WEEI Afternoons: Fitzy and Mike Giardi on why the Patriots shouldn't trade Jon Jones

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00:00The one other name I do want to mention,

00:01talking about possible guys moving,

00:04is I do think there's some actual truth to the Jon Jones

00:09stuff.

00:10I don't think that name just got thrown out there

00:11for the hell of it, because we looked at it and said,

00:13oh, he's 30, and he's in the last year of his contract.

00:16And I think there are teams that are generally interested in him

00:19and genuinely interested in him.

00:21And that'll be, that's a tough one for me, because I think.

00:24At what cost?

00:25What would the return have to be?

00:29I mean, I guess I would move him for no less than a fourth.

00:33Same.

00:34But even then, I'm still a little,

00:37and I'm not saying that at this point of his career,

00:39that wouldn't be a smart business move.

00:42But in terms of what he brings to the locker room,

00:44and even this past weekend, where

00:46he's dealing with the shoulder, but Duggar can't go,

00:49and you find that out officially 90 minutes before the game,

00:51or two hours whenever he had his workout,

00:53and they decided he couldn't go.

00:55And then Jon Jones is playing from safety.

00:58And they'd like to cross-train their guys,

01:00but there are very few guys that can go do that as fluidly

01:02as he can and make the right plays when he's doing it.

01:06And so between that versatility and then the leadership,

01:09you know, you saw him as the guy who broke the team down

01:12after the win, you know, with Juwan Bentley being out.

01:14Like, I feel like that locker room is a little rudderless.

01:17There's a lot of young guys.

01:19And having someone like him, who is

01:21one of the last remaining ties to great success here,

01:26there's some value in just keeping him and just saying,

01:28you know what, yeah, maybe a fifth rounder would still

01:31be good value for him, but we can't do that.

01:33We shouldn't do that.

01:34We need him to keep teaching the young guys how to be pros,

01:37because that's been a problem for them.

01:39It's for all those reasons and more, the leadership,

01:42the quality of character, the positional versatility,

01:44the fact that he plays at a reasonably high level

01:46on the inside and the out, as well as safety,

01:49and what he can teach these guys, Mike, that makes me think,

01:51as badly as they may want that fourth from, let's say,

01:54I don't know, San Francisco, if they were to call,

01:55because they've got secondary issues,

01:57like so many other teams do, I just

01:59can't see moving on from them at this point,

02:01even if you would net another pick.

02:04You've already got an extra three and a six.

02:06There'll be compensatory picks.

02:07The Patriots will be loaded up adequately next year.

02:09Why wouldn't you want to keep a guy like him around?

02:11You've got $140 million.

02:13You could afford another two- or three-year deal

02:15for Jonathan Jones, as well.

02:18So I'm with you.

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