He is signed. He is obligated by a $1 million dollar contract that he signed to show up for work.

Simplistic rationalization there, Q/P. If Revis shows up for work and breaks his leg in his first game...that is it. He is gone. No pay for that year. If YOU show up for work and get hit by a car at lunchtime and go to the hospital, your job and paycheck wait until you get back. (Assuming your brain is OK... like a football hit)

Leon Washington had a "contract" too until he broke his leg and the Jets went to the hospital to say "sayonara".








That 1M contract includes a "signing bonus" and escalators for games played...if you don't make games played...your signing bonus is effectively your salary and the rest of the 1M is essentially a "bonus" for performance/games played, etc.

Revis was the 6th highest paid player on the team... others were around 1.5 M and down.
The real money is guaranteed money....no strings...no outs.

Believe Revis' contract for the next two seasons were conditionally guaranteed at $10 million per. The condition: report to camp in 2010. That's it. No other strings attached.

Revis' contract caused a big stink when he signed it. Other teams bitched and moaned that the Jets were paying him "above slot" etc. and that it would raise rookie salaries up and down the league. It was heavily front loaded and back loaded. He already cashed the front loaded piece. The back loaded piece - see above. It was a creative contract that guaranteed the player a superb salary if he performed, while at the same time protecting the team if the guy went bust a la Gholston. But all he had to do to get the whole damn thing, was show up to camp. Instead, he cried about "I can't play for a lousy $1 million a year" but that is completely out of context.
I bleed Jets green and I love Revis but he's got this wrong.