Speaker 1: Calm Down with Aaron and Carissa is a production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. Ladies and gentlemen, you don't have to
Speaker 1: be a football fan to love our guests on the
Speaker 1: podcast this week, Julian Edelman, he played his entire career
Speaker 1: with the New England Patriots. I don't even know how
Speaker 1: many of your his games you covered, Aaron, But of
Speaker 1: course three times super Bowl champion, a Super Bowl m
Speaker 1: v P and a good time, good time. We don't
Speaker 1: need to say more. It's coming up next. Don't ever
Speaker 1: say software again ever, Julian Edelman. He's asking what kind
Speaker 1: of are we on a O L? Are we on chrome?
Speaker 1: I don't know what the questions are, but we have
Speaker 1: a lot of them for you. How are you, my friend?
Speaker 1: I'm great, I'm great. You guys look so tan. You
Speaker 1: guys look good. Oh it's the beach to you. Guys.
Speaker 1: Look like you're getting some color, enjoying this beautiful weather
Speaker 1: before the storm of the NFL season. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: this guy, this guy, he just getting wiser and wiser. Yes,
Speaker 1: I did go into the sun that saw the gray hair.
Speaker 1: Oh I thought you were talking about mine. I was
Speaker 1: gonna be like you, bastard, Julian Edelman actually had a
Speaker 1: very special start today. I had a very special It
Speaker 1: was my daughter's first day of kinder Lily huge. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Lily is not like when the last time you saw her.
Speaker 1: She's like a full grown eighteen year old. So how
Speaker 1: did go tell us everything but give us to play
Speaker 1: by play? Dropping her off? Were you worried about crying?
Speaker 1: Go play by play? First off? Horrible parking selection for parents.
Speaker 1: So I had to walk like six blocks in a hill.
Speaker 1: Daughter looked beautiful, looks cute, looked happy. A lot of
Speaker 1: little kids that were familiar face because we're in this
Speaker 1: little area, and she got like little scooter gang. A
Speaker 1: lot of them went to Fountain day, same little pre k.
Speaker 1: So we were we were in a very familiar environment.
Speaker 1: I felt good. Looked at all the teachers in their face.
Speaker 1: I wanted to see who's gonna be dealing with my child?
Speaker 1: And uh, it was a great day. It was a
Speaker 1: great day. I almost got teared up at the end.
Speaker 1: It was pretty. It's pretty gnarly, like a blink of
Speaker 1: an eye, and she's already in kindergar I remember she
Speaker 1: was just born. I remember when she was born. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's crazy, so you didn't cry. Huh, I kept it.
Speaker 1: I got warm where in my face face area. But
Speaker 1: that's crazy because I think about I remember kindergarten. I
Speaker 1: was crying. I did not want my mom to leave me.
Speaker 1: So did she look back at you? She was like, daddy,
Speaker 1: where are you going? Or was it like peace, I'm
Speaker 1: out of here? She was pretty good. I mean we've
Speaker 1: been in a routine of going to like pre k.
Speaker 1: I don't know if she understands that this is kindergarten yet,
Speaker 1: like quite yet. We've been talking about it, but she was.
Speaker 1: She handled it like a champ. She's pretty outgoing and
Speaker 1: she had like some friends in her class, so she
Speaker 1: was She was pretty good with that. But she gave
Speaker 1: the last hug and uh that was it and then
Speaker 1: she started her class. You are a you're a girl, dad,
Speaker 1: and I love always seeing your videos of Really, I
Speaker 1: can't believe how much she's grown up since you're right
Speaker 1: the last time I saw her. What's been the coolest thing?
Speaker 1: Maybe something that surprised you about being a girl, dad,
Speaker 1: because I'm sure like all guys, they want the boys,
Speaker 1: especially the athletes. But what's shocked you the most? Uh?
Speaker 1: What shocked me? The most is you know she's she's girly, girly.
Speaker 1: You know, her mom with her mom, and you know
Speaker 1: she's got that whole girly girly side. But as of late,
Speaker 1: you know, I always throw out like, oh, soccers on,
Speaker 1: oh let's go kick the ball around, and as of late,
Speaker 1: like she'll come up to me and she'll ask me,
Speaker 1: like that, you want to go kick the ball? You
Speaker 1: want to you want to go because I'll bring her
Speaker 1: to the field when I go running stuff, and like
Speaker 1: now she's asking me to go to it. And another
Speaker 1: thing that's really surprising, you know, being a girl dad.
Speaker 1: You know, you watch action movies, you watch movies like
Speaker 1: all these movies, and whenever there was like a female,
Speaker 1: we're gonna, we're gonna go down the road. Whenever there
Speaker 1: was like a female, I'm like, I don't know if
Speaker 1: she could do that on like this jump. Now that
Speaker 1: I have a little girl, I'm sitting there and like
Speaker 1: I visualized that I could my little girl, she could
Speaker 1: probably do that, you know. Like so it gives you
Speaker 1: a whole different perspective of just everything. Um, I don't
Speaker 1: know is if that even answered your question, But that's
Speaker 1: what I thought about so you always have had great
Speaker 1: hair jewels. Can you do Lily's hair? Like? Do you
Speaker 1: have a specialty ponytail? Pigtails? Do you break? I go high?
Speaker 1: I go high just in case I throw a hat off,
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty, I'm I'm pretty decent with it. I
Speaker 1: can't do I could do the braid, but I'm not
Speaker 1: really great with it. That's hard hard if I don't
Speaker 1: have the cone because I like it to look good,
Speaker 1: you know, I like, I don't want it. I don't
Speaker 1: want to be all right when she's with that. She
Speaker 1: got sloppy as uh you know what I mean? So
Speaker 1: like I'm always pretty nit picky with her hair, Like, hey,
Speaker 1: get over here, we gotta do your hair. Let's comb
Speaker 1: your hair, you know, let's go ye sweet doing? You
Speaker 1: just said that she asked to go to the field
Speaker 1: with you. There's all these rumors out there about you
Speaker 1: coming back. Are you playing or you're not playing? What's
Speaker 1: the what's the deal? What's the latest? What do you
Speaker 1: feel like this week? Coming back or not coming back? Uh?
Speaker 1: This week? You know, I my emotions are running high.
Speaker 1: Just dropped off the kids school, getting used to this
Speaker 1: beautiful little routine that we got getting ready for the
Speaker 1: NFL season. That's I'll be covering on Inside the NFL,
Speaker 1: which streams on Paramount Plus. Of course, So I got
Speaker 1: a whole lot of things going on right now. We've
Speaker 1: got games with names, my podcast, So you know, do
Speaker 1: I have an itch? Of course, it's that time of
Speaker 1: the year. Does my body feel like you can do it?
Speaker 1: I would probably need about three weeks of working out.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's it's tough, it's you know, it's
Speaker 1: still there and I can still do it. And I
Speaker 1: like that feeling. Yeah, I like that feeling that I
Speaker 1: still feel like I can do. I don't know right
Speaker 1: now if I if I want to yet. So I'm
Speaker 1: still staying in somewhat kind of good shape. But I'm
Speaker 1: still on the fence. We'll see. You gotta let the
Speaker 1: It wouldn't be the beginning of the year, you know,
Speaker 1: I have the situation would have to be right, and
Speaker 1: you got to watch the season. You know, maybe a
Speaker 1: team needs a receiver here there down the road. You
Speaker 1: never know. I was just gonna say the old follow
Speaker 1: up question, what would that situation have to entail and
Speaker 1: who would the phone call have to be from? Whoa whoa, Um,
Speaker 1: what is that at barret out? What is that behind you?
Speaker 1: Or are you used to be Jared's game room? And
Speaker 1: are Jared's but like man's cave? And then I took
Speaker 1: it over Stuley couldn't have any more rooms in this house.
Speaker 1: I took them all over. Stule is good. Thanks so
Speaker 1: much for asking. He was actually wondering the same thing.
Speaker 1: What would it take to get you back? You want
Speaker 1: me to have him come down here and ask you? Sure?
Speaker 1: Why not? We gotta I gotta catch up with Stuarts
Speaker 1: What would it take? Um? They take? Obviously a team
Speaker 1: that you know has has the same kind of psyche
Speaker 1: that I think of the game of football, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: with with the opportunity to go out and win and
Speaker 1: have a deep run into a playoff, the playoffs. That's
Speaker 1: honestly what it be about. The team that's winning, A
Speaker 1: team that's gonna win, a team that has a good quarterback,
Speaker 1: a team that a team that understands what it takes
Speaker 1: to win instead of you know, going out there and
Speaker 1: thinking they do you know the team that works? Uh So,
Speaker 1: I don't know. It doesn't have to be a specific person, um,
Speaker 1: but a lot of people a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of those qualities would have to be in that that
Speaker 1: phone call or the person calling Aaron's holding up the
Speaker 1: Teva twelve. I know that he called you though when
Speaker 1: he went to Tampa and you gave him a hard pass.
Speaker 1: How come that was such an easy no at the time?
Speaker 1: And maybe it's different or is it a Patriot thing
Speaker 1: or or what kind of goes into that and why
Speaker 1: was it easy for you to say no the first
Speaker 1: time he called you? Look good that jersey jewels? I
Speaker 1: what is that Pewter? What is this dolt? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: just I was still under contract with the Patriots. I
Speaker 1: I you know that that's the team that ultimately gave
Speaker 1: my opportunity to go out and chase a dream and
Speaker 1: actually get a dream. That my dream since I was
Speaker 1: a little kid. So um. But then you know, Tom's
Speaker 1: like one of my best friends from that organization, and
Speaker 1: you know at that time, I just you know, I
Speaker 1: was still committed to the New England Patriots. So and
Speaker 1: I you know, that's my that's my home. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: spent thirteen twelve years there. That's that's my That's that's
Speaker 1: where I grew up. So you know, as an adult
Speaker 1: not not a child, but you know, from twenty two
Speaker 1: to already six I've been in Boston. Then you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a big part of who I am now.
Speaker 1: So I wasn't ready to leave. I love Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: I feel like we've like, have we beaten this topic
Speaker 1: up enough CT because we've got to get to this podcast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't want to put the guy in the spot.
Speaker 1: You know. We feel like when you get back, well,
Speaker 1: Fox will be grilling. Yeah, you know no. And that's
Speaker 1: the other thing too, is that there is life for
Speaker 1: you after football, and the game's always there if you
Speaker 1: want to go back, which we've seen a lot of
Speaker 1: different guys do. Gronk was one of them, right he
Speaker 1: was joined he joined us at Fox and then he
Speaker 1: was like, oh I want to go back. So either way,
Speaker 1: your allegiance has always been with the Patriots, which is
Speaker 1: incredible people that don't know. I mean, you played all
Speaker 1: twelve seasons, thirteen years in the NFL with the Patriots.
Speaker 1: You were drafted in the seventh round. What I love
Speaker 1: is you were drafted as a quarterback. So for you
Speaker 1: just sort of if you were to go back and
Speaker 1: tell yourself the younger self now what you know, not
Speaker 1: even just about football but life. You just talked about
Speaker 1: growing up and and really maturing on and off the field.
Speaker 1: What would you tell your younger self back then? I
Speaker 1: would owe myself to enjoy the process a little more.
Speaker 1: You know. It's you blink and and it's been ten years,
Speaker 1: you know, and and where I was at, you were
Speaker 1: there was such a standard of winning with with New
Speaker 1: England and playing with Brady and Gronk and all these
Speaker 1: studs and these really good football players. There's always a
Speaker 1: certain standards. So you're automatically competing every day with the
Speaker 1: best players and trying to you know, keep that standard,
Speaker 1: and sometimes you didn't get to enjoy it as much. Yes,
Speaker 1: I had a lot of fun playing the NFL, but
Speaker 1: you know, after every year, even when we want a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, like then, you were working even harder because
Speaker 1: you know you're on your the target to everyone now
Speaker 1: and we were like that my whole entire year. So
Speaker 1: like each year was harder and harder because it's league smart.
Speaker 1: These people there. You've got a bunch of old old
Speaker 1: coaches that sit and watch football all day just to
Speaker 1: scheme and game plan on how to beat a team
Speaker 1: and and you know, to be consistent, at least for me,
Speaker 1: I had to like keep I had to play the
Speaker 1: whole make stories in your mind game to motivate yourself.
Speaker 1: You know, when you when you're eight, no, and you're
Speaker 1: you're playing a defending Super Bowl champion and you're playing
Speaker 1: a two and six team, you know, and then you're
Speaker 1: you're in the middle and the meat of the year,
Speaker 1: you're beat up. You know, you gotta you gotta create
Speaker 1: these little stories to keep yourself motivated to go out
Speaker 1: and and perform at the absolute highest level you possibly can.
Speaker 1: So that's what I got, Coach Jules, I just watched
Speaker 1: the Derrek Jeter docu series. I'm dying to know if
Speaker 1: you did. And that's something he Oh, it's really good
Speaker 1: if that's something he says that, um, he wished he
Speaker 1: had done a little bit more because he was always
Speaker 1: looking to the next day and what he could do better.
Speaker 1: You wish you had enjoyed it a little more. How
Speaker 1: do you do that? With the grind of the Patriot
Speaker 1: way and every day you're expected to be a certain
Speaker 1: way and like you just said, you you guys went
Speaker 1: a super Bowl and you want to enjoy it. But
Speaker 1: you know, you've got the target on your back. How
Speaker 1: could you have done that differently? I don't know. I think, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I was always taught my my Pop's always
Speaker 1: taught me you can't be balanced if you want to
Speaker 1: be great. Uh. You know, like there's sacrifices that you
Speaker 1: have to make, whether that's you know, your family times
Speaker 1: sometimes or your friends. If you have a goal and
Speaker 1: you really are trying to accomplish something with all of
Speaker 1: your heart. I mean that that's kind of how I
Speaker 1: was brought up, and that's how I was taught. And
Speaker 1: that's the example I saw from my father, who got
Speaker 1: up at you know, five every morning, came home at five,
Speaker 1: then brought me to the field. We go practice, and
Speaker 1: then we do homework after practice. And it was a
Speaker 1: routine like that every day. Um. So it's honestly a
Speaker 1: terrible way to live when you when you you almost
Speaker 1: have this sense of I'm never satisfied with with the
Speaker 1: game because you go out, you win a Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: you sit there, you think, and then you don't want
Speaker 1: to do too much because you're already thinking about the
Speaker 1: next year, and you know, it's what do you do?
Speaker 1: I think you actually just have to sit back and
Speaker 1: relax and not do anything and kind of realized that,
Speaker 1: you know, that's all right. Sometimes when you have that feeling.
Speaker 1: I always felt like when I would go on vacation.
Speaker 1: I didn't vacation or anything my whole career really. I mean,
Speaker 1: I went to Israel a few times, came to Montana, Montana,
Speaker 1: but we were working now, you know, But like I
Speaker 1: would get away and I would feel if I wasn't
Speaker 1: in my domain or my environment with like my bodywork guy,
Speaker 1: the nutrition, my facility, Like I felt weird after a week,
Speaker 1: Like I would get nervous and I would have like
Speaker 1: these crazy worries like the chicken little, the sky is falling,
Speaker 1: Someone's gonna catch up on me. So like, um, you
Speaker 1: know it was. That's the one thing I wish I
Speaker 1: would have done a little more is enjoy it. And
Speaker 1: how do you do that? I don't know. I'm still
Speaker 1: working on that. Well. You have three Super Bowl rings
Speaker 1: and a Super Bowl m v P trophy to look
Speaker 1: at as a you know, a massive reward for all
Speaker 1: your hard work. Most guys don't even Sometimes you can
Speaker 1: get to sniff what you were able to do with
Speaker 1: your tenure, with the Patriots. So you say that you know,
Speaker 1: you didn't get time off when you were playing. Now
Speaker 1: you're retired and you're still working hard. So tell us
Speaker 1: more about Games with Names and and everything that that
Speaker 1: entails on the podcast and why you wanted to enter
Speaker 1: this weird space that we're all in now. Yeah, my
Speaker 1: respect for YouTube ladies have gone enormously out the roof
Speaker 1: now that I've been in your your game for a
Speaker 1: year and just the media world, like you guys are
Speaker 1: studs to be able to just go out and and
Speaker 1: just speak and broadcast to fifty of the audience that
Speaker 1: likes it or knows it in the audience has no
Speaker 1: clue like all these little skills that you're learning. It's
Speaker 1: it's been insane to jump in this world. But like
Speaker 1: you said, I'm starting. I started a podcast, Games with Names.
Speaker 1: I've partnered up with Sam Morrell, two sports history podcast
Speaker 1: and it got developed through uh Coast Productions, my production company.
Speaker 1: We partnered with winn Bet And you know, we were
Speaker 1: sitting there thinking like, what can we do a podcast
Speaker 1: on and Kyler, our director in house director at Coast Productions,
Speaker 1: he was out at Thanksgiving and you know he was
Speaker 1: telling this story and he goes, yeah, I met I
Speaker 1: saw this guy. I didn't know his name, but I
Speaker 1: knew I played against him in high school football. And
Speaker 1: he was giving me the perspective of this big game
Speaker 1: that we played in, and I was given him my perspective.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of where it shot up. Where we
Speaker 1: wanted to get the perspective of people who played in
Speaker 1: the game, on both winning and losing sides, about these
Speaker 1: important games that we've all loved throughout all sports. It's
Speaker 1: not just football, it's football. We got Paul Pierce with
Speaker 1: you know, the Celtics game, in the wheelchair game, we
Speaker 1: got you know, but a hockey game, we got we
Speaker 1: got a lot of things going, and it's really cool
Speaker 1: to sit down and talk with the athletes that or
Speaker 1: or celebrity or someone who's associated with the city and
Speaker 1: talk their perspective, dive on how this game makes them feel.
Speaker 1: Because you know sport, we all know us three. You know,
Speaker 1: it's brought a lot of a lot of people together.
Speaker 1: It's one of the those things that allows you to
Speaker 1: kind of leave reality. Let's go just put everything away
Speaker 1: and let's celebrate the histories of these games. I love that.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, No I just think of a history of games.
Speaker 1: I think of history of games that you played in
Speaker 1: before we get to any kind of Jewels memories and
Speaker 1: maybe how you'll put them into the podcast. You talked
Speaker 1: about joining the media world. What's kind of been the
Speaker 1: most challenging thing being on this side, because, let's be honest,
Speaker 1: you were the one we always Yeah, I did sit
Speaker 1: a couple of sit downs with you, talk to you
Speaker 1: post game. You're you're the guy, You're the face, You're
Speaker 1: so much fun to talk to. So what's been so
Speaker 1: hard about this little job Jewels? Well, so it reminded
Speaker 1: me a lot of like my rookie year because I was, like,
Speaker 1: like you said, I was drafted, I was a quarterback
Speaker 1: in cars, and then I jumped into something completely that
Speaker 1: I'm not used to her or anything, which I've never
Speaker 1: played for Fiver. So then you know, fast forward to
Speaker 1: last year of my life, when I hit that first
Speaker 1: day going on the set, lights, camera action. You're sitting
Speaker 1: next to Ray Lewis, You're sitting next to Mike l Irvin,
Speaker 1: Phil Sims over there giving you a dirty look, and
Speaker 1: JB's looking charming as hell, and and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you gotta perform when the lights on you like, you know,
Speaker 1: it was I was nervous. I've never done it. And
Speaker 1: they don't really prepare you like to say there like
Speaker 1: when you're doing the contract, Like they don't really they
Speaker 1: just give you a bulletproof points and they say, hey,
Speaker 1: come up with your stuff. So you know, the ability
Speaker 1: to go out and just perform on demand. I mean
Speaker 1: that that that was crazy. You know, it's different. So
Speaker 1: many games. You gotta watch all the games. Like I'm
Speaker 1: used to like preparing for one team. Now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: watch every game. You got all the storylines. This guy
Speaker 1: did this at halftime, this guy, oh, there was a
Speaker 1: fight on the sideline. Like there's a lot of other
Speaker 1: things that I have to be aware of. And then
Speaker 1: that's yeah, that's honestly, but I'm still learning. You know that,
Speaker 1: I'm still in the learning seat. It's it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's you. I don't think you ever stopped. And I'm
Speaker 1: I'm real low on the reps. So you know, I'm
Speaker 1: enjoying it. My first eight weeks last year of the season,
Speaker 1: I was like terribly, I didn't I was like so
Speaker 1: nervous every time I got on And then you know,
Speaker 1: after I got a feel of it and and I
Speaker 1: kind of learned it a little, um, you know, I
Speaker 1: got more and more comfortable. So you know, I'm excited
Speaker 1: for this year on Inside the NFL, which streams on
Speaker 1: Paramount Plus of course, and games with names that were
Speaker 1: launching tomorrow. You know, I'm excited to keep creating and
Speaker 1: keep going out there and using a different part of
Speaker 1: my brain and using things that I've always enjoyed really doing.
Speaker 1: I always loved him performing when I was younger, you know,
Speaker 1: doing the school plays and stuff. So school plays, what
Speaker 1: were you? What was you? Love? This? You a lad?
Speaker 1: And what what was your what was your different places?
Speaker 1: You never quite the league, never quite the lead. But
Speaker 1: I was always like the three or four that, you know,
Speaker 1: like where I could put my own span. Like I
Speaker 1: was like this camp counselor at this crazy camp when
Speaker 1: I was in fourth and then bye bye Birdie. I was.
Speaker 1: I wasn't Birdie. I wanted Birdie. I was another person
Speaker 1: that was like associated with Bertie. Never leave that role
Speaker 1: players get love too. Now the acting in your commercials,
Speaker 1: that's just you. I mean you are you are a
Speaker 1: star and you are the lead. Now I want to
Speaker 1: bring it back real quick. You mentioned games with names
Speaker 1: and in the back story of those incredible, you know,
Speaker 1: historic moments in sports that you know, we've all seen
Speaker 1: as fans. You and Aaron of course, Aaron on the
Speaker 1: sidelines for that Super Bowl against Atlanta and your incredible drive.
Speaker 1: What was it, you know, less than three minutes ago,
Speaker 1: you guys are down by eight. I need the Julian
Speaker 1: Edelman and the Aaron Andrews perspective. We'll start with you, Jules,
Speaker 1: as that was all unfolding and sort of what you
Speaker 1: out can remember stepping back from you know, five years later,
Speaker 1: five years later, Lady Gaga halftime. By the way, I
Speaker 1: don't even know the halftime shows of the Super Bowls
Speaker 1: we played it been in so many you know, who
Speaker 1: can count, right? You know? Whatever? Um? Yeah, three minutes
Speaker 1: to go? When was that after the well did we
Speaker 1: have the sack the High Tower sack bumble? Or was
Speaker 1: that the Trey Flower sack? You know? So like once
Speaker 1: after we came out a halftime. You know, I was
Speaker 1: a raw rock guy. It's gonna be a hell of
Speaker 1: a story. Let's do this guy's for to Gepper Yeah whatever? Um?
Speaker 1: And then like first third down back. We we we
Speaker 1: hold them. I have a decent punt return. We go
Speaker 1: third down, I dropped a ball, So I'm sitting there like, damn,
Speaker 1: that's not gonna be really good for going forward. We're
Speaker 1: still down twenty four to three, and so then things
Speaker 1: just started clicking, you know, everyone kind of settled down,
Speaker 1: like we weren't really out of the game because they
Speaker 1: were blowing us out. We were out of game because
Speaker 1: of self inflicted wounds to pick six and turnover in
Speaker 1: the red area, you know, not doing well on third down,
Speaker 1: which is something we completely talked about all week in
Speaker 1: fucking practice. I'm sorry for swearing. Were you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: we never know. There's there's courtesies. Um. So after Trey
Speaker 1: gets a sack, High Tower gets a sack. Our offense,
Speaker 1: we're starting to like pick things up. Guys are working.
Speaker 1: You know. It was just nuts to see it go
Speaker 1: the way it did. And and my perspective during the game,
Speaker 1: I I never think we're gonna lose, But the first
Speaker 1: time I watched it on TV, I was like just
Speaker 1: as stunned as everyone else. How do how are we
Speaker 1: dad to do this? Like, you know, it's it's weird
Speaker 1: because we've been in situation and I know it wasn't
Speaker 1: you know in the Super Bowl, but we've been behind
Speaker 1: large leads at halftime against Cleveland Brown's two thousand and thirteen,
Speaker 1: I believe Denver Broncos we were down twenty four zero
Speaker 1: at halftime against Peyton Man and came back and won
Speaker 1: both those games. We had these crazy hero type comeback wins.
Speaker 1: So like you knew it was in there. It was
Speaker 1: just really about settling down and really worrying about what
Speaker 1: you had to do on each and every play. And
Speaker 1: it's kind of boring to hear on my perspective, but
Speaker 1: that's really what it was like, guys. Just like no
Speaker 1: one really wanted to jinx anything because we said we
Speaker 1: saw things going right. So like like you would look
Speaker 1: over it, like I would look. I always always really
Speaker 1: close to Matthew Slater and he would sit over like
Speaker 1: across from like the special teams area, and I'd always
Speaker 1: get it. He'd always like look over at me. I'd
Speaker 1: look over at him, and I'd be like, no, Candla, Candla,
Speaker 1: you know, like like so I don't know. Once we
Speaker 1: started getting those sacks and then once we scored got
Speaker 1: both those two point conversions, which people don't like. That's
Speaker 1: crazy to even real is how hard that is, and
Speaker 1: that we were able to do that. Getting the two
Speaker 1: point conversion is very hard, let alone too. But after
Speaker 1: we did that and once we won that toss me,
Speaker 1: we were winning the game, so you know that. It's
Speaker 1: it's just that's why you play the game, right there
Speaker 1: for those types of games. And we actually we got
Speaker 1: a Mondola for that game. So we're gonna get his perspective.
Speaker 1: I'm more interested in, like, what what is your perspective
Speaker 1: Aaron when you were on the sideline? Well, first, I
Speaker 1: hold on, I'm asking the questions here. No, I love that. Wait, first,
Speaker 1: did you did you play out during that catch? Did
Speaker 1: you at any point like think ship ship? Where? Like
Speaker 1: where is it? Where do you remember about that catch? Well?
Speaker 1: I remember like that whole week in practice. So that's
Speaker 1: called a shoot route, which you either run a crosser
Speaker 1: versus one safety high look or you run a middle
Speaker 1: read versus too safety high look, which is you bend
Speaker 1: it and said, you know, if it's too safeties, you're
Speaker 1: gonna ended sell to go and keep it to the
Speaker 1: near upright, and like the number one coaching point on
Speaker 1: that specific routes. Do not rush it. Be patient with
Speaker 1: the route because we were getting that cover of five looks,
Speaker 1: so you have to make them feel like you're running
Speaker 1: the out route to create separation, and then you're gonna
Speaker 1: hit it to the post. And I ran a shitty route.
Speaker 1: And any time the dB on a shoot route looks
Speaker 1: back at the quarterback before you do, you're like praying, like,
Speaker 1: oh funk, we're about to throw an interception here. And
Speaker 1: so when he looked back for the ball and tipped it,
Speaker 1: I didn't see the other two defenders. I just saw
Speaker 1: that he was in between us, me and the ball,
Speaker 1: which is never a good look. So I just went
Speaker 1: to go really try to like hopefully not let this
Speaker 1: thing get picked. And all of a sudden, one thing happens.
Speaker 1: I don't really remember the rest, but I knew I
Speaker 1: caught it. You know, it was all reactional type stuff.
Speaker 1: So and then you know, I remember trying to get
Speaker 1: a Peter call. It's like Peter, Peter, Peter, which means
Speaker 1: you're trying to get the whole team so you can
Speaker 1: snap it quick. I knew I called it. I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: Tommy faked the Peter. So they call it time out
Speaker 1: to challenge it, because then if they do that, then
Speaker 1: you're gonna waste their time out. Ye. So you know,
Speaker 1: I was like Peter Peter, and we did that, and
Speaker 1: you know, they challenged it and we thankfully got it.
Speaker 1: It was a second intent. It wasn't that big of
Speaker 1: a play. But Danny next play hits a crosser and
Speaker 1: got contributions from everyone on the offense, and it was
Speaker 1: I mean, that was It's still crazy out there, you know,
Speaker 1: Gronk out there to go out and do it. It's
Speaker 1: a good one. Chris and I are so turned on
Speaker 1: right now, like just you know, across routed all of this.
Speaker 1: But my perspective was was the Julio catch. Was Julio's
Speaker 1: catch before that? The third down catch? Right that was
Speaker 1: before this? Yeah? Because once so I just remember standing
Speaker 1: there and you know, it's half time. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: talking to um, who the heck did I talk to whatever?
Speaker 1: I don't even remember, but it was just like this
Speaker 1: can't be it like and then of course selfishly, don't
Speaker 1: get mad. We're thinking at Fox the super Bowl, damn it,
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna be turning off their TVs now because they're down.
Speaker 1: But then I was talking to somebody and they're like,
Speaker 1: absolutely not, because they want to see if these guys
Speaker 1: can do it. So I we're sitting there, dan Quinn,
Speaker 1: why did I blank out? I'm talking to dan Quinn
Speaker 1: at half and you could just still tell. He's just like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, my gosh. So Julio's catch happened, and
Speaker 1: I remember looking at my producer and being like wow,
Speaker 1: and it was right by where I was standing, and
Speaker 1: he goes, write that down. That's gonna be a big
Speaker 1: one when you talk to him post game. So I
Speaker 1: wrote down and I started and all this stuff, and
Speaker 1: then you guys started coming back. And I've told this
Speaker 1: many times. I'm just sitting there and I'm looking at
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan because I wasn't on your sideline, and he
Speaker 1: just looks like he's gonna puke, and like he's just
Speaker 1: holding himself like this, and he just looks like he's
Speaker 1: gonna barf. And then Jewels you make that catch, and
Speaker 1: I I just remember from sidelines, we're all dying to see,
Speaker 1: you know, did he make it? Did he make it?
Speaker 1: But when you go back and watch the TV copy,
Speaker 1: I think it's Troy Aikman at his best because he
Speaker 1: literally just loses it and he goes, oh my god,
Speaker 1: what a catch, And it was just like a cool
Speaker 1: moment for such a polished announcer. Forget about you and
Speaker 1: how great you were. It's all about us, of course, um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I was just and then when you guys
Speaker 1: go into overtime, it's just like, this has never happened
Speaker 1: before in a Super Bowl. Holy crap. To hear our
Speaker 1: boss's perspective in trying to sell Super Bowl ads and
Speaker 1: happen over time is unbelievable and what they were going for,
Speaker 1: and it was like, can you guys really do this?
Speaker 1: James White, it was just I have ghost bumps. I
Speaker 1: shaved my legs and now the hair is back, so
Speaker 1: it's very exciting. That's you guys sold commercial rights after
Speaker 1: the game to the like the other companies or well,
Speaker 1: you know, when you guys were going into overtime, the
Speaker 1: rate of the price of commercials to be played in
Speaker 1: overtime during that game just shot through the roof. And
Speaker 1: our boss tells the story about being on the phone
Speaker 1: with the sales team and being like, this is what
Speaker 1: this is going for because New England Patriots super Bowl,
Speaker 1: you guys are in overtime after being down by how much?
Speaker 1: Like this ship is going to be expensive? She expensive?
Speaker 1: It's really cool. And then the jersey was stolen? Right
Speaker 1: is that? That? That another storyline? And that one too,
Speaker 1: that was dramatic. I mean they find the jersey in
Speaker 1: Mexico Tupac. Yeah, or big Let's let's not forget Biggie
Speaker 1: involved in this one. What are we doing? What are
Speaker 1: we doing it? Well, we know what you're doing inside
Speaker 1: the NFL and games with names. You have so much
Speaker 1: going on. Appreciate you taking the time to do this.
Speaker 1: And of course we got to get you a v
Speaker 1: I P parking pass at the elementary so we can't
Speaker 1: be having an are walking. You know, there's so many
Speaker 1: cool people here in l A though, Like it's so weird,
Speaker 1: like when you go to like these little schools and
Speaker 1: like yeah, like there's the TV producers family. There's like,
Speaker 1: oh an actor, like, oh, you're not like you make
Speaker 1: the cool roster my husband, No, give me a break.
Speaker 1: I just want to know if you're gonna have Coach
Speaker 1: Belichick on the podcast be a beauty of I think
Speaker 1: I know I need to get him on. I'm trying.
Speaker 1: I just got a text message from He's got yesterday
Speaker 1: or twodays he need you, na, he just he texts me.
Speaker 1: He goes, I'm going to go to the Raiders joint practice,
Speaker 1: and you know, he goes, hey, man, just it was.
Speaker 1: It's honestly weird that he texts me. But he's like, Oh, here,
Speaker 1: you're coming the Patriot or the Raider's practice. Excited to
Speaker 1: see you. I oh, it's gonna be excited to see
Speaker 1: you too again. Coach Yeah, yeah, plus, and I'm world,
Speaker 1: what's his name? The kid doesn't look good in the
Speaker 1: leven he's too skinny for it. He goes, he goes,
Speaker 1: eighty one was taken. I wish he was at eighty
Speaker 1: one two. But he's the closest thing to Mascia. Oh
Speaker 1: that's so sweet. Well, I've been impersonating this guy so
Speaker 1: much lately, like everyone wants to hear some bullshit story
Speaker 1: about it, and so like every time I get a
Speaker 1: call or a text from him, I'm like sitting there like, right, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sweating literally, like he's gonna yell at me or something.
Speaker 1: But it's all a lot of fun. He understands that,
Speaker 1: I think, and yeah, he knows I love him. How
Speaker 1: is your personal I'm just gonna say, was he surprised
Speaker 1: that you went into media? I mean he shouldn't have
Speaker 1: been when you first decided to no, because I was
Speaker 1: always I mean I was a smartass. Once like after
Speaker 1: year seven or six, I was like I'd walked by
Speaker 1: like coach in the hallway and I'm like, hey, coach,
Speaker 1: Like he's like not even looking at it, like in
Speaker 1: that tone and stuff like, and he's like gentlemen Like
Speaker 1: I'd always like kind of like like funk with him
Speaker 1: or you know, ask him questions. I don't know, Like
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think he was surprised. I don't.
Speaker 1: Maybe that guy surprises me on how he thinks. He's
Speaker 1: that like Jedi mind tricks. So maybe he does, does
Speaker 1: he not? But I don't think anyone really knows what's
Speaker 1: going on there but him. How are you surprised by him?
Speaker 1: What does he do? I I understand the mind tricks,
Speaker 1: but just give us a little inside peek at that.
Speaker 1: What does he do? Well? He just never gives his
Speaker 1: cards up. Yeah, you know, like you never really know
Speaker 1: what he's thinking. And I swear he's he'll say stuff.
Speaker 1: Do you just say kind of my nephew, and like
Speaker 1: it leaves you like and he'll just walk away. You're like,
Speaker 1: does is he mad? Is he happy? I'd be remiss
Speaker 1: if I didn't ask you two things real quick. You
Speaker 1: and you and Aaron are close to Tom, but not
Speaker 1: everyone has that luxury. So Gronk told me one time
Speaker 1: and in interviews like he was giving me because it
Speaker 1: was before your guys, is one of your many a
Speaker 1: f C championship games, this one against the Colts, and
Speaker 1: he was giving me the whole like Belichick in answer,
Speaker 1: like playing it safe, whatever, And I was like, dude,
Speaker 1: this is a terrible fucking interview, Like you gotta give
Speaker 1: me something. And so he's like, okay, you want something.
Speaker 1: He's like Brady doesn't shower after practice. And I like
Speaker 1: spooning and like weird ship, you know, just like classic
Speaker 1: Gronk stuff. So I need a Tom thing that a
Speaker 1: lot of people that he wouldn't care that you said
Speaker 1: that people might be surprised about. He gave him the show.
Speaker 1: He was a guy that shower pilled a lot. He
Speaker 1: what do you called it? What did you just call it?
Speaker 1: You called the shower pill? What is that? If you
Speaker 1: don't take a shower after practice or after work, you
Speaker 1: take you're taking a shower pill. No ship yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: people used to call it. Yeah, that's either shower pill
Speaker 1: or he would steal two heads and he have two
Speaker 1: heads of the showers on him. Shower yeah, shower hog. Um.
Speaker 1: One thing that people don't you know, he loves chicken wings.
Speaker 1: Like the night before games. We like, regardless of where
Speaker 1: you're at, you stay in at hotels, you have the
Speaker 1: same kind of food always, and so that's a how
Speaker 1: you you judge the hotel by the red sauce, like
Speaker 1: the wings and stuff. You know, you go to the
Speaker 1: hotels this that, But every night night before game, after
Speaker 1: the QB meeting, you would always see little Brady sneaking
Speaker 1: over to the wing thing, looking around, taking a bite
Speaker 1: of a wing, taking a couple for the road, Like
Speaker 1: he loves chicken wings. I don't know what chapter the
Speaker 1: chicken wings are in in this book. I'm looking by
Speaker 1: the strawberry chapter. You know, limit dairy, so no branch sauce.
Speaker 1: Jules Jeueles, quickly give me a grade on your former team.
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of Patriots fans. I'll be
Speaker 1: listening to this. I just want to quick put your
Speaker 1: analyst hat on and give me your media response and
Speaker 1: inside look at what your former team is going to
Speaker 1: do this year. I think it's gonna be a learning
Speaker 1: experience for this team. I mean, we don't know what
Speaker 1: they're gonna be. You know, they're losing an offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: that's been very, very involved with how things have gone
Speaker 1: in that system for a long time, and he's come
Speaker 1: from the whole Charlie Weiss and Josh McDaniels. Who's gonna
Speaker 1: be in Oakland now, who's calling plays? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows. That's kind of alarming. I mean, why are
Speaker 1: they doing that? Why are they doing that? You never know,
Speaker 1: there could be a bunch of different variables where they
Speaker 1: could have had someone lined up, if Josh was gonna
Speaker 1: leave and that person took someone. There's so many things
Speaker 1: that could have happened that we don't know. And I guarantee,
Speaker 1: even like I'll talk with guys, they don't tell shipped
Speaker 1: to me. Now that I'm in the media, they all
Speaker 1: let they all know that, especially with me gunning out
Speaker 1: impressions of bills, So like, yeah, but you know, I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a learning experience their defense. You know,
Speaker 1: I hope that they're going to be able to stop
Speaker 1: the run. I mean they were, they were a little
Speaker 1: light in the box last year. The linebackers weren't playing
Speaker 1: at a high level. We'll see if the newcomers that
Speaker 1: they signed this year will do well. But it's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be it's gonna be an interesting year. That's a
Speaker 1: tough division. You're playing a Bill's team that's ready, that's hungry,
Speaker 1: that's close to making super Bowl, you know runs potentially,
Speaker 1: You're playing a you know, a very electric, weaponized Miami team,
Speaker 1: and you know there's still the Jets, so they'll get
Speaker 1: those couple wins. But um, you know, we'll see. I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be a learning year. I really do.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think you can go out
Speaker 1: and say what they're gonna be because we don't know.
Speaker 1: Even as an analyst, did I just say nothing? Was
Speaker 1: saying nothing. But you're good at that and you have
Speaker 1: been for the twelve years that you played with the Patriots.
Speaker 1: I love you so much, but that ship was so
Speaker 1: hard to deal with. It was like, guys, come on,
Speaker 1: give me something, just day by day, take a day
Speaker 1: by day Patriots ball. I'm I'm a little worried, Okay,
Speaker 1: but I need to wait. Do what you have to
Speaker 1: do it? Wait, Juels, you have to do it. And
Speaker 1: you just said you do a Belichick impression. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna ask you the question, and you and certain Belichick's boys.
Speaker 1: Here you go, Coach Belichick, how are you guys going
Speaker 1: to do this year? Look it fucking the third week
Speaker 1: of the preseason. I mean, we're just worried about the
Speaker 1: people we have in this building. I can't tell you
Speaker 1: what's going to happen in two weeks. I'm worried about tomorrow.
Speaker 1: That's playing something that was so good and I'm sweating
Speaker 1: for my armpits profously. PTT looks that's that's that's his thing.
Speaker 1: He always says, look, look look like I can't. I can't.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't have a magic ball. I
Speaker 1: don't have an eight ball or he always that's like
Speaker 1: his joke is if he brings in something like I
Speaker 1: don't have it, magic cloak or anything. If you've got
Speaker 1: a hell of a setup though there uh, you don't
Speaker 1: miss those new England winners. I know that when you're
Speaker 1: looking pool side, like you're looking at right now, California,
Speaker 1: I do. Come on. I love Boston, man, and I
Speaker 1: was there, like the winter is not bad if you're
Speaker 1: there until like February, you know, and then you get
Speaker 1: and then I would always come out here, you know,
Speaker 1: and then you get those seasons. Those seasons are nice.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's this every day out here. You
Speaker 1: can't you don't love that. It's seventy five and Sonny
Speaker 1: eighty and Sonny every day. I mean, it's not great.
Speaker 1: I want to see some foliage in October. Let's played
Speaker 1: foliage tools. Do you remember that? Do you remember that
Speaker 1: Cowboys game at in Foxboro where it was like literally
Speaker 1: just thirties six degrees but it felt like the twenties
Speaker 1: and it was pouring the whole time, and you guys
Speaker 1: blew the Cowboys out. It was got off all that game.
Speaker 1: I was like, I hate it here. That's the worst
Speaker 1: is when it's still raining. But it's like flirting with that,
Speaker 1: like it wants to snow, because then you're wet and
Speaker 1: it's cold and it's windy. Yeah, foxborow has got some
Speaker 1: gnarly gnarly gnarly. Hey, I'm gonna do it, Tom, were
Speaker 1: you before we let you go? This is TV. Whenever
Speaker 1: he gets on our conference, calls, hey, guys, how are
Speaker 1: we doing? Tom here? How are we doing? Hey? How
Speaker 1: are we doing? Hey guys? Hey babe? He throws out,
Speaker 1: how we do a lot? Oh he's a babe, Hey
Speaker 1: bab Hey babe. I didn't know I tell you this.
Speaker 1: He's a favor. So in Montana, not this summer. Last summer,
Speaker 1: I went by. My dad was in town. I brought
Speaker 1: him down to watch TV throwing my husband attempt to
Speaker 1: catch passes, and so we're sitting on the picnic tables
Speaker 1: and he's throwing and then TV was like, hey, babe,
Speaker 1: I need you out here. I need you out here.
Speaker 1: I had to run the balls back and lay them
Speaker 1: out for him. I was hungover. I sobered up really
Speaker 1: fast because I didn't want to piss him off. And
Speaker 1: then you know, like I get the Deffel bag and
Speaker 1: I'm running running back and I'm like what do I do?
Speaker 1: And Jared's like lay him out and I'm like laying
Speaker 1: him out, trying to so perfectly, and he's like, thanks babe,
Speaker 1: thanks babe. And I was like best day ever. And
Speaker 1: I was like doing leaves when I was so fucking
Speaker 1: scared I was gonna mess up. I mean, he's a
Speaker 1: really I mean he's such a nice guy though, like
Speaker 1: deep down inside, like it's pretty gnarly. He's a sweet person,
Speaker 1: and I'm I honestly, I'm a little mad right now
Speaker 1: that I didn't get the invite. So I'm actually pissed.
Speaker 1: Yeah you should be, but you're invited to come see us.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he'd always be on the receiving end of
Speaker 1: that phone call, the one that you turned him down
Speaker 1: the last time. But you know what, you are very
Speaker 1: busy right now inside the NFL games with names Julian
Speaker 1: Edelman an incredible career if it is over or if
Speaker 1: you continue to play. Three super Bowl championships in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl m v P and a girl dad who
Speaker 1: By the way, this is a sign of great parenting
Speaker 1: that she left and went to kindergarten and didn't cry.
Speaker 1: So that is kudos to you for raising a strong,
Speaker 1: independent woman. We appreciate you being here in good luck
Speaker 1: with everything. Always good to see you. I love you, Juels,
Speaker 1: I love you guys. Hey, thanks for having me and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, she did give a little tight squeeze on that.
Speaker 1: But she was she was good. That's awesome. God. Calm
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