Speaker 1: Welcome to Games with Names. We've got a brand new
Speaker 1: compilation on some of our favorite moments from the show.
Speaker 2: Let's Go.
Speaker 3: I will tell you this, one of the favorite lines
Speaker 3: I ever heard Rabel say that was directed towards me,
Speaker 3: is we had a stag night to raise money for
Speaker 3: the Light Foundation in my hometown, right, And we stopped
Speaker 3: doing it because I thought, man, there's gonna be a
Speaker 3: lot of kids born in my little hometown that don't
Speaker 3: belong to these daddies. And so I was like, we're
Speaker 3: gonna and I'm telling you it became a little crazy.
Speaker 3: But Rabe would come in town with all these other guys.
Speaker 3: We had Ajhawk when he was at Ohio State, and
Speaker 3: younger cats too, right, and the mayor of my little
Speaker 3: town now you got to think Mayberry, right, And he
Speaker 3: gets up and he has this proclamation where he's gonna
Speaker 3: make it Matt Light Day, right, and he stumbles on
Speaker 3: some words. An hour later, Rabel gets up and we're
Speaker 3: having an auction and he's like, hey, and you know
Speaker 3: when he gets the mic, man, it's gonna be profound
Speaker 3: and it's gonna be hilarious. He stops everything and he
Speaker 3: goes listen I'll give anybody one thousand dollars right now
Speaker 3: they can get the mayor to spell matriculate, because.
Speaker 4: He tried using that in a sentence and he stumbled
Speaker 4: over it. And in real time, man, it was really uncomfortable,
Speaker 4: but nobody said nothing. An hour later, Vrabel has it
Speaker 4: up there on the auction block. I'll give you a
Speaker 4: thousand if you can get the mayor Greenville'll spell matriculate.
Speaker 2: And we lost it. But that's our boy. Man, that's
Speaker 2: a funny, very funny.
Speaker 5: Man. I went to the derby for two days, and
Speaker 5: then the day of the race, we saw like the
Speaker 5: start of the race.
Speaker 2: And then Tom rallied everybody up.
Speaker 5: We went and got on some on some planes, and
Speaker 5: then we we flew to the Many. I was still
Speaker 5: wearing my smelly ass Kentucky Derby suit, was sweating through it.
Speaker 2: In Las Vegas casino, we all were.
Speaker 6: I know how many times you think we fought, how
Speaker 6: many times we fought at the Derby, we fought in Vegas?
Speaker 6: Didn't we fight on this Vegas trip in the middle
Speaker 6: of the street. Remember you fish hooked me. Yeah, you
Speaker 6: bait my, you bait my pinky. Yeah you got you
Speaker 6: had a bite.
Speaker 2: We were in the van, remember the the back of
Speaker 2: the van rallied out. Yeah, and then we got we
Speaker 2: hopped out of the van. It's like as if nothing happened,
Speaker 2: just walked into the room.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: We we literally were we were fighting in the car.
Speaker 6: What sparks a fight between you guys?
Speaker 2: Anything? Anything? Oh, No, we were just we were riled up.
Speaker 6: Let's just say we had been drinking probably eighteen straight hours,
Speaker 6: team straight hours. We get out, we start fighting and
Speaker 6: we're like pushing each other, and then like the door opens.
Speaker 6: We're literally in the middle of the strip fighting. He
Speaker 6: gives me in a fish hook with.
Speaker 2: My with my pinky, and he bites my pinky. I
Speaker 2: almost bit it off.
Speaker 6: I had to almost bit that thing off, and we
Speaker 6: fought on it like with the sunset.
Speaker 2: It was the most beautiful fight I've ever been. It
Speaker 2: was so beautiful. We'll have to get the picture of it.
Speaker 2: Picture and showed the I have a still frame of that.
Speaker 6: We were literally I don't know why why were we
Speaker 6: drinking that day or fighting that day because we were drinking.
Speaker 2: Because we were drinking.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the city limits in Mississippi, as long as you're
Speaker 8: out of the city limits, you can blaze like freaking
Speaker 8: your sicky Sam. I mean, it's like whatever you want
Speaker 8: to do. But we have the target set up, and
Speaker 8: of course Moos is filming and catching this because me
Speaker 8: and my partner are sitting there side by side ear
Speaker 8: muffs on, shooting the targets. And I put a Rick
Speaker 8: Ross song because I've been playing with the social media
Speaker 8: way too long, long enough to get me in trouble.
Speaker 8: But I put a Rick Ross song behind it, black Coffins,
Speaker 8: and it's in the name of the song is one
Speaker 8: hundred Black Coffins and it's by Rick Ross, and I
Speaker 8: put it in black and white, so it's like in
Speaker 8: this like slow mowing, and you just see me and
Speaker 8: my buddy up here shooting these targets and I literally just.
Speaker 2: Unloaded blah blah blah and.
Speaker 8: Probably missed the target every time, but I caught the
Speaker 8: video and I posted on my social media no big
Speaker 8: deal until Bears rings my damn phone and I'm like,
Speaker 8: this has never happened before, and why is he calling me?
Speaker 7: So Bears call and says, is it you have.
Speaker 1: Him saved in the phone or is it just random
Speaker 1: Bear's Nigerian.
Speaker 8: I don't know if I pronounced that the right way.
Speaker 8: Bill's secretary is what was in my phone. It's still
Speaker 8: in there right now. So when I saw this name
Speaker 8: come across my phone, my heart just hit my stomach
Speaker 8: and I'm like, this ain't good.
Speaker 2: How long after the post thirty minutes?
Speaker 8: It was like no time, Like I tell that, Hey,
Speaker 8: the page got like the FBI, bro, they don't miss nothing, okay.
Speaker 8: So he called me and I answer phonem like hello,
Speaker 8: he said, Rid, I said, what's up, bears? He says,
Speaker 8: Coach wants to speak with you? Like all right, So
Speaker 8: I sat on the phone. Bill gets on the phone
Speaker 8: and he I guess he hops on. I was like hello,
Speaker 8: and Coach says Rid. I say, y'all gonna have to
Speaker 8: edit this because my mom's gonna punch me in the
Speaker 8: face for using this language. But you know, Bill loved
Speaker 8: them f bombs. Coach goes, Rid, just what the fuck
Speaker 8: are you doing? And I'm like, what you mean, Coach,
Speaker 8: the freaking post that you just put up there. Really
Speaker 8: think about it, man, you're unloading a freaking pistol on
Speaker 8: a video on your socials. I mean, we just had
Speaker 8: a guy arrested. Give me a fucking break. I said, damn, coach,
Speaker 8: like I wouldn't even thinking.
Speaker 2: About it that way.
Speaker 8: You know, I'm just back home, chilling with the boys,
Speaker 8: shooting targets. Better yet, just don't even bring your ass
Speaker 8: back up here. I was like, whoa that just get cut?
Speaker 8: Like how does this go down? So I looked at
Speaker 8: my boy and I'm like, bro, I don't know if
Speaker 8: I got fired or not, Like what's going what's going on?
Speaker 8: So Bill hung up the phone or we kind of
Speaker 8: had some choice words. No before he hung up the phone,
Speaker 8: We're gonna cut this part, but I gotta continue this
Speaker 8: sort see, I'll just choose if y'all want to say
Speaker 8: it or not. But when he told me, he said,
Speaker 8: you just don't even bring your ass back up here,
Speaker 8: I'm like, oh wow. So automatically I went into coach,
Speaker 8: I have the utmost respect for you. I did not
Speaker 8: know that I had messed up that bad. I said,
Speaker 8: there's targets in the background. We weren't doing anything wrong.
Speaker 8: I said, you're comparing me to a murderer because I'm
Speaker 8: shooting targets in the backyard. I said, but either way,
Speaker 8: I hear you, I will not be back there, and
Speaker 8: I'm gonna let you know this. My faith is in
Speaker 8: Godden upstairs. I said, this is not the end of
Speaker 8: my career. If I am cutting. I hung up the phone.
Speaker 8: It was probably a dumb move to do that. But
Speaker 8: you hung hung up, bro, because I was like, I
Speaker 8: was blown away, Like you just called me a freaking
Speaker 8: murderer because I'm shooting at targets in the backyard. This
Speaker 8: is what we do on a regular Bro likes this
Speaker 8: is life. So I hung up and probably wasn't the
Speaker 8: swartest thing to do. And within like I would say,
Speaker 8: thirty to an hour, I got another phone call and
Speaker 8: it was Bill and he said, as you know what
Speaker 8: better Yet, when you come here, do not even stop
Speaker 8: at my office. He says, you go straight upstairs and
Speaker 8: see Robert. I'm like, Robert, Robert, mister crap. I'm like,
Speaker 8: oh my god, Bro, Like I'm like, I don't know,
Speaker 8: I don't know what, Like, I don't know how this goes.
Speaker 8: Because Bill, whether y'all know it or not, Bill moves
Speaker 8: the needle on everything around there. He's making all the
Speaker 8: calls for him to push me to the big dog.
Speaker 8: I'm like, Bro, I'll just stay in Mississippi.
Speaker 2: Brady.
Speaker 9: We'll talk about Brady's deal because I didn't get to
Speaker 9: do your deals. So Brady's first deal was, you know,
Speaker 9: the rookie contract. And I'll say this, Unfortunately, we were
Speaker 9: doing business at that point in time, not thinking long
Speaker 9: term and relationships. It was a very bottom line way
Speaker 9: of doing things, and it was something Bill and I
Speaker 9: weren't comfortable with. And we so Tommy's first deal he
Speaker 9: got lesson he should have for his slot. There wasn't
Speaker 9: slotting back then, but everyone knew what the slot was.
Speaker 9: It wasn't called the slot, and we broke his shoes
Speaker 9: a little bit. Unfortunately, the people that were doing the
Speaker 9: contracts at that time. And then when it came time
Speaker 9: for Tommy's next deal, I was doing the next deal
Speaker 9: and then the next deal, and I'll never forget we
Speaker 9: were at this one point in time. I think it
Speaker 9: was maybe Tommy's third deal, it might have been, and
Speaker 9: Don and I weren't making progress and we were trying
Speaker 9: to keep the team together, right, that was part of
Speaker 9: our thing. We didn't expect people to take home team discounts.
Speaker 9: We were hopeful that people would want to spread it
Speaker 9: and keep the winning because we felt, you know, high
Speaker 9: tides raise all boats, and the more that we won,
Speaker 9: there was all these other opportunities, marketing, eta.
Speaker 2: Et cetera.
Speaker 9: And I'll never forget Don and I couldn't get anywhere.
Speaker 9: And Tommy was getting annoyed because he was getting distracted,
Speaker 9: not annoyed with anyone. He just wanted to think about ball.
Speaker 9: And I'll never forget. One morning he comes up to
Speaker 9: my office and he knocks, and he comes in and
Speaker 9: he closes the door and he says, hey, can we
Speaker 9: talk about this contract. I'm like, Tommy, we can't have
Speaker 9: a negotiation. That's against the rules. We're not allowed.
Speaker 2: He listen.
Speaker 7: We got to talk.
Speaker 9: But he and I had a really good and close relationship.
Speaker 9: And he said, where are you guys at?
Speaker 2: So I told him.
Speaker 9: Where we were at, told him where you guys are at?
Speaker 9: And he says, what's the drop dead number? I'm Tommy,
Speaker 9: we can't have this conversation. I got to talk to
Speaker 9: Don about this.
Speaker 2: And I'll never forget.
Speaker 9: It was the deal when he signed, It was the
Speaker 9: I want to say it was the six year, ten
Speaker 9: million a year deal. Think about that, six years, sixty mill.
Speaker 9: It was like, and I'll never forget. I said, that's
Speaker 9: probably our choke point. But we're playing this game, Don
Speaker 9: and I that it's not a game. I shouldn't call
Speaker 9: it that. We're having this negotiation where one team's low,
Speaker 9: one side's low, one team's high, and you're trying to
Speaker 9: find the middle spot. And I'll never forget. Tommy looks
Speaker 9: at me, shakes his head, looks away. He goes, if
Speaker 9: I can't live the rest of my life well for
Speaker 9: sixty million dollars and my family's I've got problems.
Speaker 2: He's like, get Don on the phone.
Speaker 9: I'm like, Tom, we can't, we can't, we can't do this.
Speaker 2: He is, get him on the phone.
Speaker 9: We got on the phone and put it on speaker
Speaker 9: and Tommy goes, hey, Don, it's Tom.
Speaker 2: He goes, hey, how you doing today?
Speaker 9: He goes and you know, Don's all up beat and
Speaker 9: he goes, I got you on speakerphone. I'm in Scott's office.
Speaker 9: Dead silence, dead silence because and Don's like, what are
Speaker 9: you doing there? He's like, Don listen, man, this is ridiculous.
Speaker 9: He says, I'm talking to Scott and I'm like sweating
Speaker 9: because it wasn't a negotiation.
Speaker 2: He was just asking.
Speaker 9: And anyway, Tom He's like, listen, you guys, just get
Speaker 9: this done. And I go, I'm bringing this story up
Speaker 9: because I go back to Don, Don and Steve could
Speaker 9: have made so much more money if they didn't do
Speaker 9: what their client wanted. And Tom, you know, Don and
Speaker 9: Steve have left money on the table year after year
Speaker 9: after year after year, or by doing what their clients
Speaker 9: wanted and maybe not trying to talk their clients into
Speaker 9: something that would pay them greater three percent. Anyway, I
Speaker 9: don't mean to make that a long story, but it's
Speaker 9: just I think the world of Don Yee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Donye's we call them the Dragon bro. He just calm,
Speaker 2: cool and collect.
Speaker 10: I always wanted to spike the ball in high school
Speaker 10: in college, but it was always a fifteen yard penalty,
Speaker 10: so I never did it. And then my rookie year
Speaker 10: I got to the NFL and I never even Gronk
Speaker 10: spiked my rookie year.
Speaker 2: I don't think I did even won my brook he
Speaker 2: did in the preseason.
Speaker 10: No, I don't think I gronkspiked at all. Maybe one time,
Speaker 10: but I really can't recall it. But the Gronk spike
Speaker 10: picked up my second year when I started just scoring
Speaker 10: touchdowns like a machine week in and week out, and
Speaker 10: I started gronk spiking it. And I don't know exactly
Speaker 10: what spike caught on, but I remember I finally did it.
Speaker 10: I was like, Oh, I finally got to spike the ball.
Speaker 10: And then it just became like a meme. And I
Speaker 10: couldn't tell you exactly what spike it was. But then
Speaker 10: everyone's like, you got to keep spiking the ball, and
Speaker 10: it was just going all over the internet. Fans were
Speaker 10: loving it. And I can't tell you, is Zach, I
Speaker 10: can't pimp on exactly when it truly caught on.
Speaker 7: Do you do you remember?
Speaker 1: I don't remember which spike it was, but I just remember,
Speaker 1: like the first one that you did spike, he scored
Speaker 1: a touchdown. It was an insane touchdown and he threw
Speaker 1: it and he threw it down so hard the ball
Speaker 1: went like forty five yards in the air. And that's
Speaker 1: why it became the Gronk spike because people were like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, he just break the fucking football. September
Speaker 1: twenty six, twenty ten, is what ESPN credits as the
Speaker 1: debut of the Gronk spike.
Speaker 2: That was your second ever NFL touchdown, how can we
Speaker 2: ran extra hills out? Did you guys know this is
Speaker 2: gonna be one hundred and twenty play fucking game.
Speaker 11: You know, because we are sitting We practiced though for
Speaker 11: at Houston University. I remember, and we're sitting in the
Speaker 11: locker room and Bill said, you know what, we really
Speaker 11: need to be ready with these two point players. So
Speaker 11: that's why that was, you know, he had you know,
Speaker 11: he had a sense we need to be ready for him.
Speaker 11: No guarantee that's gonna happen, but we need you know,
Speaker 11: we need to be ready for this.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 11: And that was and you know, the running the running
Speaker 11: the hills put it in the bank. But you know,
Speaker 11: one of the great moments to me was, you know,
Speaker 11: you go on some teams say we're gonna run hills
Speaker 11: in December, you'd have a rebellion. Okay, And we had
Speaker 11: one game, it's probably around twenty sixteen. Practice was over.
Speaker 11: Bill didn't say a word. The whole team just went
Speaker 11: over to the hill because you.
Speaker 2: Know what we're going.
Speaker 11: Yeah, because and I hey, you know what, this team
Speaker 11: totally gets a chat. They champion. They don't need to
Speaker 11: be told. They know that, and they know this is
Speaker 11: going to payoff in a big way. Because one of
Speaker 11: the great quotes was after Super Bowl fifth Dan Quinn,
Speaker 11: the head coach of the Falcons. You remember what he said,
Speaker 11: we ran out of gas. And you know what, the
Speaker 11: new Ngom Patriots did not run out of the gas.
Speaker 2: We never ran a gas.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, at halftime, Jules is saying, gotta believe it's another
Speaker 1: gonna be a hell of a story. There it is,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a hell of the story. But can
Speaker 1: you walk us through beat for beat? The pick six,
Speaker 1: he's an easy.
Speaker 13: One that that was one of the easiest you know,
Speaker 13: you know picks like because I always give credit to Rabel.
Speaker 7: You know Rabel, you know made him Aaron though.
Speaker 13: It was one of those things where you know, he
Speaker 13: did the same thing that Indy used to do and
Speaker 13: start putting Marvin in motion, so they put Isaac in
Speaker 13: motion so I couldn't get him at the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 13: and it was one of those places he had to
Speaker 13: back off. You go in to motion and you just
Speaker 13: seen it, You're coming. Rabel got through so clean that okay,
Speaker 13: now I'm just reading him. And then it was an
Speaker 13: Aaron throw. So I said, I'm gonna be Hesitan case
Speaker 13: Isaac because he had an Isaac can route. He will
Speaker 13: wrap the hell out of you. So it's like, okay,
Speaker 13: you playing for the double move. It might be because
Speaker 13: I didn't know because he wasn't going in motion like
Speaker 13: that until then. So I was kind of trying to
Speaker 13: feel it out. So what type of games is going
Speaker 13: to be? And Rabel came in there and he wind
Speaker 13: back to thought, I'm.
Speaker 7: Like, you bullshit.
Speaker 13: He dude, come on, man, come on, Kirk, you know
Speaker 13: what I mean. And it was coming like it was
Speaker 13: slow motion. I was like, oh, this is the super Bowl.
Speaker 7: That's the kind of shit you dropped because it's so easy.
Speaker 7: It's so easy, and you would drop it.
Speaker 13: But you know, once I got it, man, all you
Speaker 13: seen was flashes and it was like everything would blank,
Speaker 13: you know, and you know it's like.
Speaker 7: You hear the screens and it just went silent.
Speaker 13: And I'm running down there and just flashes and knowing
Speaker 13: that this is it, you know, in the super Bowl,
Speaker 13: and got that pic and the rest.
Speaker 7: We rolled the hell out of it, you know what
Speaker 7: I mean. We rode the hell out of that thing. Man.
Speaker 7: Hand That's just like I don't even know what I
Speaker 7: was doing.
Speaker 2: You know, I just I just it's super.
Speaker 7: I just lew it up, you know what I mean.
Speaker 13: It's something that I've never done before in any of
Speaker 13: my picks or my pick six.
Speaker 7: I didn't throw it.
Speaker 13: It was just something that just happened, and I threw
Speaker 13: it up there and it's been the iconic pitcher ever since.
Speaker 14: It was like, you know, we're gonna draft I don't mean,
Speaker 14: I'm like, oh, and we're gonna make him a receiver.
Speaker 14: So we're just gonna keep him at receiver, teach the receiver.
Speaker 14: We're gonna teach him how to return punts, be on
Speaker 14: special teams. And so he showed up and it was
Speaker 14: it was I'll never forget this. And Tom was hard
Speaker 14: on rookies, and I was hard on rookies too, I
Speaker 14: mean I really was. But like it was Welker in
Speaker 14: the like when you did routes on air, it would
Speaker 14: be Welker who was incredible, Julian who was learning, and
Speaker 14: then Buddy Farnham. Wasn't it Buddy Farnham or wasn't he
Speaker 14: the third guy?
Speaker 2: Baby? I don't know, but there was another guy and
Speaker 2: buddies from my hometown.
Speaker 14: So I just want to pick his name in there
Speaker 14: to it get get andover mentioned a little bit, and
Speaker 14: so so West would run the route and tom would
Speaker 14: throw West the ball. Yeah, and jeweles, I mean you'd
Speaker 14: step up and run the route basically the same exact
Speaker 14: way that West rent the route and act and Tommy
Speaker 14: would be like Jewels, I mean, didn't he just see
Speaker 14: how West did it?
Speaker 2: And you'd say, I'm doing it the same way. I'm
Speaker 2: doing it the same way.
Speaker 14: But you know what, over time, he's stuck with it
Speaker 14: and stuck with it, and he got better and better
Speaker 14: and then returned punts and and he was hurt a
Speaker 14: lot when he had injuries when I was there, so
Speaker 14: he became Julian Edelman kind of like after I left.
Speaker 14: But I mean in the two thousand and nine wild
Speaker 14: Card game, we got we got drilled. He was the
Speaker 14: best player on offense. I mean, he made a bunch
Speaker 14: of plays in that game. And we came in after
Speaker 14: that game and said, like, this guy's gonna be a
Speaker 14: great player for us.
Speaker 1: Bill's opening up. He's having fun. He's talking war stor
Speaker 1: where he's talking rookie skins. We're talking fun, shit, doing shit.
Speaker 1: We know what Bill's all about but it was like
Speaker 1: amplified because he was excited to see guys.
Speaker 2: Who's in the room. Randy Drew, Nice, Me Gronk. We
Speaker 2: were just chilling in there, Nice.
Speaker 12: And my brother and my buddy and the the funny
Speaker 12: thing is there interesting thing is I think I was
Speaker 12: kind of gone when they when the first sort of happened.
Speaker 7: But and then Craft walks in.
Speaker 2: That's what I was about to just write.
Speaker 12: Yeah, and then Craft walks in, and so my brother
Speaker 12: was feeling sorry for himself because he's over there and
Speaker 12: belotchicks kind of holding court well as he's in the
Speaker 12: middle of the story. Craft walks in and so you
Speaker 12: guys all go over to satur Craft and the last
Speaker 12: and the last man standing. But to hear him tell
Speaker 12: the last man standing is my bro and he's like, well, Bell,
Speaker 12: Bill's telling the story. If I leave, then he's telling
Speaker 12: the story that nobody because everybody's over saying how to craft.
Speaker 12: And then uh, but they did. They did break it
Speaker 12: down and got together for I don't know, probably I
Speaker 12: don't know ten minutes at least the two.
Speaker 1: Of them tension in that room though it was it
Speaker 1: was real cut, it was it was very real it
Speaker 1: was real.
Speaker 2: I was so awkward.
Speaker 1: I was like, I was watching coach and I tried
Speaker 1: to give coach a heads up.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I see craft walk in, I'm like, your coach,
Speaker 2: you know, like locker room ship, like five oh five oh,
Speaker 2: you know, like.
Speaker 14: He did.
Speaker 1: Of course she didn't see it right and he came
Speaker 1: in and I was just like, oh, ship, this could
Speaker 1: be fireworks. I just walked away. I didn't want to
Speaker 1: get in.
Speaker 2: I would have done that too, I think