Breaking: NYJ fined $100,000 for Revis tampering

KontradictioN said:

He should start making public comments about how the team would love to sign Wilkerson.

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We're too smart/classy for that. But that won't stop 30 other owners from making that statement. Hell, Jim Irsay on tweeter in 3, 2, 1.......

It's now open season to tamper by making comments to the press. What's $100,000 to a billionaire when he can tamper and get the best CB in the league.

I suppose the bright side to this is Kraft and the Pats didn't get punished for his comments.

What a joke.

Surprising, in that the precedent (that draft picks would be involved) had been established, and the Jets' tampering was literally textbook.

If you want to be positive, you could hope that the league is going "against" the Pats here in anticipation of a Wells report that will favor them. But I wouldn't count on it.

Wow...what a crock...perhaps this is a PR move in that Wells Report finds no Pats penalty for "deflategate"....so, in today's anti Pats/Belichick NFL national media (and local for that matter) how could Goodell come down hard on the njy and not penalize the pats - even though evidence shows the nyj are guilty & the pats not guilty in their respective cases (tampering/deflation). Pats were already guilty of deflation in court of public opinion....

What a complete and overt slap in the face.

Only instance that this would make any sense is to lessen the PR damage from the upcoming Wells exhoneration of the Patriots.

KontradictioN said:

He's easily the worst active commissioner in pro sports right now. Selig doesn't even come remotely close anymore.

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I could be mistaken, but I think Selig retired. Isn't Rob Manfred the baseball Commish right now?

lol @ all the outrage. I'm a little surprised that no draft pick was awarded but never in a million years were the Pats going to get a 6th overall.

The fine makes sense, Woody made an offhand remark and was fined. In other cases where draft picks were involved (from what I understand, could be wrong) teams were actually calling those players which I guess warrants a draft pick.

The Gr8est said:

What about the Rats tampering charge against the Pats? Is there a resolution pending on that?

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I can only assume the Pats will pay a $300 million fine and lose every pick in the next 6 drafts.

This outcome validates the views of those who believe the league office was and is run by Jet sycophants and that league rules that apply to every other team do not apply to the Jets. This was the worst and most deliberate case of tampering the league has seen and it involved a first ballot HOF player and division
rivals, if it doesn't warrant a first round pick then nothing ever will. Every owner in the league should take notice and make very clear that they want Andrew Luck, Sheldon Richardson, etc... Etc.. and that the checkbooks are wide open. What's a slap on the wrist when you get a great player?

SyN65 said:

The fine makes sense, Woody made an offhand remark and was fined. In other cases where draft picks were involved (from what I understand, could be wrong) teams were actually calling those players which I guess warrants a draft pick.

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Nope...most relevant past case was actually less obvious (the following from a Detroit source, I lost the link):

"[The Chiefs] keep wanting to dump players," defensive coordinator Gunther Cunningham said late last season. "I would like to be there to catch a lot of them, because I know a couple of those guys."

Despite an NFL spokesman telling Tom Kowalski that Cunningham's comments didn't even register at the league level because no specific players were mentioned, the Lions are now down a draft pick because of a comment made a long time ago. Had Cunningham outright named a player that he wanted, that would be grounds for tampering."

I think they unfairly factored in the Patriots will get a 3rd next year for Revis because of the way they structured his contract. What woody did was almost word for word the example given of what was tampering. 49rs and Lions have an issue now. They got screwed.

SyN65 said:

lol @ all the outrage. I'm a little surprised that no draft pick was awarded but never in a million years were the Pats going to get a 6th overall.

The fine makes sense, Woody made an offhand remark and was fined. In other cases where draft picks were involved (from what I understand, could be wrong) teams were actually calling those players which I guess warrants a draft pick.

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Tampering goes to the heart of the "integrity of the game", and a second instance of tampering in about a year was only worth 100k?

Marshawn Lynch ended up losing $100k just for NOT talking to the media.

Please.... This decision is a joke.

SyN65 said:

lol @ all the outrage. I'm a little surprised that no draft pick was awarded but never in a million years were the Pats going to get a 6th overall.

The fine makes sense, Woody made an offhand remark and was fined. In other cases where draft picks were involved (from what I understand, could be wrong) teams were actually calling those players which I guess warrants a draft pick.

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You're being a bit selective.

What was the end result in those other cases?

Did the tampering teams actually ACQUIRE the tampered with players?

In any of those other cases was the person who SIGNS the checks the person doing the tampering?

JMC00 said:

Well Good Ole' Rog just set a precedent that NFL owners can talk about players that are under contract to other teams during press conferences and how they would like to sign them and only expect a $100k fiine.

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You'd think so, wouldn't you? But that would require something called consistency, and that's not something the league is very good at.

I thought that 5 year, $70,121,060 contract the Jets signed Revis to was expensive before, but with this massive fine effectively making it a 5 year, $70,221,060 contract, you really have to wonder if the Jets still believe it was worth it.

Count me as one who is actually glad this happened. What would you rather have? A swap of 5th rounders with the Jets, or a pissed off Brady/BB/Kraft going into next season? The Pats really have some motivation now to go for #5. Call me crazy, I hope the league tries to take away a draft pick from the Pats for deflategate. Obviously something at the end of the 2016 draft. Really rile them up.

The thing that pisses me off is they fined them $100k which says they are guilty of doing it but completely ignore precedent set by similar tampering.


Bears and SF were talking about a Briggs trade and the 49ers talked to Rosenhaus about a possible new contract if the trade happened.
-SF lost a 5th and swapped 3rd round picks with the Bears

Gunther Cunningham just said he hoped the Chiefs kept releasing guys because he knew someone of them and would have like to have them
-Lions lost a 7th and swapped 5th round picks

Woody Johnson says in a press conference he would love to have Revis back
-$100k fine

All Goodell rulings.


Jets front office and management today -
"HEIL GOODELL"