00:00So fully guaranteed money is the most important money aspect of the deal that we should be talking about.
00:06And I think that's true for all contracts.
00:07The thing that's unique here, obviously, is two things.
00:09How long this is taking.
00:10And number two, I think Ian Rappaport sharing cooler heads prevailing two days after Jeremy Fowler goes,
00:16I don't think Christian Gonzalez loved Robert Kraft coming out and saying,
00:19well, we gave him the biggest offer we've ever given a player.
00:23It would make him the highest paid Patriot ever, the highest paid cornerback ever.
00:26How much do you think that is a factor?
00:28Christian Gonzalez's attitude because you and I, every day we're at practice, are going,
00:33all right, he's out again.
00:34This will now, if today he's absent, be longer than a week.
00:37Is this really injury related or is it injured feelings?
00:41I think it can be both.
00:43I think he is.
00:45I know he's dealing with something physically.
00:48He had that.
00:49We all saw it.
00:49He had that issue at the end of practice early last week.
00:53Goes down.
00:55My understanding is, is he hurt?
00:58Yes.
00:58Is he so hurt that if this was a regular season week, he would miss the game?
01:02No.
01:04And so the team, though, is looking at Gonzalez and saying, we don't really need you to practice against the
01:09Colts.
01:10We don't really need you in the practices right after the Colts.
01:12Even these Eagles joint practices.
01:14Especially you get another team in here.
01:16They don't care as much about you being healthy as your teammates do for the remainder of the season.
01:21So, like, not that teams are necessarily going to take liberties with a star player in a situation like that.
01:26But I get the sense they're not pushing him to get your ass out of practice.
01:34He's in that return to play protocol, which is what, you know, Vrabel, that's the terminology Vrabel used yesterday.
01:39My guess is yesterday would have been a day where he's on the lower field working out while the rest
01:45of the team is actually going about practice.
01:49Is it hurt feelings also?
01:51I think it definitely could.
01:53He's clearly not happy about it.
01:54That Instagram post last week was basically verbatim what someone would say if they were in a contract, you know,
02:02negotiation that wasn't going their way.
02:05So I think it can be a little bit of both.
02:07If you're dealing with something physically and you also have a $100 million contract on the table that you're, you
02:14know, hoping to sign in the very near future, why would you be rushing it to get back out there?
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