Why would we have to "cut" his salary for someone to take him? According to the GMs here $16 million is a steal for "the best cover CB in the league". People should be falling over themselves to grab him from us. And since he's healthier now we should have no problem grabbing two round one picks because he'd be such an important part of a team that wants to win it all.
Sorry to pick at your straw man doc, but no one is discussing cutting his salary. Converting base salary into a bonus to absorb it into the Bucs cap and allow a potential trade partner to get Revis for the vet minimum (I'm assuming that's what that is) for 2 seasons. Which shouldn't be hard to understand would dramatically increase his trade value, and be pretty much the only way for the Bucs to move him and get something of value in return. I think the OP's scenarios are a bit far fetched, however, I could absolutely see a contending team giving up 2 1's.
Not a strawman. By doing what JC suggests we would be "Cutting" his cost for whatever team would pick him up. Try to keep up...
No one is going to give two firsts, or that team would already have him. But the basic idea is that the Bucs pay him and take the cap hit but they get the other team's pick. Essentially, we are purchasing their draft pick in a shady deal that the league will frown on, and won't work unless it's a team that Revis wants to go to. Also very unlikely that we even recover the picks we spent to begin with, while at the same time losing a lot of cap space. If we could get back the first and third we spent to bring him in, the net result for the whole affair would be that we had Revis for one year and it cost us 48 million dollars.
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I believe their thinking was, hell, we get a 80% Revis for 2013, and a 100% Revis for the following years of the contract. So now that the 80% season is out of the way, why in the world would you trade him to another team where he would be 100% going forward? I better re-read the OP.
Wait, let me get this straight...paying 32 million for the best CB in the league is too much and overpriced....But paying 30.3 million to NOT having the best CB is sound logic???
Paying 30 million for all those draft picks essentially.
One of which we'll need to spend on a CB to fill the gaping whole left by RevisWhere exactly does this start to make sense at?
I believe their thinking was, hell, we get a 80% Revis for 2013, and a 100% Revis for the following years of the contract. So now that the 80% season is out of the way, why in the world would you trade him to another team where he would be 100% going forward? I better re-read the OP.
He has more value off the team than on it. In 3 years we're going to be sitting here with a 32 year old CB that we've dumped $64M into with nothing to show for it.
If we could get either of those packages I would do it in a heartbeat. I love me some Revis, but those are some nice deals. I would prefer the Cowboy one, but the Denver one would be acceptable. Assuming the numbers and legality of it were square I don't see how you could pass that up.
I believe their thinking was, hell, we get a 80% Revis for 2013, and a 100% Revis for the following years of the contract. So now that the 80% season is out of the way, why in the world would you trade him to another team where he would be 100% going forward? I better re-read the OP.
He has more value off the team than on it. In 3 years we're going to be sitting here with a 32 year old CB that we've dumped $64M into with nothing to show for it.
Nothing? He has been rated the #1 CB in the league this season. And that is at 80%. These next few seasons will be where he earns that big money.
I believe their thinking was, hell, we get a 80% Revis for 2013, and a 100% Revis for the following years of the contract. So now that the 80% season is out of the way, why in the world would you trade him to another team where he would be 100% going forward? I better re-read the OP.
He has more value off the team than on it. In 3 years we're going to be sitting here with a 32 year old CB that we've dumped $64M into with nothing to show for it.
Nothing? He has been rated the #1 CB in the league this season. And that is at 80%. These next few seasons will be where he earns that big money.
Nothing as in wins. Are we going to win division championships, playoff games, Super Bowls? That's the goal isn't it?
I believe their thinking was, hell, we get a 80% Revis for 2013, and a 100% Revis for the following years of the contract. So now that the 80% season is out of the way, why in the world would you trade him to another team where he would be 100% going forward? I better re-read the OP.
He has more value off the team than on it. In 3 years we're going to be sitting here with a 32 year old CB that we've dumped $64M into with nothing to show for it.
Nothing? He has been rated the #1 CB in the league this season. And that is at 80%. These next few seasons will be where he earns that big money.
Nothing as in wins. Are we going to win division championships, playoff games, Super Bowls? That's the goal isn't it?
How you could put all that on Revis makes no sense. He did his job, and did it well.
You're right. Let's pay him $32m over the next 2 years and go 10-22.
right .. so the way to iprove in the NFL is to trade away talent? Gotcha . . . . . . (wow)
Well, he's right. Think of all the amazing things that could have happened for this team if we had just traded away Hardy Nickerson after one year?
I think he's angling to get enough picks to steal that Josh Freeman guy away from Minnesota....
I'd definitely trade Revis for a first rounder if someone would give one. Those OP deals are franchise changers, so, yeah.
5 draft picks, 3 of which are #1's? and a #2? In a heartbeat. Not happening this side of the 2nd coming though.
