Arthur Smith had a pre-OTAs press conference today, and he had to know walking into it that there was one big question on the minds of every single reporter in that room, and that it concerned Julio Jones.
Unsurprisingly, given that the Falcons have tried hard to frame trade talks as “just taking calls” all offseason and did not let a word of Julio asking for a trade out of the building until Ian Rapoport dropped the bomb yesterday, Smith was in no hurry to talk about #11. I don’t know how long this organization will be able to hunker down on such a big story, but at least for the moment, they seem wholly committed to saying as little as possible.