Fort Elite Revis Island Gets Abandoned
The Jets cut Darrelle Revis this week, marking probably the last real time anyone will take him seriously until he’s up for HoF discussion. It was kind of a sad end for the money man, one of the original paycheck chasers. Last week we kind of talked about players and why we shouldn’t judge them too harshly for going for that paper. Revis was always one of those players who made it kind of hard to do so, because it was hard to not consider him a little bit greedy. If Tom Brady was a company man who could demand literally all the money but actually takes a pay cut to make the team work better, Revis was the other pole. Revis held the Jets ransom for a new contract, which most people feel he deserved. Then he threatened to do it again before he tore his ACL and the Jets traded him to Tampa so they wouldn’t have to deal with Revis demanding more fat stacks coming off a knee injury.
Revis got a massive contract in TB (Man his agent is a monster) and then did good, but didn’t fit the Tampa 2 system and the Bucs released him. Then the man manages to go to NE, get a 12 million single year rental contract, wins a Super Bowl, tells everyone asking him to take a pay cut to suck it, and resumes holding the Jets at gunpoint for all the money. 5 years, 39 Million guaranteed. Holy moley seriously who is Darrelle Revis’ agent because my god does he get shit done.
He had a good year and then this past season took a giant nosedive off a cliff as every WR he faced basically bought a house on Revis Island. It’s a sad and lackluster fart of an end to a pretty stellar period of dominance. At his peak Revis was one of the best to ever play the position and his 2009 is one of the best seasons by a corner, ever. I don’t know if anyone is going to rent space on the island now, he’s 31, demands all the money, and didn’t appear to care. I think he’ll get a 1 year deal worth 80 billion with some team and then be gone after the season.
I can only hope he’s smart with money because otherwise that was a ton of paper to waste and we should singlehandedly blame Revis for killing the rainforests.
He’ll get picked up…by the Jags
He’s still a “good” CB. He still has ball instincts. But I don’t think any sane team shells out big, long term money for someone on the wrong side of 30.
Btw – Brady has never given New England back a single dime: he just got some of his salary converted to bonus. Unless there’s some tax implications here I’m missing this is the same.
yup only thing him restructuring the his deal does is make cap space for the team. instead of him getting the money over X number of years, he gets it all at once as a signing bonus. i think the last signing bonus was upwards of 25 to 30 million dollars.
See, this confuses me. I get how it works, but to this day I don’t get why teams don’t just pay players veteran minimum with massive bonuses if the bonus A. Goes right to the player all the same, and B. Doesn’t count against the cap. What player would say no to more money sooner, and what team wouldn’t jump on board getting more good players?
Technically not a pay cut, Brady just re-negotiates every three years (or so it seems) to reduce his cap hit. Still, if there ever was a “man who could demand literally all the money,” it’s Brady, and he’d get something like a $10 million raise if he were franchise-tagged, according to spotrac.com’s NFL QB page.
As for Revis, could he build a Super Elite Money Battleship to sail home from the island? I say, “Yes.” 😉
Brady still is underpaid for his position. Just not as underpaid as we believe because he keeps restructuring his contract so it doesn’t count against the cap.
Brady makes it back in creepy mattress commercials where he looks like he’s auditioning for the role in American Psycho.
I’mma fuck dat mattress.
The whole point behind the restructuring is pushing the bulk of the contract out to later years of the contract and then he just restructures again before that money comes up, effectively the most costly part of any Brady contract never gets paid as it keeps getting moved out… Also a lot of those deals have injury guarantees in them which is basically the equivalent of free money for the franchise since Brady never (sans 2008) misses games due to injury.
The list of QBs that are getting more average dollars per year in their contracts than Brady right now: Luck, Brees, Cousins, Flacco, Rodgers, Russell Wilson, Roethlisberger, Carson Palmer, Eli, Rivers, Cam, and Matt Ryan. So yes Brady is hella underpaid…
That’s not going to work forever. Also, it effectively means that Bellichick can’t cut him because the dead money keeps piling on. Brady is essentially trading away average yearly wages for long-term security.
Not that he really needs guaranteed contract money to have long term security with a 5th ring, 112.2 passer rating and 28 td to 2 int this last season…
Tannyfanny and Brock lobster are making more per year than Brady
Peyton, in his 18 year career, pocketed about $248 million.
Brady, through 2017, which is 18 years, will have made $197 million.
Around $15 or $17 million is the difference between #1 overall and #199, meaning Manning made about $35 million more over the comparable parts of their careers.
That’s close to $3 million per year less, which is a pretty substantial discount. So while he never took a cut, he has chosen to be substantially underpaid for whatever reasons.
Also, is dead cap number at the moment for 2018 is $14 million. Romo’s dead cap number this year is $19.6 million. So the Patriots I think have actually done a pretty good job not kicking the can down the road too far.
It also helps that his wife is worth $360 MILLION dollars.
Maybe he takes less because, idk… he’s rich!
Also is that an ion cannon?
That’s no moon…
How many truly great shutdown corners didn’t finish their careers on a nosedive or move to safety to avoid that? Bailey? Anyone else? Even Deion looked bad with the Redskins and awful with the Ravens.
Ronde Barber
I meant Aneas Williams
When the Jets finish paying Revis what they owe him (fully guaranteed) he will have earned 124 million dollars just from contracts and bonuses. This doesn’t even take into account any sponsorships and merchandise deals he may have. Don’t worry I think his finances will be fine…
Someone will sign him to a 1 year 8 million dollar deal for a few years and then he’ll fade away into retirement. It’s how these one team (ish) legends roll.
Future Dolphin if I’ve ever seen one. I’m not sure how to feel about that.
Scared because he’ll trip on the sprinkler again and tear his ACL
Revis will end up in Tampa again and be crap, just like the storm
(Small 2017 arena football preview coming on Tuesday)
Yeah, Brady takes less money, right up until he retires and then lands a job with the Patriots as a “consultant” where he shows up at practice 3 times a season and gets paid $32,000,000 a year.
You know the Patriots are up to some shady shit like that.
I’ve got no problem with Revis being so mercenary, because he never claimed it was anything else. He was the best in the game, everybody knew it, and he wanted to be paid what he was worth. The length of any NFL career is exceedingly short, so I don’t begrudge him trying to get everything he could, when he could. Just ask Maurice Jones-Drew how he feels about career earnings.
What I truly hate is when teams (and fans) try to sell the “loyalty” card, as if they wouldn’t cut anyone the second they became expendable.
I thought part of the reason Revis got cut was a little drunken episode down on the southside of Pittsburgh, regardless of what the Jets claimed. http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/03/02/todd-bowles-arrest-wasnt-reason-we-cut-darrelle-revis/
If Revis really wants to go to the hall of fame, he should retire now because ending with several bad/subpar years is an easy way for a fringe player to not be considered/locked-in player to have to wait a while.
I think the fact that he got paid starting in his rookie year was the driving force behind him not playing hard this year. Revis has never been physical (besides while running aside a receiver, his ability to get away with contact before the catch was elite in it’s own), but this year, it would’ve been better to have Dee Milliner back on the roster. Good for him, and honestly anyone else that demands that type of money. Your career can end at any point, and if you can get that big 2nd contract, take every penny you get. As Dave stated in a previous comment, it’s so fucking selfish when a fan demands that someone takes a pay cut just to stay with a certain team. Fuck you, even as a Pats fan, if I could make $1m more a year with the Jets I’m taking it, you never know when a Teddy Bridgewater could just end your career.