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Speaker 1: This is the twenty twenty three Patriots Unfiltered Draft Show,

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Speaker 1: presented by Aristocrat Gaming Bilker.

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Speaker 2: All right, we're joined now on Patriots Unfiltered Draft Show

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Speaker 2: by Christian Gonzales, the Patriots first round pick. And I

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Speaker 2: gotta tell you we put in a lot of work

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Speaker 2: to the draft. When we heard your name, we were

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Speaker 2: all like hallelujah, because usually the guys that we want

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Speaker 2: don't get picked, but you were the consensus guy that

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Speaker 2: everybody wanted. Some congratulations from being a Patriot.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate it. It means a lot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So, have you had a chance to breathe yet?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know you got on a plane first

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Speaker 2: thing this morning, went out here. What do you think

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Speaker 2: so far?

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Speaker 3: It's amazing. I can already just feel the atmosphere just

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Speaker 3: being around. The coach is super excited to learn and

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Speaker 3: just come in and work. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I mean that's what we hear about you. You're

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Speaker 2: a head down, just work coach pleaser. Where do you

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Speaker 2: get that from?

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Speaker 3: Just kind of just raised that way with my sisters.

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Speaker 3: You know, I took the way of being I was

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Speaker 3: the baby for ten years until my younger sister was born,

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Speaker 3: and just always watching my two older sisters. Kind of

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Speaker 3: just had to keep my head down.

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Speaker 2: That's a lot of pressure when you're the boy two

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Speaker 2: older sisters who are good athletes. You got to keep

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Speaker 2: up right for sure.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, when did you finally turn the tide with your

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Speaker 4: older sisters? Like playing sports the backyard, that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 3: I mean, was it competitive with them growing? Very competitive

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Speaker 3: to the smallest things of playing cards. We competed everything

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Speaker 3: we did. But really I probably started beating them in

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Speaker 3: races and stuff when I was ninth tenth grade. So

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Speaker 3: so yeah, okay.

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Speaker 4: I wanted to ask you a little bit. I know

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Speaker 4: Evan's probably gonna have some real film breakdown. Evan's our

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Speaker 4: resident football junking, So we'll leave the football stuff to Evan.

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Speaker 4: But I wanted to ask you about I'm just watching

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Speaker 4: some of the highlights as the draft just getting ready

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Speaker 4: to get under way tonight. Just what the atmosphere was

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Speaker 4: like in Kansas City for you. You know, we got

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Speaker 4: to see you get out there and you had your

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Speaker 4: custom suit and you know, seeing you know, Commissioner Goodell.

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Speaker 4: Just what was the atmosphere overall like last night?

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Speaker 3: Oh, it was amazing. It was a dream come true.

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Speaker 3: Kind of flew by, you know, just sitting in the

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Speaker 3: green room with a lot of people I know too,

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Speaker 3: my family and then all the other prospects. Being able

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Speaker 3: to just you know, we worked so hard for that

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Speaker 3: moment and being able to go in there and just

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Speaker 3: enjoy it with our families meant everything to me.

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Speaker 1: And we were just talking to the assistant coaches and

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Speaker 1: coach Mayo told us that he came out to Oregon

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Speaker 1: to talk to you and meet with you before the draft.

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Speaker 1: What was that meeting like and did you have an

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Speaker 1: inkling at all after that meeting that the Patriots might

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Speaker 3: Oh, it was a great meeting. H know. We sat down,

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Speaker 3: talked ball, he was teaching me stuff. But you know,

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Speaker 3: I didn't really think anything of it of gonna end

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Speaker 1: And at Oregon you played in the coverage system that's

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Speaker 1: pretty complex. You know in college sometimes teams just sit

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Speaker 1: in one type of coverage. But you guys really spun

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Speaker 1: the dial on quarterbacks. I know coach Loupoid was at

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Speaker 1: Alabama and you know Patriots connection to Alabama. What was

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Speaker 1: that system like and how multiple was it? You know,

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Speaker 1: in terms of your mental side of things.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a lot, but I think that was

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Speaker 3: great to be able to play in that and just

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Speaker 3: learn it was It's gonna give me a good transition

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Speaker 3: to the league. You know. There's still so much more

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Speaker 3: to learn that I'm super excited to learn. But I'm

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Speaker 3: glad I played in that system.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, you you played a lot of positions growing

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Speaker 2: cornerback once you did that, once you said okay, I'm

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Speaker 2: a cornerback. Was there a guy you know in the

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Speaker 2: former player, a current player that he said, yeah, I

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Speaker 3: When I started playing really for real. It was Pastor Tan, big, tall,

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Speaker 3: kind of corner you know, I'm kind of around the

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Speaker 3: same size. He's a big technician, elite technician, So someone

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Speaker 3: I could try to play like seeing someone move at

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Speaker 3: this size, being fluid kind of just what I try

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I wanted to.

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Speaker 4: Ask you a little bit about that speed that you have,

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Speaker 4: and obviously you've been pretty versatile in that secondary or

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Speaker 4: for Oregon, but if you have any return experience, I

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Speaker 4: figured with that kind of speed and athleticism that you'd

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Speaker 4: be a natural with the ball in your hands if

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Speaker 4: you had any attorneys to do that something the coaches

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Speaker 4: keep you away from because they're trying to make sure

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Speaker 4: they protect you.

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Speaker 3: I mean I did in high school and kind of

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Speaker 3: wanted to in college. Never really did. I would in practice,

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Speaker 3: but never really never did in the game, but I

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Speaker 3: definitely got.

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Speaker 4: I'll let you in on something. I heard your position

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Speaker 4: coach talking about it on the radio today and he

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Speaker 4: said it was intentional. He wanted to make sure he

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Speaker 4: was a little selfish and made sure it kept you

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Speaker 4: away from that. He knew you had that ability.

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Speaker 3: He did that.

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Speaker 2: It's a little old school, but look up on YouTube

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Speaker 2: Mike Haynes highlights from back in the day. Hall of

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Speaker 2: Famer going to do my homework, Okay.

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Speaker 1: Petrade Hall of Famer return Skills. One play I wanted

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Speaker 1: to ask you about it is again call Colorado last

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Speaker 1: year and you're playing zone. I think I think it

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Speaker 1: was cover six. I'm not sure if it was cover

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Speaker 1: six and you it's a post wheel and you kind

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Speaker 1: and jumped the wheel route and When I saw that play,

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Speaker 1: I was like, this guy's pretty good, right, you can

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Speaker 1: do that? And then yeah, that returnability down the sideline.

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Speaker 1: Just walk me through that play. What was that play

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Speaker 1: alive from your perspective?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they actually hit us earlier on the same exact

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Speaker 3: play earlier in the game, and I knew the play

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Speaker 3: was coming again. That was their go to when they

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Speaker 3: actually in the cover three. I told my nickel and

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Speaker 3: I'm a jump the corner news coming, and I just

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Speaker 3: trusted my instincts.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, a little extra sweet that it was against.

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Speaker 3: Colorado, It was, it was a little it was cool

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Speaker 2: Speaking of that, you know you took advantage of the portal.

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Speaker 2: How grateful are you to have that ability to have

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Speaker 2: made that move.

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Speaker 3: I'm very grateful because that was my whole thing is

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Speaker 3: I wanted to play with Demetrius Martin. Yeah, committed to him.

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Speaker 3: He told me he's gonna get me in and out

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Speaker 3: in three years. So that's what I You know, I'm

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Speaker 3: loyal to my coach, and that's that's what's super intriguing

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Speaker 3: about being here is is Hall of Fame coaches. So

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Speaker 3: I'm just excited to be in that, in this opportunity

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Speaker 3: to work with them.

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Speaker 2: I can tell you if you love football, this is

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Speaker 2: the place for sure. This is the place.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, any any other questions, I know you've got a

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Speaker 2: lot of other things to do.

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Speaker 4: You're now the best athlete in the family.

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Speaker 3: I talk to you a little bit, sister yesterday, my

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Speaker 3: little sister says she not.

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Speaker 2: I just picture though, like we all like played, you know,

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Speaker 2: one on one basketball with our dads in the driveway.

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Speaker 2: I could just picture your dad just swamming away balls.

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Speaker 2: Did you ever do that with it?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, we got and.

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Speaker 2: He didn't take it easy. Yeah, just like bang try again.

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Speaker 4: Kid.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, congratulations again and welcome. You know. I

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Speaker 2: know there's a lot to learn. Uh so you've got

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Speaker 2: a lot ahead of you, but it's really exciting, and

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Speaker 2: you know, you should be proud of yourself that you

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Speaker 2: kept this far. Okay, all right, Christian Gonzales here on

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Speaker 2: Patriots Unfiltered. We'll be right back after this