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If so, that's fine - but if this is the case, then wouldn't it have made far more sense to have traded Judon BEFORE the draft, rather than now?
could be an increased role for second-year teammate Keion White, who Bedard believes could make Judon expendable.
“He’s almost immediately from the get-go in OTAs, seeing him out there, him standing up, the two-point stance, it’s extremely exciting and his development, and again, it’s not pads, but you could see the impact,” said Bedard in a podcast last month. “And just his physicality, I just love the idea of him standing up. When he was drafted, I had a hard time wrapping my head around exactly where he was going to play because he was a tweener and he was basically like Deatrich Wise’s sort of understudy and then he gained more and more playing time last year. But I think his athletic ability is his strength and standing him up and using him like that can make him really impactful and I’m really excited to see what he can do.”
“And I also think the offshoot of that is, well, if Keion White’s now an edge and they already have Anfernee Jennings and Josh Uche, and if Matthew Judon is going to have an issue with his contract, does that make Matthew Judon expendable? I think that’s a very real possibility at this point.”
I have to admit, this did literally make me laugh out loud:
Doug Flutie recently appeared on a recent Games With Names podcast with Julian Edelman in a fun episode. One of the things Edelman asked him about was his infamous dropkick, with Flutie giving some insight into how that unfolded. “I’m 43 years old, I’m doing jack s**t for the team,” explained Flutie. “I’m hanging out with pom poms cheering for Tommy [Tom Brady] just to win a Super Bowl. I’m walking into Bill’s office and [Chris] Berman’s standing behind him just beaming. I’m thinking I’m getting cut. Bill’s like, ‘Can you drop kick?’ I go, ‘I can do it. I don’t know…’ He goes, ‘Well, work on it, we’re going to do it tomorrow in practice.’ In the middle of a play, Bill sees me there, he’s like, ‘Hey, if we score here, you kick it.’ I’m in the huddle trying to do the old man stretch, all that. It’s 20 degrees, I’m 100 years old. Anyway, Lonnie [Paxton] snaps it, Zach Thomas, the linebacker steps up, [Looks over his shoulder] ‘What the f**k was that?’ Lonnie looks right at him and says, ‘That’s a drop kick motherf****r!’ And then I jog to the sideline, my daughter tells me after the game, ‘You blew off Tom Brady on National Television’ [Clip shows Brady there waiting as Flutie hugs Belichick]. Tom came out for a high five, I went right by Tommy to Bill.” … Flute claims high-fives with Brady are just awkward. “Isn’t he awkward? Isn’t he awkward on the high five?” Flutie asked Edelman. Edelman agreed, saying, “You haven’t lived until you walk by a Tom Brady high-five.” Good stuff. …
