What is going on with Gonzo? What does NFL Hall of Famer Ty Law see from Gonzalez?

Name: What is going on with Gonzo? What does NFL Hall of Famer Ty Law see from Gonzalez?
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00:00Good morning, Ty Law.

00:01Good morning, guys.

00:03Oh, my goodness.

00:03Where did we start?

00:05Oh, what's going on, y'all?

00:08Let's start with the Ty Law jinx, which was, in effect, clearly on Sunday.

00:15You know what?

00:16I ain't going to blame.

00:18I ain't going to put that one on me.

00:19It might have been the aura of Tom Brady, him being there calling a game.

00:22But how in the hell you going to play that bad on Gronk Day?

00:26I know.

00:27I mean, it's all about Gronk.

00:29It's about the Super Bowl champions.

00:30You're supposed to play your ass off to play homage.

00:33But Tom Brady was in the building.

00:35And Drake, mate, we talked so great about you.

00:39You're a great quarterback, man.

00:40But you got to quit throwing it in the team meetings, man.

00:42I mean, come on, man.

00:44Like, I don't get it.

00:45I think it was a Tom Brady.

00:47I'm blaming Brady.

00:48I'm blaming Brady for being in the building, man,

00:50because he put some fear in people and made people nervous out there.

00:53Well, yeah, I've heard that discussed the last 24 hours that Drake May was

00:59a little nervous, intimidated or nervous about the presence of Tom Brady.

01:03He wasn't the only one.

01:05He wasn't the only one.

01:07Yeah.

01:08It's been crazy.

01:09I've seen Brady going after, like, literally choking Drake May on the field.

01:14Like, I was like, damn, Brady, I didn't know it was that serious.

01:16We know you love the…

01:18Oh, I love those memes.

01:19You love the AI memes.

01:22Well, listen, you've been somewhat critical of Christian Gonzalez a little bit

01:29last few weeks.

01:31Where are you after what you saw from him on Sunday?

01:36First of all, let me say that I'm a Christian Gonzalez fan.

01:39You know, I just expect more out of him.

01:42I see the talent, the athleticism, the size.

01:45You know, he has all the intangibles to be exactly who he's being paid to be.

01:52But this game here, first of all, the number zero out there, it was two number zeros out there.

01:58I mean, it's like the last time we seen that, what was it, Kenny Burrow?

02:01As a matter of fact, he was double zero, wasn't it?

02:03But it was only one zero that was playing golden.

02:08And he got 10 catches, 164 yards and a touchdown.

02:14Christian Watson, another Christian, you know, it's all coming together.

02:18Seven for 171.

02:20Wiggy, I have never, I mean, I have absolutely never been a part of a situation in my 15-year

02:27career that a secondary played that bad.

02:31And when you got $50 million a year worth of cornerbacks, you know, that's unacceptable.

02:37I mean, it's absolutely unacceptable because it's not here to tear anybody down or tear

02:41Christian Gonzalez down at all.

02:43But we expect more.

02:45You got the bag.

02:46You got to play better.

02:47And it just wasn't the coverage.

02:49It started carrying over into the tackling and the willingness to tackle and things like that.

02:55So, I'm just seeing a lot of things that's not right when it comes to the New England Patriots secondary.

03:01So, where is the leadership?

03:03I mean, where's the communication?

03:07They're leaving guys wide open.

03:08You got two receivers out there.

03:10You have, you know, two on two.

03:11You got the double team.

03:12Where's the in and out coverage?

03:14Where's somebody going to go up on the line of scrimmage and challenge them at the line of scrimmage, Wiggy?

03:19How often do you see these guys doing that?

03:21So, like, is it the players or is it the coaching?

03:25Who's the damn DB coach?

03:26I asked Vrabel about that on Monday.

03:28I said, listen, you know, watching Christian's alignment, you know, he's off the ball.

03:35Is that something that, based on certain defense, dictates where his alignment is going to be?

03:41And he just kind of said, well, you know, part of it is the defense, but also part of it

03:45is the comfort level.

03:46He also said it's up to the player.

03:48Yeah, the comfort level of the player and what he likes to do.

03:51So, maybe Gonzalez is one of those guys.

03:53Guys, Ty, did you know guys that like to play off coverage and that were really good?

03:57Yeah.

03:57I mean, you get guys that are exceptional.

03:59And I'll give you an example of someone like Asante Samuel.

04:04He was more comfortable and better at off coverage.

04:08But he did it so exceptionally well that, you know what, you're not missing anything.

04:14Because Asante Samuel, he has a knack for the ball.

04:17He knows how to go get it.

04:18And he plays with technique.

04:19He understands situations.

04:21And that was his strength.

04:23My strength was more, you know, up on the line of scrimmage.

04:26I'm trying to take you away right now.

04:27So, we had different ways of playing.

04:30But what is Christian Gonzalez's strength right now?

04:33And I'm glad that Mike Rabel says something as a coach to where, hey, sometimes it's not

04:38the defense, it's the player.

04:39What are you going to do?

04:41He didn't tell you that you had to back off.

04:43So, with Mike Rabel saying that, he said, hey, he's giving you, hey, you got car blanched

04:47anyway.

04:47You got $100 million.

04:49You know what I mean?

04:50So, it's been plenty of times where Coach Belichick, he will say, hey, we're going to play

04:56it this way and want you to back off here.

04:58I'm going to, on the other hand, I'm like, hell no, I'm going to go up here.

05:00You know, we'll talk about this when I get back to the sideline.

05:05This is how I'm going to challenge him.

05:06So, when I think that Mike Rabel is saying it without saying it to him directly, if he's

05:12going to say something like that, hey, Christian, get up there and challenge him.

05:15What else could it, we're putting you in the right position.

05:18At some point, players have to make plays.

05:20And when you go out there and play tentative, when you go out there and play soft, now, let's

05:25not just talk about Christian Gonzalez.

05:26I know he's the big marquee name, but all the cornerbacks, all the DBs, no one played

05:33well.

05:33No one wants to tackle, and you're not challenging receivers.

05:36So, I think that is a problem.

05:37And when you get targeted, Wiggy, you know that as an offensive player.

05:42When you get targeted and they say, you know what, there he goes, and they start throwing

05:47at you as the number one guy, that's a problem.

05:50And I swear to God, I don't know, I was not in the meeting rooms, Greg, you know, back

05:55in the day when they were saying, but I can pretty much guarantee, because I know how the

05:59game was going, that you did not come into a damn game saying, you know what, we're going

06:03to attack 24 today.

06:04We're going to keep throwing at him.

06:05I don't know what that Packers team is going to do.

06:08They can't, they cannot run the football.

06:10So, and maybe that is, you know, Ty, your perspective is what I, what I, what I listened

06:17to.

06:18Maybe that's on, maybe that's where, when Mike Rabel says, we got to be more prepared, maybe

06:23that's on the coaches, I guess, if you're not able to make it clear that they're a one

06:29dimensional team offensively.

06:32No, that's on the coaches to put you in the right position, but players got to have to

06:36go out there and play and make play.

06:38And sometimes you got to take matters into your own hands.

06:41That, man, I would say, who's coaching defensive backs?

06:48That guy, we got to put some, you know, responsibility on that too, to get your guys to be able

06:53to

06:53guys prepared.

06:54Mike Rabel is the head coach.

06:56He had this, like Belichick, he was a DB coach at one time.

06:59So his focus was on that, getting us prepared and putting us in the right position, but we

07:03had to make plays.

07:04The defensive backs coach for the New England Patriots has to step up and get in those guys'

07:10heads.

07:10You know, y'all got to go out there and make plays.

07:12Y'all going to cost me my damn job.

07:15That's what's going to happen.

07:16You're going to cost, because somebody got to be the scapegoat.

07:19Guess what?

07:19Christian Gonzalez ain't going nowhere.

07:20He just got a bunch of money.

07:21Carl Davis, he's not going nowhere.

07:23He's still got guaranteed money out there on the field.

07:26Mike Rabel isn't going anywhere.

07:28So somebody going to have to take the blame.

07:30But you can't continue to go out and play like that.

07:33And we've been talking that week in and week out, that the secondary is not challenging

07:37people.

07:38And we're talking about situational awareness.

07:40None of that is in existence right now.

07:43So not only is that the players, you got to put that on the coaching, you know, as a

07:46whole, especially the secondary coach.

07:48Ty, focusing on Drake.

07:50He's now tied with Justin Herbert for leading the league in interceptions.

07:53You're good at reading quarterbacks.

07:54What are you seeing from him right now?

07:56Is he forcing it?

07:56Or is it defenses baiting him into these throws?

07:59No, I think he's forcing it.

08:01He's trying to get the ball downfield.

08:02I mean, he's known for the long ball.

08:06He has a pretty ball.

08:09And when it connects, it connects.

08:11But a lot of times, he's so confident in that.

08:13And I want to use the word confident that he's going to throw it in there.

08:17He thinks he can get it there.

08:18But at the same time, you're throwing it into a team meeting.

08:21You have more of the other team there than your guy.

08:24So that is a problem in itself.

08:26Sometimes just do the check down.

08:28You don't always have to go for it all.

08:32Let's keep the sticks moving.

08:33And I think he's a little overconfident in his ability, which we love that.

08:39But when you throw in interceptions, and especially those untimely interceptions,

08:45I guess there's no interceptions.

08:46It's timely.

08:47But the way he's going about it, and you're throwing it to the other team.

08:51So I don't understand that.

08:53So Drake May, this was definitely a step back from what he's going.

08:58He's reverting back to the beginning of the season.

09:00And that's not good.

09:01Again, maybe it was Tom Brady.

09:04Maybe it was all the championships.

09:05They see those banners.

09:07They see all the old school guys coming out.

09:08Maybe they was a little nervous, which you shouldn't have been.

09:11You should have been trying to show out.

09:12If I was Drake May, that's just my attitude.

09:15I'm about to say, Tom Brady, I'm about to show you what it is, players.

09:18New sheriff in town.

09:19That's how I would have looked at it, as a competitor.

09:23Maybe the issue, Ty, is that he's practicing against Christian Gonzalez.

09:26He's not ready for good corners.

09:32Hey, man, I'm upset, man.

09:36Let's go.

09:38How many?

09:39Two receivers?

09:41164 and 171.

09:42Yeah.

09:43Two guys over $1.50.

09:46That is...

09:47That one for you, Wiggy.

09:48Like, as an offensive player, when you see a defensive back like that, whether it's someone's covering you, do you

09:55intentionally go in and say, as the quarterback and the coordinator, and say, okay, we're going at this guy?

10:00Because that's what I see.

10:01I say he's getting targeted right now.

10:02Yeah, we're definitely going to say, oh, we got one over there.

10:05Your secondary coaches, Scott Booker and cornerbacks coach Justin Hamilton.

10:10So, maybe they have to, like, start with them.

10:12Hey, Ty, before we wrap this, I'm just curious your take.

10:16I don't know if you heard it live, but Mike Frabel was asked by Greg about the trade deadline, and

10:20he immediately replied by saying that they need to find out who wants to be here.

10:25And if you don't want to be a member of this team going forward and buy into the Patriots team,

10:30then let him know by 4 o'clock today.

10:33Do you think there's an issue in the locker room of this team, or what do you think Mike Frabel

10:37is trying to get across with that statement?

10:40You know what?

10:41First of all, that is a very vague statement because, you know, no one's going to walk up into there

10:47and say, you know, coach, I don't want to be here, you know, trade me.

10:50So, you know, you know that's not going to happen.

10:52So, he's saying, I guess, showing them on the field.

10:55You know, you might have a couple guys that ain't happy that might walk up in there, but nobody is

11:00going to just, you know, say, you know, I don't want that check.

11:02You know what I mean?

11:05So, I don't think it's a problem in the locker room because, you know, we've got past all the off

11:10seasons of all the riffraff and things like that, and they start playing well.

11:14So, this just brings it back to where it's like, if you're playing that bad, we're searching for other stuff

11:20that's going on other than they just, you know, $200, got their ass kicked.

11:25Yeah.

11:25So, that's just what it was.

11:27They'll pass.

11:28You know, they have to play better, but it was very disappointing, and I'm telling you right now, every single

11:35team that comes in to play the New England Patriots, until they shut it down, they're going to attack the

11:41cornerback.

11:41They're going to attack the secondary, and they can't wait for them to get in one-on-one situations.

11:46And the only way to stop that is to make some plays and get them up off you.

11:51My thing was, I'm going to get you up off me.

11:53I'm going to make you throw it over to the other guy.

11:54My other cornerback, he better step up.

11:56They ain't going to throw it over here.

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12:08Any submissions on this?

12:10I kind of like the touchdown to Ramondre.

12:13Yeah, the real route.

12:13That was a nice one.

12:15Pop Douglas had, I thought, an excellent game.

12:18But I would say that Ramondre touchdown was pretty cool, and there's a nice design.

12:22I took advantage of him being able to run that real route up the, kind of like, just up the

12:26numbers a little bit.

12:27Nice throw, nice catch.

12:29I like that one.

12:30You know, man, y'all being real nice right now.

12:33It was nothing.

12:34I mean, absolutely nothing entertaining about that game.

12:37The only entertainment we've seen was from that damn Green Bay Packers, man.

12:41Yeah.

12:41It was nothing entertaining about that.

12:42So, you know, I can tell you 10 catches is entertaining.

12:46Seven catches for one, that's entertaining.

12:48You know, Jordan Love is entertaining.

12:50But if you tell me somebody on the Patriots that was entertaining, I don't agree.

12:56But see, Ty, I think it's really interesting.

12:59You have an older player, and it's a compliment, older player mentality where you would care about being embarrassed in

13:12front of that Super Bowl team that was there, in front of Rob Gronkowski, in front of Tom Brady, where

13:19I don't know that today's guys care that much about it.

13:22They certainly didn't show it.

13:25So, I just don't know that that matters the way it matters to you.

13:30It should matter, and it's a shame if it doesn't.

13:33See, I didn't get to see any, like, the post-game stuff.

13:36How was the attitude and the body language in the post-game and the reactions in the interviews?

13:41Did you guys see anything?

13:43Because that performance right there was absolutely, it was despicable.

13:46Christian Gonzalez was like, hey, it's one bad game, and I'm bound to have a bad game.

13:50He said, quote, it's not the end of the world, unquote.

13:53Not the end of the world.

13:56No, it's not the end.

13:57No, it ain't going to be the end of the world for him, because guess what?

14:00He's smiling on that paycheck day, smiling like hell.

14:03He forgot all about it, but as prideful and being a leader and being around here and the expectation that

14:11we have here after going to a Super Bowl, no, you've got to have some damn pride.

14:15I don't care.

14:16No, it's not just one bad game.

14:19It's like, oh, I gave up one, I wish I could have had this one back.

14:22But y'all wish we could have had a play or two back.

14:25You can't take back 17 plays, man.

14:29That's 17.

14:30It's a different mentality, though.

14:32Greg's right.

14:32It's a different mentality of the athletes today.

14:36You know, it just is different.

14:38I don't know what it is.

14:39Maybe the way they get coached in college, whether they get coached in high school.

14:43It's just a different mentality.

14:45I think I mean, let's call it what it is, because look, I'm all for everyone getting paid.

14:49When I was at my time, I was trying to get paid, too.

14:52But you know what?

14:53When you get paid, there is an expectation now that no one.

14:58Now, OK, we gave it to you.

15:00We see it.

15:00Now, what are you going to do?

15:02You have to elevate your game even more when you get the bag.

15:05So I don't think you have to care.

15:08I don't think you got to care.

15:09I don't think they look at it.

15:10I think that many of them look at it the way Vladdy Guerrero looked at it when he got his

15:16250 million or whatever, whatever that number was.

15:19And he said, that's for they're paying me for what I've done in the past.

15:24And that's that's that's why I deserve that money.

15:27See, I think it's a lot.

15:28So I think that's terrible.

15:29That's terrible mentality.

15:30And I think the love of the game is different now.

15:33You know, I was a fan growing up as a kid.

15:37So when I actually got there to that level, I was honored to be there.

15:42I remember like, you know, like I'm talking about not even like Ben Coates.

15:47I'm talking about Mark Bavaro, guys that were well before my time, like when I was a little kid.

15:52And I don't know if that same type of like love and for the game and for the players that

16:01came before is just like there no more.

16:03I think these guys are just like, all right, Brady played a million years ago.

16:07I can care less what he did.

16:08Could it also be the NIL money that they're getting in college that has changed their mentality going into the

16:12pros?

16:12Yeah, yeah, they already have money.

16:15The money has a lot to do with it.

16:18But, you know, as a professional athlete, guess what?

16:20It's more money out there on the table.

16:22Why not get 100 now and get another 100 again when the time is up?

16:26You have the opportunity to set generational wealth nowadays, you know, with the paychecks that are getting it.

16:34But there's the expectation that you've got to go out there and play well.

16:37The guaranteed money, the business of the NFL is absolutely amazing.

16:42So my mom and dad, they hooked up too damn early.

16:45You know, they was real selfish for that little 15, 15, 20 minutes they just do it to make me

16:49the selfish self.

16:50But, again, you've got to play better.

16:52And I just think that the secondary is going to get targeted.

16:56And the only way that you can, you know, do something about it is on the football field.

17:02We can talk about it.

17:03But Mike Vrabel, in my opinion, and that's my dog, you've got to bring some of your boys back in

17:10there that play with you, man, because he has a mentality.

17:12You can tell by what he's saying to you guys.

17:14Mike Vrabel still has that old school mentality.

17:16Guess what, Mike?

17:17The new coaches that you've got around you, for whatever reason, whatever history you've got, bring back some of your

17:22old boys and put them back in that damn locker room.

17:25Somebody that knows the Patriot way.

17:26Somebody that's out there coaching.

17:28I'm talking about the Troy Browns of the world.

17:31Dante Hightower.

17:32Exactly.

17:33I just talked to Scar.

17:35He said he ain't coming back.

17:36But, damn it, I would be on Dante's star next year, you know, door.

17:40I'm on his ring doorbell camera every day.

17:43What about Aite Ale?

17:45He might be interested also.

17:49That's the pig land.

17:51Okay.

17:52All right.

17:52Ty, as always, it is...

17:59The faces of those...

18:00The faces of those...

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