Today began so promisingly. The sun was shining, the hours ahead seemed full of potential, and then we heard Julio Jones say he’s out of Atlanta.
Reporters and rumormongers alike have been talking about the possibility of Julio Jones leaving Atlanta for months now, but any non-cap-related motivation for that was largely hidden until today. The slow build and burn of the Julio rumors to this point have meant there was some wiggle room for you to interpret things as you wished, or at least to be uncertain about whether the team would actually make a trade happen.