Speaker 1: My little brother. He was mini sticking around. I came
Speaker 1: full speed and checked him, and he went flying backwards.
Speaker 1: And he had to go to the hospital on Christmas
Speaker 1: Day because I love him so bad. He had to
Speaker 1: get stitches across his chin. So Christmas was always a present.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Dudes on Dudes. I'm Julian Edelman.
Speaker 3: I'm Roberto Grenkowski.
Speaker 4: And this is the show where your favorite dudes get
Speaker 4: to talk about their favorite dudes.
Speaker 3: Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Honika.
Speaker 1: To celebrate the holidays, we're gonna look back on some
Speaker 1: of our best moments. I'm the mic together, good times
Speaker 1: in the Nutthouse, the time we got in trouble with Coach.
Speaker 3: Belichick acting like drunk idiots. Of course we are, we're
Speaker 3: young and dumb.
Speaker 4: Or maybe the time Rob fell asleep in during the
Speaker 4: Patriots draft meeting.
Speaker 1: You know, juwel so sometimes you just got to take
Speaker 1: a little nap.
Speaker 3: Oh what about when I bought a hot tub in college?
Speaker 4: How many times you clean that bad boy? You didn't
Speaker 4: clean that thing once? No, and there's a whole lot more.
Speaker 4: So let's get into it. Let's go double in sync.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
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Speaker 1: As a kid, I always wanted a mini bike, and
Speaker 1: my dad surprised me with a mini bike.
Speaker 3: You want to know how he did it good? I
Speaker 3: knew you wanted to know how.
Speaker 1: That's that's why I love you, buddy, because you want
Speaker 1: to know all about my stories. But so I go downstairs,
Speaker 1: you know, I sneak peek. I get up early five
Speaker 1: five am. I go down there and I'm looking all over,
Speaker 1: feeling the presence lifting up, like, you know, the big
Speaker 1: presence as well, like there's usually a blanket over the
Speaker 1: big presence.
Speaker 3: Seeing what I got.
Speaker 1: I wanted a mini bike, you know, mini bikes with
Speaker 1: the engines, and there was no mini bike, you know.
Speaker 1: So I went back to bed. I was like, oh whatever.
Speaker 1: I was a little disappointed.
Speaker 3: So I wake up at eight am, then go down.
Speaker 1: Open up all the presents, and then my dad was like, yo, yo,
Speaker 1: ro go, grab me a snapple in the garage. I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, okay, no problem, dad. I go in
Speaker 1: and I open up the garage door. I walk down
Speaker 1: the stairs and boom there's a mini bike right, Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh fridge. And I was like, oh, best man,
Speaker 1: Best Christmas ever. I loved it so much. My brothers
Speaker 1: loved the mini bike as well. Oh it was called
Speaker 1: the Little Brute. We still have it. It was your
Speaker 1: favorite Hanakah memory.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: I love the new I'm creating new Hanukka traditions with
Speaker 4: my daughter. That's been very fun because she's dua does both.
Speaker 4: I did both as a kid, but I.
Speaker 2: Had I don't.
Speaker 4: I was just hearing your story and my dad did
Speaker 4: the same fucking thing like he. We were ropeing all
Speaker 4: our presents and at the end, I wanted some three
Speaker 4: piece cranks for my bike. It was like, I don't
Speaker 4: know why. It was some bike thing, and UH didn't
Speaker 4: have them. And my dad said, go go get your
Speaker 4: laundry out of the.
Speaker 2: Dryer.
Speaker 4: And I go out there and the cranks are in
Speaker 4: the dryer and the same soppy story, what's up with
Speaker 4: Dad's doing that? Because I started, I did that. Have
Speaker 4: my daughter with a puppy. You'll probably end up doing
Speaker 4: that to your kid. It's so fun to get to
Speaker 4: see your kids like.
Speaker 1: Surprise and then and then how happy they are. I
Speaker 1: guess that makes you happy as a parent. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just have a doggie, and it makes me happy
Speaker 1: when my dog gets surprised with just a toy that
Speaker 1: I bought him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, same thing with the kid, but the kid.
Speaker 1: And then also was really cool about Christmas was like
Speaker 1: as a kid, we would play mini sticks in the
Speaker 1: basement the whole entire day after we opened up presents.
Speaker 1: And one time, it's actually on film, I think it's
Speaker 1: on the internet. Is that my little brother he was
Speaker 1: mini sticking around. I came full speed and checked him
Speaker 1: and he went flying backwards and he actually like the
Speaker 1: stick came up and hit him across the chin or
Speaker 1: he went like to the side and his chin hit
Speaker 1: the ground. I fully can't remember it, but it is
Speaker 1: on film. And he had to go to the hospital
Speaker 1: on Christmas Day because I leveled him so bad he
Speaker 1: had to get stitches across his chin.
Speaker 3: So that's why I am WHI.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I'm a tough sob because I was
Speaker 1: getting beat up on it, and then I was beating
Speaker 1: up on my little brother. So I always took the
Speaker 1: hits and I knew how to give the hits because
Speaker 1: of my brothers. Christmas was always a present. So it
Speaker 1: was Glenn who got the Super Bowl ring with us.
Speaker 2: When the one younger one. Yeah, the only younger grunk.
Speaker 4: He was getting beat up by two brothers and so
Speaker 4: he would beat up on little Glenn exactly.
Speaker 2: Man Hanukkah.
Speaker 4: Christmas, that time of the year when you're an athlete
Speaker 4: for like the last fifteen years of our career or whatever,
Speaker 4: you didn't really it was never it was always like
Speaker 4: postponed or you know, it was one a different day
Speaker 4: because you'd have work on practice. But I tell you
Speaker 4: some of those holiday practices, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Honago,
Speaker 4: whatever it is, like, those were some of the funnest
Speaker 4: practices because you knew you just had practice and then
Speaker 4: after that you had the rest of the day.
Speaker 2: Do you remember those?
Speaker 1: I do, Man, I mean it kind of sucked when
Speaker 1: you were playing a sport because like you really couldn't
Speaker 1: see your family, your friends, all that good stuff. You
Speaker 1: had a sacrifice, you know, either with practice or actually
Speaker 1: playing on the road for a game, which was always fun,
Speaker 1: but having that practice that day was always the most.
Speaker 1: Oh his practice, like you said, there was no meetings,
Speaker 1: there's no lift after the practice.
Speaker 2: Everyone was in a good mood.
Speaker 3: Everyone was even the coaches.
Speaker 4: Were coaches had a little jingle in their Steph Man,
Speaker 4: are you ready to get back into some of our
Speaker 4: other best moments?
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's just do it. Oh for golly, Oh what
Speaker 3: a memory from what I remember?
Speaker 2: What a memory from all we remember?
Speaker 3: But who could forget the time we had a little
Speaker 3: bit too much fun after Gowe we were coach ballcheck
Speaker 3: found out about it? Oopsiees scroll it out, roll the tape.
Speaker 4: People always think that, like you still just go out
Speaker 4: and party.
Speaker 1: No, I mean I love to have a great time,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. I mean, dude, we partied so
Speaker 1: hard back in the day though too. Like remember us
Speaker 1: on that golf cart and where and nan Tucket forwe weekend.
Speaker 4: We got so much trouble though for that because what
Speaker 4: you had a surgery? I think it was my forum
Speaker 4: and no was it? And then I had a foot.
Speaker 4: We were both getting pulled. We were in the back of.
Speaker 1: It was we were in the back of a golf
Speaker 1: cart and people were filming us. And then we waited
Speaker 1: so much, and I think the people in the front
Speaker 1: got off the golf cart. And when they got off
Speaker 1: the golf cart, the front two wheels went up in
Speaker 1: the air and we fell right onto the ground and
Speaker 1: like face Planeted. And the crazy thing about it is
Speaker 1: we had no clue that we even did that until
Speaker 1: we saw the video on Barstool four days later, and
Speaker 1: the caption of Barstool was not really sure. We want
Speaker 1: our star wide receiver and tight end acting like this
Speaker 1: and for Goali, but we love them for it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I was like, that's why I love Barstool.
Speaker 5: They're sticking up for us. Bro.
Speaker 4: You remember how mad Bill was, Oh man, you fucking
Speaker 4: assholes kid Like Jesus Christ, do you guys just stay
Speaker 4: out of them the headlines hurt?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you guys aren't even in practicing right now.
Speaker 5: You can't even go on the field and you're.
Speaker 1: Acting like drunk idiots a GOLLI of course we are.
Speaker 2: We're young and dumb.
Speaker 5: I would not change a thing. Bro.
Speaker 1: Imagine if we didn't do that now and we try
Speaker 1: to do it, and we try to do it now,
Speaker 1: it would be hard to do it now. We did
Speaker 1: it when we could. That's the best part about it.
Speaker 1: We did it when we could.
Speaker 2: That was such a fun trip on trip.
Speaker 5: Did you pull it up?
Speaker 2: Do you have that?
Speaker 5: It's online somewhere?
Speaker 1: Dude, Let's look at it.
Speaker 5: Look how young we look in all the video.
Speaker 2: Thanks for watching the fumble.
Speaker 6: You know your Memorial Day weekend would lit when Justin
Speaker 6: timber Like tweets you to compliment on your dance moves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm talking about Gronk.
Speaker 7: He spent the weekend with.
Speaker 6: Julian Edelman partying in Nantucket. Here's a glimpse into their weekend.
Speaker 6: Edelman let us know exactly.
Speaker 5: Oh, that's Tom's part.
Speaker 7: I thought it was mine.
Speaker 5: Jealous of Tom.
Speaker 7: Right later, we'll get us, dude, we were main yet
Speaker 7: you're pouring a beer on my head on front row
Speaker 7: of the concert.
Speaker 6: Patriots fans a little nervous when he attempted to do
Speaker 6: the splits and crawl on the floor at the same time.
Speaker 7: This was two months before training camp Bell were training.
Speaker 5: We're stretching Their.
Speaker 6: Entire pat season flashed before their eyes.
Speaker 5: Here we go, is a that's what happened.
Speaker 7: Oh, that's what happened.
Speaker 6: But no worries. They were okay enough to dance to
Speaker 6: Justin Timberlake on stage later that.
Speaker 2: Night, which is what I don't remember him being there.
Speaker 2: That's in Gronk move right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we used to dance our face off.
Speaker 5: I swear that made us better.
Speaker 1: Players though, because we were doing so many different type of.
Speaker 4: Tal Yes, Kalistenics, it was our cardio.
Speaker 1: We were dancing for four hours straight and we burned
Speaker 1: off all the alcohol while we were dancing too.
Speaker 5: That's why we're always ready to go.
Speaker 3: When we showed up, good Times, Jules, good Times, it
Speaker 3: was totally well worth it. And uh, we got to
Speaker 3: get back there next year, and this time we should
Speaker 3: actually take Coach with us and show him how it's
Speaker 3: done and show him why it's such a great time
Speaker 3: doing those silly things that we were doing.
Speaker 4: Oh, I bet your coach is gonna be a fake,
Speaker 4: doesn't He has an Intucket spot.
Speaker 2: He'll probably be out there.
Speaker 3: I think that video, he'll be out.
Speaker 4: You know, he's gonna be there this year. Maybe we
Speaker 4: go check him out at Fagali this year.
Speaker 2: Rob.
Speaker 4: That was so much fun and we got yelled at
Speaker 4: so much because of the fun we had. Maybe we'll
Speaker 4: bump into mister Fun himself at Fai mister Fun himself.
Speaker 1: Oh wait a second, Oh, I bet you deep down
Speaker 1: mister Fun was probably inspired by us with that video
Speaker 1: that he went out and bought that house in Kentucket.
Speaker 3: He probably bought that house because of us, because of
Speaker 3: that video.
Speaker 2: He's been there for years. I don't care. Inspired jokers
Speaker 2: there a lot longer before. I don't care.
Speaker 3: We're just going to pretend he was inspired by us.
Speaker 4: We'll be right back after this quick break. Every legend
Speaker 4: has a legendary story origin. An old Robbie boy took
Speaker 4: us through the pre draft visit. That was the funniest, craziest,
Speaker 4: most memorable visit of all time, rob Were you sleeping
Speaker 4: or not sleeping?
Speaker 1: I was sleeping. I was one hundred percent sleeping. Kach
Speaker 1: Balchuk actually talked about it on air.
Speaker 2: I think he talked about it on air. Let's take
Speaker 2: a look at it.
Speaker 1: I was so sick of that visit, dude. It wasn't
Speaker 1: just a visit. Were just wasn't the visit to the Patriots.
Speaker 1: So what I went on like a little tour like
Speaker 1: you go in. I visited twelve different teams. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like you're going on these recruiting visits to each
Speaker 1: team because they want to get to know you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots were the last ones on the list,
Speaker 1: and bro I was sick.
Speaker 5: I was flying from Denver to Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: To freaking Baltimore meeting with every team, and I was
Speaker 1: so sick of it, and you know, putting like kind
Speaker 1: of a front on it as well, and I was
Speaker 1: literally so sick of I go, I want to be
Speaker 1: outrageous here.
Speaker 5: I need to have some fun with it. I remember
Speaker 5: I was kind of hung over to.
Speaker 1: Feeling like crap all these flights. I went out and
Speaker 1: partied a couple of the Knights too, so I wasn't
Speaker 1: even feeling like myself. So I was like, how do
Speaker 1: you get back to normal? You just you just become
Speaker 1: outrageous and I show up ro I was so tired.
Speaker 1: First thing I do is fall asleep in Nancy's office. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Bill Belichick heard all about it.
Speaker 5: He coln't believe it.
Speaker 1: And then I go into the interview session and Billy
Speaker 1: O'Brien draws a play up and then he races on
Speaker 1: the board. He's like, all right, can you name what
Speaker 1: the wide receivers did, like rename their route and what
Speaker 1: the responsibility was. I was like, bro, I have no clue.
Speaker 1: I couldn't even think. And then he's like he's like,
Speaker 1: what do you do? I was like, you're just throwing
Speaker 1: me the fucking ball. Billy oh, I'll make some guys, miss,
Speaker 1: I'll run over some people. He's like, he's like, but
Speaker 1: you don't know the playoffs. Like I don't need to
Speaker 1: know the play you throw me the ball. Like That's
Speaker 1: basically how our interview went. And then I literally out
Speaker 1: of there called Drew Rosenhouse. I said, this team is
Speaker 1: either gonna take me or they're fucking laughing at me.
Speaker 1: And I give no fucks because I'm over this whole process.
Speaker 1: So what happens. Patriots trade up for me for the
Speaker 1: forty second pick in the NFL Draft in twenty ten
Speaker 1: and select me.
Speaker 5: And I looked around the table.
Speaker 3: I said, I told you they were gonna take me.
Speaker 4: But Billy, Oh, So going back to where we started,
Speaker 4: that is Gronk right there, that whole thing, and they
Speaker 4: built up like I remember them talking about you, the
Speaker 4: coaches saying like, yeah, man, you're gonna love this kid.
Speaker 2: He's fucking just awesome.
Speaker 4: He had like you explained the whole thing that you
Speaker 4: just explained and like that was like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: what like that doesn't happen in New England, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean?
Speaker 2: And Gronk kinda.
Speaker 4: From your little story right there, you can kind of
Speaker 4: portray that you're not a smart football player, like, but
Speaker 4: you were like brilliant. Like they would explain that, like,
Speaker 4: don't think that Gronk didn't know his fucking plays. This
Speaker 4: guy you coached him once on one thing. He never
Speaker 4: had to say it again. Like he was like one
Speaker 4: of the most football intelligent guys.
Speaker 2: I knew.
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean at that time when I was doing
Speaker 1: the interview, I was beat down. I was sick of it,
Speaker 1: so I couldn't really recall, you know, the play after
Speaker 1: he showed it to me. And then also I did
Speaker 1: struggle a little bit though my rookie year with the playbook,
Speaker 1: I actually would have probably started every single game from
Speaker 1: the beginning my first eight games. I only was playing
Speaker 1: about fifteen to twenty plays a game, if you can
Speaker 1: recall that. And then finally boom, the playbook hit. I
Speaker 1: mean it was a tough playbook. I mean in college,
Speaker 1: I literally think I had like fifteen plays and I
Speaker 1: lined up in the same spot every single play. And
Speaker 1: I get to New England and man, let me tell you,
Speaker 1: that playbook was outrageous.
Speaker 4: And it's not just the playbook, it's the personnel groups
Speaker 4: you're playing. Why you're playing f exactly.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean. It's wheels.
Speaker 4: You guys gotta flop like it was. It was definitely tough.
Speaker 4: It was definitely a change the fucking formations. There's so
Speaker 4: many goddamn formations.
Speaker 1: Drove me crazy. Like I said, in college, I had
Speaker 1: one formation. I lined up in the same spot every
Speaker 1: single play. I'm not lying every single play. I get
Speaker 1: to New England, what sixty five different formations? Yeah, actually
Speaker 1: probably one hundred and fifty different formations, but then we
Speaker 1: narrowed it down to about sixty five.
Speaker 5: My head was spinning all over.
Speaker 1: The place, and finally it just clicked, you know, once
Speaker 1: I got it under control. About week ten, to remember,
Speaker 1: I scored that touchdown versus Chicago Bears versus Brian Urlacker.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what was that panther route where I had
Speaker 1: to just get big right at the goal line and
Speaker 1: then Tom was gonna throw it low. And then we
Speaker 1: hit it in practice at Friday. Then we hit it
Speaker 1: in the game that Sunday, and since then I was
Speaker 1: starting every single play. You know, Jewels, sometimes you just
Speaker 1: got to take a little nap. I was just resting
Speaker 1: my eyes, making sure that my brain was firing on
Speaker 1: all cylinders. So then when I went and got tested
Speaker 1: on the playbook that I was firing and I could
Speaker 1: remember everything that was going on because they, like they said,
Speaker 1: a power nap, a twenty minute power napp can get
Speaker 1: you to where you need to be.
Speaker 3: But let me tell you that was also my seventeenth visit.
Speaker 1: In like four days, I was all over the United
Speaker 1: States doing pre job interviews for all these teams, and
Speaker 1: let me tell you, I was sick of it.
Speaker 2: I was over.
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't even want to get dropped anymore.
Speaker 1: If I got a go through all these draft processes,
Speaker 1: just watch my film. So I was like, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go be as crazy as I possibly can be because
Speaker 1: it's my last visit.
Speaker 5: To New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: And I left that Bill and I said, they either
Speaker 1: love me or they just crossed me off their lists.
Speaker 3: But they love me, baby, they loved you. They love me,
Speaker 3: And now New England loves me, and Bill still loves me.
Speaker 3: He sends me love notes.
Speaker 4: A good old story from Nuthouse East episode Oh.
Speaker 3: I think here's the story of the first time I
Speaker 3: met Tom Brady.
Speaker 2: All right, all right, here it is. What's your favorite
Speaker 2: Tom memory.
Speaker 3: My favorite Tom memory.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 3: I'll always remember the time when I first met him
Speaker 3: in the locker room.
Speaker 5: You brought it up during your speech. He just came
Speaker 5: up to me.
Speaker 3: I was getting my ankle tape by Jimbo, the Great
Speaker 3: Jim Wallen, Great Jim Wallen, Whalen Wallen. It's been a while,
Speaker 3: Jim Man. I just called you Jimbo for so long.
Speaker 3: I'm forgetting your last name.
Speaker 5: A little bit.
Speaker 3: You got it, all right, I got I got it though.
Speaker 3: He was taping my ankles and Tom just came cruising by.
Speaker 3: You know, I was just some good old.
Speaker 1: Rookie and he just walked up to me and he goes, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm Tom Brady, and I go very nice to meet
Speaker 1: to Tom Brady. I'm Rob Gronkowski. And then he's like,
Speaker 1: let's get after it this year. And then he walked away,
Speaker 1: and I just was like shook. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady just came up to me and introduced himself
Speaker 1: as Tom Brady, Like, of course I know who you
Speaker 1: are Tom Brady's But that was just one of the
Speaker 1: coolest moments I would remember, you know, for rest of
Speaker 1: my life. And uh we just you know, got to
Speaker 1: work from there on out, and he was all business
Speaker 1: right from the beginning. He really was, like we said,
Speaker 1: what he puts on his persona, what he shows, what
Speaker 1: he believes, and he was all business twenty four to
Speaker 1: seven when he was in that building.
Speaker 5: What was your favorite moment.
Speaker 3: Too over at it?
Speaker 4: My favorite moments were the ones who were like we'd
Speaker 4: be throwing routes or something.
Speaker 2: And like he would let me or something like.
Speaker 4: I remember my rookie year, we put in a four
Speaker 4: white personnel group the first the first day of rookie
Speaker 4: or the first day of veteran camp, and so it
Speaker 4: was me, Wes, Joey, Joey Galloway, and Randy and we
Speaker 4: put it in there and I was the why and
Speaker 4: I did the right thing and ended up dropping the
Speaker 4: ball and he.
Speaker 2: Starts just yelling at me, and I like, oh snap.
Speaker 4: And then as soon as we got in the locker room,
Speaker 4: he you know, he he came up to me, he goes, hey,
Speaker 4: you know, if I yell at you, that means I
Speaker 4: like you. And I was like, you know, you must
Speaker 4: really love me, then, bro. You know, that was kind
Speaker 4: of like those those moments where you know he was
Speaker 4: getting on you that's the stuff you remember, you like,
Speaker 4: or you know, the stuff when we'd be training out
Speaker 4: and throwing on a field or something. Those are always
Speaker 4: the memories that you'll remember. Yeah, it's the the big
Speaker 4: plays of that and the other, but I think it's
Speaker 4: the behind the scenes stuff is that was my favorite.
Speaker 1: I would have to agree with you, man, if he
Speaker 1: gets on you, he sees potential in you. And that's
Speaker 1: why he got on your your ass all the time.
Speaker 1: He got on my Robbie my rookie year. I didn't
Speaker 1: really like him my rookie year. I mean he was
Speaker 1: just getting on my case just NonStop, and it was
Speaker 1: kind of kind of mind fucking me so much, and
Speaker 1: I couldn't be myself out there. Sometimes I couldn't run
Speaker 1: the right route because I was just thinking so much,
Speaker 1: because there was just so much on the plate. Aft
Speaker 1: first I got a coach telling me to do this,
Speaker 1: I got Tom telling me to do this, and then
Speaker 1: finally you just figure it out and it all clicks.
Speaker 1: It took me about halfway through my rookie year, and
Speaker 1: then obviously going in my second year, it clicked to
Speaker 1: a whole other level. I mean we went for twenty
Speaker 1: one touchdowns total incling the playoffs, but just my rookie year,
Speaker 1: he was on my case. I remember I ran a
Speaker 1: flag route and I ran inside the guy instead of
Speaker 1: getting outside of him. And he flipped out on me
Speaker 1: in the meeting after the practice and told me he's
Speaker 1: never gonna throw me the ball again, and like I
Speaker 1: got buyer and Alg Crumpler saw it too, and then
Speaker 1: he just he just tapped on my dieh and he's like, yop, gronk,
Speaker 1: don't worry about that.
Speaker 5: He's just Tom's just being Tom man. Just don't worry
Speaker 5: about keep doing you.
Speaker 1: And then it kind of like, you know, put a
Speaker 1: fire under your ass though, and that's what Tom was
Speaker 1: so great at doing it. I didn't really realize that's
Speaker 1: what he was doing either, Like he was just trying
Speaker 1: to get the best out of you, and it kind
Speaker 1: of lit a fire, you know, under my ass. And
Speaker 1: then I just wanted to prove Tom wrong, like all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run this flag route every time now and
Speaker 1: you're never gonna throw me the ball, but I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be open by five yards and.
Speaker 5: You're gonna look like the idiot now.
Speaker 3: And that happened, and then then he threw me the
Speaker 3: ball about six hundred more times from there on out.
Speaker 4: So that was also that example is an example of
Speaker 4: why Tom was Tom because he knew what kind of
Speaker 4: guy each guy was. Like, he could challenge Rob, he
Speaker 4: could challenge me because we we to that challenging like
Speaker 4: in a whole nother like that was the way you
Speaker 4: got us going. You know, other guys he didn't do
Speaker 4: that with and he would do it in a different way,
Speaker 4: you know. Then that's that's the That's the sign of
Speaker 4: a good leader is when someone knows what to get
Speaker 4: out of the guys and how to get it out
Speaker 4: of them.
Speaker 1: And I've seen this before Coach Ballocheck and Tom challenging
Speaker 1: wide receivers and they don't and they don't step up
Speaker 1: to the play after the challenge. And let me tell you,
Speaker 1: those wide receivers or tight ends were gone the next week.
Speaker 1: So hey, if you don't step up to the challenge,
Speaker 1: you know you're gone. That's why I love football, That's
Speaker 1: why I love sports because there ain't no politics here, buddy.
Speaker 5: It's either you got it or you don't.
Speaker 2: Swinker, sim swim.
Speaker 3: Tom is so nice, always so humble.
Speaker 2: Always wanted to make him so proud.
Speaker 1: I know, dude, so proud that like the first time
Speaker 1: that you catch a football from him, you just want
Speaker 1: to make sure you.
Speaker 3: Catch that football.
Speaker 2: You just want to make them proud.
Speaker 1: You do, and then from there on out you want
Speaker 1: to catch that football again, just to make him proud
Speaker 1: and to just gain that trust in him.
Speaker 2: Without a doubt. And shout out to Jimmy ol' whalen.
Speaker 3: Jim Wallen. Without you running the training room, I would
Speaker 3: have never met Tom Brady because you tape my ankles
Speaker 3: and that's when Tom Brady walked by and introduced himself.
Speaker 3: So thank you, Jim Waller.
Speaker 2: You are a great guy. Oh Jimmy from Somerville.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back after this quick break. Wow, well, Jules,
Speaker 3: everybody always wants to know what it's like at halftime
Speaker 3: of an NFL game.
Speaker 2: Well, here you go. Take a look.
Speaker 4: I felt like good coaching, like a real good coach,
Speaker 4: gives you information that helps you. Okay, you know, we're
Speaker 4: all professionals in the locker room. We don't need a
Speaker 4: raw rock guy that should come probably from like a leader,
Speaker 4: that usually came from like you know, one of the players.
Speaker 4: But when you you know at least in our locker rooms.
Speaker 4: Halftimes are always professional, like, this is what we've seen.
Speaker 4: These are the five plays that we're gonna lean on
Speaker 4: because we saw we got good tell from it from
Speaker 4: what we did in the first half. We're getting away
Speaker 4: from this group of plays because they ain't working, they're
Speaker 4: not playing the game we thought it was.
Speaker 2: So these plays take it out of your head.
Speaker 4: That's kind of how halftimes were in our locker room.
Speaker 4: You get four minutes right when you get in just
Speaker 4: to clear your mind while the coaches they go and
Speaker 4: have their discussion. So there's a four minute grace prier
Speaker 4: where guys are just kind of quiet and letting the
Speaker 4: emotions settle down. You know, you're kind of letting everything
Speaker 4: that just happened.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: It's kind of like when the players are all together.
Speaker 4: Then that breaks up where we go into O and
Speaker 4: d oh on one side of the locker room, d
Speaker 4: on the other side of the locker room, and you
Speaker 4: go over those plays that you think you can you know,
Speaker 4: make better, or you go over certain game plan something
Speaker 4: keys that we fell we can have going into the
Speaker 4: second half, and then you come over together as a
Speaker 4: whole unit where the coach gives you his key ease
Speaker 4: of what he thinks we need to do as a
Speaker 4: collective unit to succeed in the second half. That's kind
Speaker 4: of how it was for us. It wasn't like, you know,
Speaker 4: this one's for the get bird type shit.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 4: It was more of, all right, fellas, we ain't doing this, this, this,
Speaker 4: we need to do this, this, this as a team,
Speaker 4: this this, this, thirty more minutes, put your best foot forward.
Speaker 4: We all just need to play our job, do our
Speaker 4: job well, and let's go. And then that's kind of
Speaker 4: how it was.
Speaker 3: Set it right on, baby, That's how it was every week.
Speaker 2: That's how it didn't change.
Speaker 3: Did changed regular season, playoffs or super Bowl?
Speaker 5: That's how it was.
Speaker 2: Man, super Bowl is just longer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was longer.
Speaker 1: And he got us prepared because in practice the week before,
Speaker 1: we would practice for an hour and then he would
Speaker 1: take us off the field for yeah or twenty minutes,
Speaker 1: whatever the halftime was, and then we would go back
Speaker 1: out to the practice field and we were all pissed
Speaker 1: because practice would be longer than you.
Speaker 3: Know what it's all about.
Speaker 1: You know, if you can't make those in game adjustments,
Speaker 1: you're never gonna win in the game of football.
Speaker 4: And ain't nobody do it better than coach Belichick himself.
Speaker 3: All right, this one is an absolute classic. You got
Speaker 3: a throwback to the college days.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and gentlemen, this is the time you spent your
Speaker 4: whole check, your scholarship check and your brothers to go
Speaker 4: buy a freaking hot tub in college.
Speaker 2: Let's go.
Speaker 5: It was worth it?
Speaker 2: Okay, hey was it worth it? It was worth it?
Speaker 1: System already we played Halo twenty four to seven on
Speaker 1: on Xbox. I was like, I don't need this in
Speaker 1: a tondo week. He saw it for me on Craigslist
Speaker 1: for the amount that it goes for in stores. I
Speaker 1: threw him my fifty bucks and I had like another
Speaker 1: two hundred dollars to buy people beer.
Speaker 4: You know what, I bet you if the NCAA knew
Speaker 4: about that, he would have got fucking fined.
Speaker 2: Hell you would have been You would.
Speaker 5: Have a fine gift.
Speaker 3: You're allowed to sell a gift.
Speaker 2: Are you?
Speaker 8: But that sound crazy? I told like two months, here's
Speaker 8: selling wheeze. And you go to a college player's fucking
Speaker 8: the players a lot. Now all you see is Lamborghinis,
Speaker 8: These little fucking college kids.
Speaker 3: It's crazy.
Speaker 4: Rob's over here trying to get fifty dollars from a Craigslist.
Speaker 2: All of his all.
Speaker 1: I knew it was fifteen bucks a week, and I
Speaker 1: was satisfied.
Speaker 3: It got the job to get you. It got me
Speaker 3: a thirty pack, and it got me lunch. That's all
Speaker 3: I needed.
Speaker 1: That's all I needed, folks, protein shake and thirty beteen
Speaker 1: shakes and beers.
Speaker 4: Now, did you just get the protein shakes back at
Speaker 4: the facility?
Speaker 1: Well, actually, yeah, yeah, I got the protein shakes at
Speaker 1: the facility and a dinner which I would bring back
Speaker 1: as well. We would like like stack up the to go,
Speaker 1: so then we would have kind of like an actual
Speaker 1: launch or a dinner that night the next night as well,
Speaker 1: just in case if we need some backup food beers
Speaker 1: and and the food.
Speaker 3: But dang, I forgot. Oh oh, I now I know
Speaker 3: why I had no money.
Speaker 5: That's where I was going.
Speaker 1: I had no money in college because my brother and
Speaker 1: I we pulled all our money together.
Speaker 3: I was left in our bank account. We bought a
Speaker 3: hot tub.
Speaker 1: The first three weeks too at the University of Ariicona.
Speaker 1: Literally we drained our bank accounts. They were at zero dollars. Yep, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's us. Yeah, the guy, I mean back to Fred Warner,
Speaker 1: I mean the guy twenty twenty one. He had a
Speaker 1: record breaking contract, five years, ninety five million dollars. He
Speaker 1: reset the linebacker market. So are all you other linebackers
Speaker 1: out there thank Fred Warner. Forty point five million dollars guaranteed.
Speaker 1: I mean just superstore. What was his first purchase? I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. I f're like, he's a reserved, you know guy,
Speaker 1: and people should be looking up to him for sure.
Speaker 5: Off the field and on the field.
Speaker 3: My first purchase, that's a good question.
Speaker 4: First, when you got your first paid or when you
Speaker 4: got drafted, what was your first.
Speaker 1: My first purchase, I've always wanted an escalate, So I
Speaker 1: actually bought a used two thousand and eight Escalade and
Speaker 1: they had thirty thousand miles on it, and it was
Speaker 1: the red, the red one, and I just thought I
Speaker 1: was so freaking cool, man.
Speaker 5: I had the rims, I had everything.
Speaker 3: It was the best car of all time I've ever had.
Speaker 1: So I got get an escalator again. Man, it's been
Speaker 1: a while. That was my only escalade I've ever owned.
Speaker 1: I had it for about four years and then I
Speaker 1: gave it to my mom. Because I'm a good guy
Speaker 1: like that, you know, but great car man. That was
Speaker 1: my first purchase. How about you, Jewels, what was yours?
Speaker 2: I bought a laptop.
Speaker 4: Laptop that's my Sonny bonus was forty eight five, bro
Speaker 4: was I didn't think I was gonna make the team.
Speaker 2: I bought a fucking Apple laptop like one of the
Speaker 2: new Macs. I still have it.
Speaker 1: You were getting ready for your next job. Actually when
Speaker 1: you bought it, You're like, I'm not gonna make this. No,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll be an accountant.
Speaker 4: Randy Moss, My Swelker, Joey Galloway trading for Greg Lewis.
Speaker 3: You divide the odds, Jewels, just get a laptop?
Speaker 2: How many? How many times you clean that? Bad boy?
Speaker 3: All right, we can get into that.
Speaker 2: You didn't clean that thing once?
Speaker 5: No.
Speaker 3: Oh, he actually had to drain it a few times
Speaker 3: because the water got so nasty and dirty. But so
Speaker 3: we didn't really clean it.
Speaker 1: We just drained it every once in a while after
Speaker 1: Saturday nights, I mean Saturday Sunday mornings. I mean, but man,
Speaker 1: it was worth it. It was worth it, all right. We
Speaker 1: all know one Brady story wasn't enough.
Speaker 4: Well, here's Rob's favorite on field memory with old TB twelve,
Speaker 4: what's your favorite tone memory?
Speaker 1: My favorite Tom memory is actually, this is one of
Speaker 1: my favorite memories of all time. You know, when we
Speaker 1: were playing the Indianapolis Colts and I ran that five
Speaker 1: yard out route, caught it versus Dee Kwyl Jackson. I
Speaker 1: did a little spin move, he kind of fell, did
Speaker 1: a little split.
Speaker 5: It was like, very great route by me. Great after
Speaker 5: the catch too.
Speaker 1: And then I'm running, you know, going, There's a couple
Speaker 1: other guys and here comes Julian Adamman kaboom, just absolutely
Speaker 1: levels Adams the safety, you know, gets them out of
Speaker 1: my way. I'm like, thanks Jules for the block, you know,
Speaker 1: and then I'm running into the end zone.
Speaker 3: I jump over Butler. Yeah, dB, yeah, DBI.
Speaker 1: What's his first name again, Yeah, Darius Butler who was
Speaker 1: previously on the on the Patriots and then he went
Speaker 1: to the Colts and now he's doing he's doing a
Speaker 1: great job in the media. Yeah, it was a McAfee show.
Speaker 1: He's doing a great job. So shout out to Darius Butler.
Speaker 1: But I jumped over his ass, made me look goods flipped.
Speaker 3: Into the end zone.
Speaker 1: I looked like an athletic one hundred and eighty pound
Speaker 1: wide receiver. And then this was the moment, one of
Speaker 1: my favorite moments with him. Tom loved the route, loved
Speaker 1: the catch, loved your block. He was so pumped up.
Speaker 1: He ran full speed from the thirty yard line and
Speaker 1: probably because I got him a touchdown on a play
Speaker 1: where it never should have been a touchdown.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And he came.
Speaker 3: Running full speed and jumped on my back and went
Speaker 3: for a ride.
Speaker 5: Man. He was. He was like a pony on a horse.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: I brought him for a ride. Man.
Speaker 1: I was carrying Tom Brady around in the freaking end zone.
Speaker 2: He was. He was on my put the pony on
Speaker 2: the horses.
Speaker 1: I was waiting for him to drop that quarter in
Speaker 1: so the rock can keep on going. Yes, I don't
Speaker 1: want him to get off. I was like, Tom Brady's
Speaker 1: on my back, Like like.
Speaker 5: What else do I need in my life?
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And it's one of my favorite pictures to sign to
Speaker 1: this day as well. I don't think he ever signed it.
Speaker 1: It costs like five billion dollars to get him to
Speaker 1: sign a picture. So like I always signed the picture
Speaker 1: on my back and like I'm waiting for that picture
Speaker 1: to be worth a lot more money once he signs it.
Speaker 1: The couple, you know, but he hasn't signed it yet.
Speaker 2: Man, that was a fucking fun play.
Speaker 5: That was a fun play.
Speaker 2: Thank you for that Black Oh you level Adams.
Speaker 4: Adams he's talking in the safety the battle he was
Speaker 4: with Denver Battle.
Speaker 2: He battled us a lot. Man.
Speaker 3: He brought it, He brought it to and he wasn't scared.
Speaker 3: He was good. Yeah, there it is. There's a picture
Speaker 3: right there. Oh wait, he signed there it is.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 5: He's going for a ride.
Speaker 3: I'm still waiting for those corners.
Speaker 5: Tom.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: There's Tim right right in the back too. We won
Speaker 3: the super Bowl this year, didn't we? And we won
Speaker 3: a super Bowl this year? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was who Man was was a
Speaker 1: tight end as well in the two Tim Right and
Speaker 1: who Man?
Speaker 5: I love who Man?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 5: What was your favorite memory, Jules?
Speaker 2: My favorite memory was when.
Speaker 4: We it it kind of that fourteen when he, uh,
Speaker 4: we hit that route. He came up to me afterwards
Speaker 4: and he and he goes, that was a championship route, man,
Speaker 4: and like it was nothing crazy, that's special. And he
Speaker 4: when he you know, he goes that was a championship play, man,
Speaker 4: And we didn't win the game.
Speaker 1: Make me wanted to right now because him saying that's
Speaker 1: a championship route, that's a championship play.
Speaker 5: That means a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And then afterwards when he we won, you know, like
Speaker 4: that was his That was when he got four and
Speaker 4: I just remember, you know, there were so many memories
Speaker 4: of him, like you said, how he's having the ticker
Speaker 4: of the Super Bowl location and the whole story where
Speaker 4: I said, man, I'm gonna help you try to get
Speaker 4: to Joe, and because we were both Bay Area fans,
Speaker 4: love Joe Montana, and I told me he was the
Speaker 4: greatest quarterback of all time.
Speaker 2: And you know that.
Speaker 4: All that was just a fun memory. There's so many
Speaker 4: it's hard to fucking do one.
Speaker 2: We'll come all right. I mean, I'm gonna start crying.
Speaker 3: I know me too.
Speaker 2: A pony on a horse, Rob.
Speaker 3: Jeels, I think we should trademark that line.
Speaker 2: Let's make a T shirt. Did you ever get that quarter?
Speaker 3: No, Tom's cheap.
Speaker 4: Here's old Rob and I reminiscing about the great fans
Speaker 4: that we got to play in front of over in
Speaker 4: New England.
Speaker 3: The best fans in the World Foxboro, Forever.
Speaker 4: That was a great city to play for. That was
Speaker 4: the best if you got to think about it. Like
Speaker 4: as far as being a pro sport town like the
Speaker 4: Red we went to fucking We watched the Red Sox
Speaker 4: winning World Series. We watched the Bruins win a World
Speaker 4: Cup or championship. I was there early when the Celtics
Speaker 4: did it in twenty ten or nine to eight. It
Speaker 4: was two thousand and eight, right when they got it.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 2: I went to those games.
Speaker 5: Bro.
Speaker 1: I would not change a thing, man. It was the
Speaker 1: best times of our life and the best part about
Speaker 1: it the whole city of Boston, the whole area of
Speaker 1: New England, hands down, the bets the best sports town,
Speaker 1: and I would say the whole world. I played in Tampa,
Speaker 1: you know, we went on the road to play in
Speaker 1: other cities. I've been, you know, in Europe, to go
Speaker 1: to the soccer games and stuff. I'm telling you, hands down,
Speaker 1: New England is the best area for any pro sports
Speaker 1: team out there.
Speaker 4: And the cool thing about it is it's not just
Speaker 4: Boston for us. Our team was New England. So we
Speaker 4: hit those five states New Hampshire, Vermont, Yes, Rhode Island,
Speaker 4: six Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine.
Speaker 5: Some New York, you know, some parts.
Speaker 4: I always call Connecticut half New York, half mass I.
Speaker 1: Don't even consider Connecticut as New England. So they say
Speaker 1: New Connecticut is one of the states that are part
Speaker 1: of New England, and that just kind of throws me off.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, it's not like, that's not New England.
Speaker 4: Like, but you get it's weird. You'll have some it's
Speaker 4: it's really fucking crazy.
Speaker 2: In Connecticut.
Speaker 4: You get a lot of these people that are like
Speaker 4: Patriots fans and like Yankee fans, you know, or you
Speaker 4: get like you'll get like a Jets and a Celtics fan,
Speaker 4: or you know, it's it's fucking crazy MIxS emotions.
Speaker 1: They're the best fans in the world, best sports fans
Speaker 1: in the world. Foxborough forever. But Jules, you live in
Speaker 1: La now, man, I live in Foxboro.
Speaker 3: I'm Foxboro forever.
Speaker 4: It's still have my place in Boston and still go there.
Speaker 4: That's not Foxborough, hey man, New England. It's New England,
Speaker 4: New England.
Speaker 1: Well, now you got two t shirts Foxborough Forever, which
Speaker 1: I'll sell and you can be New England Forever, New
Speaker 1: England forever.
Speaker 4: Well, folks, that's been another episode of Dudes on Dudes.
Speaker 4: What can we do better next time? Rob, self scout, Uh.
Speaker 1: We could drink more caffeine next episode. We can talk
Speaker 1: even faster than we did this time. And if we're
Speaker 1: talking this fast, we can talk about more objects and
Speaker 1: more subjects and more activities that we want to talk about,
Speaker 1: and the fans can enjoy more. I like that, self Scout.
Speaker 4: I like that Alex would get mad at us, though,
Speaker 4: because if you drink a lot of caffeine, it kills
Speaker 4: an endorphin.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I also dehydrates your muscles.
Speaker 2: The hydrates your muscle. But happy holidays, right.
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