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00:00Jones and Keefe here on WEEI. It's Patriots Monday. Pats 19 to 3 winners over the Chicago Bears yesterday in Chicago.
00:07Their third win of the year. Their second in the last three weeks. And joining us for more on the victory yesterday is
00:14Patriots cornerback Christian Gonzalez. He's brought to you by Shaw's and Star Market.
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00:24Christian Gonzalez, how we doing this week?
00:27Going well, I'm good. How about you?
00:28Great, we're doing wonderful. You guys defensively put on a show yesterday. Nine sacks, hold the Bears to three points in that game.
00:35What allowed you to be so successful as a defense yesterday?
00:41I mean, it's just going into practice every weekend.
00:46You know, going out there, executing the game plan that we did this time.
00:50You know, you made a great play on a pass intended for DJ Moore and then he ended up,
00:55or you ended up on top of him. He kind of pushed you off. What kind of
00:59things did he have to say after that?
01:04No, he was just talking. You know, it's football. You know, people get competitive.
01:10It ain't nothing crazy. It's just football.
01:12Did he say anything like he hates his coach? Because it kind of seems that way.
01:17Nah. No, none of that. What kind of challenges does he present as a wide receiver?
01:21What'd you say? What kind of challenges does he present as a wide receiver, DJ Moore?
01:28Oh, he's big, fast, strong. He's been playing
01:35in this league for a while. So, I mean, he's smart. He knows the game.
01:42He's a good receiver.
01:44Do you remember a day where the guys up front had so much success rushing the pass up to you?
01:50Rushing the passer. I feel like every time you turned around, they probably had Caleb Williams down for another sack.
01:58I mean, it was, you know, that's what we always think, you know, the defensive line going to do their thing.
02:07I mean, it wasn't no surprise to me.
02:09Christian Gonzalez, Patriots cornerback, joining us here on Patriots Monday on Jones and Keith on WEEI.
02:14Did you see Drake May clapping the defense up after the game yesterday? He hit the podium after the game.
02:18He wanted to give you guys a salute. Did you see that?
02:23No, I didn't.
02:25Okay, good. You should seek it out. It's pretty good.
02:27He gave you guys a nice round of applause at the podium as a defense.
02:31I know he addressed the offense during the week, and you're on the other side of the football,
02:36but what sort of leader would you describe Drake May as?
02:42I mean, I think he's coming into his role.
02:45He's doing what he's gotta do.
02:49You know, he's got that confidence. He's got that swag about him, so
02:53I don't know.
02:54I mean, I feel like everybody's rallying behind him for sure.
02:58How much of a factor was the wind yesterday? Just watching it on TV, it seemed like it was pretty
03:02windy there. Did that affect the pass game, you think?
03:08No, not too bad. It's pretty chill. What did you think of Caleb Williams yesterday?
03:14I mean, I think he had a tough day, but I mean, he's a competitor.
03:23But, you know, props to him for making the plays he did make.
03:27What do you think of the Longhorn package? I think it's the first time we were introduced to the Longhorn package.
03:31Jarrod Mayo was talking about it. Brendan Schouler coming in on defense, making a big play.
03:35Yeah, I was happy for school, being able to get out there and show what you can do on defense.
03:43Final question for me. You guys are adding Yannick Ngakwe. What do you think that can add
03:48to your defense when he gets out there and up and running?
03:54I mean, I think he'll add a lot. He's been playing the game, and he's been playing the game well.
04:01I mean, I think he'll add a lot. He's been playing the game for a while, so,
04:08you know, anything, you know, we take anybody to help make the defense get better.
04:16All right, a little early scouting report. Next week, you guys have the Rams.
04:20What can you tell us about trying to defend Cooper Cup?
04:23It's another issue that's been doing it for a long time. It's open all the time, so we're going to have to
04:32be on our game and just go in and execute our game plan.
04:38Are you going to watch tonight's Monday Night Football game? I know you can probably tell more
04:41from film study than you can from the TV copy. Are you going to watch the game tonight with
04:46the Rams being your next opponent? Yeah, I'll probably watch it.
04:50Okay, well, you got the Rams tonight on Monday Night Football. Rams next week against the Patriots.
04:54Christian Gonzalez, as always, we appreciate the time. Thanks so much.
04:59All right, thank you. Christian Gonzalez brought to you by Verizon, the official 5G network
05:04of the New England Patriots. None of the guys saw Drake May clapping him up, huh?
05:08Guess not. Not Hunter Henry, not Christian Gonzalez. It was a good little homage.
05:13It was. He was trying to hype up the defense hard.
05:17Hunter Henry was at least happy. He thought that was a good idea. He did. Yeah. Yeah. Drake May.
05:21These guys are usually fired up after a win. You can tell. Well, you'll hear Gerard Mayo.
05:25Very excited. You'll hear Gerard Mayo say after the game, he's talking to the team at the podium.
05:31I didn't know if Drake May was doing that, but I don't. If he was talking to the team,
05:35apparently the team doesn't pay attention. No, they're not. Christian Gonzalez was still in the room.
05:40Like, wasn't he? Oh, yeah. Oh, you know what? Yeah. Yeah. That's true. It was. No, but he didn't see it.
05:46Well, May was in the room while Gonzalez was talking. Was Gonzalez still in the room? I don't
05:51know. I don't know. So we forgot to do what we said we were going to do last week, which was just.
05:56Take questions. Open it up to listener questions. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No. And then see if he
06:01answers those different than ours and like sort of mix them in within the interview. And then we can
06:04look at the end and be like, all right, who did who did who did who answer the questions?
06:08Yeah. How many words did you get? Maybe that's the game we play. Actually, new game, just purely
06:13on word. You and I do get out. Who gets more words out of Gonzalez? Two of us. Yes. Just you and I.
06:19So we each get four questions or whatever. Shorter silence for the answers. But yeah.
06:25So do we want word count or do we want less silence? The least amount of silence in his answer.
06:29OK. Yeah. That's actually a good one, too. I think I won in the lack of silence. Yeah.
06:35I think that was a result. Well, you were peppering him with stuff like, how was Caleb Williams?
06:41What's DJ more like? So I can understand why he waited a while.
06:46People. It's funny. Two weeks ago, it kind of changes from the text line in the Twitch chat.
06:51Yeah. Last week, people blaming us. People were blaming him. Yeah. Somebody's to blame.
06:55So somebody's doing a bad job. I'm not going to say who you can decide. Somebody's to blame
07:01for that every week. Yeah. I don't quite know who it is, but somebody's to blame for that. It's
07:05it's him or us. I'm not sure who. Yeah. I think I have a good idea. But yeah, but it's but it's
07:10somebody. I'll let you figure it out. But it's funny. It's kind of yo-yoed. Some weeks people
07:14are like on our side. Other weeks they are decidedly not. This week seems a little bit
07:18more on our side. Yeah. So yeah. So here's what we'll do, Keith. I think the questions were
07:23firm but fair. I think we were firm but fair this week. I do think that.
07:27Honestly, God, I don't know what what else I can ask. This is a good idea. Next week. We said we
07:32were going to do this last week. We all got we got we were so caught off guard by a Patriots win.
07:36We forgot what to do. So here's what we'll do. Me and you. Yeah. I'll ask a question. You ask a
07:41question. Love that. Two audience questions. Yes. Reset. Yep. Billy gets one. Nick gets one. We
07:48just go down the line. Anybody in the hallway gets one. Ken's watching along. Ken, if you got
07:51anything in the Twitch chat, you can throw some in. Text question. Twitch question. They can sort
07:55of feud with each other. And then, oh, a couple of text line questions versus a couple of Twitch
08:00versus a couple of social media. And then we can all pit them against each other. Who has the best
08:03questions? Because it's not us. It is. There's quite a bit of feedback, however. There is that.
08:11Not everybody loved it. Doesn't seem like just taking a glance at it. I'm not reading all of
08:17them. What what we've got, though, some people what people like what we've come to learn,
08:20what we've come to learn is people don't like it either way. It's just a matter of who they play.
08:23So here's the thing is one guy pointed out or gal pointed out how a couple of weeks ago when we
08:28were asking him or I was asking him about like the food questions, I don't think they liked our tone,
08:33whereas they think if we come across it very straight lays like here's our question.
08:37Pause for answer. Next question. Very professional. And he seemed to like it.
08:41And he says nothing. And I think they're like, hey, these guys are trying. It's hard. At least
08:45we're not being smarmy. It's hard to keep. It's hard to not be smart. It's very difficult. I
08:50struggle with that. Smarmy level is very high on a day to day basis in my everyday life, my
08:55professional life. I struggle with the smartness anyway. Yeah, it gets a little difficult in that
08:59interview. Yeah. Somebody says, ask him if he likes doing the interviews. I could. I think a
09:06real question. Why? Why do you do this? We keep joking. We're going to ask that. We really should
09:10ask that next week. He must have like not read his entire contract. I mean, every Monday,
09:16they're like, dude, remember you signed this. Oh, I didn't. Who among us has everything in that
09:21contract? That's a lot of pages. Get out of here. I'm not. You think I've read my whole contract?
09:26Anyways, that's Christian Gonzalez every Monday. Don't miss it here on Jones and Keefe. Odyssey
09:31app. It's free. That's free content for you on the in there. You don't even have to pay for that.
09:36Yeah, it's on the Odyssey app. Who is that? That was about Caleb Williams. Dub says,
09:41ask him about the doctor. He's pretty. It was chill. That was about the wind. That was with
09:45the wind. The wind was chill. I'm sorry. The wind was chill. It didn't seem super windy,
09:48though. It's well, they should not turn into the weather, man. Showed the flags a couple of times.
09:52Oh, yeah. Yeah, I can do it. You're moving back and forth. Yeah, I guess we're shaking. I can
09:56ask you about food and weather. I'm a dual threat. Somebody said, ask about the ducks. That's not a
10:00terrible. No, we did. We have asked him about the ducks. And there was not in there. But not since
10:04have we asked him since they've been number one. I don't know. I don't know. I think I feel like we
10:08do. I usually ask these guys about their college team. Some care. Some don't. That was about 75
10:12questions ago. Yeah, I mean, seriously, you do have to ask a lot of a lot ready to go. I know.
10:18So again, you can seek that out. And I would encourage you to do so
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