NEWSLETTER
Good morning, and happy Sunday! I’m still a bit tired from the trip to Kansas City for the NFL Draft. Still, we’ve got a very early Sunday edition of Bullets today because my father-in-law is retiring after 30 years as a police officer in the western suburbs of Chicago. So I’ll be attending his send-off ceremony this morning. I don’t have much for you today, but I will have plenty of draft recap and thoughts this week. First, however, we’ll get things going today with some Saquon Barkley news out of New York.
“Yeah, we’ll talk this coming week now that the draft is over, kind of reconvene, see if [a new offer] makes sense or not,” Schoen said. “Have dialogue now that the draft is over.”
“I always say, and I think I told you guys around the [T.J.] Hocknsen trade, is it’s my job to keep laser focus on the present but probably, more importantly, keep laser focus on the future,” Holmes said in his press conference. “And that’s what went into a lot of the decision with having to make the trade with D’Andre Swift to Philly. He was [going into the] last year of his contract and if I go back to last year, I felt really good about us being able to bring back Jamaal Williams. I felt confident as the season ended. I felt good about our conversations with his camp. And it didn’t happen. so, you have to just be prepared for all those things.
“We don’t draft scared. We don’t play scared. The thing with Jahmyr Gibbs is, that’s the guy that we loved. But, again, having to keep that laser focus for the future, all these things become a part of it. But also, we want to do the right thing for the player. So, that’s kind of how we do it.
“I think at the end of the day, him being able to go back to his hometown on a really, really good team that was just in the Super Bowl, I think it was a win-win for all parties involved.”
