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Mere minutes after signing a contract that guaranteed him $39 million, new (and old) Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis claimed the No. 1 reason he returned to New York was not money, but because he simply wanted to come home. That, and some unfinished business.
“This is where my heart is,” Revis said Wednesday on a conference call. “When I got drafted in 2007, the GM then was Mike Tannenbaum and I told him I would do everything in my power to try to bring a championship to this organization. And I still feel that way.”
Revis’ decision to return to the Jets is just the latest plot twist in the dramatic tale of the cornerback and the team that drafted (and traded and re-signed) him.
“It’s pretty surreal,” he said.
Just a day earlier, the shutdown cornerback had been part of Gang Green’s biggest rival, the New England Patriots. They had declined a $20 million option and didn’t re-sign Revis in time to prevent him from being a free agent. Revis called Bill Belichick a “Hall of Fame coach” but wouldn’t say how close the Patriots were to meeting his financial demands, and instead chose to focus on his return to the Jets, whom he spoke about like an old flame he had just reunited with.
“I just felt like it was a no-brainer to come home,” he said. “And be back home. And make it a marriage.”
Revis, signed a five-year, $70 million deal that guarantees him $33 million in his first two seasons and $39 million total. The team made his annual average $14,024,212 − ending with his jersey number and the New York City area code. And of course the money mattered to Revis, who has always sought to maximize his wealth (he even included a product placement in his contract signing photo).
Revis is still performing at close to his peak, but he will be 30 before next season starts. So after he signed a five-year deal, the question was naturally asked: does Revis think he’ll retire a Jet?
“That would be awesome if that did happen,” he said.
Since the Jets traded Revis before the 2013 season, they have struggled to defend the pass. They were left without any proven cornerbacks on their roster until GM Mike Maccagnan netted them two new ones, Revis and Buster Skrine, on Tuesday. That, and Maccagnan’s other aggressive moves, have everyone wondering how good the Jets will be with their revamped squad.
“Yeah, we can make a lot of noise the next couple of years,” Revis told the team website.
And the Jets may not be done picking up cornerbacks either. The team has been negotiating with Revis’ old counterpart, Antonio Cromartie, and Revis said he would hop on the phone and do some recruiting.
“I am going to get in contact with him hopefully very soon here and try to convince him to hopefully come back and join our Batman and Robin tandem that we had a couple years ago,” Revis said.
Mere minutes after signing a contract that guaranteed him $39 million, new (and old) Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis claimed the No. 1 reason he returned to New York was not money, but because he simply wanted to come home. That, and some unfinished business.
“This is where my heart is,” Revis said Wednesday on a conference call. “When I got drafted in 2007, the GM then was Mike Tannenbaum and I told him I would do everything in my power to try to bring a championship to this organization. And I still feel that way.”
Revis’ decision to return to the Jets is just the latest plot twist in the dramatic tale of the cornerback and the team that drafted (and traded and re-signed) him.
“It’s pretty surreal,” he said.
Just a day earlier, the shutdown cornerback had been part of Gang Green’s biggest rival, the New England Patriots. They had declined a $20 million option and didn’t re-sign Revis in time to prevent him from being a free agent. Revis called Bill Belichick a “Hall of Fame coach” but wouldn’t say how close the Patriots were to meeting his financial demands, and instead chose to focus on his return to the Jets, whom he spoke about like an old flame he had just reunited with.
“I just felt like it was a no-brainer to come home,” he said. “And be back home. And make it a marriage.”
Revis, signed a five-year, $70 million deal that guarantees him $33 million in his first two seasons and $39 million total. The team made his annual average $14,024,212 − ending with his jersey number and the New York City area code. And of course the money mattered to Revis, who has always sought to maximize his wealth (he even included a product placement in his contract signing photo).
Revis is still performing at close to his peak, but he will be 30 before next season starts. So after he signed a five-year deal, the question was naturally asked: does Revis think he’ll retire a Jet?
“That would be awesome if that did happen,” he said.
Since the Jets traded Revis before the 2013 season, they have struggled to defend the pass. They were left without any proven cornerbacks on their roster until GM Mike Maccagnan netted them two new ones, Revis and Buster Skrine, on Tuesday. That, and Maccagnan’s other aggressive moves, have everyone wondering how good the Jets will be with their revamped squad.
“Yeah, we can make a lot of noise the next couple of years,” Revis told the team website.
And the Jets may not be done picking up cornerbacks either. The team has been negotiating with Revis’ old counterpart, Antonio Cromartie, and Revis said he would hop on the phone and do some recruiting.
“I am going to get in contact with him hopefully very soon here and try to convince him to hopefully come back and join our Batman and Robin tandem that we had a couple years ago,” Revis said.
