The details of Revis’s new deal, which came a week before the Jets’ regular season opener, with the team were not immediately available. But if the number of exclamation points used in a Twitter message can be taken as a metric, then Revis appears plenty pleased with his new contract.
In a pair of messages posted early Monday morning, Revis expressed his regret for his much-publicized holdout, which has been a subject of obsession among Jets fans and the news media over the last month.
“I just want to tell y’all that I’m sorry for this process and I can’t wait to get back on the field,” Revis wrote.
The Jets had been preparing to head into the first week of the season without Revis, whom Coach Rex Ryan has often described as the best defensive player in the N.F.L.
But they were evidently not prepared to do that without making one last-ditch effort to lure Revis back, as Ryan and Jets owner Woody Johnson flew to South Florida on Saturday to meet with the star cornerback. The Jets had previously expressed little optimism that they would be able to strike a deal with Revis in the near future, even as their season opener approached.
But the visit ended up producing a breakthrough, and it seemed only fitting that an often bizarre holdout would come to a conclusion at such a bizarre time, the wee hours of Labor Day.
Not that the Jets cared much about the timing. General Manager Mike Tannenbaum simply expressed relief in a conference call with reporters early Monday morning.
“This is an intermediate step to what we hope is an entire career of Darrelle as a Jet,” he said. “For him to retire a Jet, for him to hopefully go to the Hall of Fame one day as a Jet and for him to be in our ring of honor.”
The Jets begin their regular season a week from Monday, when they will host the Baltimore Ravens at the New Meadowlands Stadium. It was not immediately clear whether Revis would be ready for that game, though if the team finalizes its contract with him in the near future ? perhaps later Monday ? it seems plausible that Revis could be in uniform by then.
Revis, 25, made clear in the offseason his displeasure with his contract, so it was no surprise when he did not show up for training camp when it began on Aug. 1. He was slated to make $ 1 million this season, the fourth year in a six-year contract he signed as a rookie and by all accounts has outplayed.
The disagreement between Revis and the Jets focused on how much more he should be compensated than his current deal would have provided. Revis asserted that he wanted to be the highest-paid cornerback in the N.F.L., which would have put his paycheck at somewhere in the ballpark of $ 15 million per year, a sum that the Jets were not eager to pay.
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