00:00Mike Vrabel going down the list of players who would not be at practice today,
00:03and that list includes Christian Gonzalez.
00:05We were asking the question earlier, would Gonzalez be there?
00:09Zoe seemed to think he would be there, that he's been around,
00:12that there was no reason to believe he would not be there.
00:16Talked about his contract extension.
00:17He's eligible for it now.
00:19He does not have that.
00:20We have no indication that they're close at this point in time.
00:24And now he's not at OTAs.
00:27What are we supposed to make of that,
00:29especially when Mike Vrabel refused to answer the question as to whether or not he's with the team currently?
00:34That tells me he isn't.
00:37That tells me he's not there.
00:39I mean, if he's there, don't you just say, yeah, yeah, he's around.
00:42I mean, there's no reason to sort of dodge that one.
00:47So, Gonzalez not there, Vrabel not answering the second part of that in the follow-up.
00:52What does this mean?
00:54What kind of message is he sending?
00:56Is it simply, I'm not going to go out there and do anything I don't have to do because I'm
01:03at risk?
01:05Is it, I'm not coming, this is voluntary, and I'm not doing anything that's voluntary when I don't have my
01:12new contract?
01:14The last sort of public statement we have from Christian Gonzalez was him at a Celtics game making the money
01:19sign with his hands.
01:22That's right.
01:23It's clocks ticking your move.
01:25Yeah, I think it's like, hey, we've had talks.
01:28I'm healthy.
01:30Remember what happened a year ago?
01:32Took me a while to get back.
01:33I don't want that to happen again.
01:35I want to protect myself.
01:37I thought he'd been there.
01:38I thought he'd play ball.
01:39But remember, Colton Davis isn't there.
01:42He wasn't there a year ago.
01:43He was riding jet skis, remember?
01:44Jet skis, yep.
01:45So, certain guys attack the offseason differently.
01:48Now, this isn't 1997 anymore.
01:51Mike said, hey, he understands it.
01:53He was clear on that.
01:54I think that's, you know, he had to give the names, and that's why he said, remember, this is voluntary.
01:59But we'd love to have everybody here.
02:01It's tough to run your defense and team stuff when your two starting corners aren't there.
02:05You get great reps for everybody else, but ideally, man, you want your ones to go in ones.
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