WEBVTT - Dudes on the 2025 NFL Draft 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:03.480 My mom still claims that there's only two days of 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.320 my life where she saw me pissed, and she says 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:10.320 it was draft night, and I forgot the second one. 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:13.760 I forgot the second day. I forgot the second. 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:16.120 Day the ice cream truck fell didn't have enough ice cream. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:18.680 Yesday there we go. But the only time Rob has 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:19.360 ever been mad. 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:21.919 We're gonna have to give her a call eventually, and 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:23.880 I'm gonna have to clear it up on day two. 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:25.680 But I think it was when the ice cream ran 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:26.840 out of the ice cream truck. 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.040 Welcome to Dudes On Dudes. I'm Julian Edelman. 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:32.519 And I'm Rob Gronkowski and. 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:34.320 This is the show where your favorite dudes get to 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:35.640 talk about their favorite dudes. 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:38.720 Happy Draft Day, everyone, it's finally here. 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:40.600 What are we talking about today? 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:43.800 Well, how about me partying on stage with my family 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:45.840 after I got drafted in the second round. 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:48.839 You probably had a lot of energy bottled up. Is 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:51.400 that why we had the like a maush pit in 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:54.120 the middle of the draft room? All about the prospective 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:55.320 number one pit. 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:58.160 That's a guy that knows what he's doing because he's 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:01.600 been counted out his whole entire life. And we look 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:06.399 into our crystal balls, magical crystal balls, the crystal ball, 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:09.760 and our brain jewels soul let me shake it up. 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:12.320 I don't think our brain is gonna be shaken anymore. 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.560 And then we wrap it up with the coolest Dudes 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.760 in the Draft with this week's Chillest Dude of the 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:22.440 Week presented by Coors Like Let's. 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:29.800 Go Dudes on Dudes is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:32.360 Draft is coming up tonight. 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:34.360 Yes, it is big night. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:38.479 A lot of hope for fans, a lot of new 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:43.040 beginnings for athletes. It's just like the start of the season. 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:45.080 Draft is the start of the season. What do you 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:46.240 remember from the draft? 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.960 Start of your new life as well, man, starting your 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.880 new about to be a professional. Well, now, these days 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.760 these guys are technically professionals because the professional is when 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:56.920 you get paid for doing what you do. And they're 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:01.800 getting paid in college now, so uh, technically they are professionals. 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:03.800 But they're becoming true pros now when they go to 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.639 the NFL NFL pros, which is the pros of all pros. 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.040 But I remember this, you know, to the te Drew Rosenhouse. 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.040 He got me invited to the NFL Draft through I 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:17.880 think who's that guy? He was older. He's the one 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:20.160 who invited all the guys there. I forgot his name. 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:24.560 Man legendary, legendary, legendary in the draft. 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:25.920 Drew called me up. 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:28.040 He's like, I got you invited to the NFL Draft, 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.000 And I was like, no way, because I didn't even 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.800 play my junior year in college. So it's kind of 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.600 absurd that I even got invited to the NFL Draft. 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.079 And Drew was like, hey, you might not go first round, 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.480 but you know you'll go second round at least, and 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.880 you'll be the first one ever at the draft to 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.280 be selected in the second round. I was like, whatever, 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.520 I'm going first round. I was very optimistic that I 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.640 was going first round. In the draft comes, you know, 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.760 I'm all excited. I'm only twenty years old. Actually, I 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.079 got my whole family there, my friends from growing up 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.400 in high school. They drove from Buffalo, New York. So 0:02:58.480 --> 0:02:59.400 shout out to my buddies. 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:00.400 Averages. 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:04.200 Yes, no adult beverages yet, yes, no adult beverages. I'm 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.240 only twenty years old, Jordan. You know, I wasn't drinking 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.520 yet until I got the twenty one. But uh so 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:13.640 the draft comes, and uh, you know, first team on 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.840 the clock. You know that needs a tight end, and 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:20.600 it's the twenty first pick, the Cincinnati Bengals. The Bengals 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.720 their tight end coach. He came and worked me out 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:24.480 at my pro day too. I felt like I had 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.280 a you know, terrific pro day. Felt like I was 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:29.840 the best tight end in the draft. And you know, 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:31.960 I had a lot of question marks because of my 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.320 craziness in college and not playing my junior year and 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:38.920 having the back surgery. And I don't get drafted. They 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:45.080 take Jermaine Gresham. And to this day, my mom still 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:48.040 claims that there's only two days of my life where 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:52.920 she saw me pissed and and and mad or whatever 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.440 term she puts it. And she says it was draft 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:59.920 night and I forgot the second one. I forgot this 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:01.880 second day. I forgot the sight and. 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.880 The ice cream truck fell didn't have enough ice cream. Yes, 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.840 there we ago, But the time Rob has ever been mad. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.400 We're gonna have to give her a call eventually, and 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:12.360 I'm gonna have to clear it up on day two. 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:14.160 But I think it was when the ice cream ran 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.840 out of the ice cream truck. They ran out there, 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.599 But uh yeah, she still recalls it to that day. Hey, 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.720 I never seen you like that, Rob. You know, once 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.680 the Cincinnati Bengals passing you and you didn't get drafted 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.479 in the second in the first round, you know, so 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:30.720 I was disappointed, you know, I felt like a first 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:34.520 round talent. But then you know day two comes, well. 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:36.040 I had a lot of you probably had a lot 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:40.400 of energy bottled up, probably a lot of madness going 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:44.000 in there. Didn't go first round. Rob Gronkowski took the 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.760 other guy first. Is that why we had the the 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:52.200 exuberant of energy, excitement on the stage with the whole 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:56.240 Gronkowski family and extended relatives doing the mash like a 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.000 mash pit in the middle of the draft room. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:01.760 I was ready to leash it on the first night 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.840 of the draft in the first round, and you know 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.560 that that all got bundled up because I actually went 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:10.640 back to my room and it's the first time where 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:12.640 my friends and everyone just saw me say, hey, I'm 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:14.279 just calling a night. I'm just gonna go to go 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.160 to bed and wait for you know, the second day 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.520 of the draft and see where I go. And then 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:23.159 New England gave me that call with the forty second pick, 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.760 and my life changed right on the spot. I actually, 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.480 you know, when I got that call, I was I 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:32.839 was furious. I wasn't like furious, I was just pissed 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:34.880 I didn't go in the first round. I just felt 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.320 like I belonged there and that was always a dream 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:40.839 of mine. But when I got that call from New England, 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.720 I didn't care one single bit anymore that I didn't 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.159 go in the first round. Like my aura just got 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:53.560 repicked back up, like my dream, you know, came to 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.880 real life right on the spot. In that moment, man, 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:00.960 it was. It was the best one of my best 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:02.840 moments and feelings I've ever had. 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.400 It had nothing to do with the simple fact that 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:07.960 you just dodged a bullet by having to almost go 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:14.600 play with Andy Dalton instead getting Tom Brady. Just no 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:18.480 shade on Andy. But if you're a fucking receiver tight 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:21.320 end in this world, you got a chance to play 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:25.359 with Tom Brady, you gonna go play Tom Brady. You 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.560 got football gods looked out. 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:29.920 Yes, the football gods did look out for me, And 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:31.200 I remember sitting there. 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.760 Drew and Joe Burrow. Though again, maybe maybe in a 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:39.560 home from another universe, in another universe like in Interstellar 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:43.000 in the fifth dimension, there's fucking Rob Gronkowski catching seam 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:47.400 routes over eating Skyline Chili in Cincinnati, having one of 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:52.040 the Gronkowski I bet you. And instead of Gordy living 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:55.480 in like Southee, he's probably living in like Kentucky, right 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:59.080 across the river from fucking uh Cincinnati, and he's got 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.279 like a little like thing going on out there like this, He's. 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.279 Hitting the universe, and he's hitting the University of Kentucky 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.560 bars on Friday night and Saturday night, and then he's 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.040 coming to Cincinnati. He's got you know, a Shakers hitting 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:12.840 the NFL Sunday games. 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:18.280 I mean, the fucking the Cincinnati Peril verse. I don't 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:20.360 know how to say it. It was in Spider Man. 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:22.000 Almost half her little verse. 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:22.840 But what is it? 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.320 We want to we want to thank Multiverse. Yes, well, 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.520 let's thank Jermaine Gresham for being a stud because they 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.120 took him over me, which was possibly the best thing 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:34.200 that ever happened in my career. Uh, no doubt about that, 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.280 because at the same time I was at the draft too, 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.960 and Drew Rosenhaus's brother, Jason Rosenhouse, who does all the 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.560 behind the scene work with what their agency goes, Hey, Rob, 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:46.600 he said this across the table. When like the twenty 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.520 eighth pick came, He's like, I know you're mad right now, 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.840 he goes, but you dodged a bullet. Not going to 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.600 Cincinnati trusts me. And I was like, oh, all right, 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:55.560 Like it made me feel better at that moment. I 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:57.920 was like, Okay, that's what I'm talking about, So that 0:07:57.920 --> 0:07:59.440 that was cool by him. You know, he made me 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.200 feel comfort with my skin and he was just telling 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.120 the truth. And now looking back at it, I sure 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:05.520 did dodge a fucking bullet. 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.440 Went to Tom Brady. Baby, if you had one piece 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:15.840 of advice for a player going to the NFL about 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:19.560 to get drafted tonight or the next couple nights, what 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:20.000 would it be. 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:25.800 M Stay calm, stay cool, stay collective. You know you 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.240 may not hear your name called where you want it 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:31.360 to be called, but let me tell you that's not 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.719 gonna define your legacy. You know you're gonna still get 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:38.240 the same opportunity in the NFL. If you're the tenth 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.559 pick in the draft, or if you're the hundredth pick 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:44.520 in the draft, or even you're a free agent, you're 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:47.440 gonna get more chances that's it. You're gonna you're gonna 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:49.840 get the same opportunity as a first rounder. 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:51.959 You'll get an opportunity, but you. 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.959 Get more opportunities if you're a first rounder and you're 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.040 not really panning out. If you're good, you're gonna you're 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:01.920 gonna stick. Yes, exactly. So just be good, be patient. 0:09:02.120 --> 0:09:04.640 Just doesn't define you where you're drafted. It just gives 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.000 you that chance. Even if you're a free agent and 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:09.000 you're signing for free agent money with a team, you're 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:11.719 still gonna get that chance and make the most of it. 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.120 Once you get that opportunity. And once you get that chance. 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:18.920 All right, it's very heartfelt. Now once the player gets drafted, 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.319 After he gets drafted, what's the advice. 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:26.600 All right, the advice is that night, that night, enjoy it. 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.800 Take it in, buddy, take it in. Have all your 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.600 friends around you, have your family around you. 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:37.079 You know, if you're single, to have one guy that's sober, yes, 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:38.400 taking care of everything. 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:43.280 Always always have someone so lined up and get your 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:46.880 make sure you got like ten ladies around. 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.080 You whatever it is you. 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:54.640 Yes, if you're not single, then have your your girl 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:58.000 there and tell her that you know that it might 0:09:58.040 --> 0:09:59.760 be getting a little bit crazy today. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:00.440 I don't know. 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:02.640 I don't know, Juels. I was twenty years old. I 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:06.200 was absolute maniac. I remember jumping up and down on 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.880 stage with Roger Goodo and my family. It was the 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.480 best moment of my life. I'll still remember that day 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:13.880 even after life. 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:19.960 I will remember. I remember the team meeting after you 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.080 doing that, when you weren't even on the team yet. 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.400 With the offense, Billy O'Brien saying, you, guys are gonna 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.920 love this fucking guy. He is everything you think he 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.360 is and more. And he's a fucking insane football player. 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:37.280 And I remember Billy O'Brien saying, the fucking ball looks 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.640 like a beer can in his hand. Look how big 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.240 his hands are. Remember I'm always saying. 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.559 Yes, yes, I do a Billy Oh Man, what a 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:47.400 visit I had with him. That story's been told like 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.960 a million times, so we don't need to revamp that. 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.120 But man, it was just meant to be. 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.320 Me going to New England, without doubt, really was in 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.920 all situations. I needed to go to New England. That's 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:01.800 that was my hauling was to go there, and I 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:03.520 loved I just fit in with the culture there. I 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.680 fit in with the people of New England. I fit 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.120 in with you guys right away. I mean we love 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:11.760 to just work hard and then just play hard as well. 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.520 Especially when we were young bucks. 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.640 We were working hard, we were playing hard. Are you 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:18.920 gonna do the fucking sixty ninth pick for the Patriots 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:19.200 or what? 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:22.079 All right, well, we talked about this already on a 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.959 previous episode, and let me tell you that blew up everywhere. 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.360 I didn't know it was going to gain that much traction. 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.240 So Stacy James, we kind of loosened Stacy James up 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.920 a little bit because Stacey James uptight like a little 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.040 bit like he's he's by the book. You know, Hey, Rob, 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.840 you can't say this, you can't do that's I know 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.120 we're not going to do this. We're gonna do that. 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.679 But like we've loosened them up through our times eight 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:49.480 years ago. So now like he appreciates like all the 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.640 silly jokes we have, and he gives me a holler, 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:56.160 and he sees our little podcast and he goes, hey, Rob, 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.839 he gives me a text, if you really want to 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.720 announce this sixty night pick of the draft, let me 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.200 know I'll get it. Done, and I'm like, oh, coming 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.520 from Stacy James. All right, you know baby, I'm like, 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.079 we made it. Stacy James is making it now too. 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.040 He's big time, you know. Uh, he's being silly as well. 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.480 So I hit him back up. I'm like, okay, I'll 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:16.920 let you know, let me look at the date and 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.720 where it's at. And then the NFL front office hits 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:20.280 me up too. 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:20.800 Tracy. 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.840 Yeah, shout out to Tracy does such a great job. Yeah, 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.000 she is the best. And she's like, hey, Rob, are 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:29.079 you serious about the sixty ninth pick' like we'll. 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:29.440 Get it done. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.800 And I'm like, yeah, I'm serious about the sixty nine pick, 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:34.839 Like how could I not be? And by the way, 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:37.560 sixty nine jokes they kind of like went downhill like 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:41.200 in the last like ten years, like they got overused 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.480 and like you got to pick your spot when sixty 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.840 nine jokes are going to be good, Like this was 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.800 the time to, you know, bring that sixty nine energy 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.760 back to the table, I think, because the have the 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.000 sixty nine pick. So I'm sitting there and I look 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.800 at my calendar and I'm like, oh crap, I already 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:01.240 got something that Friday night. 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:02.679 You have Fox retreats. 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:04.280 Yeah, I got to retreat. 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:06.400 You know, business stuff. 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.440 Business stuff. We'll just put it that way. I got 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.840 business stuff, So I'm thinking about it. So I sent 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.760 them a message and said, I am so sorry I 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:19.960 cannot make it. You know, this hurts me deeply that 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.839 I cannot announce the sixty nine pick in person. It's 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:24.520 all the way in Green Bay too. That would have 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.559 been u you know, a hard travel and how can 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.200 you sixty nine when you're frozen too? 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:30.280 That's hard? 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:32.920 Like that would have been really tough to announce that pick. 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.960 Can't six it's more like a six zero. Yeah, there's 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.720 no there's no nine parts. Yeah, you can't you I'm shrunking. 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:41.400 I can't. 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.800 You can't, you know, raise the bar when you're shrunken 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.960 in the cold. But uh, I told him. I sent 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:50.600 a message to Tracy. I sent a message to uh, 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:54.760 stay Stacy. Tracy and Stacy sounds like a great couple, 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:58.319 and uh, I'm like, hey, I can't make it, unfortunately, 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.240 but let me know. I can zoom in or I 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.079 can send a video in announcing the sixth. 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:05.360 We see if we'll see how it goes tonight. Maybe 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.079 maybe it sticks, maybe it doesn't. 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:08.920 No, it's tomorrow night. Jewel's the sixth and ninth pick 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:09.440 is Friday. 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.240 Oh yeah, sorry, I'm not good with numbers. 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.160 We'll see tune in. 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:15.160 Tune in. 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:15.880 Yeah. 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.079 Well, I got a question though, you got drafted in 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.400 the seventh round, Julian. What's it like when you got 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:24.120 that phone call and what's it like to to, you know, 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.920 get drafted in the later rounds and see everyone in 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.240 front of you be drafted and go into you know, 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.000 the organization knowing that you were the last pick. Is 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:36.840 there kind of a chip on. 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:40.880 Your shoulder when you're a late round guy. Yeah, at 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:44.240 that point, you just want to get drafted and I 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.960 just wanted to see my name on the ticker or 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:52.200 be called out loud. Being a late round guy. It's 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.680 like every man for your fucking self. Looking back on it, 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:02.920 going into seventh round is worse then being undrafted. I mean, 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.880 my signing bonus was double. I think my signing bonus 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:09.120 was forty nine thousand bucks. When you know, I had 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.720 six teams that called said we're not drafted you, but 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.560 if you get on you, if you go undrafted, we'll 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:16.600 give you twenty grand to sign with us. So there's 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:21.400 a bunch of priority free agent lineups. If I didn't 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.080 get drafted, which I was, I was gonna pick the 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:28.520 Green Bay Packers. We're gonna go to the Packers. But 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.200 when you get drafted the seventh you're locked down for 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.960 four years. When you're undrafted free agent, it's only two years, 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:38.440 so you get to free agency quicker. Now it's a 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.160 double edged sword because you have more time to develop. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.360 You'll get a little more opportunity than the guy who's 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.120 undrafted because you're a draft pick. But if you ball 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.640 out early and you're undrafted, you get to go to 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.640 free agency quick, or you can make more money and 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.600 you get more money for the what was it the 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.440 player performance, So I used to that's how I used 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:58.920 to clean up. I get a lot of money for 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:03.120 player performance, which was a formula that gave guys that 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:07.120 due to their draft picks, money towards their playing time. 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:09.640 So every play counted as a certain amount of dollar, 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:13.720 and for my scale, it was extremely high because I 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:15.680 was a seventh round draft pick. So I'm used to 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.960 make a good amount of change from all the special 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.720 teams and all the personnel groups when I got those 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:25.920 plays through the player performance. But yeah, man, I was 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.280 just happy to be drafted. I just went on a rant. 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.280 I had CTE a moment. 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.880 Well, there's two benefits to getting drafted in the seventh round. 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.600 One to say you got drafted you can say that 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.920 for rest of your life seventh and two you don't 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.120 have to choose a team like you're going through the 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:47.240 free agency process. It just makes it easy they chose you. 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:49.200 Yeah m hm. 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.440 Other than that, I guess be a free agent instead 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:57.040 of getting drafted in the seventh round. Wait, yeah, no, 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.840 it's I would rather say for rest of my life 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.640 I got drafted into But it's almost. 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:04.199 Like you're in the last round of the draft. So 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:06.480 it's almost better like to be like, well, I was undrafted. 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.320 If I have my same success on the field, it 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:13.200 almost sounds cooler coming at you know, last round still 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.760 sounds cool, But undrafted, like Danny A. Mondola, his story's 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.600 cooler because he went undrafted, you know what I mean. 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.880 Dancing Amandol. I don't know has he been dancing. 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.240 Lately though, I mean, he did the whole show, he 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.359 almost wanted it all, but I haven't seen him dance since. 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.880 So if I ever did that Dancing with the Star show. 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:32.600 I'd be going out to the club and I'd be 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.320 ripping up the dance for for four hours straight, showing 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.960 all the moves that I gained. And this dude just 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:39.439 stopped dancing right on the spot. 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:41.520 I don't know. I think he's been out of some clubs. 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:46.240 Yeah, yeah, but not dancing. Could be he could be 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:48.720 now if he was dancing, it would be all over 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:53.480 the play. He just he just prancing. Stop prancing, start dancing, 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:57.440 Danny prancing and start dancing. Yeah. Wes Welker free agent 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:03.480 free agent, wasn't drafted Danny woodhead woodhead stud rookie free 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:06.280 agent We played with Pat McAfee. 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:07.840 Did he get drafted? 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.040 Oh? He was a seventh round same year as me, 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:12.720 my brother Dan Gronkowski, Detroit Lion. 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:14.320 Second last pick to. 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:20.200 Being, uh, mister irrelevant, So he was mister semi irrelevant. 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:22.400 Yeah, he's mister irrelevant Eve. 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:25.359 Yes, that's kind of cool to say that. 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.199 Yeah, irrelevant. Eve. The night before, the day before, the 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:29.880 pick before. 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.520 That's the that's the night when everyone parties too and celebrates. 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:35.760 So it's better to be that pick, I guess, Yeah, 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:36.480 yeah it is. 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:41.680 The anticipation is still there for the last pick. All right, 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:44.600 we'll be right back after this quick break. 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.680 Well, Jules, that was fun talking about the draft. Brought 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:52.240 back some wonderful memories. And now it's time that we're 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.960 going to get on a dude, and we're going to 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:57.600 get on a dude that's a big name in this 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:00.720 year's draft. And that's your only hints. 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:02.480 Give me the AI. We haven't done this in a while, 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:06.160 Give me the AI. Summary of this draft pick. Start 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:14.000 the carsis ten minutes. Ready, steady go AI. 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.399 Standing at six foot two and weighing two hundred and 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.840 twenty three pounds, this quarterback dude has made his mark 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.920 in college football history. He grew up in West Columbia, Texas, 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.240 and played high school football at Columbia High where he 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:32.360 earned first team All district honors. He is projected as 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:35.760