00:00Christian Gonzalez and his injury.
00:02Bert, your thoughts on this,
00:04why he still is not fully participating in practice,
00:07when we should expect to return, what's the deal?
00:11I mean, I think one of the main things you want to look at
00:14is the fact that he never really got the full ramp up
00:16to get into football shape.
00:18And so that's part of it, too.
00:20When you go back to July, he got hurt, I think,
00:22in the first day they were wearing pads.
00:24Is that right?
00:25And so he wasn't fully ready for football.
00:30When he got shut down.
00:32And so I would be surprised if you saw him playing every snap on Sunday.
00:40I think that would be risky with a hamstring.
00:44But the fact that he's practicing on Wednesday, I think, gives him a chance.
00:48You know, so wouldn't be surprised to see him up.
00:52Wouldn't be surprised to see him playing.
00:53Would be surprised if it was in any sort of full-time role
00:56based on just the fact that he hasn't been ramped up physically.
01:00And he isn't quite in – he couldn't possibly be in football shape yet.
01:04Is any of this related to his contract?
01:07I don't think so.
01:08He knows – this is my thought of this.
01:10He knows he has to come back and play 10 games.
01:13If he comes back and he looks like his normal self for 10 games,
01:16he gets paid.
01:16They're going to pay him.
01:17He gets paid.
01:18Whether it's by the Patriots or someone else, that man is going to get paid.
01:21He's going to get that contract.
01:23It's on the way.
01:23I mean, I wouldn't rule it out.
01:24I don't think – I think it's like – even if it's just subconscious,
01:27like you're that close to that sort of payday.
01:32And you see what Derek Stingley and Sauce Gardner just got,
01:36like which is over 30, right?
01:39I don't know how you wouldn't like look at that and say, like,
01:42I've got to get myself to the finish line.
01:44I've got to be in one piece at the end of the year playing my best.
01:47What really matters is what I look like.
01:50This is just like what I think most people's thought process would be.
01:53I've got to be playing – I've got to be, like, at the top of the league
01:56at my position in week 17, week 18, and then going into the offseason.
02:02If, like, I play three or four games and in short circuits,
02:05then that's going to – that could lead the team to say, like, you know what,
02:09we're going to wait the extra year because we have the fifth-year option on you.
