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So besides a personal attack, I am dumb for thinking Goodell will treat us fairly for the first time ever?
What I said might not happen, but this will get legs and be a big story tomorrow.
I'm not the idiot here.
I had a feeling this would happen. I saw the Kraft interview, and though I thought it was all past tense, he kept getting Revis questions and kept talking about it. Watch us lose a draft choice now and Johnson's tampering will get swept under the rug. Though Kraft was asked about that as well. The only quote that worries me is, "as a fan, I wish we kept him", still past tense, but somewhat close to Johnson's "if we knew we could have gotten him for 12 mill", that could be construed as past tense as well, though I think he said something to the effect of "we would love to have him back" or something, which was classic tampering.
Everything in Kraft's Monday statements made it clear that, while parting with Revis was difficult, that ship has sailed. "We thought we made a very competitive offer," Kraft said. "I speak as a fan of the New England Patriots, we wanted to keep him. We wanted him in our system, and we have certain disciplines. We had hoped it worked out. It didn't. We just don't think about short-term decisions. For example, next year we have three very good young defensive players coming up and we have to factor that."
Also, given Revis' five-year agreement with the Jets, which includes the next two seasons of fully guaranteed money (at $33M), Revis' situation now bears no resemblance to the contractual climate Revis faced when Woody Johnson made his comments. Unlike Johnson - who lamented not ponying up the money Revis was paid in New England in 2014 - Kraft made clear that that kind of spending wasn't in the Patriots' plans. "We just don't look at this year; we look out at the next few years. We've done OK doing that," he said. "As a fan, in March and April, I hate to lose [Revis]. But our real focus is what goes on in the fall and winter. I put my faith and respect with Bill [Belichick]. We have a lot of discussions and he's done pretty good the last 15 years. The fan in me argues all the time with him but he has a pretty good record."
I called it that the Jets would file tampering charges. I knew it would happen.
Yup, it's the NFL equivalent of making a crank call to 911.So after committing tampering to the very definition, the Jets have now offered up the textbook case of filing an accusation not in good faith.
Already added this to the OP "incident" listing.Time to elevate the Jets suck 2015 Edition I think.....
"We wanted to keep him [at the price we offered]..." an implication of the offer they gave him; offer which was given legally.
From the league’s anti-tampering policy: “Any public or private statement of interest, qualified or unqualified, in another club’s player to that player’s agent or representative, or to a member of the news media, is a violation of this Anti-Tampering Policy. (Example of a prohibited comment: ‘He’s an excellent player, and we’d very much like to have him if he were available, but another club holds his rights.’)”
Said Johnson in a press conference: “Darrelle is a great player. I’d love for Darrelle to come back.”