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

goheels22002 said:

Darrelle Revis is the face of the NFL, maybe all professional sports, in New York City. There's no one on the Giants or Jets with the same star power as Revis. Everybody is lined up with endorsement offers and media appearances. He has a cash machine at his disposal that isn't available here. My guess is that he'll make more money from endorsements in 2015 than he makes playing football.

Revis is making hay when the sun is shining. It won't be lost in all the exposure that he is a Super Bowl champion, and that championship came with the Patriots.

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zoostation said:

Tune - I stand corrected. You were right. Revis is a phucking whore. It's obvious $ means more to him than hoisting a banner and defending a championship. I guess I just didn't like hearing it when he hadn't officially left the Pats.

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I don't think it makes him a whore and I also don't think it is really all about the money to him. According to Forbes, Revis didn't have very much in the way of endorsements, which is generally true of all non-quarterbacks. My opinion is that it is less about money and more about being an iconic figure. He just wants the spotlight and to be the face of the city again like he was back in the Rex Ryan days. It didn't matter if the Jets sucked. It meant more to be the king in NY than the other guy in Foxboro.

If last year somebody told me we'd get Revis for just one year and he'd help us win a championship I would've been the happiest person in the world. Let's not rewrite history. Sure I would've loved for him to stay for longer, but with his help this team achieved something so special.

Brady GOAT, BB GOAT, No Spygate ******** anymore. Thanks Revis and I'm looking forward to see you as a non factor in the next games against the Jets

zoostation said:

Tune - I stand corrected. You were right. Revis is a phucking whore. It's obvious $ means more to him than hoisting a banner and defending a championship. I guess I just didn't like hearing it when he hadn't officially left the Pats.

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You know it's funny, but looking back on the season while watching Revis play, listening to him toe the company line in press conferences, etc., I never really felt he was a genuine part of the team. It always felt like I was watching the New England Patriots plus Special Guest. I guess the $$$ issue with him always was in the back of my mind. I'll bet if they did exercise the $20 million option he'd still be gone after 2015.

BSR said:

I don't think it makes him a whore and I also don't think it is really all about the money to him. According to Forbes, Revis didn't have very much in the way of endorsements, which is generally true of all non-quarterbacks. My opinion is that it is less about money and more about being an iconic figure. He just wants the spotlight and to be the face of the city again like he was back in the Rex Ryan days. It didn't matter if the Jets sucked. It meant more to be the king in NY than the other guy in Foxboro.

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It's not a glamor position -- he's a cornerback, not a quarterback, running back or wide receiver. When he does his job right, most of the time you don't even know he's on the field because plays occur away from him. But the bottom line is he DID do it all for the money and being an "icon" on a losing/mediocre team that's been a laughingstock for most of the last 46 years doesn't carry much heft.

BSR said:

I don't think it makes him a whore and I also don't think it is really all about the money to him. According to Forbes, Revis didn't have very much in the way of endorsements, which is generally true of all non-quarterbacks. My opinion is that it is less about money and more about being an iconic figure. He just wants the spotlight and to be the face of the city again like he was back in the Rex Ryan days. It didn't matter if the Jets sucked. It meant more to be the king in NY than the other guy in Foxboro.

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Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven, eh Revis?

Gee I wonder if the Patriots had picked up that $20 Mill Option would Mevis be signing a different tune? Why do I think Revis had two acceptance speeches ready just incase. Mevis is a politician. He can be bought and he can also be rented.

Well, all the ecstatic Jest fans have two lingering doubts to consider:

1. Revis came here with a 4 million PAY CUT, and let the Patriots structure his contract in such a way so they could spread the cap and build a champion.

Did he do that with his true love in New York? Seems to me he didn't, as they get to endure every play holding their collective breath with 15, 16, 17 fully guaranteed to match the calendar years...

2. And not only did he come here to cheat on his honey New York, but Jest fans will get to bask in the images of post-coitus glow forevermore...tearful Revis in the Elvis holding the shiny. They didn't just have their hot girlfriend cheat on them, they got to WATCH it happen. And it's on video, so they can watch it over and over and over and over again...

Hehehe, I really am over it.

ausbacker said:

Revis the businessman = masterful
Revis the footballer = exceptional
Revis the teammate = greedy

The more I think about the situation the happier I am with the Patriots mode of business. What I am even more thankful for is Tom Brady and his willingness to do whatever it takes to help the team win. Money cannot buy what Tom Brady has.

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Belichick the Businessman = Masterful
Belichick the coach = Exceptionall
Belichick the GM = Greedy(Hold on, read my reasoning before disagreeing)

What I'm trying to say here is that players get **** when they do this kind of stuff, but we as a team do exactly the same thing all the time(and I'm completely fine with both). Revis probably went to us because he knew that it was his best chance to win a super bowl, which could then translate to a great contract. But we do the same thing as a team, but in the opposite way. Teams sign players that have played on bad teams where they haven't been able to play up to their potential or utilized in the right way, and the team get these players for less than they would have been able to get if they where on a team with better coaching and if they where utilized correctly so they could shine. We sign these players in the hope that they will outplay their contracts.

In the year that Revis was here we let go of Logan Mankins and Vince Wilfork. Why? Because we could use other players that where cheaper, i.e, saving us money(to use on other players). It's no wonder to me that Revis, on probably his last big contract, chose to go to the team that gave him the most guaranteed money. Because he has seen that as you get up in age, non guaranteed money means nothing.

I don't think that Belichick or Revis are greedy. They are on the opposite side of the business game of the NFL, and both play it to perfection.

In the end playing in the NFL is a job. I'd bet most people here would switch jobs in a heart beat if another company came and gave you a much higher salary than what you have now.

Marinlik said:

Belichick the Businessman = Masterful
Belichick the coach = Exceptionall
Belichick the GM = Greedy(Hold on, read my reasoning before disagreeing)

What I'm trying to say here is that players get **** when they do this kind of stuff, but we as a team do exactly the same thing all the time(and I'm completely fine with both). Revis probably went to us because he knew that it was his best chance to win a super bowl, which could then translate to a great contract. But we do the same thing as a team, but in the opposite way. Teams sign players that have played on bad teams where they haven't been able to play up to their potential or utilized in the right way, and the team get these players for less than they would have been able to get if they where on a team with better coaching and if they where utilized correctly so they could shine. We sign these players in the hope that they will outplay their contracts.

In the year that Revis was here we let go of Logan Mankins and Vince Wilfork. Why? Because we could use other players that where cheaper, i.e, saving us money(to use on other players). It's no wonder to me that Revis, on probably his last big contract, chose to go to the team that gave him the most guaranteed money. Because he has seen that as you get up in age, non guaranteed money means nothing.

I don't think that Belichick or Revis are greedy. They are on the opposite side of the business game of the NFL, and both play it to perfection.

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Belichick the GM is responsible for the construction of a 53 man roster and practise squad. Darrelle Revis is responsible for 1/53 positions. Your use of examples couldn't be more dissimilar if you tried.

ausbacker said:

Belichick the GM is responsible for the construction of a 53 man roster and practise squad. Darrelle Revis is responsible for 1/53 positions. Your use of examples couldn't be more dissimilar if you tried.

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The interview that someone linked, where Revis is saying to his uncle (who might soon be head of the NFLPA) "imagine if you can do for the rest of the league what you did for me" (to paraphrase), tells me something different.

The players aren't stupid. They seen the owners, the commish, etc., getting incredibly rich off their sweat and blood, while the cheerleaders get paid less than minimum wage and the aging vets have to suffer the indignity of taking massive pay cuts or being shown the door.

Alan Eagleson and Bobby Orr changed hockey. Dave McNally and Andy Messersmith changed baseball. I don't think Revis views the NFL so much as team-vs.-team as he does players-vs.-owners. His letter to Jets fans was half-true, half-political, I think.

http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/boston/chat/_/id/51649

Mike
(1:23 PM)


As we chat here now, I believe the only way Revis was coming back to the Patriots in 2015 was if the team picked up his contract option. And I don't believe Revis would have been a happy employee if that's the way it unfolded. Once the Jets got involved, I believe the Patriots were his Plan B all along but he masterfully kept them in the mix and I think New England management felt like they had a legitimate shot to keep him as recently as a week or so ago, in part because Revis is a shrewd businessman who keeps his cards close to the vest and never tipped off his intentions. That, to me, is in many ways a Patriots-type move at the negotiating table.


Mike
(1:26 PM)


So I call BS on reports that if the money was the same, he would have been back in New England. I actually think it's the other way around; the Patriots really would have had to trump the Jets by a lot to even have a chance. Those reports, however, seem quite convenient to help drive up the price with the team that was Revis' Plan A all along, the Jets.

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The cards were always Revis' to play. So if that's what he wants to do that's what he wants to do.

I would like to note that the one big project for the Pats - in my mind - was managing the monetary implications of bringing back Revis. Maybe so, maybe not; they couldn't win a bidding war if it came to it. Feh. Pick a number and stick with it... apparently that number was lower than where NY went.

Shutdown corners don't grow on trees, and they ain't cheap.

As for me I am going to start posting chicken-little posts. I am always wrong, and the Pats always get it right. I chicken-littled ONCE last year after the KC game, and the Pats immediately got their house in order. My new strategy is to predict 7-9 next year, worse if the mood strikes. Then it's on to back-to-back SBs.