00:00at the crack of dawn this morning Christian Gonzalez is signed Mike Florio says he was not
00:05going to play I believe we have a very uh fresh Adam Schefter reporting recently that the Patriots
00:11are going to pull the offer so this was down to the wire and it got done Greg Bedard I'll
00:16start
00:16with you your thoughts so um I'm glad that I was on the west coast when this broke because I
00:25had
00:25spent about two two and a half hours writing a column uh previous to that that was set to run
00:31at 8 a.m this morning um ripping the Patriots calling it uh embarrassing if if they were
00:38going to make Christian Gonzalez play uh for 2.8 million dollars that I thought at the very least
00:44they should give him a signing bonus to make him right for this year uh to make everybody be like
00:49okay well at least the Patriots even in the locker room okay the Patriots are being fair um to Gonzalez
00:55and and giving him what he's worth for this year and then we'll revisit next offseason which would
01:00probably led to his trade um out so I had that ready scheduled for 8 a.m eastern time and
01:08uh then
01:09as I was doing some more work all of a sudden it broke that uh they reached a contract extension
01:13so
01:14I'm glad I could spike that column and uh and write a new one so you know basically what's
01:21interesting we're hearing all these reports and you guys are sending them in the emails about
01:25Schefter and Florio and all this stuff and and by the way Mike Giardi at at BSA has also been
01:31reporting that Gonzalez was not going to play um on Wednesday despite making the trip on the on the
01:37airplane um I think and we also have Florio is quite evidently in Gonzalez's agents camp he was
01:46first on Witherspoon he had all the contract details on Witherspoon he was among the first with all the
01:51contract um details um on Gonzalez so we know where he's coming from Schefter we know has been a bit
01:59more pro Patriots or at least uh the ownership of the Patriots so we have different sources uh fighting
02:06off you know my belief is at the end of the day which I which I thought would happen I
02:11thought
02:11there would be um you know a contract extension reached on Labor Day which it was still out here
02:18um you know when it happened I think that both sides gave in at the last at the last minute
02:25I think that
02:26um Gonzalez got a lot of what he wanted I think he wanted more in terms of the first two
02:31year
02:31guarantees which is what I always thought was going to be the sticking point that you know
02:36Witherspoon going from 50 to basically 60 million dollars over Trent McDuffie that was not going to
02:42fly with the Patriots but the Patriots made some concessions too a bigger signing bonus he has
02:47basically four years practically guaranteed where Witherspoon only has two
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