes both ways.

I appreciate Darrelle chewing up $39M guaranteed and possibly $70M over 5 years from the JET$.

crafty213 said:

It is not just about him. This is the type of money that takes care of generations. Kraft has far more money and did not want to pony it up. Goes both ways.

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It's not about Kraft, it's about BB and the salary cap.

Revis was a big part of last season's championship run. Everyone knew what he was all about contract wise. I've got no issue with Darrelle Revis. He wanted to get paid and quite frankly I'm surprised his guaranteed money wasn't more.