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New Jersey – It your business was constantly being smeared, and it was hurting the image of your brand, how would you feel about it? Not good . . .
It looks like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are out of the running for free agent cornerback Brent Grimes. It look likes the leading candidates for Grimes are the Miami Dolphins and Cleveland Browns.
Why do I bring this up? Once again, it makes you think about a Darrelle Revis trade to Tampa Bay.
Grimes is a quality starting cornerback.
If Tampa added him, it would likely impact their mindset slightly on Revis. I’m not putting him on Darrelle’s level, but he’s very good.
With no Grimes in the Tampa Bay picture, the cupboard remains pretty bare in Buccaneer-land at cornerback.
They remain the leading candidates to land Revis if the Jets decided to trade him . . .
Something else on the Revis-front that might make you understand why Woody Johnson might be leaning towards trading him, and this particular issue isn’t about money (though I’m not minimizing the significance of his contract situation).
Recently, Jets beat writer Manish Mehta, of the New York Daily News, tweeted, “Text from league source on Jets: ‘They will have the 1st pick in the draft in 2014.’”
Why am I bringing up this text?
Because most people around the Jets think this “league source” was Darrelle Revis’ Neil Schwartz.
In fact, often when there is an unnamed cheap shot at the Jets, the team assumes it’s Schwartz.
And there have been a lot – like the quote in the Daily News saying the Jets were “idiots” if they didn’t trade Revis when the league year officially got under way a few weeks ago. This source called them “idiots” if they didn’t pull the trigger immediately.
You had another quote in the New York Post essentially saying the Jets were going to screw up this Revis’ situation.
Can we sit here and prove for sure that Schwartz was behind all these quotes – of course not.
But that is the default setting in Jets Camp – that it’s most likely him when a “league source” pops up ripping the Jets at Yahoo, the Daily News, et al.
And “The Cheap Shot Express” didn’t just leave the station the last few months – it seems to go on every time Revis has a contract dispute – last spring, the summer 2010, and so forth.
Okay – put yourself in Woody Johnson’s shoes.
Why would you want to put up with this anymore – you and your organization getting smeared in the press constantly by an unnamed league source? It’s tarnishing your brand.
So it’s understandable, aside from financial concerns about Revis’ money demands, that Johnson is getting fed up with the smear campaign.
Whatever business any of you were in, how would you like your corporation or small business being targeted like this constantly?
It’s bad for business
It’s getting tedious.
And the Jets think Schwartz is behind most of it.
This Jets need to make this stop.
Trading Revis won’t make it stop totally. This is the New York media we are talking about. But it will definitely cut it down.
And a trade will obviously bring some quality draft picks in return, to help the team sure up several spots.
March 26, 2013
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