00:00Well, let's dive into the Christian Gonzalez stuff a little bit here.
00:03And I don't know, you know, I just take it for what it is.
00:06I don't know if I get a Rick Shund or anything else.
00:09But, you know, there are reports out there that Christian Gonzalez's deal, there is a $10 million gap.
00:16And I think Shyam...
00:17When it comes to guaranteed money.
00:18When it comes to guaranteed money, all right?
00:20And Shyam and I were kind of on that page about the whole thing,
00:24whether it was the upfront guaranteed money that you get at signing,
00:29which when you look at Devin Witherspoon, his signing upfront money was $59 million.
00:37But it looks like he wants to be over that $101 million guaranteed mark.
00:44And they're $10 million off.
00:47That's what the whispers and the rumors are.
00:51So if you're guessing, Patriots are offering him $91 million guaranteed.
00:57And he wants $101 million.
01:01Or $92 or $93 or whatever it is.
01:03It's a lot less than what Devin Witherspoon got and what Trent McDuffie got.
01:10And that's kind of the thing that we've been trying to figure out
01:15because those frameworks of the contracts that we've seen before laid everything out.
01:21And that's the way it was.
01:22We saw Trent McDuffie's contract laid out.
01:25And then, boom, here comes Devin Witherspoon, $101 million in total and fully guaranteed money.
01:31A million dollars more than what Trent McDuffie got.
01:34I was accused yesterday on the show in the Twitch chat, or maybe it was a YouTube chat.
01:38I can't remember which one I was watching at the time, of carrying water for billionaire owners, whatever.
01:46That is something you do.
01:47It's not.
01:48But I do feel like Seattle got their guy signed.
01:52Yeah.
01:53It's the way business is done in the NFL.
01:56Yeah.
01:57As soon as you are eligible for a redo on your contract, the contract gets redone in most every case
02:07in the NFL.
02:08Right.
02:08And teams step up.
02:09In the case of Seattle, they are the defending Super Bowl champions.
02:14And they said, you know what?
02:16We'll screw around with it a little bit here.
02:19And then we'll get the deal done and pay the guy what he wants to be paid.
02:22And I don't understand why.
02:24If it's a difference of $10 million, like pay the guy.
02:29But that's what they always do.
02:30Pay the guy.
02:31And that's the thing.
02:31Pay the guy.
02:32And Curtis has kind of been on this a little bit.
02:33Like that's what they, that's what, you know, certain teams.
02:36They, the Patriots.
02:38Yeah, well, yeah.
02:38That's what they do.
02:39Like certain teams.
02:40Maybe the Cincinnati Bengals is another team like that that would run into issues like that.
02:44The bottom line is, and when we've been talking about this, we said, you have, you know,
02:50I think there was 11 or maybe 11 or 12 guys from his draft class that have already at the
02:56status that he's at,
02:57which is like, you know, best in the league at your position.
03:00Or let's say top three, top five.
03:02Isaiah Flowers is probably, you know, a top 10.
03:06I mean, maybe like a top 12 guy.
03:07And he got a deal done.
03:08And he was in the same draft class as Christian Gonzalez.
03:11Christian Gonzalez, hands down, however you want to put it, is a top three corner in the NFL right now.
03:17And he is the only one from the 2023 draft class that is at that level that doesn't have a
03:23new deal.
03:24And framework has already been laid out with two other guys.
03:28With the same agent on the guy that just signed with the team you're playing in week one,
03:33the team that beat you in the Super Bowl.
03:35If winning is important to you, you have it right in front of you.
03:37And you have more than enough cash.
03:39More than enough to do.
03:40So people that sit here that are naivete, that next year at this time when we are sitting here,
03:50and hopefully we'll be back at this beautiful place, we're sitting here.
03:53We are talking about Drake May.
03:55People are like, ah, yeah, Drake May will get done.
03:57Okay.
03:58Maybe not.
03:59We're sitting right here.
04:00Maybe Drake's going to have to go through the same thing, which would not be good.
04:03All right.
04:03And you're opening the season less than two weeks from tonight.
04:08So a week from Wednesday.
04:11Concerns me.
04:12All right.
