00:00What's the situation with Christian Gonzalez because the contract for Devin Witherspoon broke on Saturday and it seemed like the
00:06general reaction was like, okay, Patriots, you're on the clock. Here's the parameters. This shouldn't be that hard. Give him
00:12a little bump over Witherspoon and we should get it done. Is it going to be that easy?
00:17Oh, Andy, I feel like you and me and Andrew have been around long enough to probably say it's never
00:23that easy, right? I do think what happened is incredibly significant and I will dumb it down to like a
00:32real estate analogy.
00:33You got two houses next to each other up for sale. They're basically the same house. You think the market
00:42for your house is this, but the one next to it goes for something a little more than maybe you
00:48thought.
00:48And when I say that, I'm speaking from the Patriots standpoint. So now you got to adjust what you're doing.
00:55And to me, that's, this is a good setup for Christian Gonzalez because it sets the parameters and now puts
01:02the ball back in the Patriots court to answer, you know, the change in market.
01:09So Mike, this might be unfair. So I will give you an opt out of this question, but the way
01:14you characterized the current state of negotiations relative to the Devin Witherspoon extension, right?
01:20Is that the ball is in the Patriots court. My pushback on people who have been pushing the Patriots race,
01:27go sign this deal, do it before Witherspoon.
01:29Otherwise it'll cost more money is, well, what is Christian asking for? And because if it is a, you know,
01:35unprecedented leap above what the market is now and you're the Patriots going, why are we going to go to
01:4140?
01:41Just as an example, a number I pulled out, not reported anything. Well, they're in a tougher spot.
01:46So as we stand here at a standstill, do you think it is more one side or the other to
01:55blame or is responsible for the lack of progress as Adam Schefter put it yesterday?
02:01So I will not opt out of this question. Andrew, you know, us, we don't opt out. We go right
02:06after it.
02:07So I, and I think it's a great point. It's very fair. My thought is this is if you're Christian
02:14Gonzalez, the market was just reset.
02:18And if you're asking for significantly more than what the market was just reset for, you're probably overstepping.
02:29So I am going to assume that, and I'm go back to this real estate analogy, like, look, the house
02:35next to you just went for this.
02:37You're going to put yours up for a little bit more than that.
02:40You're not going to ask for so much more than that because they're comparable houses.
02:47So I am going to, that's my thought, Andrew.
02:50Like, I would be surprised if he's shooting for that much more than what Witherspoon got.
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