Gresh & Fauria: Will the Patriots and Matthew Judon figure things out?
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00:00I watched Elliot Wolfe walk out onto the field and walk by Matt Judon, and there was no...
00:06Like, for a couple of guys with Elliot, there was some hand slaps, and there was no interaction with Judon.
00:11I think it's Elliot down there talking to Gerard Mayo right now.
00:15Tommy, where do you think we stand when it comes to Matt Judon and the Patriots?
00:23I still think it's going to get resolved. I think that whatever Mayo said to him to get him to capitulate,
00:29it's a very... It's a rare contract to pass in 2024 when you have a guy who's that pissed off about his contract
00:35actually has a reasonable case being made that the 6.5 is well below what he should be paid
00:41and is still taking part in practices. So to me, the Patriots have kind of quote-unquote won this past week
00:49with Matthew Judon. How do I see it playing out? He's already on record as saying,
00:53I'm going to play under the contract. What else do I have in terms of decisions or options?
00:58So to me, he'll be out there playing.
01:01That's the guy you... To me, that's the guy you dangle to San Francisco.
01:05Hey, you want to...
01:05To get less than a first.
01:06Yeah, to get... Yeah. Hey, you want to kick this trade up a little bit?
01:10You really want to get something for IUC? I'll send you a guy that, you know,
01:14you might have to give him a sweetener on a two-year fake deal or whatever,
01:18but here's a guy who would come in and honestly fit what they do pretty seamlessly.
01:23The interesting thing with them is, and certainly, but they have to then weigh
01:27what the Patriots are weighing.
01:28Oh, of course.
01:2932-year-old player coming off a bicep.
01:30Can we make him happy? Do we just give him one year to shut him up and then move on?
01:34And, you know, the Niners are very interesting in terms of the way they turn over the roster.
01:39I just wonder if that's something the LA Wolves should say,
01:42hey, while we're talking, and just throw that out there.
01:45Because at this point, what's the, you know,
01:48I don't know how much Judon makes an impact on the bottom line, wins, losses, all that.
01:53If you don't want to do it,
01:55then that means that you are definitively going to figure out something with him.
01:58And I think that, you know, the Patriots have made it clear, I think,
02:01to Judon's side that they don't want to trade him.
02:04I think they've made it clear too, just from the reporting from Matt Mayalko from
02:08NBC Sports Bay Area, is that it's Kendrick Bourne if it goes through.
02:12So to me, they don't want to trade Judon.
02:14Judon says he doesn't want to leave.
02:16There's got to be a pathway to fixing it.
02:18If you have $40 billion in cap space now, $78 billion in cap space next year, you can do both.