Revis' Manager Apparently Upset With GGN
Darrelle Revis' manager, John Geiger, is apparently unhappy Gang Green Nation over a post made earlier today. We pointed out a tweet Geiger made mocking D'Brickashaw Ferguson's agent for the contract he got the Pro Bowl left tackle. Geiger has since pulled the post in question from his Twitter account.
Minutes after our post went up, a member named SundayIQ sent Geiger a tweet:
@GeigerGeiger PR warning: your getting trashed online for insulting brick's contract. I just read it. At least your making the news. Lol
After that, Geiger pulled down the tweet in question and went on an all out blitz chiding us for blowing things out of proportion.
All I have to say to this is one, it was cleary a joke, if people knew about master p back in the day, it was funny.
It was a misunderstanding, really the point I was tryna make is brick is in the core of that team, brick is a great player but deserves more
Basically what I'm saying is brick is great player, I would have thought he would have got a max deal.. He didn't therefore I commented.
There will be no firing, only now I recognize what to not say on twitter, I apologized to everyone I had to and I'm moving on
I wish people would quit with the negatives and focus on the positives, the #jets will have a great year!!
Maye I'll be laying off twitter for awhile, since when I do tweet everyone takes it the wrong way.
Again, I wanna apologize, I didn't mean it how people took it. Brick is a great player and let focus on getting a sb ring not managers tweets
My friends, family, and true followers know me, I did NOT bash any players on the jets..
Some people need to realize what's it like to be under a microscope, to where every move or words said can be misunderstood..
So yeah, this confirms everything said in the first post. I didn't see anybody say he bashed D'Brickashaw. He did bash D'Brickashaw's agent, though. Again, Master P is known in an NFL context for negotiating perhaps the worst contract in the history of the league. That's really immature and unprofessional for somebody in the business Geiger is in. He deserved to be called out. You wouldn't catch Leigh Steinberg ripping another agent on Twitter. Geiger wants to make himself into the victim in this episode when he did something totally unprofessional.
Again, I also worry what it will mean for Revis contract negotiations if his manager thinks that contract is for so little it is something to mock.
Finally, he complains about being under a microsope. That comes with the territory. Nobody forced him to sign on as Revis' manager. You can't have it both ways. If you like the limelight that allows you to post a picture of yourself sitting near Magic Johnson at a basketball game on your Twitter account, you have to understand that you are a public figure. Your actions matter.
Darrelle Revis is a great, great football player. He is the most valuable defensive player in the league. He deserves to be paid richly. There are a lot of times in which athletes get themselves into trouble by giving important jobs to personal friends who aren't necessarily qualified. I worry about how he is being handled. I worry about what this will mean for the Jets in contract negotiations.
I don't know John Geiger. I'm sure he's a nice guy. The way his friends are coming to support him on Twitter proves that. Episodes like this just make me wonder whether Darrelle Revis is really getting the kind of quality representation he deserves or hearing the right things.
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Then stop running your mouth
Hey if you mispeak own it, don’t haha it was a joke. Thats not stuff that people joke about. If you don’t want to be held accountable for comments you make on twitter, then don’t make them. Twitter is not the place to make general comments like that, where people are going to read and interpret what you type. So if you want a place to work on jokes, carry a note book around with you. If you can’t understand how people would take those comments the wrong way, you either lack critical thinking skills, or you are just not bright enough to begin with.
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I agree with everything you just wrote, also i want to point out that he says he wants people to stop looking at the negatives and look at the positives, well for one, the last time i checked, if you are going to make 60 Million over the next 6 years, i say thats positive!! but all Geiger did was make a mockery about it and say he deserves more…ridiculous is all i can say
If only Nikolai was here to see this….
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I pulled one of his FanPosts a few weeks ago because he copied and pasted an entire article without linking it. He hasn’t been heard from since.
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by Ryan Alfieri on Jul 11, 2010 9:24 PM EDT up reply actions
So sick of Agents tweeting
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What a horrible manager
I know he is your friend Revis, but come on. Why make things harder this off season, even if it was a joke (against Ferg’s agent, not Ferg!)
Get busy winning or get busy losing.
He seems like a good guy to me, and he probably didn’t mean to insult anyone, but that’s the nature of the beast. You put yourself in a prominent position within a fanbase like the Jets, and you have to be wary about what you put out into public view. Like I said he probably didn’t want to cause offense, but you just need to step back and say “how can this be taken”…..shifting the blame won’t help the cause. A simple tweet like “should of thought about it could be interpreted before I tweeted it, no offense was meant by it, so apologies if any were caused” would of been sufficient in my opinion. Like I said on mine earlier though, if he or his fans want to take some shots at us for interpreting an ambiguous tweet, then we’ll take it.
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geiger was obviously trying to make a point at ferguson's expense. hopefully he keeps his word about staying off twitter. not likely tho since he seems like an attention whore.
what i take from it is that it’s a reflection of the mindset of revis’ camp. at this point it would be surprising if a deal gets done with revis this season.
the question is how revis will handle it. stay tuned.
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The one bit I had a problem with is he said we were focusing on the negatives instead of the positives, but he was the one who criticized Ferguson’s contract. If he really cared about being positive about the Jets, he would of commented on how great it is for the franchise to have a LT of Brick’s caliber locked up long term. Bad comment from the start, made worse by his explanation.
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He was probably lightheaded when he tweeted it.
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I've tried to email Revis, but it just shuts down my computer.
by dvdvil on Jul 11, 2010 7:16 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
LMAO
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by Ryan Alfieri on Jul 11, 2010 8:14 PM EDT up reply actions
Revis' best friend and manager is also a liar
In this post he says that the first tweet was a joke AND he says Brick deserves to be paid more with the obvious implication that Brick’s agent did a poor job…which was the point of his first tweet that got everyone so upset. What an idiot. Then he goes on to blame everyone else for misunderstanding him? You can’t make this crap up.
There was no misunderstanding with his original post. Geiger obviously thinks Brick got hosed- Geiger says it himself again in this “clarification” by saying that Brick “deserves more” and should have gotten a “max deal.” Geiger then tries to throw us off the scent by saying he wasn’t trying to bash Brick…Hey Geiger, we already know that, you were just bashing his agent. We completely understand the point of your original tweet and it clearly wasn’t meant as a joke. You think Brick got hosed. I’m losing more respect for Revis by the second.
the non-apology apology
is a classic move, but the “woe is me” attitude is sickening.
Dear Mr John Geiger,
We fully understand you are looking out for Darrelle’s and your best interests. It’s simply human nature. If Darrelle feels like money is far and away the most important factor, then so be it. From a fans perspective, Darrelle looking for ~17 million dollars annual, most of it guaranteed doesn’t do much for the NY Jets franchise. We love Revis. We think he is one of the best. But it will take 3-4 of them to neutralize a 17 million dollar QB. There is only one Darrelle Revis. We love him in NY. Right now you have to realize you dont hold the cards. He got a great rookie contract. He is due I believe over 25 million the next 3 seasons. To get him security you need to compromise on the $ amount. There will eventually be a cap, and the Jets could become severely handicap.
D’Brick realized he is part of something special. He got a nice contract. Sure he could have held out for more, but you know what? He is a team player. He knows there is other ways to get more money. Advertisements, being a spokesperson is one of them. Revis said himself he isnt a greedy player. The only reason you are pushing for more and more is because you want to be the top agent in the game who is results oriented. You want to have a Drew Rosenhaus reputation. That’s great for your pockets, but you will be hated. And making remarks towards players who aren’t as greedy as you will only make matters worse. Sign a mutally beneficial contract between the Jets and Darrelle. You will have a much better reputation.
Geiger: Cmon!! You guys completely took what i said out of context. It was a joke.
What I really meant was that Brick should have gotten a max deal. I mean he’s a core player. Either he’s really stupid for agreeing to so little, or his agent/manager is inept and incompetent, or he’s really stupid to have hired and inept and incompetent agent/manager. Lets just focus on the positives here. Go Jets!!!
Revis, fire this moron. Because very soon the question won’t be how dumb he is (thats already been proven, TWICE). The question will be how dumb are you for allowing him to represent you?
For all intents and purposes this man speaks for Darrelle. That is, these are Darrelle’s words. And Darrelle just called his pro bowl teammate a moron, in a very public fashion, TWICE.
Aren’t these guys supposed to maintain at least an illusion of professionalism? Leave the stupid comments about who’s incompetent at their job to US, the fans! That’s our department. The fact that Darrelle is being influenced by a clown like Geiger says a lot about how he went from a team player to a “it’s all about MEvis” in one season. Worst part is, Geiger isn’t even man enough to own what he said, instead blaming everyone else for scrutinizing him. Just admit it was a dumb thing to say and make your retraction as public as the insult was!
And while we’re on the subject: the fact that most rappers are broke within 2 years of the last album they sold nonwithstanding, anyone who agreed to put their financial future in the hands of a guy who calls himself “Master P” has got to have rocks in their head. Or was pretty high at the time. One or the other.
Yeah that was what made me angry
Man up and say sorry, own it, then we wouldn’t we talking about it.
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Judged by the company you keep....
Most of us who contribute posts yo this site have jobs, and guess how long you would have yours if you wrote anything close to what this guy wrote.
Whether it’s video (were those cameras really on?) or a live site like twitter, how naive are you? And you rep a player in the midst of a protracted contract negotiation?
Whether you delete the post on twitter later on or not is irrelevant. Don’t you think that gets back to Jets management? Or was that your intent in the first place and GGN followers are merely an inconvenient truth.
Like BL3ACH said above, man up, take some responsibility, and we can talk about the upcoming season. And I think that if it were a different era, Master P would’ve gotten his own reality television show. You, Mr. Geiger, will not, so I suggest you man up and grow up.
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I've tried to email Revis, but it just shuts down my computer.
Geez
Sometimes you need to let things go. I don’t see how picking a fight with a site as small scale at ours is going to be to anybody’s benefit.
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TJB is a great site, good buddies of ours over there…..so an intended swipe misses the target again…he must be getting used to his tweets being the ultimate fail.
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That’s also a swipe at Manish from the Daily News, Rich Cimini from ESPN, Jenny from newsday, Allen from NYJets, Hubbuch and Cannizzaro from the post…. is he saying they are not true sources? so "Revis’s Manager slates New York media for creating fictitious reports & not being a true source"….ahh some people’s feelings sure are brittle these days.
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LOL
Wow. This guy just exploited most of the New York media, this guy migt be that dumb I am starting to think. I can see 24 walk into the room and say " dude your freaking killing me just stop taking and tweeting just sit quietly and say nothing" (face palm)
Since the face been revealed the game got real
Not only that
This is a site run by die hard fans, not professional writers. Attacking your most loyal backers like this just isn’t smart.
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Revis, please just fire this clown.
He’s trying to fix paper cut by stabbing it with a butcher knife. Keep him on as an adviser if u like. Call him an outside consultant or something. But strip him of his “manager” title. He’s already exposed himself as a nitwit. Now he’s making you look like one too. He can’t officially be part of Team Revis anymore. He’s lost all credibility, and seems to be doing his darnest to tarnish yours as well.
FIRE him.
The sad thing about this incident is
a great player signed because he felt loyalty towards the team that drafted him, and this guy makes it look like he got cheated for being honorable. This might work in our favor, if we stay on top of this story, maybe Revis will be force to fire him.

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