00:00Do you think they're really going to do it?
00:01Or do you think this is the beginning of let's play the leverage game
00:05with Christian Gonzalez?
00:06He wants $90 million guaranteed, $95 million guaranteed,
00:10$100 million guaranteed, and over our dead bodies are we giving that to him?
00:14And then turning around and paying Drake May a year after that
00:17and giving him the biggest contract for any quarterback
00:19in the history of football, the biggest contract, I'm sorry,
00:22in the history of the sport.
00:24Like, hell, we're doing that.
00:25So it's time to start playing a leverage game with Gonzalez,
00:28and this is the beginning of that.
00:30Yeah, I think it's more that.
00:31I think that it's not going to come to the franchise tag.
00:34Otherwise, you should just trade him and maximize your value for him,
00:38be like the Jets and trade Sauce Gardner, which I don't want them to do.
00:41I'm just saying, like, if you're going to drag this thing out,
00:43risk a holdout, risk it bleeding into the season, it makes no sense.
00:47And it even started after the Super Bowl, right?
00:49Wasn't it Mike Reese that said, you know,
00:51of all the things to look at this offseason, like,
00:53how does Gonzalez approach this?
00:54Or how does Gonzalez, like, what do you mean Gonzalez?
00:56Gonzalez's approach, exactly.
00:57Gonzalez just played three seasons in the NFL, had a great playoff run.
01:00You want it?
01:00One of the best corners in the league, sure.
01:01So Mike Reese highlighted, I forgot about this.
01:03Mike Reese highlighted, all 32 ESPN reporters had their biggest questions
01:08for free agency in the draft, entering really the beginning of the offseason,
01:12entering even the combine.
01:13He wrote, what is Christian Gonzalez's approach with a possible contract extension?
01:18What do you mean?
01:18Not the Patriots to him.
01:19Yeah, I thought it would be the other way around.
01:20Not the Crafts.
01:22But so entering, and this is where he's got to make a ton of money.
01:26It's his turn, right?
01:28These top guys at their positions when they become, not even free agents,
01:32when they become contract extension eligible.
01:35That's why, like, last year, when this came up, it was kind of confusing.
01:38During camp and writing this hamstring, and now he's out a day,
01:41and now he's out five weeks, and you're like, what is going on with this guy?
01:44And people are like, oh, pay him.
01:45It's like, well, they can't.
01:46Like, the rule says you can't pay him after two years.
01:48So, if it was any kind of a holdout, it was a very strange one.
01:52But now, we said at the time, like, put a pin in it, circle back next year,
01:57and if he doesn't have his contract by camp next year, I don't expect to see him.
02:00When I have the binocs out on the third level there, I don't think he'll be out there.
02:04I can't wait.
02:05Now, my guess is to how things went a year ago, Keith, you're right.
02:09They couldn't officially offer him a contract,
02:11but that doesn't mean you can't start talking and getting the framework of a deal
02:14or at least an idea of what the players' camp and his agents think he deserves.
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