I can't help myself. I have to rain on the Jets parade. It's just so annoying to listen to them. Mike Greenberg on Mike and Mike-on ESPN2-acts as if they just won the Super Bowl.
Revis is the greatest corner in the league, agreed. But the Jets still have no one to play QB. With all the money they spent on Revis Island they have the less to pay for a QB, etc. You can have all the corners in the world and you still don't win without an offense.
The hard reality: the Jets had Revis for years and didn't win anything. I know they went to the championship game 2 years in a a row. Right and the Patriots did what the Jets did in 2012 and 2013-went to the AFC title game and lost and considered it a failure while Jets fans boast about 2009 and 2010.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/03/ok-so-jets-get-revis.html
Everyone's saying that Mike Maccagnan is going to get a tickertape parade for landing Revis. Ok, I guess it's understandable: how else are Jets fans ever going to get their parade: surely not from actually winning the Super Bowl.
No one is talking about my Giants, and yeah, I'm tired of Jets talk already and no doubt the victory lap has just started but the Giants still have the better chance to actually make the playoffs. Their move yesterday didn't get much notice but the addition of the versatile back Shane Vereen-who had a big game for the Patriots in the Super Bowl-should help a lot on 3rd down short yardage situations and further add to Eli's considerable weapons.
http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/giants/shane-vereen-giants-agree-on-deal-1.10041863
The Giants were supposed to be quiet in free agency and in that they didn't disappoint. However, Vereen and some of the other additions improves the team and gives them more depth for considerable less moolah than the Jets put up for Revis.
On another tact, Revis: is he a 'mercenary?' I guess it depends on your vantage point. It's been argued taht he's the one guy who has successfully beaten today's salary cap system. You can understand why from a player standpoint he's a winner. I mean these days all it takes is one injury or subpar season and you're gone or your career is over.
To be sure he's done it a different way than most players would dare. He's taken some one year contracts-most players want the security of a long term deal. Of course, this makes owners nervous: remember all that money that Herschel Walker got in that terrible trade?
Revis beat the system in part because of his-justified-total confidence in himself. Most players relative lesser confidence in themselves is probably also justified.
I agree you can't criticize Revis for following the money and there's no reason why players should be more sentimental than owners. We've seen cases where guys have done everything for their franchise and at the end of the day their franchise didn't love them back-this has happened to great players like Joe Montana and Peyton Manning.
For fans though, as we root for laundry-I certainly do more than most-it makes the game less sentimental. The pre free agency era wasn't good for players and wasn't fair. Still, it enabled fans to have illusions about team loyalty-even though this was achieved in a one sided way.
It does seem Revis wants to play for the Jets, so it is in a way a sentimental homecoming and he himself says he's 'coming home.'
Last thing I'll say: I hate the salary cap. Does it give us 'competitive balance?' No, it gives players lower salaries. It's called a salary cap not a profit cap. Realistically, the coldness that fans feel would be lessened without a salary cap-it's not going anywhere to be sure. At least it rose considerably this year.
But the salary cap makes it often impossible for teams to be 'sentitmental' about players. After you win the SB you have to give up half your guys. So this makes it more 'unsentimental.'
Revis is the greatest corner in the league, agreed. But the Jets still have no one to play QB. With all the money they spent on Revis Island they have the less to pay for a QB, etc. You can have all the corners in the world and you still don't win without an offense.
The hard reality: the Jets had Revis for years and didn't win anything. I know they went to the championship game 2 years in a a row. Right and the Patriots did what the Jets did in 2012 and 2013-went to the AFC title game and lost and considered it a failure while Jets fans boast about 2009 and 2010.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/03/ok-so-jets-get-revis.html
Everyone's saying that Mike Maccagnan is going to get a tickertape parade for landing Revis. Ok, I guess it's understandable: how else are Jets fans ever going to get their parade: surely not from actually winning the Super Bowl.
No one is talking about my Giants, and yeah, I'm tired of Jets talk already and no doubt the victory lap has just started but the Giants still have the better chance to actually make the playoffs. Their move yesterday didn't get much notice but the addition of the versatile back Shane Vereen-who had a big game for the Patriots in the Super Bowl-should help a lot on 3rd down short yardage situations and further add to Eli's considerable weapons.
http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/giants/shane-vereen-giants-agree-on-deal-1.10041863
The Giants were supposed to be quiet in free agency and in that they didn't disappoint. However, Vereen and some of the other additions improves the team and gives them more depth for considerable less moolah than the Jets put up for Revis.
On another tact, Revis: is he a 'mercenary?' I guess it depends on your vantage point. It's been argued taht he's the one guy who has successfully beaten today's salary cap system. You can understand why from a player standpoint he's a winner. I mean these days all it takes is one injury or subpar season and you're gone or your career is over.
To be sure he's done it a different way than most players would dare. He's taken some one year contracts-most players want the security of a long term deal. Of course, this makes owners nervous: remember all that money that Herschel Walker got in that terrible trade?
Revis beat the system in part because of his-justified-total confidence in himself. Most players relative lesser confidence in themselves is probably also justified.
I agree you can't criticize Revis for following the money and there's no reason why players should be more sentimental than owners. We've seen cases where guys have done everything for their franchise and at the end of the day their franchise didn't love them back-this has happened to great players like Joe Montana and Peyton Manning.
For fans though, as we root for laundry-I certainly do more than most-it makes the game less sentimental. The pre free agency era wasn't good for players and wasn't fair. Still, it enabled fans to have illusions about team loyalty-even though this was achieved in a one sided way.
It does seem Revis wants to play for the Jets, so it is in a way a sentimental homecoming and he himself says he's 'coming home.'
Last thing I'll say: I hate the salary cap. Does it give us 'competitive balance?' No, it gives players lower salaries. It's called a salary cap not a profit cap. Realistically, the coldness that fans feel would be lessened without a salary cap-it's not going anywhere to be sure. At least it rose considerably this year.
But the salary cap makes it often impossible for teams to be 'sentitmental' about players. After you win the SB you have to give up half your guys. So this makes it more 'unsentimental.'
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