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DeoVolente · **Joined:** Tue May 19, 2009 7:33 pm **Posts:** 748

When will the Jets sign Revis????

1/4 Pole · **Joined:** Tue May 19, 2009 1:21 pm **Posts:** 71536

He is signed. He is obligated by a $1 million dollar contract that he signed to show up for work.

lukeydog · **Joined:** Fri Jun 05, 2009 12:28 pm **Posts:** 1040

He will sign when Woody hires the devil to skate over and hand him a new contract with about 45 mil g'td...The both sides deserve each other. He blew his year of service by holding out..He wants huge upfronts and The Jets counter by signin Mangold with no upfront..This is the Jets it is not supposed to work out.

nyra1 · **Joined:** Sun Jun 20, 2010 11:27 am **Posts:** 166

Once players sign a big contract they tend to suck. As a loyal Jets fan from the Kotite era, I am happy just for one win in a season.

1/4 Pole · **Joined:** Tue May 19, 2009 1:21 pm **Posts:** 71536

I'm a Jets fan from when they were the Titans at the Polo Grounds.

I got out of the Marines after 4 years at the age of 21 in 1969 and saw the Mets and Jets go all the way.

Now all I see is clowns that play for big bucks acting like puss snits.

wooley85 · **Joined:** Tue May 19, 2009 12:44 pm **Posts:** 3048

1/4 Pole wrote:

He is signed. He is obligated by a $1 million dollar contract that he signed to show up for work.

Simplistic rationalization there, Q/P. If Revis shows up for work and breaks his leg in his first game...that is it. He is gone. No pay for that year. If YOU show up for work and get hit by a car at lunchtime and go to the hospital, your job and paycheck wait until you get back. (Assuming your brain is OK... like a football hit)

Leon Washington had a "contract" too until he broke his leg and the Jets went to the hospital to say "sayonara".

That 1M contract includes a "signing bonus" and escalators for games played...if you don't make games played...your signing bonus is effectively your salary and the rest of the 1M is essentially a "bonus" for performance/games played, etc.

Revis was the 6th highest paid player on the team... others were around 1.5 M and down.
The real money is guaranteed money....no strings...no outs.

Vulture · **Joined:** Thu May 21, 2009 1:44 pm **Posts:** 73

wooley85 wrote:

1/4 Pole wrote:

He is signed. He is obligated by a $1 million dollar contract that he signed to show up for work.

Simplistic rationalization there, Q/P. If Revis shows up for work and breaks his leg in his first game...that is it. He is gone. No pay for that year. If YOU show up for work and get hit by a car at lunchtime and go to the hospital, your job and paycheck wait until you get back. (Assuming your brain is OK... like a football hit)

Leon Washington had a "contract" too until he broke his leg and the Jets went to the hospital to say "sayonara".

That 1M contract includes a "signing bonus" and escalators for games played...if you don't make games played...your signing bonus is effectively your salary and the rest of the 1M is essentially a "bonus" for performance/games played, etc.

Revis was the 6th highest paid player on the team... others were around 1.5 M and down.
The real money is guaranteed money....no strings...no outs.

Believe Revis' contract for the next two seasons were conditionally guaranteed at $10 million per. The condition: report to camp in 2010. That's it. No other strings attached.

Revis' contract caused a big stink when he signed it. Other teams bitched and moaned that the Jets were paying him "above slot" etc. and that it would raise rookie salaries up and down the league. It was heavily front loaded and back loaded. He already cashed the front loaded piece. The back loaded piece - see above. It was a creative contract that guaranteed the player a superb salary if he performed, while at the same time protecting the team if the guy went bust a la Gholston. But all he had to do to get the whole damn thing, was show up to camp. Instead, he cried about "I can't play for a lousy $1 million a year" but that is completely out of context.
I bleed Jets green and I love Revis but he's got this wrong.

lukeydog · **Joined:** Fri Jun 05, 2009 12:28 pm **Posts:** 1040

Vulture wrote:

wooley85 wrote:

1/4 Pole wrote:

He is signed. He is obligated by a $1 million dollar contract that he signed to show up for work.

Simplistic rationalization there, Q/P. If Revis shows up for work and breaks his leg in his first game...that is it. He is gone. No pay for that year. If YOU show up for work and get hit by a car at lunchtime and go to the hospital, your job and paycheck wait until you get back. (Assuming your brain is OK... like a football hit)

Leon Washington had a "contract" too until he broke his leg and the Jets went to the hospital to say "sayonara".

The JETS tore up the current Revis contract not the other way around. This is their doing not his..Football is the only sport where a player's contract can be cancelled for injury. If Revis were a baseball player and signed for 100 million he wouldn't be broke until like 2020. In football a bad ankle sprain could cancel his chance to shoot a porn video with Kim Kardashian.

That 1M contract includes a "signing bonus" and escalators for games played...if you don't make games played...your signing bonus is effectively your salary and the rest of the 1M is essentially a "bonus" for performance/games played, etc.

Revis was the 6th highest paid player on the team... others were around 1.5 M and down.
The real money is guaranteed money....no strings...no outs.

Believe Revis' contract for the next two seasons were conditionally guaranteed at $10 million per. The condition: report to camp in 2010. That's it. No other strings attached.

Revis' contract caused a big stink when he signed it. Other teams bitched and moaned that the Jets were paying him "above slot" etc. and that it would raise rookie salaries up and down the league. It was heavily front loaded and back loaded. He already cashed the front loaded piece. The back loaded piece - see above. It was a creative contract that guaranteed the player a superb salary if he performed, while at the same time protecting the team if the guy went bust a la Gholston. But all he had to do to get the whole damn thing, was show up to camp. Instead, he cried about "I can't play for a lousy $1 million a year" but that is completely out of context.
I bleed Jets green and I love Revis but he's got this wrong.

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