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Oh, right, of course, because I should know who that is.

I don't hear what you think.

I'll tell you something that rub me right.

I'm in Feltier and Mass on 985, the Sports Hub.

Hold-ins.

Brandon Ayuk, still holding in.

Matthew Judon wasn't.

And now he is.

And this is an interesting wrinkle because Matthew Judon, the Patriots Pass Rusher, not happy with his contract, showed up to avoid the fines, practiced the first few days.

When it was time to put pads on, he's not practicing.

Because the thing about a hold-in is the team's got to go along with it.

Because if the team isn't willing to let a guy

deliberately not practice, the team has rights under the collective bargaining agreement.

The team can find the player to be engaged in conduct detrimental to the team, among other things.

If you have remaining guarantees on your contract, the team can invalidate them for a refusal to practice or play. You can't just show up and say, I don't like my contract, so I came here so I wouldn't get fined. But I'm not practicing. I refuse to practice until you give me a new contract. The team has to agree to that. So what I saw yesterday in

that video was enough to make me wonder, are they okay with this? Are they okay with Judon

not participating in padded practices? Is that his line? See, this is a new twist of the whole

hold-in thing. I'll practice some of the time, but not all of the time. I'm not going out

there in full paths. I don't want to get myself hurt until I get the contract that I'm looking

for. So it bears watching what the Patriots do.

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