It’s hard to get thousands of retweets with one word (that really isn’t a word), but that’s just how badly the world wanted Chandler Jones’ reaction to the Jamie Collins trade.
JAMIE COLLINS TRADED
-- Pats ship Collins to Cleveland
-- Lombardi: This was a long time coming
Jones, of course, was traded to the Cardinals in what has now proven to be the first of multiple proactive trades sending soon-to-be free agents out of New England for draft pick compensation. While Jones was traded to Arizona for a second-round pick and guard Jonathan Cooper.
The compensation wasn’t nearly as good for Collins, as New England got just a compensatory pick from Cleveland that will be a fourth-rounder if the Browns don’t get a compensatory pick.
So maybe it was because of the fact Collins was traded and maybe it was because the return was surprising, but Jones weighed in with a one-not-really-a-word reaction:
Oh, and in case you cared about what 76ers forward and Malden native Nerlens Noel tweeted about the trade, it was this: