00:00Devin Witherspoon, the other big cornerback who was eligible for a contract extension out in Seattle,
00:06signed over the weekend, and now that, as you heard Ian Rappaport of NFL Network say,
00:11puts the Patriots and Christian Gonzalez on center stage.
00:14I'd say now, Maz, they are out of excuses, and now it really gets real, wouldn't you say?
00:21I mean, it should be pretty easy, right?
00:23It should be a piece of cake, especially if you believe everything that has been reported
00:28by many of the reporters, and I'm not picking on them, but there are many.
00:32I shouldn't say every, but there are many people who have said that they were going to wait for the
00:37Witherspoon deal,
00:38and that would set the parameters because every deal that comes along puts a little more on the previous deal.
00:43So it should be a piece of cake.
00:45All the parameters are there in terms of guaranteed money, years of the contract, total value, guaranteed, non-guaranteed, all
00:53that.
00:53It's all laid out right there.
00:54It should be a piece of cake.
00:55Yeah, the baseline's been...
00:56Should be done by Friday, right?
00:58Should be.
00:58Or here, but sometime before the preseason's over.
01:01So the baseline has been set.
01:02Now, there is the chance, you know, again, based on some of the stuff that Tom Karn was saying last
01:07week,
01:08that, you know, Gonzalez and his camp want this to still be a viable deal two years from now.
01:12He wants to get paid like a free agent.
01:14If he's being unreasonable and looking for something like 36 AAV, something like that, like, that's nuts, and you're being
01:19greedy.
01:20But I don't know.
01:21Like, who am I supposed to believe here?
01:23And in these cases, I typically do side with the player, but when it came to this contract extension,
01:28who was the one running their mouth?
01:29Yeah, there's been little signs from Gonzalez, the money sign of the Celtics game, some Instagram posts here and there,
01:34but no one's really opened their mouth about the contract except for the owner of the team.
01:39So do you want to get it done or not?
01:41The ball's now in your court, like you said.
01:43I just think we're on the verge.
01:45We're on the verge.
01:46We're not there.
01:48But we're on the verge of having the right to get frustrated at the Patriots.
01:52Yep.
01:53I don't – it's not fair quite yet, and we have a very, very strict rule on this program, a
01:59commandment, if you will.
02:00You can't get someone in trouble for something they haven't done yet.
02:03We often break that rule, but go ahead.
02:05We do our best.
02:06We just – we're human, so obviously we make mistakes, but we do our best.
02:11So it's unfair at this point to get on the Patriots for not signing Christian Gonzalez.
02:19But it's getting close.
