The New England Patriots were stripped two days of organized team activities on Wednesday, and it appears that Joe Judge is at the heart of the issue.
As first reported by Greg Bedard of the Boston Sports Journal, the assistant coach scheduled special teams meetings that violated the time players could spend at the team facility at that point in the offseason. Per the NFLPA complaint, which was filed May 4, Judge directed players to stay beyond the permitted four-hour window.
Article 21, Section 5(b) of the NFL-NFLPA Collective Bargaining Agreement, after all, states that players are allowed “at the Club facility no more than four hours per day, no more than four days per week, and not during weekends.