Tuesday, April 02, 2002
Bledsoe not counting out Bengals
Enquirer wire services
BOSTON — Drew Bledsoe won't be at the opening of the Patriots' offseason workout program later this week — for the first time in nine years. He doesn't even know when it's scheduled to start, nor does he care.
He will be at his lakefront home in Montana because that is his refuge from the uncertainty of his dying days as a Patriot.
Beyond that, according to someone with personal knowledge of Bledsoe's thinking and his situation, he doesn't know any better than anyone else where he's headed. And he's not counting out Cincinnati.
Less than two weeks ago, two sources close to the situation told the Enquirer that Bledsoe won't accept a trade to the Bengals.
A source within Bledsoe's inner circle said the quarterback was not ruling out the Bengals, but wanted to wait to see what else was available to him.
It was a statement of his mind-set, which is to put his future first for once rather than sit quietly while others in Foxborough define it for him.
“Drew wants to keep his options open,” the source said over the weekend. “What he tried to do with Cincinnati was put them on the back burner, without shutting it down completely. Retirement isn't really an option for him right now, but he has no feel for how this is going to end except that if he has to go back to New England, he'll make an accommodation with it and go back there and be the best quarterback on the team, whether they start him or not.”
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