Yes...Revis wanted Asomugha money but didn't have leverage to make it happen back then.
That 2010 holdout that resulted in a $42 mil band aid extension...took away the franchise tag from the Jets. Also...it contained a poison pill. That if Revis didn't agree to a new contract...and walked...Jets end up getting tagged with a $9 mil dead money hit to the 2014 CAP.
Those Scrooge & Marley agents of Revis raped Tanny and the Jets real good with that new contract. The Revis camp just let that oderous contract tick away...like a time bomb. While it was ticking...along came the $100 mil Mario Williams contract. That makes the Asomugha money pale in comparison.
Now the Revis camp had all the leverage...Jets had none. They told the Jets that they wanted Williams $100 type money...or Revis walks. Resulting in Jets eating $9 mil 2014 CAP dead money.
There never has been any real negotiations going on for a reasonable landing spot. Cause Revis had Jets by the short hairs.
Revis knew he was going to get his Williams money...either by a Jets capitulation...FA, or through a trade. Like anyone who has a gun put to their head...Jets weren't going to cave in and pay Revis a ransom.
Revis will never play for the Jets in 2013. IMO...Revis expected it to end this way too. Revis will haul in his $100 mil from some other team. And that's all that matters to him.
Nobody who seriously wants to be a Jet for life...would force a contract on them like that. But the Revis camp did. Again... Jets have a $100 mil gun aimed at their heads...and a alternative of $9mil 2014 dead money. So Jets have no choice...but to trade him for whatever they can get...and never look back.
Anyway...IMO...as soon as the ink was dry on that so called band aid extension...that gave Revis all the leverage and the Jets none to bargain with. Revis was never going to end up a Jet for life. And Darelle knew it.
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