I mean, it\u2019s frustrating<\/a>,\u201d Gonzalez told reporters on Tuesday, via Michael Hurley of NBC Sports Boston. \u201cBut I mean it\u2019s — I\u2019m focused on the season. I\u2019m focused on here now and doing what I gotta do, and I\u2019m out here to compete and get better.\u201d<\/p>\nGonzalez also sidestepped the chatter that his recent absence from practice related to his contract talks, which will only reinforce the perception that it was contract related.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, you know, I\u2019m not going to get into that,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cI\u2019m out here now, so it is what it is. . . . Everything we do is speculating, at the end of the day. I could say something and then it\u2019s still gonna be speculated, so I mean, it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gonzalez didn\u2019t get into the specifics as to what he wants in a new deal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s certain things that go into a contract that my team knows what we want, so it kind of depends how you put it,\u201d Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n
The reality is that the contract signed 10 days ago by Seahawks cornerback Devon Witherspoon, which pushed the new-money bar for the position to $33 million per year, should provide the template for Gonzalez\u2019s deal. The fact that the Gonzalez deal still isn\u2019t done shows that it\u2019s not nearly that simple.<\/p>\n
Either way, Gonzalez is under contract for two more years. And the real question is whether Gonzalez, who is back at practice, will step away again as Week 1 approaches.<\/p>\n
And, frankly, he should. Tuesday\u2019s news regarding CTE underscores the risks of playing football at a high level. All players should do whatever they can to get whatever they deserve. If they don\u2019t get it, they shouldn\u2019t play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the regular season approaches, the Patriots and cornerback Christian Gonzalez still don\u2019t have a new contract in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":868796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-868795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}