The longer the Darrelle Revis contract holdout drags on, the more irritable Jets coaches and management become.
Revis, the Jets’ top draft pick, No. 14 overall, missed his fourth and fifth practices yesterday while Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum and Revis’ agent, Neil Schwartz, negotiate what should be a simple contract.
Based on the fact that both players drafted ahead of and behind Revis have been signed, it really should be simple math slotting him in with a contract. However, the word is that the Jets want Revis to sign a six-year deal, which would be financially better for the team in the long run, and Revis wants to sign a five-year deal, which is what the players drafted before and after him had signed.
“Every day is critical for people to be here,” Eric Mangini said yesterday of the impact of Revis’ absence. “Every day, we’re putting things in, installing news defenses, working on situational defense. There’s a lot of really good teaching, very important teaching, going on.
“The good thing is that the players who are here get extra reps.”
One of those players has been Justin Miller, whom Mangini praised.
“He’s been doing a really nice job here early on,” Mangini said of Miller, whose legal case involving a fight outside a Manhattan nightclub is still pending. *
Mangini also offered high praise for DT Sioni Pouha, who missed all of last season with a knee injury suffered in training camp a year ago.
RB Leon Washington was back on the practice field yesterday after being excused on Saturday to tend to a personal matter . . . The Jets yesterday waived K Justin Ayat and re-signed G Dominic Moran, who was originally signed on May 12 but waived July 23.