WEBVTT - The Best of Gronk and Jules! 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:02.200 My little brother. He was mini sticking around. I came 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:04.359 full speed and checked him, and he went flying backwards. 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:06.960 And he had to go to the hospital on Christmas 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:09.080 Day because I love him so bad. He had to 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:12.800 get stitches across his chin. So Christmas was always a present. 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.200 Welcome to Dudes on Dudes. I'm Julian Edelman. 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.680 I'm Roberto Grenkowski. 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:20.120 And this is the show where your favorite dudes get 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:21.680 to talk about their favorite dudes. 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:26.040 Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Honika. 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.720 To celebrate the holidays, we're gonna look back on some 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:32.240 of our best moments. I'm the mic together, good times 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:35.360 in the Nutthouse, the time we got in trouble with Coach. 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:38.959 Belichick acting like drunk idiots. Of course we are, we're 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:39.720 young and dumb. 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:42.760 Or maybe the time Rob fell asleep in during the 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:43.800 Patriots draft meeting. 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:45.800 You know, juwel so sometimes you just got to take 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:46.520 a little nap. 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.959 Oh what about when I bought a hot tub in college? 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.920 How many times you clean that bad boy? You didn't 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:56.560 clean that thing once? No, and there's a whole lot more. 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:00.840 So let's get into it. Let's go double in sync. 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:01.520 Let's go. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.240 Dudes on Dudes. Is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:12.480 As a kid, I always wanted a mini bike, and 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:14.400 my dad surprised me with a mini bike. 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.680 You want to know how he did it good? I 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:17.720 knew you wanted to know how. 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.200 That's that's why I love you, buddy, because you want 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.120 to know all about my stories. But so I go downstairs, 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:25.119 you know, I sneak peek. I get up early five 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:27.479 five am. I go down there and I'm looking all over, 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.800 feeling the presence lifting up, like, you know, the big 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:33.240 presence as well, like there's usually a blanket over the 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:33.800 big presence. 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:34.639 Seeing what I got. 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.200 I wanted a mini bike, you know, mini bikes with 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.520 the engines, and there was no mini bike, you know. 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:41.319 So I went back to bed. I was like, oh whatever. 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:42.399 I was a little disappointed. 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:45.160 So I wake up at eight am, then go down. 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.520 Open up all the presents, and then my dad was like, yo, yo, 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.440 ro go, grab me a snapple in the garage. I 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:53.640 was like, oh, okay, no problem, dad. I go in 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:55.640 and I open up the garage door. I walk down 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:57.840 the stairs and boom there's a mini bike right, Oh 0:01:57.880 --> 0:01:59.920 my gosh fridge. And I was like, oh, best man, 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.639 Best Christmas ever. I loved it so much. My brothers 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:05.600 loved the mini bike as well. Oh it was called 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:09.200 the Little Brute. We still have it. It was your 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:10.760 favorite Hanakah memory. 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:11.120 You know. 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.360 I love the new I'm creating new Hanukka traditions with 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.360 my daughter. That's been very fun because she's dua does both. 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.200 I did both as a kid, but I. 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:20.880 Had I don't. 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:22.919 I was just hearing your story and my dad did 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:26.760 the same fucking thing like he. We were ropeing all 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.200 our presents and at the end, I wanted some three 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:34.000 piece cranks for my bike. It was like, I don't 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:37.440 know why. It was some bike thing, and UH didn't 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.640 have them. And my dad said, go go get your 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:41.560 laundry out of the. 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:43.600 Dryer. 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.639 And I go out there and the cranks are in 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:51.480 the dryer and the same soppy story, what's up with 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:53.040 Dad's doing that? Because I started, I did that. Have 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.280 my daughter with a puppy. You'll probably end up doing 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.400 that to your kid. It's so fun to get to 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.160 see your kids like. 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:03.120 Surprise and then and then how happy they are. I 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.760 guess that makes you happy as a parent. I mean, 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.080 I just have a doggie, and it makes me happy 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.640 when my dog gets surprised with just a toy that 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:11.200 I bought him. 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.360 Yeah, same thing with the kid, but the kid. 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.600 And then also was really cool about Christmas was like 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:17.440 as a kid, we would play mini sticks in the 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:19.920 basement the whole entire day after we opened up presents. 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.320 And one time, it's actually on film, I think it's 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.480 on the internet. Is that my little brother he was 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.760 mini sticking around. I came full speed and checked him 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.640 and he went flying backwards and he actually like the 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:31.920 stick came up and hit him across the chin or 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.359 he went like to the side and his chin hit 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:36.480 the ground. I fully can't remember it, but it is 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.760 on film. And he had to go to the hospital 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.840 on Christmas Day because I leveled him so bad he 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:43.360 had to get stitches across his chin. 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.119 So that's why I am WHI. 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.520 Yeah, that's why I'm a tough sob because I was 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.400 getting beat up on it, and then I was beating 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:51.280 up on my little brother. So I always took the 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:53.120 hits and I knew how to give the hits because 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:57.280 of my brothers. Christmas was always a present. So it 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.560 was Glenn who got the Super Bowl ring with us. 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:04.040 When the one younger one. Yeah, the only younger grunk. 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.560 He was getting beat up by two brothers and so 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.480 he would beat up on little Glenn exactly. 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:11.160 Man Hanukkah. 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.800 Christmas, that time of the year when you're an athlete 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.719 for like the last fifteen years of our career or whatever, 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.919 you didn't really it was never it was always like 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.920 postponed or you know, it was one a different day 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.040 because you'd have work on practice. But I tell you 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:32.840 some of those holiday practices, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Honago, 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.799 whatever it is, like, those were some of the funnest 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:40.160 practices because you knew you just had practice and then 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.039 after that you had the rest of the day. 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:42.760 Do you remember those? 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.320 I do, Man, I mean it kind of sucked when 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:47.080 you were playing a sport because like you really couldn't 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.960 see your family, your friends, all that good stuff. You 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.600 had a sacrifice, you know, either with practice or actually 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.040 playing on the road for a game, which was always fun, 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.760 but having that practice that day was always the most. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.920 Oh his practice, like you said, there was no meetings, 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:04.640 there's no lift after the practice. 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:05.680 Everyone was in a good mood. 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:07.800 Everyone was even the coaches. 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:14.119 Were coaches had a little jingle in their Steph Man, 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:15.760 are you ready to get back into some of our 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:16.640 other best moments? 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:21.560 Yeah, let's just do it. Oh for golly, Oh what 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:23.360 a memory from what I remember? 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:26.600 What a memory from all we remember? 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.080 But who could forget the time we had a little 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:32.760 bit too much fun after Gowe we were coach ballcheck 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:38.760 found out about it? Oopsiees scroll it out, roll the tape. 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.640 People always think that, like you still just go out 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:42.200 and party. 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.560 No, I mean I love to have a great time, 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:48.279 no doubt about it. I mean, dude, we partied so 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:51.320 hard back in the day though too. Like remember us 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:56.080 on that golf cart and where and nan Tucket forwe weekend. 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.279 We got so much trouble though for that because what 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:03.560 you had a surgery? I think it was my forum 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.200 and no was it? And then I had a foot. 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.560 We were both getting pulled. We were in the back of. 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.279 It was we were in the back of a golf 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:17.599 cart and people were filming us. And then we waited 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:19.200 so much, and I think the people in the front 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:20.880 got off the golf cart. And when they got off 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.440 the golf cart, the front two wheels went up in 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.520 the air and we fell right onto the ground and 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:31.280 like face Planeted. And the crazy thing about it is 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.320 we had no clue that we even did that until 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:37.479 we saw the video on Barstool four days later, and 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.560 the caption of Barstool was not really sure. We want 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:44.359 our star wide receiver and tight end acting like this 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:47.480 and for Goali, but we love them for it. Yeah, 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.400 And I was like, that's why I love Barstool. 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.080 They're sticking up for us. Bro. 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:54.320 You remember how mad Bill was, Oh man, you fucking 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:59.520 assholes kid Like Jesus Christ, do you guys just stay 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.000 out of them the headlines hurt? 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:02.719 Yeah. 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.280 Yeah, you guys aren't even in practicing right now. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:07.640 You can't even go on the field and you're. 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:11.040 Acting like drunk idiots a GOLLI of course we are. 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:12.040 We're young and dumb. 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:14.400 I would not change a thing. Bro. 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.240 Imagine if we didn't do that now and we try 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:18.360 to do it, and we try to do it now, 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.160 it would be hard to do it now. We did 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.560 it when we could. That's the best part about it. 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:23.840 We did it when we could. 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.559 That was such a fun trip on trip. 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:27.640 Did you pull it up? 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:28.400 Do you have that? 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:29.680 It's online somewhere? 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.720 Dude, Let's look at it. 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.360 Look how young we look in all the video. 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:35.800 Thanks for watching the fumble. 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.880 You know your Memorial Day weekend would lit when Justin 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.600 timber Like tweets you to compliment on your dance moves. 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:44.160 Yeah, I'm talking about Gronk. 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:45.320 He spent the weekend with. 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.880 Julian Edelman partying in Nantucket. Here's a glimpse into their weekend. 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:50.720 Edelman let us know exactly. 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:53.360 Oh, that's Tom's part. 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:54.520 I thought it was mine. 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:59.320 Jealous of Tom. 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:05.840 Right later, we'll get us, dude, we were main yet 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.520 you're pouring a beer on my head on front row 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:10.240 of the concert. 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.480 Patriots fans a little nervous when he attempted to do 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:15.760 the splits and crawl on the floor at the same time. 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.720 This was two months before training camp Bell were training. 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:26.960 We're stretching Their. 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:28.880 Entire pat season flashed before their eyes. 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.360 Here we go, is a that's what happened. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:35.640 Oh, that's what happened. 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.280 But no worries. They were okay enough to dance to 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:40.120 Justin Timberlake on stage later that. 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.000 Night, which is what I don't remember him being there. 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:50.280 That's in Gronk move right there. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.120 Yeah, we used to dance our face off. 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.160 I swear that made us better. 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.199 Players though, because we were doing so many different type of. 0:08:57.400 --> 0:09:00.400 Tal Yes, Kalistenics, it was our cardio. 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.920 We were dancing for four hours straight and we burned 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.000 off all the alcohol while we were dancing too. 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:06.400 That's why we're always ready to go. 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.760 When we showed up, good Times, Jules, good Times, it 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.320 was totally well worth it. And uh, we got to 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.880 get back there next year, and this time we should 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:16.880 actually take Coach with us and show him how it's 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.400 done and show him why it's such a great time 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:21.679 doing those silly things that we were doing. 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:23.880 Oh, I bet your coach is gonna be a fake, 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:25.320 doesn't He has an Intucket spot. 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:26.720 He'll probably be out there. 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:28.720 I think that video, he'll be out. 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:30.920 You know, he's gonna be there this year. Maybe we 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:32.800 go check him out at Fagali this year. 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:33.080 Rob. 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:35.600 That was so much fun and we got yelled at 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.240 so much because of the fun we had. Maybe we'll 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:42.800 bump into mister Fun himself at Fai mister Fun himself. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.560 Oh wait a second, Oh, I bet you deep down 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:51.679 mister Fun was probably inspired by us with that video 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:53.680 that he went out and bought that house in Kentucket. 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.320 He probably bought that house because of us, because of 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:56.760 that video. 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.560 He's been there for years. I don't care. Inspired jokers 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.320 there a lot longer before. I don't care. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.760 We're just going to pretend he was inspired by us. 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:08.280 We'll be right back after this quick break. Every legend 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:13.880 has a legendary story origin. An old Robbie boy took 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:19.800 us through the pre draft visit. That was the funniest, craziest, 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:24.280 most memorable visit of all time, rob Were you sleeping 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:25.000 or not sleeping? 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:28.120 I was sleeping. I was one hundred percent sleeping. Kach 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.080 Balchuk actually talked about it on air. 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.360 I think he talked about it on air. Let's take 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:32.959 a look at it. 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.360 I was so sick of that visit, dude. It wasn't 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.319 just a visit. Were just wasn't the visit to the Patriots. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.640 So what I went on like a little tour like 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.000 you go in. I visited twelve different teams. It's kind 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.560 of like you're going on these recruiting visits to each 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.280 team because they want to get to know you. Yeah, 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.720 the New England Patriots were the last ones on the list, 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:53.280 and bro I was sick. 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.240 I was flying from Denver to Jacksonville. 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.480 To freaking Baltimore meeting with every team, and I was 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.400 so sick of it, and you know, putting like kind 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.640 of a front on it as well, and I was 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:05.720 literally so sick of I go, I want to be 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:06.839 outrageous here. 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.200 I need to have some fun with it. I remember 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:10.319 I was kind of hung over to. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.640 Feeling like crap all these flights. I went out and 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:15.960 partied a couple of the Knights too, so I wasn't 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:17.640 even feeling like myself. So I was like, how do 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:19.680 you get back to normal? You just you just become 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.400 outrageous and I show up ro I was so tired. 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.960 First thing I do is fall asleep in Nancy's office. Yeah, 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:27.839 Bill Belichick heard all about it. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:28.920 He coln't believe it. 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.520 And then I go into the interview session and Billy 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.840 O'Brien draws a play up and then he races on 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.600 the board. He's like, all right, can you name what 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.439 the wide receivers did, like rename their route and what 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.760 the responsibility was. I was like, bro, I have no clue. 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.400 I couldn't even think. And then he's like he's like, 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.080 what do you do? I was like, you're just throwing 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.800 me the fucking ball. Billy oh, I'll make some guys, miss, 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.160 I'll run over some people. He's like, he's like, but 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:54.720 you don't know the playoffs. Like I don't need to 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:56.920 know the play you throw me the ball. Like That's 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:00.360 basically how our interview went. And then I literally out 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.360 of there called Drew Rosenhouse. I said, this team is 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.439 either gonna take me or they're fucking laughing at me. 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.840 And I give no fucks because I'm over this whole process. 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:11.199 So what happens. Patriots trade up for me for the 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.800 forty second pick in the NFL Draft in twenty ten 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:14.280 and select me. 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:15.440 And I looked around the table. 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:17.600 I said, I told you they were gonna take me. 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.160 But Billy, Oh, So going back to where we started, 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:27.000 that is Gronk right there, that whole thing, and they 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.920 built up like I remember them talking about you, the 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.360 coaches saying like, yeah, man, you're gonna love this kid. 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:34.920 He's fucking just awesome. 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:37.840 He had like you explained the whole thing that you 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.760 just explained and like that was like, oh my god, 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.360 what like that doesn't happen in New England, you know 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:43.840 what I mean? 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:45.360 And Gronk kinda. 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.280 From your little story right there, you can kind of 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:50.920 portray that you're not a smart football player, like, but 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.160 you were like brilliant. Like they would explain that, like, 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.640 don't think that Gronk didn't know his fucking plays. This 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.640 guy you coached him once on one thing. He never 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.319 had to say it again. Like he was like one 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:04.199 of the most football intelligent guys. 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:04.640 I knew. 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:06.920 Yes, I mean at that time when I was doing 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:08.960 the interview, I was beat down. I was sick of it, 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.440 so I couldn't really recall, you know, the play after 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:13.520 he showed it to me. And then also I did 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.640 struggle a little bit though my rookie year with the playbook, 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:18.959 I actually would have probably started every single game from 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:21.640 the beginning my first eight games. I only was playing 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.120 about fifteen to twenty plays a game, if you can 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:27.360 recall that. And then finally boom, the playbook hit. I 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.199 mean it was a tough playbook. I mean in college, 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.720 I literally think I had like fifteen plays and I 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.280 lined up in the same spot every single play. And 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:36.400 I get to New England and man, let me tell you, 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.479 that playbook was outrageous. 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.800 And it's not just the playbook, it's the personnel groups 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.360 you're playing. Why you're playing f exactly. 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:44.480 You know what I mean. It's wheels. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.079 You guys gotta flop like it was. It was definitely tough. 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:50.520 It was definitely a change the fucking formations. There's so 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.080 many goddamn formations. 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:53.600 Drove me crazy. Like I said, in college, I had 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.120 one formation. I lined up in the same spot every 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.280 single play. I'm not lying every single play. I get 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:04.080 to New England, what sixty five different formations? Yeah, actually 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.360 probably one hundred and fifty different formations, but then we 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:07.960 narrowed it down to about sixty five. 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:10.000 My head was spinning all over. 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.400 The place, and finally it just clicked, you know, once 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.360 I got it under control. About week ten, to remember, 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:18.880 I scored that touchdown versus Chicago Bears versus Brian Urlacker. 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.280 Oh yeah, what was that panther route where I had 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:22.960 to just get big right at the goal line and 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.400 then Tom was gonna throw it low. And then we 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:27.440 hit it in practice at Friday. Then we hit it 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.160 in the game that Sunday, and since then I was 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.760 starting every single play. You know, Jewels, sometimes you just 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:33.800 got to take a little nap. I was just resting 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.720 my eyes, making sure that my brain was firing on 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:39.240 all cylinders. So then when I went and got tested 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.240 on the playbook that I was firing and I could 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.560 remember everything that was going on because they, like they said, 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:45.960 a power nap, a twenty minute power napp can get 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:47.280 you to where you need to be. 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.920 But let me tell you that was also my seventeenth visit. 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.400 In like four days, I was all over the United 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.720 States doing pre job interviews for all these teams, and 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:57.160 let me tell you, I was sick of it. 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:57.720 I was over. 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:59.560 I was like, I don't even want to get dropped anymore. 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.640 If I got a go through all these draft processes, 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:03.640 just watch my film. So I was like, I'm gonna 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.840 go be as crazy as I possibly can be because 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:07.920 it's my last visit. 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:08.760 To New England Patriots. 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.800 And I left that Bill and I said, they either 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.040 love me or they just crossed me off their lists. 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.440 But they love me, baby, they loved you. They love me, 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.920 And now New England loves me, and Bill still loves me. 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:20.200 He sends me love notes. 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:26.480 A good old story from Nuthouse East episode Oh. 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.080 I think here's the story of the first time I 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:30.480 met Tom Brady. 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:33.960 All right, all right, here it is. What's your favorite 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:35.040 Tom memory. 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:36.800 My favorite Tom memory. 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:37.160 Man. 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.800 I'll always remember the time when I first met him 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:41.560 in the locker room. 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.160 You brought it up during your speech. He just came 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:44.560 up to me. 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:49.000 I was getting my ankle tape by Jimbo, the Great 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:54.120 Jim Wallen, Great Jim Wallen, Whalen Wallen. It's been a while, 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.240 Jim Man. I just called you Jimbo for so long. 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:57.440 I'm forgetting your last name. 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:57.680 A little bit. 0:15:57.880 --> 0:15:59.560 You got it, all right, I got I got it though. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.760 He was taping my ankles and Tom just came cruising by. 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:04.480 You know, I was just some good old. 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.200 Rookie and he just walked up to me and he goes, hey, 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:10.360 I'm Tom Brady, and I go very nice to meet 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:14.000 to Tom Brady. I'm Rob Gronkowski. And then he's like, 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.760 let's get after it this year. And then he walked away, 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:20.240 and I just was like shook. I was like, man, 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:23.760 Tom Brady just came up to me and introduced himself 0:16:23.760 --> 0:16:26.320 as Tom Brady, Like, of course I know who you 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:28.560 are Tom Brady's But that was just one of the 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:32.320 coolest moments I would remember, you know, for rest of 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:36.240 my life. And uh we just you know, got to 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.320 work from there on out, and he was all business 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:41.080 right from the beginning. He really was, like we said, 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.320 what he puts on his persona, what he shows, what 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.560 he believes, and he was all business twenty four to 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:49.040 seven when he was in that building. 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:50.720 What was your favorite moment. 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:51.280 Too over at it? 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:55.080 My favorite moments were the ones who were like we'd 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:56.760 be throwing routes or something. 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.640 And like he would let me or something like. 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.040 I remember my rookie year, we put in a four 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.800 white personnel group the first the first day of rookie 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.720