00:00What makes you think that Christian Gonzalez is the one that caved a little bit in this negotiation?
00:06So, you know, I reported as others did, feels like months ago now, but he wanted to be number one
00:14in every metric at the cornerback position.
00:16So that includes average per year, which was $33 million for Devin Witherspoon, total guarantees, which was $101 for Devin
00:23Witherspoon, but it also meant fully guaranteed at signing dollars.
00:27He wanted to be number one in all of those things, and there were some sticking points there, and Tom
00:34Curran reported last night on our air that the sticking point was the fully guaranteed dollars, and that they actually
00:40hadn't spoken in quite some time.
00:42The two sides, or let me alter that.
00:45There hadn't been a written response from the Gonzalez camp in some time to the Patriots from the last time
00:55they made an offer.
00:57And so those two things, the fact that the fully guaranteed, which to me is the most important number, the
01:02fully guaranteed at signing dollars, because again, you can fluff up the APY, you can fluff up even the quote
01:08-unquote total guarantees, which is a misnomer.
01:12It's not really guaranteed if you have to be on the roster the 10th day of the league year in
01:172030 in order to have your 2030 salary guaranteed.
01:20You know what I'm saying?
01:23If it's not guaranteed, to me, the use of the word guarantee is not the one we should be using,
01:28but it's the one everybody uses.
01:30So the $102 million guaranteed is not necessarily money that he's guaranteed to receive.
01:35Correct.
01:36Okay.
01:36Okay.
01:37No.
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