"Santonio Holmes enjoyed one of the two greatest days of his football life yesterday.

Presumably, his best day was the magical Super Bowl MVP performance in 2009 when he made that acrobatic game-winning touchdown catch to help the Steelers beat the Cardinals. That moment ultimately set the course for what occurred yesterday when Holmes hit the financial jackpot he always has dreamed about.

The Jets aggressively targeted Holmes as their top priority (they really had little choice) and yesterday dropped some $50 million over five years on him with $24 million guaranteed.

About an hour after Holmes agreed to terms with the Jets, he posted on his Twitter account a photo of himself, wearing little more than a pair of shorts, chugging the last drops of an expensive bottle of champagne.

The tweet message accompanying the photo read: "Just finish a bottle of Louis Roederer Cristal from 2002! Big bro showed loved today."

If the "Big bro" Holmes referred to in his tweet is Woody Johnson, then he owes the Jets owner at least as good a 2011 and beyond as that pricey 2002 vintage of Cristal he drank.

Holmes is a living, breathing, maddening seductive quandary. He's an incredibly talented playmaker who's easily the Jets' most dangerous offensive threat, but he also is a big-time risk.

This was the Jets dilemma as they plotted their offseason moves.

Having already served a four-game ban to start his career with the Jets last season because of marijuana use, Holmes is one Cheech and Chong moment away from being suspended for an entire year under the NFL's substance abuse policy.

For the Jets, that's walking on a tightrope without a safety net below."