Jets Lose Darrelle Revis but I Can't Bring Myself to Feel Good About It

NY Post - You’re next, Rex. You’ll be Rexiled next. It is clear now Rex Ryan doesn’t have Woody Johnson’s ear anymore, because he will now be coaching for his job in 2013 without Darrelle Revis, who is taking his talents to Tampa for a high-risk six-year, $96 million deal but nary a red cent of it guaranteed. It’s a “deal of historic proportions,” according to GM John Idzik, Johnson’s new consigliere. A franchise-altering deal that will lead this tortured franchise in a new direction. With a new head coach. Ryan’s parting gift is the 13th pick of Thursday night’s NFL Draft — and nothing else, because the conditional 2014 fourth-rounder that could become a third-rounder will belong to someone else. Of course Johnson and Idzik didn’t get enough for Revis, only got what they could… It is a victory only in that it is better than getting nothing at all at the end of the 2013 season when Revis could have taken his talents to the Patriots or Giants, or anyone else. Only the Jets could find themselves trying to untangle themselves from such a Buttfumbled mess. This much is obvious: This is no longer Rex’s team. The party is over for him.

I have a semi-serious question here:  When it is OK to go back to the way things were before the bombings?  Political leaders like to say that the purpose of terror is to disrupt our way of life and the best thing we can all do to stop them is to go on living our lives.  Well that’s all well and good, but what if the thing you love more than anything else is tooling on other cities?  On other fan bases?  The very people who stepped up to support us when we were down?  I mean, I’ve been looking forward to the Jets losing Revis like a 7 year old waits for Christmas.  And now that it’s happened I just feel kind of hollow and empty inside.  Sure, he was the Jets be all and end all.  Rex loved Revis more than he loves saturated fats and a nice pedicure.  I should be dancing on the Jets grave, but my heart’s not in it.  These are, after all the same people who sang Sweet Caroline and hung a Sox banner in the Bronx and booed Mark Sanchez at the Celtics game. Now their franchise player is gone and Shrex is a lame duck coach. It’s almost like the whole Jets-loving bunch of them are working together to try to give me something to belittle them for like I used to.  But I can’t do it.  Not now.  The time to be a Masshole again is coming, but this Revis deal came too soon.  @JerryThornton1