00:00You had mentioned earlier your concern with the Gonzalez contract.
00:03Does it make you feel any better that Rapsheet just the other day had said that?
00:07That is an awesome Michigan binder.
00:10I got it when I was there.
00:11Sorry.
00:11I appreciate that.
00:12No, does it make you feel any better that Rapsheet kind of insinuated that as soon as the Devin Witherspoon
00:18deal gets done,
00:19the Gonzalez deal will be done almost right behind it?
00:22That totally removes the burden from the Patriots entirely, which is something Ian Rappaport has done for a long time.
00:28Fair enough.
00:29Listen, I think that that was a great point.
00:32Who are you going to pay if not Christian Gonzalez?
00:37And to me, let's say this, right?
00:39Like, let's say that the market value is two first-round picks for Christian Gonzalez.
00:45Elliott Wolfe and Vrabel had nothing to do with his drafting.
00:48That was Belichick's brilliant final draft pick was Christian Gonzalez in the middle of the first round.
00:53So, if the Patriots trade Christian Gonzalez tomorrow for two first-round draft picks, do fans support it?
00:59No.
01:00They shouldn't.
01:00That'd be stupid.
01:01You know they will.
01:02You know there will be people that say, look at the value.
01:04Well, we already are getting people that say Gonzalez isn't worth the money.
01:07Yeah.
01:07We've gotten a couple – we've got a caller that said that.
01:09We've got a bunch of texts that say that.
01:11Like, Gonzalez isn't worth the money, which I think is insane.
01:13So, if you're not willing to trade him for two first-round picks, which I am not, then you have
01:17to pay him right now.
01:18You have to.
01:18Yeah.
01:19Like, I just don't understand it.
01:20I understand he's –
01:21He was your best player in that crappy Super Bowl.
01:23Yes.
01:24Like, by a mile.
01:25And you can't cite a contract.
01:26Your only player in that Super Bowl.
01:28Basically, it was him and Craig Woodson.
01:29Right.
01:30Well, Campbell was playing for the Seahawks.
01:31And he shut down one of the highest-paid wide receivers that was on the other side of the field.
01:35I mean, it's not like he just shut down some random jabroni who was over there.
01:38No.
01:39He shut down –
01:39But they're also getting a whisper out that he's not physical enough for them.
01:44That's what some people –
01:45That's a Bernard.
01:47It's a sub-stacker.
01:49Listen, I would love it if he made it up, but I don't think he's making that up.
01:53I don't think he's making it up, but he's been wrong quite a bit.
01:55He was almost a general manager shy.
01:57No, somebody's saying it to him.
01:59You know, somebody's saying it as a –
02:02So that everybody can speculate and go, well, maybe they're right.
02:06Maybe that's why they're not willing to pay him.
02:07And just like somebody saying to Ian Rappaport that they are not going to sign Gonzalez into Witherspoon is signed,
02:14and that's their way of getting time.
02:15See, and by the way, you're right here, Curtis, Rocco, and the Twitch chat all day, two first-round picks
02:21for Gonzo.
02:22People would totally do it.
02:22Already people that would say it.
02:23It's stupid.
02:24Because look at the Kansas City Chiefs, right?
02:26They traded Trent McDuffie.
02:27Dumb.
02:28Yep.
02:28And can somebody please remind me what position they took with that first-round draft pick?
02:34A cornerback.
02:35Right.
02:35So you already had an elite cornerback.
02:39Now you're drafting somebody that you don't know.
02:41Like, I want the known commodity.
02:44I look at this.
02:46And, you know, I played a lot of football, and I played around a lot of great corners.
02:51Did you teach Ty Law how to play?
02:53No, no, but I would never try to teach a DB how to play a cornerback.
02:57Ty Law was a great corner.
02:58Otis Smith, a great corner.
03:01When it comes to the point today, Ellis.
03:04All right.
03:04Well, I just want to set people up for this.
03:07What about big play play?
03:07Corners do not get paid to tackle.
03:10They get paid to cover and get, you know, maybe not even so much interceptions,
03:15because if you're that good, guess what?
03:17The team doesn't throw in your direction.
03:19They get paid to lock the best player up.
03:22That's what they get paid for.
03:23I don't need you to go out there and tackle.
03:25That's the linebackers and the defensive end.
03:27And if the ball's getting out to you on the perimeter, then we did something wrong as a front seven.
03:34Unless they're throwing a quick screen, which I believe a wide receiver, a corner could tackle a wide receiver.
03:39But these guys don't get paid to tackle.
03:41Yeah, we have to take a break.
03:42We can continue on this, because you also, you know, you do have control of the player,
03:48and you do have the franchise option also.
03:51So that may be, unfortunately, where they're at on it.
03:55Yeah, but if they do that, like, he's just going to hold out.
03:57He's not going to take a snap.
03:59He only has to play ten games to get credit for the year, correct?
04:02That's a bad look.
04:02Yeah, I think he has to sit out until, like, what, week nine or something?
04:05Oh, he can sit out until week nine?
04:06Yeah.
04:07All right.
04:07We are.
04:07We are.
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