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[h1]Shanahan hints that Haynesworth could practice without passing conditioning test[/h1]
Posted by Mike Florio on August 2, 2010 5:01 PM ET
So with ******** coach Mike Shanahan insisting that defensive tackle Albert Haynesworthpass a conditioning test before practicing with the team andHaynesworth unable to do so, the end result could be Haynesworth notpracticing with the team, perhaps for the entire season.
And so either Haynesworth will have to pass the test, or Shanahan will have to remove the requirement that Haynesworth pass it.
On Monday, Shanahan hinted that Haynesworth may eventually be permitted to practice without passing the test.
Askedif there's a point at which Haynesworth would be put into pads withoutpassing the test, Shanahan said, "Possibly. You'll just have to stickaround."
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[h1][/h1][h1]Jets try to paint Revis as greedy[/h1]
Posted by Mike Florio on August 2, 2010 6:06 PM ET
We recently suggested that, when it comes to working out a new deal for cornerback Darrelle Revis,G.M. Mike Tannenbaum's hands are tied by the reluctance of owner WoodyJohnson to authorize the funds necessary to get the deal done.
On Monday, Johnson denied that the impasse has arisen from a lack of money.
"The main issue with the New York Jets is total compensation," Johnson said Monday, per Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News. "When you get to some of the details like the guaranteed money or the length of the contract -- all of those things that are a part of the contract -- but to get to the point where we haven't even negotiated that because we're so far apart on the other ones. I'd love to sit down and negotiate. We can be flexible."
Johnsonreiterated that the team has offered both a long-term deal and ashort-term "Band-Aid" solution. Rich Cimini of ESPNNewYork.com reportsthat the long-term deal included total compensation in excess of $100 million. The "Band-Aid" would have paid Revis more than his current $1 millionsalary in 2010, but less than the $5.3 million they'll pay left tackle 'Brickashaw Ferguson this year.
"Thisis my eleventh year," Johnson said. "We've never had an inability[with] lack of resources to sign whoever we wanted. We can go down thelist. You want to talk about Brett Favre or even Mark Sanchez in terms of signing the players we want. We can do it. But we have to do it in the context of what's best for the organization."
That'sfine, but is it "best for the organization" to approach Revis' agentsonly two days after the Jets were knocked out of the playoffs andsuggest ripping up the last three years of his rookie deal, which heheld out to get in the first place, without saying that: (1) the Nnamdi Asomughacontract, with an average value of $15.1 million is an aberration, nota benchmark; and (2) the 30-percent rule and the reallocation rule willaffect the total dollars and the guaranteed money?
Even thoughthe Jets are now crouching behind the gap in total dollars as theprimary impediment to working out a deal, the amount of trulyguaranteed money is a huge part of the picture. They can offer him adeal worth $500 million, but all that really matters is the amountthat's truly guaranteed once he signs his first name and last name tothe bottom of the contract.
Ferguson signed because, for reasonsneither known nor apparent, he wasn't troubled by the complete lack ofan injury guarantee or the application of a year-by-year skillguarantee. Revis wants $15.1 million per year -- and he wants theappropriate amount of guaranteed money to be guaranteed upon signing,not after he gets through 2010 and then 2011 and then 2012 and then2013 without suffering a serious injury or without suddenly losing thestuff that makes him, as coach Rex Ryan says, the best defensive playerin the game.
So, basically, the Jets' new approach is to paintRevis as greedy. Put simply, they're saying he wants more money thanthe Jets think he's worth, and they think he's worth a lot.
Thisnew approach might win them some points in a P.R. battle they hadpreviously bungled, but it won't get Revis into camp in the foreseeablefuture. Or thereafter.
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