Revis: "I'm happy to be home, I never wanted to leave!"

If a hot girl used me..and i got sex out of it? Sure!

Revis is like that hot girl..but hey we got a SB win

PATS16N0 said:

It's called political-speak. I wouldn't read too much into it. I'm sure if Belichick was willing to break our salary cap on him, he'd still be a Patriot and he would be "really excited about it."

The Jets probably made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

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This basically. Still Revis is now a NY Rat again and I find it pretty impossible to like him at all anymore.

Ivan said:

I'm bummed he left but 17.5 a year for a CB is to much. Would I have given him it, hell yeah, but that's also why I would never be the one making that decision.

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Is that what he got? 17.5? No surprises here that we didn't bid so high.

JayNM said:

Darrelle Revis ‏@Revis24 11m11 minutes ago
I want to thank the Pats and Pats Nation for an unbelievable year. NEW YORK I'm coming home. #revisisland #jetnation

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Thank you Revis, cause we will have a few more and you will continue to have multiple believable 6-10 years

Eh, whatever, good for him - I always like it when players get their due. He got a ring, we had one of hte most memorable seasons I can remember and I got to scream like a banshee over the best Superbowl I've ever seen.

nothing to complain about regarding Mr. Revis and the Pats.

let's just keep Drew Brees out of hte AFC East, okay?

Must be how Heat fans felt...

Kinda hope they make a good pitch for Browner. Eff the penalties. Love his pissed off attitude. He is underrated and should realistically be a 6.5-7.5 mil APY. He's a bad-ass. I'll wish him well if he stays the **** out of our division. If not I'll hate on him. Go after Browner. You just let your #1 slide away to NY.

Spend the money on this guy. 6-4 215 lbs of pissed off. I'm over Revis, I knew the Jest tampered enough to steal him, losing Browner now that we have the space to resign him seems illogical. Show this guy the love is what I think.

Bill and Nick have a plan

About 1/3 of the season, I got my 9 year old a Revis jersey at Marshalls. After seeing it his friend, also 9 years old, said "cool, but you know it's only for this year" Don't know why any of us really believed the Jets wouldn't just keep upping the ante on him when a 9 year old knew it.

Get Browner back and pay him like he should be paid. Revis will be 30 and now Brady knows his tendencies and how to smoke him. He's going to embaress Darrelle this year. When Gronk runs him over we're all going to go nuts.

Ivan said:

I'm bummed he left but 17.5 a year for a CB is to much. Would I have given him it, hell yeah, but that's also why I would never be the one making that decision.

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5 years = 70 million = FOURTEEN million a year, AAV.

Much different from "17.5 a year."

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/03/10/revis-gets-39-million-fully-guaranteed/

Marko said:

About 1/3 of the season, I got my 9 year old a Revis jersey at Marshalls. After seeing it his friend, also 9 years old, said "cool, but you know it's only for this year" Don't know why any of us really believed the Jets wouldn't just keep upping the ante on him when a 9 year old knew it.

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Smaht people shop at Mahshalls. Go ahead and ovahpay at some queeah boutique. Guess what clothing will last longah. Truth.

Kdo5 said:

Is that what he got? 17.5? No surprises here that we didn't bid so high.

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No. He signed a 5/70 deal that equates to an average of 14m dollars a year.

I don't know where he was coming up with 17.5 million dollars, or why anyone would honestly even believe that when the market was clearly set last spring with the deals of Peterson, Sherman, and Haden (all significantly younger) all around 13-14 million a year.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/03/10/revis-gets-39-million-fully-guaranteed/

supafly said:

No. He signed a 5/70 deal that equates to an average of 14m dollars a year.

I don't know where he was coming up with 17.5 million dollars, or why anyone would honestly even believe that when the market was clearly set last spring with the deals of Peterson, Sherman, and Haden (all significantly younger) all around 13-14 million a year.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/03/10/revis-gets-39-million-fully-guaranteed/

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They decided he wasn't worth it. This is huge money to leverage. It's like dumping a girlfriend who has champagne taste when your on a beer budget.

OhExaulted1 said:

They decided he wasn't worth it. This is huge money to leverage. It's like dumping a girlfriend who has champagne taste when your on a beer budget.

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How do you know they decided that? How do you know Revis would have signed with us if we offered him that? It's becoming increasingly clear to me to that we were never in this to begin with. After getting the SB, he was never re-signing here, and he was simply using us as a pawn to get the most money out of the team he wanted to go to. For baseball fans, this whole thing is really no different than Mark Texeira "negotiating" a deal with the Red Sox to leverage an absurd offer from the Yankees. Texeira never had any intention of signing in Boston, just like Revis never had any intention of re-signing here.

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They decided he wasn't worth it. This is huge money to leverage. It's like dumping a girlfriend who has champagne taste when your on a beer budget.

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I don't really blame NE and Belichick for not wanting to match that kind of deal. I'm just pointing out the difference between the reality of a 14m dollar AAV deal, and what another poster claimed was "17.5 million a year."

People threw around the most ridiculous numbers in regards to the Revis deal. How many times a day did we hear "the Jets are going to give him QUARTERBACK money at 20 million a year?" Or even "it's going to take 17-18 million a year to sign Revis."

The reality was that he wanted to be paid like Richard Sherman (40 m guaranteed and 14m AAV).

supafly said:

The reality was that he wanted to be paid like Richard Sherman (40 m guaranteed and 14m AAV).

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And i can't believe the Pats couldn't go to that...for a player who had a HUGE effect on last years outcome...a CB we needed since Law left...and now back to having a bend but don't break secondary that we can't trust in man

In retrospect we all should have seen this coming (isn't hindsight easy?).

I would take any public comments with a grain of salt. Political speak and platitudes are the norm.
We lost Revis, IMHO, for one simple reason, money. We probably could have kept him if we were willing to committed a huge amount of money, guaranteed money.
Was it a mistake to not give Revis the biggest non QB contract in the history of the team? To miss out on his top CB skill at a very high cost? Time will tell.

One thing to consider when trying to accept the definite pain of losing Revis excellent skill: the amount of players that we can sign now and later, the amount of players we can retain now and later. That was a significant amount of money that would not have been there for re-signings and acquisitions. Not signing Revis may mean the winning ways of the Patriot franchise has been extended much further out. Or we may have thrown away very heightened shots at the SB for future moves that may only guarantee slightly better than mediocre. Again time will tell.
On a personal note, I say buh bye to Revis. I hope to see him cellar dwelling with the Jets for the rest of his contract. And I have no worries whatsoever the Patriots will field a team that will put us in the mix to possibly be in the SB, just as we had done with and without Revis.

supafly said:

I don't really blame NE and Belichick for not wanting to match that kind of deal. I'm just pointing out the difference between the reality of a 14m dollar AAV deal, and what another poster claimed was "17.5 million a year."

People threw around the most ridiculous numbers in regards to the Revis deal. How many times a day did we hear "the Jets are going to give him QUARTERBACK money at 20 million a year?" Or even "it's going to take 17-18 million a year to sign Revis."

The reality was that he wanted to be paid like Richard Sherman (40 m guaranteed and 14m AAV).

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And the reality is they weren't going to pay him like that for the future success of the franchise. Sometimes the hardest pill to swalllow is the one that does more shortterm damage than longterm.

The track record is 13 out of 15 with double-digit wins and 4 championships. I'm OK with that. More will come.

OhExaulted1 said:

And the reality is they weren't going to pay him like that for the future success of the franchise. Sometimes the hardest pill to swalllow is the one that does more shortterm damage than longterm.

The track record is 13 out of 15 with double-digit wins and 4 championships. I'm OK with that. More will come.

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I don't think I'm as concerned about losing Revis as I am the fact that there don't seem to be any viable replacements in free agency. The fact that they refused the 2m dollar option on Browner didn't make it any better.

In other words, it's not "just" about losing Revis.

That said, they still went to the SB in 2011 with one of the most pathetic secondaries in NFL history, although I'm still not sure how...

Brady_to_Moss said:

And i can't believe the Pats couldn't go to that...for a player who had a HUGE effect on last years outcome...a CB we needed since Law left...and now back to having a bend but don't break secondary that we can't trust in man

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Question for you BTM: You are saying we should have given Revis more than the Jets were offering. Are you sure this would lead to better chances for a SB next year, the year after etc etc? I just don't see that as certain -- no where close to certain.

In general I feel like a lot of people will put rose colored glasses on regarding the 2014 team. It was a good defense but it wasn't great. Arguably the prowess of the defense did not win any of the playoff games. Put another way, they did their part in complimentary wins (versus defensive dominations).

So let's see what the Patriots can do now that they are in much better cap shape. For example, hypothetically, if the Patriots could put ok CBs out there but use money to put together a much better pass rush, that alone could increase the likelihood of winning a SB over 2014's pass rush with Revis as the #1 CB. Also consider that almost certainly the money committed to Revis was going to limit future acquisitions to needed defensive areas.
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The goal isn't to have Revis as a Patriot, the goal is winning the SB. Remember, every team but one has won the SB without having Revis as their #1 CB. Winning the SB does not require Revis on your team. Again let's see what the Patriots can do with the money and draft picks.
((side note -- I get the feeling BB is no longer a fan of having all unknown CBs and will add an upper echelon CB if possible))