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.