N.Y. Jets, Revis's Agents Agree to Keep Contract Discussions Confidential
The New York Jets and representatives for cornerback Darrelle Revis will keep future contract negotiations confidential after the two sides traded barbs in the media this week over their lack of progress.
“Both parties have had conversations to clear the air and will continue to negotiate with the hopes of reaching an agreement,” according to a joint statement from the Jets and Revis’s agents, Neil Schwartz and Jonathan Feinsod.
Revis, 25, has missed almost two weeks of training camp while seeking to a new deal with an annual value that could make him the highest-paid cornerback in the National Football League. Nnamdi Asomugha got a three-year, $45.3 million contract from the Oakland Raiders.
Jets owner Woody Johnson said on Aug. 9 that there had been no progress in talks and said he didn’t expect Revis to reach an agreement before the team’s first regular-season game on Sept. 13 against the Baltimore Ravens.
In an Aug. 10 interview with ESPN Radio 1050 in New York, Johnson said Revis’s agents rebuffed the idea of having the owner and coach Rex Ryan at a meeting to discuss Revis’s contract. Schwartz told the New York Post it was a “blatant lie” that the Jets offered to have Johnson at the meeting.
“From this point forward, all discussions regarding these negotiations will remain confidential,” the Jets and Revis’s agents said in the joint statement.
Revis is in the fourth year of a six-year contract worth a total of $36 million, according to the NFL Network.
Jets General Manager Mike Tannenbaum said after the most recent meeting that the two sides remain far apart on total compensation for a new deal.
Revis had six interceptions last season while anchoring a defense that allowed a league-low 252.3 yards a game. Revis also led the league with 37 passes defended and finished second to Green Bay Packers cornerback Charles Woodson in voting for the NFL’s Defensive Player of the Year Award.
To contact the reporter on this story: Erik Matuszewski in New York at matuszewski@bloomberg.net
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