After going back in forth on the future of cornerback Darrelle Revis, the New York Jets are currently now backing down from original statements they made about wanting him to remain with the team. Management did not met with Revis' agents during the NFL Combine and instead have been shopping him around to other teams.
The Jets are beginning to see the number of teams that could be interested in Revis and the deal they could possibly get for him. Revis is wanting a new contract, while the Jets are looking for draft picks. Revis is scheduled to earn $6 million in cash compensation and $3 million in base salary in what is the final season of a four-year, $46 million deal he signing in 2010.
Both first-year general manager John Idzik and head coach Rex Ryan have previously stated they want Revis on the team in the upcoming season. Now they are backing up, saying they have to look at all aspects of ways to improve the team.
"Me and my job and Rex and everybody involved will always field calls and we'll always have internal discussions about how we can improve our team day to day, position by position. So that is an ongoing process but that is not isolated to any one player and not isolated to any one position," Idzik said.
Idzik referenced a lot of internal discussions happening with the team and there are a lot of what ifs when it comes to the Jet's offseason moves. Ryan had called Revis a tremendous player, but would not rule out trading anyone if the compensation is good enough.
"I'm going to coach whoever is here, but John and everybody would be involved in that. Certainly, to sit down and say absolutely not, we're not going to do it, I'm not going to say this player or that player, but if we got Jim Brown in that trade, we would probably look into it," Ryan said.
Revis is currently rehabbing an ACL injury in his left knee, which occurred in Week 3 of last year's season. Revis said he will be 100 percent come training camp time, but teams may be unwilling to take a risk on him with his health unproven for the upcoming year. The New York Jets' offseason is certainly a messy situation with Idzik and Ryan not on the same page, but it seems more and more like Revis will not be returning to the Jets in 2013.