Darrelle Revis and Jets agree to deal
The New York Jets and cornerback Darrelle Revis have come to an agreement on a new contract, the team announced on Monday morning.
The deal puts an end to seven months of negotiations between team and player, negotiations which led Revis to hold out from the team’s pre-season. After holding out for 35 days, the Jets and Revis finally came to an agreement giving the 25-year-old one week to prepare with the team before the season starts.
The deal is reportedly worth $46million over the next four years, with $32million of that coming in guarantees. Revis’ old contract would have paid him $21million over the next three years, all of which was guaranteed.
Revis announced his decision via Twitter in the early hours of Monday morning.
"I'm coming home baby!!! Revis Island. Let's Go," he tweeted.
In his holdout, the cornerback accumulated $578,305 in fines from the Jets but general manager Mike Tannenbaum refused to say whether those fines were included in the new contract. He did however express his delight about having Revis back with the team.
"This is an intermediate step to what we hope will be an entire career of Darrelle as a Jet, for him to retire as a Jet and for him to hopefully go to the Hall of fame as a Jet," Tannenbaum said in an early-morning conference call with reporters.
Head coach Rex Ryan and Jets owner Woody Johnson travelled to South Florida - where Revis lives in the off-season - on Saturday to try and persuade the cornerback to resolve the contract dispute. That seemed to do the trick with a resolution coming just over a day later. Tannenbaum admitted he wasn’t too optimistic about a deal being reached before that meeting.
“Those guys going down there was a huge step. I really wasn't optimistic, I really wasn't. It was a hard set of dynamics. I'm optimistic by nature, but gosh, this was really hard. There was a lot of heavy lifting. This honestly and truly was really, really hard,” Tannenbaum said.
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