00:00which is christian gonzalez so you want to start and and then i'll i'll tell you where i am because
00:07uh i shared some quick thoughts from the doc this morning on my instagram uh about his trainer and
00:15and the social media posts and things but go ahead but so i'll start it here like this the
00:20thing that you know i i don't understand and i don't see and shine we've done a bunch of different
00:25lists whether it's for drake may and where he falls and you know where he ranks amongst
00:31quarterbacks throughout the nfl what i don't understand is that it seems like and i think
00:36it was they were talking about this on the pat mcafee show that they don't or they when i say
00:42they there are people maybe who don't in the building and courtney alluded to before that
00:49don't view christian gonzalez as maybe being the better player than devin witherspoon or even
00:56trent mcduffie okay and so who would you guess those people are that like you think it's mike vrabel
01:06it could be okay it has to be somebody in power right right and the only reason why i say
01:11mike
01:11vrabel is he goes maybe he views and they this is something that they kind of talked about also
01:17on the pat mcafee show and i could get it that he views like the d line to a higher
01:23standard at you
01:25know a level of uh what's importance when it comes to the defensive ends versus the corner versus you
01:31know any other position i just and the reason why i'm a little bit confused is because most nfl
01:38experts or people that follow the game will tell you that that gonzalez is probably the better player
01:45than devin witherspoon but if somebody in that building doesn't believe that that's a head
01:55scratcher to me right so well it can also be that they just don't believe that player at that position
02:04is worth it is worth the money that you're going to have to spend and then and that's a strategy
02:11that's a business strategy but a football business strategy as wiggy alluded to though if they valued
02:18pass rush more than corner which is a fair evaluation to make why then did you not go get an
02:24elite pass
02:25rusher in the offseason and trade christian gonzalez like you could have traded for max crosby you could
02:29have signed trey hendrickson my thoughts on the doc this morning exactly so yesterday a couple
02:34developments and i know people are in the twitch chat or texting saying greg you executive order you
02:40weren't going to talk about gonzo again i know but a couple things happened yesterday which are
02:44important because i think the relationship has been damaged so number one his trainer shefter has a
02:53report that things are not going well and there's uh they have a wide divide and what the team wants
02:58to pay what he wants that the his christian gonzalez trainer sub sub tweets that sub x is it uh
03:07and says
03:08trade him in all caps in all caps that's his guy right he says trade him so the other thing
03:17is that
03:18there was some reporting by andrew callahan that christian gonzalez did not take well to robert craft
03:26publicly putting him on blast and and basically saying hey here's the we we offered him a ton of money
03:33right uh hello here's here's the here's the guy who's not taking the ton of money that we offered
03:39him and so the relationship has been damaged yep that my my thoughts on the doc and we talked about
03:45it briefly yesterday if you weren't going to pay that you knew that witherspoon was going to get the
03:51most i'm assuming that you felt like witherspoon was going to be paid highest at the position in the
03:57nfl right so if you weren't willing to pay that with this particular player and you don't value the
04:03position in that way trade him before camp starts so you get as much value as you can and you
04:11can
04:11deal with your depth issue at whatever position you find more important well we we talked about this
04:16briefly yesterday and shyam he's the one who found the research on it and forget about even devon
04:22witherspoon the trent mcduffie deal was done what you say march 8th or march 3rd march 8th right
04:27march 8th so if you knew you weren't going to pay him the trent mcduffie deal and maybe people felt
04:34like oh devon witherspoon was going to get more than what mcduffie got at that time and then i would
04:41think people would go were already on going well he then christian gonzalez is going to get more than
04:46witherspoon devil's devil's advocate tweet for you wiggy to play devil's advocate it's a 508 tweet
04:52sorry text devon witherspoon has been a pro bowler every year of his career all pro first team and
04:58this year he was all pro second team and christian gonzalez has only been uh all pro second team once
05:04oh okay but that i said you could make the argument that devon witherspoon in some people's minds is
05:12better but then what and you then say okay he should then get what trent mcduffie got or is he
05:19not as good as trent mcduffie either right so i guess that and that's the thing that i look at
05:24is
05:24when i listen to the nfl experts and they break down all the numbers and the stats and all these
05:31different type of you know uh analytics that they say oh gonzalez is a better player right gonzalez is
05:41one of the top three corners in the nfl and granted you know witherspoon not taking anything away from him
05:47but i just they're showing me that they don't believe gonzalez is better than witherspoon
05:52or or mcduffie or as valued in their opinion it also might be their strategy that they're just
06:00gonna expect that he's gonna play this year play next year and they're gonna franchise tag him and
06:05then and that's what that that's the way they're doing it from a business perspective possible yeah but
06:11that would be a bad way to do business if you well i well it exists in the nfl so
06:15there are
06:16players that are franchise tagged it's not but it also exists that he could be like you know what
06:20i'm not playing i'm not showing up until i play for a couple years no no i'm not showing up
06:25until i
06:25have to show up what is that week nine so he might say all right i'm not gonna show up
06:29till i have to
06:30show up or i'm not gonna play until then i got oh i got an ankle injury my back is
06:35bothering me i can't
06:36play this week all right it's not good though no i said it from day one i don't care if
06:42you want
06:42it if you believe the right thing to do for the football team is to trade him and not pay
06:46him you
06:47should have done it a long long time ago i malfeasance as we said yesterday malfeasance i said day
06:53one when robert went out there and said we made him or we gave him the highest paid contract in
07:01patriots history and as a corner i said from that point on there is issues because he's now putting
07:07a player on front street well yeah he backed him into a corner
