{"id":18815,"date":"2025-05-02T20:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T20:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/18815\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T20:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T20:37:09","slug":"patriots-insider-shares-jarring-joe-milton-iii-report-after-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/18815\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots Insider Shares Jarring Joe Milton III Report After Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Patriots apparently didn\u2019t have any hesitation about <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/04\/patriots-insider-suggests-smoking-gun-of-joe-milton-iii-trade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">saying goodbye to Joe Milton III<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>New England <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/04\/nfl-insider-answers-major-question-about-joe-miltons-patriots-trade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">trading Milton<\/a> was not a surprise. Simply put, the 2024 sixth-rounder didn\u2019t have a future in Foxboro, Mass., with <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/04\/patriots-rumors-how-joe-milton-iii-viewed-situation-with-drake-maye\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Drake Maye firmly situated<\/a> as the franchise quarterback. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/04\/new-report-explains-puzzling-timing-of-patriots-joe-milton-iii-trade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the timing of the ideal<\/a> was a bit perplexing, and the Patriots might have been able to fetch more for Milton if they had hung onto him deeper into the summer, when teams often become desperate for QB help.<\/p>\n<p>However, insight from Boston Sports Journal\u2019s Greg Bedard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?si=VzoIScrejJ1OKoyQ&amp;v=4YASw2xEHpo&amp;feature=youtu.be\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">might have explained<\/a> why New England was <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/04\/nfl-insider-provides-interesting-take-on-why-patriots-traded-joe-milton-iii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">quick to cut bait<\/a> with the rocket-armed signal-caller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Milton \u2014 and this is a direct quote from someone in the organization \u2014 is not a good dude,\u201d Bedard said on the \u201cGreg Bedard Patriots Podcast.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cKnowing your role, playing your role, being part of a harmonious quarterback room \u2014 that was going to be an issue. It wasn\u2019t about Drake Maye. It was just about the room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>About a week after the trade, Mike Vrabel said New England made the move because it was <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/04\/mike-vrabel-explains-reasoning-for-patriots-trading-joe-milton-iii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u201cbest for the team.\u201d<\/a> And for what it\u2019s worth, Maye had nothing but <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/05\/drake-maye-breaks-silence-on-patriots-trading-qb-joe-milton-iii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">positive things to say<\/a> about Milton on Thursday when he issued his first public comments about the trade.<\/p>\n<p>We might never really know about the dynamic of the Patriots\u2019 QB room last season. But in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/04\/how-espn-graded-patriots-cowboys-trade-for-joe-milton-iii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the Milton trade<\/a>, it sure seems like New England \u2014 with the help of the media \u2014 is doing everything it can to paint Maye in the best light possible.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Patriots apparently didn\u2019t have any hesitation about saying goodbye to Joe Milton III. 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