00:00Christian Gonzalez extension complete and that is 135 million dollars total
00:09102 guaranteed wiggy that's all that finally we got the deal done yes I I guess I want to ask
00:20what
00:20took so long I mean I you're a million bucks over the guaranteed money for Witherspoon right what is
00:26that what you were fighting about for for the last three it sounds like the Patriots came up 10
00:31million dollars in the final moments yeah as they should yeah like that's crazy once I saw it was
00:37102 million guaranteed it's like wait so what like so you're telling me Christian wasn't asking for
00:42110 million dollars where'd the escalator go yeah so they only wanted initially wanted to give them
00:49like that one report when it was the 90 yeah the 92 million or something well I who knows I
00:54mean
00:54either uh one side came up or the other side right it came down it got done that's the most
01:01important thing so you know now we could breathe a little bit and now we got Gonzo ready to go
01:05week
01:06one right and we'll cross the contract bridge next summer well it's sports radio so now we can start
01:11to panic about Drake May and his deal yeah and and when that when that will be done but I'm
01:17just glad
01:18that got done because I don't think that's a deal that gets done in years past like they are they
01:24set
01:25the market this is the first time they've ever done that really well it was interesting to me that over
01:30the weekend Andrew Callahan was reporting that Christian Gonzalez and his camp uh were frustrated
01:39with Matt Groh because Matt Groh was doing the they basically empower macro and I guess there were some
01:46that's that were saying this the way the Patriots do it all the time but they empower him to do
01:50the
01:50negotiation and nobody can ever talk to Robert Kraft or nobody can ever talk to Elliot Wolfe so I'm
01:57assuming that somebody at some point over the weekend stepped in really and and and that got it done
02:03yeah I saw that was interesting so he's like you know I gotta run it up the chain to see
02:07what happens
02:08he's like sorry can't get an answer it's Labor Day weekend I mean you know how hard how hard is
02:13to get a
02:13hold anybody at Labor Day weekend so yeah but that's great I you know what it's done and we can
02:19put to bed all the questions about how Mike Rabel feels about the player and and uh and all of
02:25all of
02:26those things so I was shocked when I saw it I because I was really leaning towards like it's not
02:31going to
02:31get done based off of the like reports over the weekend morning shine morning Greg uh I mean I think
02:37this is a lead that is dedicated towards coach Wiggins because I think all along there's been
02:42one person that's been dead on accurate about this entire Christian Gonzalez contract situation
02:46and that was Jermaine Wiggins whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa somebody not so long ago on this show said they
02:53were just uh dotting the i's and crossing the t's oh yeah that's right and where's your where's your
02:58victory no I mean I just I just sit back and let people remember thank you for bringing it up
03:04so I
03:04didn't have to thank you only took about four weeks from the bomb it's okay what did it what is
03:08it uh never wrong just early yeah yeah I may be just late in this point no I was early
03:15oh okay
03:16I think what we're gonna find out over the next day two couple of days whatever when the full details
03:22of the contract comes out is the sticking point in this negotiation was how much money Christian
03:27Gonzalez was gonna get when he signed the actual contract because I think the two numbers that were
03:32released in the statement that they said that he signed with the Patriots were exactly where both
03:37parties were at and the difference was is the Patriots saw the large jump from Trent McDuffie
03:42getting 50 million dollars at signing to it being 59 million dollars at signing for Devin Witherspoon
03:47and that was the 10 million dollar difference they were a part on the Patriots were willing to go to
03:5251
03:53to just surpass McDuffie Gonzalez wanted to surpass Witherspoon they're like no we're not gonna make such a
04:00drastic 10 million dollar jump just because one team did that and I think that was the sticking
04:04point all along it was the finer details as Devin McCourty pointed out Jermaine Wiggins once again
04:10right all along and that to me I would assume when the contract details come out it'll probably be
04:17in that 55 million dollars guaranteed at signing range they split the baby and called it a day yeah
04:22yeah and and we would like there was so many things and I know you had talked about the escalator
04:27and
04:27I'm like you know players ask for a lot of stuff and you're like all right you know but why
04:32would
04:32you do that when quarterbacks don't do that and then you know and the report came out that Shime
04:36had other the 10 million dollars off but when the framework framework is laid out unless it's really
04:43like pulling teeth because you as an organization are like so greedy and don't want to do this because
04:52you've never done it before I think that becomes the issue because everybody knows once we saw the
04:56witherspoon we're like all right we know what the deal is and then you're like oh so are we guessing
05:02that Robert Kraft stepped in here if if we believe that macro was handling the negotiations
05:09and Robert Kraft stepped in and said let's just get let's do it let's just give him the money
05:14and let's be ready to to rock and roll and in Seattle it's almost like Robert Kraft has control
05:21of the football in the ways he didn't in the past and they spent a lot of money or he's
05:25just a he's
05:26he's changed the way he does things like Robert Kraft has grown and changed and is doing business
05:32as business is being done like I think moving forward we can't call Kraft cheap like we could
05:37call him cheap in the past but what the deal that he just did change that changes things and I
05:42don't
05:42think that it whatever Robert Kraft did here does not change whatever was going on back in the day
05:47with Bill Belichick I don't think that you can tie the two together but we were tying those two
05:51together people were saying that look nothing's changed Kraft has been here they've always been
05:56cheap why did you blame Belichick well since 23 they have spent a lot more money and he is no
06:02longer
06:02here so you could say that Robert Kraft did not have the same power over football spending that he does
06:08now I would say like see the thing when you look at the Gonzalez deal I think and even whether
06:13it's when
06:14Bill was here it's about the superstar players the elite talent not the guys that like the Romeo
06:22Dobbs contract not those guys it's the guys that are either at the top of the market setting the
06:28market and you start to go like all right have they paid those guys in the past or had those
06:33guys
06:34really had to fight for it so when you start to look at it they obviously paid Steph Gilmore
06:39free agent who but I'm saying I'm not I don't care if he's a free agent I don't care if
06:44he's part of
06:44their team I'm talking about the elite talent so when you start to look at the elite talent that you've
06:50had you start to go other than Rob Gronkowski
07:16you
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