New York moving on from two of their franchise cornerstones clears the runway for this transaction.
Literally no one had Sauce Gardner getting traded on their bingo cards, but that's life in the NFL (and today's era of sports in general). As we're growing accustomed to, no player is safe, as encapsulated by the star cornerback suddenly taking his talents to the Indianapolis Colts.
New York pulled off one of the most stunning moves in league history by sending Gardner to the Colts.