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Here's the most accurate assessment you'll find:Originally Posted by RKO2004
So are the Jets willing to give him 10-13 million? Is He really shooting for $15 Mill exactly?
Based on reports, Revis wants TWICE what Nnamdi Asomugha received.
Asomugha got a 3 year, $45 million contract. Because Asomugha is getting $16 million this year (although he made $14 million last year), Revis' camp insist that the PER YEAR average of the ENTIRE contract be $16 million.
That means on a 6 yr deal the total should be $96 million. Why do you think the Jets keep saying there is a fundamental difference on total compensation?
Revis was initially offered a 4 year $55 million extension which on top of the $21 million due over the next 3 years would be a total package of $76 million. Revis turned that down because the total per year average was only $10 million and not "Asomugha money."
Revis wants his extension plus the next 3 years to average $16 million per, so that any extension has to be in the 3 year $75 million or 4 year $91 million range. Why do you think there were early rumors that Revis wanted $20 million a year? Revis refuted that, but that was only on the total per year average. The extension has to be in the $20+ million per range in order for Revis to get what he wants: $16 million per on a 6 or 7 year total deal.
That's why Woody rejected the deal.
But while the Jets have identified the total value of the offers as the hold-up, the amount of fully guaranteed money is a problem for the other side. None of the proposals the Jets have offered have included a signing bonus, according to a person with direct knowledge of the terms.
That person requested anonymity because he is not authorized to speak for Revis or the team.
What are the Jets able to offer? Well, there is a rule in the collective bargaining agreement that limits the amount of future salary that is fully guaranteed. In extensions entered into in the uncapped year, any future money guaranteed for both skill and injury must fit under the 2009 salary cap — and the Jets only had about $300,000 of cap space remaining.
But neither that rule nor any other tricky laws of the uncapped year restrict the amount paid out in the signing bonus. There are many reasons the Jets could be unwilling to offer a large signing bonus — one of which is the potential of a lockout next year — but it appears unlikely a resolution will be reached until they do.
Johnson maintained that the team is flexible on all parts of the deal, including the signing bonus, once an agreement on total compensation is reached.
This #@%# may as well be for Hard Knocks because it's all comedy to me...
SOFJ