Dantesaid earlier that even I can’t spin this trade into a positivefor the Patriots.
And he’s largely correct.
Keeping him around on his current contract was not an option.
Given the untenable situation they were in, getting a 3rd rounder (Atlanta’s last year was No.
So there’s that.
Again, allow me to remind the world that Judon signed here the season after Tom Brady left.
He voluntarily walked into that post-2020 wasteland and was the prize of the free agent class of 2021.
The one that won GM Bill Executive of the Year honors.
He was up for the challenge of helping to right this ship.
I get this isn’t 1973 and these aren’t the Paris Peace Accords.
You don’t need to physically be sitting across a table from someone to hammer out an agreement.
We all get it.
But Judon asked for a meeting.
Personally, and through his agents.
Would it have killed Eliot Wolf to grant it to him?
After all, this isn’t some entitled malcontent with an overinflated sense of self worth.
Judon has been a model employee.
He’s earned it.
Maybe meeting in person wouldn’t have helped; but it sure couldn’t have hurt.
We’ll never know.
Because the requests fell on deaf ears.
Like Jerod Mayo said, “It’s not going to be one person.
But I think we have a good group ready to go and step into those shoes.”
That’s the only positive spin I can manage right now.
And it’s not much.
