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Because the Patriots don't have the wiggle room to invest $25mm in cap space in Revis without collateral damage. Sometimes you can just "move numbers around" and sometimes it takes cutting Mayo, Wilfork and Solder. Picking up the option is the latter.
Leaving aside all starry-eyed notions of players we like playing for huge discounts, there is also the option of applying the long multi-year deal, cap-friendly in any given year, unless he goes down. In fact given that the "short form" of this deal is undoable, it really comes down to mid-term or long-term or bust.
Love watching this conversations, hate weighing in, especially here.
It's really nice not reading the words "Patriots' suspect secondary" all season. On the other hand, other players. I lean to the "pay Revis side," because Revis opens up the rest of the defense for a brilliant defensive football mind. But I'll throw in a heavy dose of "the Pats know what they're doing."
This is why I have no patience right now for the "****-hot free agent receivers" discussions. Of course, I might have more patience for them on March 11.