CORTLAND, N.Y. -- The now-infamous, Sopranos-esque Roscoe Diner meeting seemed to suck all the optimism out of the Jets on getting a deal done with Darrelle Revis.
That was abundantly apparent through the lens of HBO's Hard Knocks, which premiered tonight.
The cameras weren't allowed into last Friday's meeting between general manager Mike Tannenbaum, director of football administration Ari Nissim and Revis' agents, but they did capture Tannenbaum in the car ride back to camp in Cortland, N.Y.
"They haven’t said one thing that I agree with at all," Tannenbaum said to Nissim. "We’re so freaking far apart that I feel like a failure."
"I wish I had another card to play here,” he added. “A one-year deal. A four-year deal. A 10-year deal. In good conscience, we can move on. Maybe go trade for a corner. In good conscience, why don’t we move on, and we’ll try again next year?”
The show did not follow the All-Pro cornerback, as it has done with previous holdouts, nor did it include his representatives (his agents have said they declined the chance for Revis or the Roscoe Diner meeting to be filmed). But the Jets' perspective -- albeit the one they chose to present on camera -- was painted as a bleak one as Revis' holdout for a new contract dragged through the first week of camp.
