The Tom Brady Episode | Gronk & Jules Show

Welcome to Fox Bear. I'm Julian Edelman. And I'm Rob Gronkowski and we're sitting here in the press box ready to call this game We may have a sneak peek of a new kind of guest here this week. Yes, and this guy's was into all the fame two years ago He broke all the rules, but it's not about him this week, and it's about me Julian I make the rules. I tell you what you're gonna do. I tell you what questions you're gonna ask and I'm gonna tell this so called Greatest player of all time what to do as well. I don't care who he is Okay, yeah, yeah, it's a different day. I'm in charge. We got Tom Brady First question Tom. Yeah, Tom. We all want to know why have you ducked our podcast for four years? That's the first question. Don't say our podcast. He's been ducking yours like for four years before my and he's been ducking you for like five years Five years. I literally what's been going on? What's going on? I want to hear it. I called a ball. McAfee. Keep going. Keep going. You want to answer my question? I want to hear your answer. Yeah, I've been dogging your agent all the time to say how can you get how can I get on this show? And I just want to be on and you guys honestly feel like you just keep pushing me off so I'm starting to feel like I was getting desperate here on the only place I could do it. I'd drive you guys up here after this game and been sitting here and finally you guys agreed to do it. So thanks Tom. Don't you guys have the same agent? Listen, you weigh too many details. You know, shut up. You're not supposed to know these things. Okay. I have another seven other six. What does it feel like being back in Gillette? What does it feel like? Yeah, I would say on a while. Yesterday was epic. Celebrating this guy. And you know, there's a lot of like full circle moments you have as a person in your life and you have like great perspective and he came in as like whatever 20, 21 years old, 20 years old, when shut up and let me answer even drink. Okay, you're making up for it. So you came in as this young immature guy still am still him. No, but you're much more mature now and like you're, you know, you've totally. It's amazing what you've what you've become. So I guess I feel a sense of pride like, you know, not like a, you know, but like a sibling, you know, like I think in a lot of ways, we spent a lot of time together, you know, in on the field, off the field, meeting rooms. And we saw each other grow up. So it's just really amazing to be back here with people that I love. And I wish I had a chance to see more people obviously with this game here. I was working and my focus was there. But, you know, anytime I come back, I love being back. Is there one single memory that you remember from here that there's got to be one that when you came in here, because we all saw that epic shot of you walking in, looking cool as they come, getting ready for all the game. Yeah, I thought I thought I thought I look cooler today. You look great. I wish there was one. I there's one every part of this stadium. Just one, just name one, that's all we don't want to name like 10 because we can call day just one memory, like one of your favorite memory. I got two. All right, two great memories. Two. Okay, one involved Julian on a pun return against Denver. And I remember seeing him return the touch for touchdown against Denver. And he came to the sideline. And there's a great NFL films. You must have mic'd up and you're like, what are you doing down there? And I said, I go, I got to go hang with my, you know, go check you out, bubs or something like that. And it's just that was great with jewels. And then you, I remember being on that first side, learn about the 20 yard line on our side line after you made that catch against us. That one handed catch. And I go, how the fuck did you catch that? Yes. You know, so I think to me, it's people. And you know, you'll spark a lot of memories, you'll spark a lot of memories. I had so many in here with so many, you know, so many great teammates. But, you know, that, that happened, that play right there. Happened time because we built so much trust together throughout the years, man. So it was a play like we were scrambling a little bit. There was no one really open. It was a play action. You had some pressure and you're like, Oh crap. You know, what do I do? I'm just going to throw it up the ground because that's the best chance. Like I know he's at least going to knock it down or something. He literally just toss it. I really know he was throwing it. You're kind of throwing it away. I just went up there and snagged it with the ground brace on to just one hand or brought in, caught it on the two yard line. And then Josh McDaniel's was like, that was such a great catch. He needs to touch down. So what do you call it? We called it on the next place. We called that, you know, the goal line formation where we trick the other team. And we're, we go on the goal line, bring out our goal line personnel. So they bring in all linebackers. So then, oh, well, then boom, let's what is it shift? Right? Yeah, shift out wise. Oh, one on one coverage with a linebacker. And then I ran that slam on Von Miller. We found Miller's unbelievable player, but I mean, and coverage is a little different. I ran the slam at the very next play and you hit me on the pass for a touchdown. So that was amazing, man. That was a great game. It really was. So you called the game today. Yeah. How was it calling the game Fox for Yeah, it was great fun, fun lead up to it, fun, preparing and watching this team that, you know, I got to play for for a long time. And they're still doing all the same stuff that I did. They're still, you know, quarterback still totally in control of what they're doing. And it's just, it's a very well coordinated team. It's a tough team to beat. Today was obviously not what the, the Patriots had mine. No, but it was fun just being up here and obviously seen it from this vantage point and being a fan of the game and being a fan of the organization is fun for me to express that to the fans too. Boy, Jordan love. He's having a hell of a year. This guy's just tossing it, huh? Yeah, it really is. What do you think about it on fire today? Yeah, on fire, and he just can, you just such a great job of just hanging in the pocket more so than anything. It's not like he's getting great protection in there either. No, he's just like seeing a read, getting a little space and then just chucking that thing up. And it's been so accurate. And again, today was a good day for throwing. I think this temperature, not a big wind pattern. He could be super accurate down the field. Like they're going to need that run game to take some pressure off the past game. This would be a game where I would dominate because the temperature is about 45, 50 degrees of this really no way. Yeah. Oh my God, it would drain me, man. I'd be gasping for air. I'd be on the sideline with action tank. But when it was 30, the 55 degrees, I could go all day long. I'm like a dog. And then it was attacking when it's the ball. Yeah, I go all day long. Yeah. But when it's hot out, I'm out of breath right away. We didn't like the look. You're a big boy. You're just like a big old truck. Like you don't want to overheat. You know, you need a little cool temp. It's like I'm a golden retriever. They got a lot of fur. Yeah. You might be more like a like one of those big masters. So it's English masters. I'll take that or just singing gangly. Yeah. One thing though. Okay. He just wants to wait out. I love it. Well, I mean, we got Tom Brandt. We got Tom Brandt. I loved that. I was seeing this guy in years. It's great to have here. He's right down. He's your long. I want to know. I want to know. I'm a lost friend. I want to know one thing. So some respect. Yeah. Why don't you have a tie on? I don't wear ties. He doesn't wear ties. Okay. Okay. What do you want to answer? That's your question. Brady. What? Edelman? So what was going on with all these Tom isms? Where did you come up with all these piss missiles? Have you never heard me say piss missiles? I heard you say that. But I like I never have. But you have it at the right time. You're like, I'm giving you kudos on that like, you know, were you coming up with all these sands? Because everyone, it's going viral every week. I think it's just these have been in our football language vernacular for a long time. You know, we sit in quarterback rooms all day long talking about meatballs and meatball subs. And have a chance to actually just say it. It's actually fun. I mean, it's like, come on. Let's make it fun for the viewer and not take ourselves to seriously. And I hope nobody like takes it to seriously. We're just having fun. And we're here to entertain people and there's times to be uber serious about this sport. And there's other times to enjoy it. It's a it's a spectacle for all of us. And I think now that I'm out of it, I just hope, you know, those guys on the field know the kind of entertainment they can bring just by going out there and preparing hard and competing hard and, you know, playing their ass off. It's been a phone watching you go. It's been fun watching you go. How about you two media darlings? I mean, you're in the studio every week. Just hold on to 11 o'clock show. And you ask us a question. Come on. Ask me. Well, you got for me. I was yesterday for you. Tell me about you. That's a great question. Wow. This guy is good. Great segment. This is why he's number one. I'm Fox, you know, but he's like, I don't work in the booth because we have to bring you up to. Yeah, I would be in there for five minutes. I'm a splash guy. I'm a guy that makes a big play. And then, you know, take me out for a little. Alright, we'll put a head. So you could talk whenever you want to talk. I appreciate. I'll be the color of the color of the color. Alright, you're being there. We go. Like the little rainbow of color. There we go. And just talk about yesterday, real quick time. First off, thanks for coming. Man, that man a lot. It really does. Greatest of all time to be there. You're inducted two years ago. Julian. The guy's too big time. He got inducted last year. So he couldn't believe I know. I'm just mad with you. I know you are. I had to say that. I had to say that just for you. That's just for fun. Guys, but yesterday, I mean, my favorite day of my life outside of the game of football when the championships was when I got drafted, nothing matter. That was the ultimate goal for me to get to the NFL. Yeah, and I talked about it. My speech is a little mad. I didn't go first round. But once I got drafted in the second round, like nothing else matter. It was like my dream came true. It didn't matter where you go and where I went in the draft. It was just an unbelievable feeling. That was one of my best football days. I would say this is ranked ranks right up there. It's not number one. It doesn't rank with, you know, being drafted because that was my ultimate goal, but it ranks up there. This is like the cherry on top. And right now, I do look like the cherry as well. I look delicious. I look like Sunday, like I'm on top of me. I know you guys love me, but I'm not going to let you guys. Double scoop with double scoop ice cream and all. Look at the ice cream vanilla ice cream. That's good. Yeah, all that. The chair stalls as well with the buttons with cream. But what was so great about yesterday is that it truly made everything worth a while that we went through man, all the blood, sweat and tears, man, all the injuries, all the surgeries, all the times, you know, getting drilled up the middle where you set me up time. Just all the practices going against our own teammates and just one on one every single day, but putting our heads against each other yesterday, meant everything to me and it made everything worth it. I made all the tough times truly worth, you know, it, you know, yesterday, it, it was so special. There's no word really describe it. >> Yeah, it shows from, you know, top of my spine to the bottom of my spine when I got introduced. I started tearing at the beginning as well. I teared up when I talked about my mom everything that she did but it was one of my best days since playing the game of football really well. And I've known you for a long time, like I was sitting up there on the stage and you came up and you must have watched the video montage of you and like that was the first time I think I've ever seen you choked up, you know, and just it meant a lot to you to see like all your teammates there and your family there and just I hope you know how important you were to all of us and how important you were to the fan base here and like just you being you is like all everyone ever wants and ever asked and you know, it's just you showed a lot of people a lot of love and I'm happy they showed it back to you. Yeah, thank you Tommy. And it didn't mean a lot. My whole family was here. My brother is they have 11. I have 11 nephew and nieces and they all came and it's just cool because they're all enough to see kind of, you know, my journey now, you know, they couldn't really see me play and to see them be here and really understand, you know, my career here in New England now it meant a lot to me and also the fans. I got to get a shout out to the New England fans. I mean, thousands came. I would say about eight to 10,000 fans came out in front of a Patriot place right there at a Hall of Fame at Patriot Place and they brought the energy as well. It's not like they came and they were duds. They came and fired up. Ready to go. They brought the juice. It was like a playoff atmosphere at the ceremony, which I appreciate the fans. The best in New England. The best in all for part up to see you, baby. And you were 100% correct when you said, Bill drafted a guy like you and we needed a guy like you to get back to the Super Bowl. The high stress environment that we had because I mean, I was in that transition period before you. Yeah. It was a little dark in there. It was getting stale and then we bring in this guy, Gronk. And he's the most lovey, joyy guy and we all were like, how are we going to react to Bill? How this guy acts? And he couldn't say anything because you were such a dominant football player and how you treated all your teammates, being the superstar you were, you never knew Gronk was a superstar. You always included everyone. You were the best teammate. The joy that you had was great for a guy like me. That was an asshole. I needed to see it. You believe me. We all need you. You know, we need that asshole as well though. You were an asshole. It really did. And then you were taking the game a little bit too serious at times. And I, you know, quarter back. Yeah. You are a quarter, which that's fine. That's why we all mesh together. And that's why we won so many championships because you don't win championships because you just have one great guy on your team. You look at it. And again, it fell. There's always one great guy in every team. The worst team. The O and 16 Detroit lines. They had Matthew Stafford, right? Yeah. He looked at him. He's going to he's a page. He's not a patriarchal family. He's a professional football hall of favor. So it just shows how many great guys it takes to win a championship, especially to sustain that success for so many years. And without you, Julian, without you, Tom, without myself and without our great coaches, we would have never had this success here. We would have never had the dynasty that we had here. It takes so many people in an organization to be able to pull that off. Yeah. You know, someone a team can pull off for one year, but we pull it off every decade of time. You pull it off with a decade prior prior as well. Yeah. Now, speaking of success, we were in this building today celebrating 2016 Super Bowl team. What's one of your favorite memories from that year? 2016. Oh, man, there's so many that year. We were we were tough to beat that year. We had a great football. I don't think we realized how great we were when we were going through it, but I look back on it. We are just top to bottom in every every position, every skill group defensively like Chris Long was a defensive end for us. You know, Alan branch on the defensive line, high tower, Jamie, Devon, Patrick, you know, Malcolm on the defense, like that's it. Those are just great football players on our side, you know, hogs and you and Danny and Malcolm Mitch and DeLu and LaGarrett, like our offensive line, you know, I mean, you were injured. That was unbelievable, you know, to miss. I think half the season you missed. Yeah. So I got injured like, yeah, like around the week 10, but I was having my best year. I know, like of my career, I really was. I played in five games. Man, I had 550 yards. We talked about this before in five games. I mean, I was averaging over 100 yards of games. I tell you that was. I don't think that's ever been, you know, sustained on a five year game basis, a five game basis that five games in a row and have over 100 yards. Yeah. I was on fire, bro. And I was on fire in training camp. I would remember everyone was double teaming me and Bill was getting all mad. And then I accidentally pulled my hamstring as well versus Chicago wasn't practice came back and I was like, my hamstring hurts, like I don't want to practice. Oh, really? I didn't say that. I'm there. Oh, you got to go harder. And I was like, okay, I'll go harder. And then I pulled my hammy. Now, did you go into that season? Because I started that season. You were on vacation. Yeah. Did you want to prove something that season? Oh, yeah. Because you when you came back, you were coming back like firing your eyes. I'm going to, I'm going to expand on that question right there, Julia. What was your thought process going into the Cleveland game when that was your first game coming back? Let it out. Vacation. Let it out. You lit it up. Even the referee, you threw that bomb, the Chris Hogan on the silent. How do I remember? Because I was past blocking because that's why do I pass? You're a great blocker times. You are a great program blocker and you great everything. We're not great at your dances are great. Your spikes are great. And thank you to stop everyone's been hyping me up all week time. You know, you don't got to do it either. You know, on the truth, but I passed black you through that bomb, the Hogan on the silent in the referee came right by me and we both said to each other, this guy is incredible. He just comes back and already dropping bombs. What was your thought process going into that game? Coming back from that vacation. I was there to whoop some ass. And I was I took that whole truth. I actually was a great September because I took my went out to see to Pebble Beach to see my parents, which was great. I went back to my alma mater Michigan to see a game with my son, Jack. And then and then I went to Italy with, you know, my wife at the time. And like, I really took advantage of September. I was like, shit, I haven't had a September off since, you know, start, for I started playing elementary school. So I and then I came back the week before to get all my training in and you guys played Buffalo that game. And I the first play the game member you at that little. Yeah. Triple behind line scrimmage. You went 70 yards at direction. They called it back for a penalty. Yeah, I remember listening to that in the car because we had no offense. Zero. Yeah, you guys lost. I think I think we lost what 10 to three 27 nothing or something. Yeah, no, it wasn't 27 nothing. Oh, I think it was like 15 to three years. Yeah, I think you got to be pretty bad. I was it was a blowout. No, I know isn't. But the point is is like, yeah, we all came back and we all had something to prove. And we always have something to prove. I mean, man, I don't know every time you every time you take the field as a competitor, you got something to prove. And most of you got to prove it yourself. You know, what am I capable of doing? And what are my teammates counting on me to do? And then how do I go achieve it? And then what are that, you know, how do I got to be the best I could be for them? Now, did you do that every year going into a season? Did you formulate some kind of story to motivate you? Like, where did all your motivation come from? Because like when I got there, yeah, you were Tom fucking Brady already. You had three super balls. You were in your 10th year. You were the man, but you would go to the facility and you would see Tom Brady there working with this goddamn quarterback coach having this guy over here. What is this motivation come from TB? Look, we all had a chip on our shoulder from, you know, we weren't the prodigies and we found something that we love to do. Like I was obsessed with playing football and I wanted to be a little bit better in every area as my career went on. And that didn't stop if we want a Super Bowl. If we didn't stop if we you know, got to a championship game, it was like every year, you know, how can I make sure that I don't let my teammates down? And to work out in the offseason with that in mind and to, you know, no, like new players are coming on the team. There are rookies. There were, you know, free agents that picked our team because they wanted to win. And I'm like, all right, well, I got to go deliver too. And, you know, I think you always have to deliver for the person in the mirror first. You know, you don't want to let that person down. And then I don't want to let you guys down. I know how hard you work. I know, you know, you, you sacrificed a lot. You worked your tail. I've came through a lot of injuries. You did the exact same things. I mean, you guys had, you know, similar careers and a lot of ways too, you know, highly productive and ups and downs and adversities and injuries and a lot of mental toughness. So, you know, that's what made us such a great team. It's not, you wouldn't think of people talk about our teams. It's like, we were all physically very skilled, but our mental and emotional toughness was off the charts. And we, we would play in any weather and we were challenged every day to be our best too. And I think that that's maybe what the modern athletes really missing. Who's challenging those kids to be their very best? Not who's paying for their lunch money that they're who's paying for the sponsorship. It's like who's making that person a better, more complete athlete, you know, at the end of every game. And that's what I appreciate about coaching and organizations that push their players to be better. You know, that's a really great point because we push each other as well. I know we got close by and then we all have friendships and everything. But Tom, you pushed us. You pushed myself to become a great player. I saw it with my own eyes. You were pushing Julian at times as well. But also it was our coaching staff as well. Yeah, Bill had a tough atmosphere. Yeah, it was tough to play here, but he was pushing us. And now that, you know, we're we're done playing. We really realize why he was like that because he wanted to push us to be great. He wanted to make sure we had a great team. He wanted to make sure that we were maxing out our potential. There's no doubt about that. And also I really like what you said about the mental toughness. And I don't think this is talked about enough. I think we won a lot of championships too because we got knocked down so much, including you when you missed that 2008 season. You got knocked down before time. Everyone forgets about it because you came back so strong. And that's what's so great about it. And that's why it's not talked about a lot because we come back so strong. You came back. How many injuries Julian has had in his career? He came back every time that no one talks about his injuries. And what about all my injuries? I came back every single time. That's mental toughness. And when you have people not talking about your injuries like, Oh, you know, there's a great player. Oh, it would have been so great if he played longer, but he got injured. Well, no one can say that about us because we came back. We had the mental toughness to come back. And that's what made us great as well. And that's what makes you a better player as well. Once you come back, you understand more things. You understand how your body works and you understand how to win more. You know, you become, you become unbreakable. There you go. Great point. The things that challenge you to grow and the things of the hardest things, whatever they are in your life. If you learn from them, if you look in the mirror, you try to create some behaviors around those things you need to improve, the only thing you do is get stronger. And we got stronger as players. And then other parts of your life, you got to get stronger too. Because life knocks you down, this game knocks you down. You got to be around brothers that can help you back up to and give you confidence and give you the support you need as well. But, you know, that's what we have. This is like why yesterday was so meaningful to have all the guys up on stage honoring you and, you know, when you and all the people that honor and you, like you picked a lot of people up over the years and they picked you up too. And everyone gets to share kind of in the stitching of these red jackets or embodied a lot of their amazing teammates that we had. Well, we'd be crazy not to talk about the 23 28 to three game after talking about mental toughness. And with having the 10 year anniversary in the 10 year anniversary in three game. So like when you rewatch that game. Yeah. What do you think about? Like, because I rewatched it, I look at like, how the hell do we win that game? I know. Like every time it comes on TV or something and I took me a few years to watch it, but it's hard not to turn it off when it comes on. At least I know the outcome and I watch it even though all these balls didn't bounce our way early on. And like, oh, shit, all right. We ultimately we figured it out. But yeah, it was just how many how many plays that we make literally by a fingertip that changed the outcome of the game. I mean, throws to you, you know, throws to Chris Hogan. You over the middle, alcohol, money, Mitch, you know, catch. I only played one year. Yeah. Falling down. He ran. He ran. There's like little nine stops. And he slipped a few times and then gets up and the ball's halfway there and makes the catch. So and then, you know, like I said, Chris Long drawn a drawn a holding penalty. Don't even talks about that. Holy been all the branch jumping on that fumble. There was so many unheralded players. What about Dante? Hi, tower. You know, forming through playoff. Playoff. High train. Yes. Yeah. Trey flowers. Oh my God. He's got the sack on that Ryan. So yeah, it's like the only way you overcome it is just one play at a time. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's so cliche, but it's the reality of this sport. You know, every, every, you are a play to play player. You know, there's nothing to happen to last play. That's going to mean anything to this play. You got to go do your job on this play too. If you want it to be good. And I think the discipline to do that really only happens if you practice that all the time too. Like you can't beat these teams now that I see. And it's like, they screw up in practice and it's like, oh, it's all right. We'll get the next one. My bad. What do you think it's going to happen? Yeah. Yeah. I'll cut it in the game. But like you saw today, you know, like the Patriots, for example, half the games this season, they've turned a ball over a bunch, half the games they haven't. So at some point, you're not going to ever win the amount of games you should win based on your talent or your scheme if you give the ball away. So one good, one bad, one good, one bad is get you right in the middle of the pack. And nobody wants to be in the middle of the pack. You want to be at the top kind of performing team in the league every year. But you have to, there's a lot of disciplines that need to happen in order to be that rapid fire. All right, rapid fire, ultimate unsung Patriot. Oh, what's my unsung like in general, just in general, rapid fire. Well, I'll take off. What do you think? Who's unsung if we won all the time? I'm Patrick Chung. I was going to say Patrick Chung, big fries with unsung. A guy you wish you could have played with that you never did. Oh. Oh, I'm not answering. No, probably a slot. Nobody. Nobody. A slot received. I love all the guys that play with that one. That's technical coaching point you ever got. Oh, I ever got. Um, that's a, that's a deep question right there. Yeah. There's a lot because you were very, a lot of accuracy. Okay. So I mean, I, I said a lot comes to mind. But just, you worked out just on my accuracy, just the vector training from an athlete is to keep all of your energy inside this like cone shape vector that would head toward their intent target. So anytime the movement ahead, the arm would go outside of that vector that energy wasn't going where I wanted to. So I always envisioned my throws being like a cone that started with the width of my body right to where the ball would hit your chest. Oh, we're in science class now. Science class. This is last cheat day. What was your last cheat day meal? Yeah, never cheat on a day. Oh, really? I don't know. We're talking. We're talking about our burger. We're burger. We're burger. We're doing the chicken wings burger. I had a piece of last night. I had just a ridiculous piece of piece the last night. Was there pepperoni? It was like, no, it's like I can tell it was like cheese. It was kind of, it was very average as a my sister's house. It wasn't, was it gluten free? No, it wasn't. But I was, it was real cross. I swear that's a word. Yeah, because I want to. All right. Last one. All right. True or false. The Raiders will win the Super Bowl by 2030. Oh, that's tough. True. Oh, we're going deep here. Yeah. We got true. We got a true. So we can use this in 2030. Yeah. You can use it. You'll be a guest with me. Her ass. Come on. And then our last question for me, our last question. What is it like you're saving the best time out though? What is he still hasn't asked you the question? Remember I said you have two questions, one for me, one for you. You can ask Julian a question now before you ask you the final question. What do you enjoyed most about not playing football in the last four years? That's what I've enjoyed about spending a lot of time with my daughter and my family being able to say yes to the things that I couldn't say yes to being able to take my daughter to school, pick her up, go to soccer practice, being able to go to my my nieces games or something doing all the things that we had to say no to what's the best part about living your daughter? What's the best part? The best part. She's a soccer star. Now the best part about my little girl, she works her tail off. And when my new high in my life is when I see her work on something and I see the the progress and whatever it is, whether it's reading math or on the soccer field or on the tennis court. When I see her progression, like just like when we used to have like when we would go work on a route and we'd run that route 50 times and then it would just subconsciously happen in the game. Yeah, you want that investment to be honest. That investment. Yes. And when she sees that, that's the best thing because then she's starting to realize the value of work. So that's like my favorite thing. All right. And now Julian, you can ask the final question of tonight. Think about it. Make it deep. Let me see what is it? Hey, you take your time 20, 30 seconds, whatever you need. Last one. Last one. The final question. Last one. I'm never coming on the show for another. You always make it a good one. Yeah, you won't be on for another. What eight years you said? I just don't want to do it. I know your guys' work ethic lately. What does football mean to you, Tom? Oh, that's deep football is football. The sport's been amazing. It's created the most the best relationships in life for me in my work life and provided the best memories that a work life could provide. So I think to me, life is about, you know, what you're doing and what memories you're making and who you're making them with. And some people only get to really do that in their personal life, because they don't have a connection with people at work that, you know, they really know who you are. You know, who they are. You know, you're in the fox hole with them. And there's no faking it. I always joke with people like, there's no, this is reality TV out here for us. You know, we're not acting. This is really who we are. So you get to know people on a very intimate level and you get to do things as you dream of as a kid with people that you love. So very blessed in my life to be able to do it with you too, especially. Well, Tom, thanks for coming on. Thanks, guys. Thank you. I appreciate you. We love you here. Love you too. Thank you for coming on being unfiltered. Wonderful answers, man. And we just want to give you a cheers. Give me a cheers. It's my day. It's your day. Yeah. It's my cheers, right? Thank you guys. Congratulations to you, brother. We love you. I appreciate both of you, man. I definitely want to be here today without you two, man. And you guys won't be where you are without me. I agree. That's why this is a hundred percent. That's all the same thing. Exactly. Hey, man, baby. Cheers. Cheers. How was that? Jules, it was great. But I got a question for you. How was that having him on your podcast for the very first time? You know, I mean, I'm going to say your podcast. I know we're part of it together, but you've had a podcast way longer than I have. And then we joined forces. So how was it having him on your podcast? You know, it's been what four, five years you've been trying to get him on? How did that feel? Felt a little rushed. A little rush. I got to agree with you. Understandable. I just had a long day. I've never seen him just cheers and just bolt out like like that before. No, that was the fastest I've ever seen him right. I understand you. I think he wanted to get away from you. Hey, you had a long day. He had a long day. You want to get away from you. He likes me. You want to hang out with him? Probably. Yeah. Probably man. You haven't showered yet today. At least I jumped in the pool this morning. Yeah. I jumped in the pool this morning when I was swimming with the cadets. We were in West Point today. Doing the combat pool. Thank you, Vets. Yeah. Bro, how was that? That was insane. Bro, it was insane. I almost drowned. You look good. I didn't want to say that, but the problem was I was already exhausted. Oh, man. You didn't. I really was. Let me tell you I was emotionally exhausted from yesterday, which was one of the greatest days of my life. But I was on for like eight hours yesterday. The speech taking pictures with people, the whole family. Literally, I never talked for eight hours straight before. Let alone, I never gave a 20 minute speech before into to 10,000 people. And I'm not just saying speech. I'm talking like one of the greatest speeches of all time. Pretty darn good. Yeah, it really was. It was probably the best I've ever talked in my life. I swear like I was on point. Yeah, I'm going to talk about you killed it. I was on point. I tried to go back. I watched it from afar. I think I've shed a tear. I think I found my new gimmick. I think I can read and project great when I'm reading instead of trying to like answer a question or give [BLANK_AUDIO] with out being able to read it, like I can give speeches off a prompter, like no other. Yeah, I'm working on it. I'm working on the prompter pretty well. Yes, I have. That's why I host New Year's Eve as well. It's why I mean, when we do ad reads here, I'll screw it up 30, 40 times. Yeah, I'm money. I'm money in that on point with a stake drink. Like, but also a very emotional I was. I never had that many emotions as well, you know, crying happy joy, the stories. It was so great. It was one of the, like I said, once again, one of the best days of my life. I might reiterate that once again, but then coming in today, man, I was hurting. Going into that combat pool, man, I was already like, I was like, my eyes are closing. I mean, I didn't get much sleep because all the adrenaline was rushing. So like, you lay in bed and you're staring at the ceiling, like, yeah, like, I want to say, like, the actual effort, but like I was like, f me this, you know, it sucks when you just stare at the ceiling and you're wide awake. I'm like, dang, I just wish I had something to knock me out. It would be well worth it. So I didn't get much sleep and I get in that pool. No warm up or nothing. Nothing. Just boom. Your full intensity, bro, good thing I swam against that lazy river current when I was a kid or else I would have probably drowned. But I was so tired of when I went and ducked down to get that brick. Oh, man, you know that feeling of when you need oxygen and like, you feel like there's bubbles in your body and your brains calling for oxygen. I hit that stage and I was like, I got to pop back up. Like, if that thing was 10 feet deep, I would have swam back up. Good thing it was only eight feet deep. I accomplished a mission because I'm relentless, baby. And you gave up. Yeah. Oh, resilient. That's what I was going for. And resiliency. I have. You gave the cadets free dress, man. Let's go. That was insane. And when he came up and we showed the brick on TV, you should have heard the roar from all the cadets. They're like, yes, because essentially they get to wear like sweat suits comfortable gear. It's like they're free dress Friday or whatever, but they get it all week. I mean, these guys are waking up at 6 a.m. They're going and doing their workout. And then they go to class and then they got a they got such a regimen type schedule. I mean, it was it was crazy. And just to see Rob go out, bring the brick and I see him tired. And then the crowd's going nuts. It was crazy. And when he got out of the pool, his pants were off because he had to go in with boots in pants. And the pants were tied tight enough and like all the currents. They had the current at top. They had the current in the middle. Like it was like you're at the, you know, fire station. Just firing the hose at you. But there's one hitting the top of your head. There's someone in the back hitting like middle of your back. There's someone taking out your ankles, but like actually in the pool. Yeah. So my pants got ripped down. They were not tied tight enough. I can tell you that. So I actually had the pants going against me as well, because they're at the bottom of my ankles. And I'm talking like these were pants that were like sturdy pants. They were heavy. And they were thick as well when they're at bottom of my ankle. So that just shows I truly am Robbie Phelps. Robbie Phelps. And when he gets out, like we're in a pool room and all the cadets are sitting there. Grog. Grog. Grog. Grog. Grog. And I saw my guy. He would usually give the, what does it reverberation dance that you do? But he was, he was a little tired. He was a little tired. Robbie was tired. I was sitting there like, oh my God, it looks crazy. And I was so tired coming into today as well, Jules. So what did I do? I stopped at Gronkin, baby. Yes. And everyone wants to know what Gronkin is. Well, Duncan changed the name to Gronkin, which is the most New England thing ever. I got my favorite ice coffee. It juiced me off, baby. I got through the game. I gave another unbelievable speech at halftime. It was kind of like a simple speech of a bridge verse. There we go, small, small version of yesterday's very small version. I mean, yesterday, I didn't need a top yesterday at all. There's just no point because yesterday was so great. But thank you to Duncan for energizing me back up. And Duncan and literally, I mean, oh, my bad, Duncan, I mean, I mean, Gronkin, they literally changed the sign. They did literally. We're driving down one over here in Foxboro. And we're, oh shit, we're rocking over here. How much do you think that sign change cost? Because that's that's that's a lot of money. Those signs, like, I don't know, but whatever it cost, Gronk is that big of a name and he's that worth it. Yes. That's right, man. You're right. Thank you. It's like a new equivalent of getting knighted, bro. Over in England, they ignite you. Here, you change your name to Duncan. You get Duncan. You get Duncan. I basically got like, you know, in the mafia, you get made. Like I was just made in New England. You were made by Duncan, you're making the Gronkin. Yes. I'm a man. So don't mess with me, baby. Verizon knows holiday decisions and holiday deals can be complicated from hosting my family to making sure the food comes out perfect and trying to watch the game. Look, I spent a whole career doing two-minute drills and memorizing crazy game plans and honestly, holiday chaos might be more stressful. If you want at least one simple decision this season, check out the Ryzen simplicity plan. They took all the guesswork out. It's one plan, one price, just $30 a line per month, even if you're flying solo. It's still just 30 bucks. And when it comes to your phone, you call the shots. Love your current phone. Keep it. Need a new one? Ryzen has you covered. And you can upgrade to the newest phone every year for an additional monthly charge. Let's run the tape back. The holidays are complicated. 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And for anyone who's in LA and looking to make extra cash, baby, it's definitely not too early to list your space on air. B and B. Good point. If you're in LA, fans already are looking for places to stay. So why not be the place they find you can make some extra cash listing your space for the big game. Find out how much at air bnb.com slash host. Who is the MVP of the weekend for you? MVP of the weekend. Like what do you mean? Like who is just the MVP of my speech of NFL? Just ball. Anything going on in general. Storyteller in general. MVP. Oh, man. Matt Light was pretty good. He really was. I'm going to give it. We're always talking football and MVP players on the field. So we're going to, you know, we're going to get away from that a little bit about the games today. But we're going to talk about Matt Light giving his speech. And also beforehand prior before we sat on the panel, you know, Yo soy fiesta. One of the greatest lines of all time. He went up there. He talked about it real quick. And he created because we all know Matt Light has create a tivit. He's creative. That's what he does. And I thought he was going to put a prank on me. I'm like, uh-oh, what what am I getting into right now? And he actually went the whole totally different route this time. I was like, wow, I didn't know that Matt Light can run a couple different routes. I mean, he is skinnier now from then on his playing days. So he whipped out a new saying, a new shirt, very creative. Come on, Jules, you sell t-shirts. You've got to start telling this teacher. It was yo soy. Dang, I kind of forgot yo soy. Hall of Fame. Hall of Fame. Yeah. Yeah. Yo soy. I am Hall of Fame. I am Hall of Fame. That'll that'll hit our, uh, our Spanish. Literally. It's easy to our Spanish viewers. It was legit. And then also, Hall of Fame. And then, and then he, I told the story, you know, when I finally felt like I got my flowers from the coaches and Tom is the first Brian Erlacher made that big play. And then he goes, uh, uh, you shouldn't be telling that story because Tom Brady juke Brian Erlacher. And that's the only juke he's ever had in his career. So Rob, that's not saying much that you scored a touchdown. Oh my god. He got me there though. He got me there. So Matt Light, he was the MVP. I was saying. Thank you. Matt Light. Kudaviti's could have been a good second. Uh, what about Nico? We won't say he said, but Nico, he, I was, you know, we'll see. Hey, here we, he, he, he's, we don't need to have anything that he said on. No, we don't, but here we go. My brother Chris goes up to Chris. Lab day goes, yo, what was your thought process? And Nico goes, yo, no one has any clue who I am. Nobody. No one even knows that I played in the NFL for 10 years. He goes, if I told a normal story, no one would still have any clue who I am, Chris. And you know, Chris, uh, do you understand that this is Greek mythology? I'm not speaking to you. That's what he was saying. I'm very proud to be very proud of the bigger. He goes, but since I told such a legendary story, people finally know who I am. And you want to know something why I respect it because he's never been in it to be known. He really never meant. So the one time he does take his chance, you got to respect it. Got to. Yeah. Yeah. What was the biggest surprise of the weekend? The biggest surprise. Oh, seeing time at my Hall of Fame induction and also seeing him here on this podcast. I was shocked, I was shocked, I was shocked. Truly, he's, we're ripping apart and he was just on. I know. That's why we all love each other. No, but I would say the biggest shocker them for real is how I am braced yesterday. Like, I was open-minded, like, and it was all in the best way. Usually sometimes you go into things, you're getting an award, a tap and before, and like, like, it's a lot, you know, and you're not open-minded and you can't take it all in and you're like, it's just too much. Let me tell you yesterday wasn't too much at all. I was able to handle every situation. I was able to handle every picture yesterday. I was able to handle the speech. I was able to handle the panel. I was able to handle the stories that were thrown out there. I was able to handle the after-party. I was able to handle, actually, I wasn't able to handle the next morning because I was tired, but I was still able to handle the get-through. Had a hell of a show on. But I was blessed on Saturday. I really was. Those are the great days. Some days you have bad days, some days you have good days. You don't know when you're going to wake up and Saturday was a good day and I was so shocked how good of a day it was and I wasn't expecting that. So I was blessed that day, man. And I'm shocked by it because it's usually never that good and it was that good on Saturday. It really was. I would have said the biggest surprise was probably the performance of the Patriots. Geez. Oh my gosh. I haven't even thought about the game yet because I'm just trying to get out of my mind, man. I mean, we got to take care of the football. No, we got to take care of the football but they also got to take care of the person that's in attendance and every time that he is, they lose. I mean, Julian, you were here for last year, my whole family lost and then what other game were you here for? And they lost your boy, you know, saying, no, there was another one that you were here. You've been here for three in like the past year or two. No. All right. Well, two of them still. You lost both of them. I'm. I'm over here. I was here last year for the Jetsky and they won. So I'm the. So you're the common denominator. I'm the problem. It's three. We got to get a three game sample. Well, peanut gallery over there, the same game we lost 20, 20 last year we lost today. You're the common denominator. I will not be coming to a Patriots game. And you know how we always talk about that you're going to be locked out of the building. I'm down. And solidified. You're truly locked out of the bill. I'm. How does that feel that you're truly locked out of the building? You need two microphones for this one. It feels bad. It feels bad. You know what? I'll tell you right now. I was surprised about their performance as well as disappoint because as a fan of football now, it's so great to see great games. Even if it's like, I don't know, the Tennessee Titans playing the New York Jets like end of the season and it's a great game. You're still engaged into the game. You still have something invested because you just love to see good football. You love to see competitive football. It really wasn't like that today. I mean, the Green Bay Packers, they got off to a fast start. I did keeper of the light, you know, they'll start the game by the time I got up to the suite. Two minutes into the game. And I look at the score. I'm like, Julian, how is Green Bay up seven up? They know we started with the ball. And we started with the ball. We started with the ball. We threw a pit. You know, the theme of the game turnovers and that's been the theme of this team like Tom was saying, you know, four games. You don't turn the ball over. You look like a really good football team. Four games. You turn the ball over a bunch and yet you don't look like a really good football team. I was really surprised about the defense played. They lit them up. And I went on Fox pre game show and I said, you know, you got to eliminate the big plays. We cannot give up big plays to a vertical pass game that Green Bay has and that they do all day. They don't have a run game. All they do is throw that ball down the middle of the field, down the sideline of the field. And, you know, Green Bay, they've been dropping them. They didn't drop any today. I know what the heck is dropping today? They look good. They made all their kicks. They made all the kicks. They made all the catches. I mean, they were dialed. They were dialed. They were. They came in with the and you got to tip your cap to the packers, the packers been playing like that, man. They've been billing off their momentum every single week. It's not like, oh, where did this come from? The packers. He's last three weeks. They played the Carolina Panthers on Thursday night football, what two Thursdays go and they dominated the Carolina Panthers. They ate them up. They were. They were performing just like they were performing today. So it's not out of no way this team play great. This team is going somewhere. But what was most surprising though, yeah, the packers, you know, are on fire on offense right now and everything. But like you said, the deep balls that the Patriots gave up like Christian Gonzalez never gives up, you know, that many deep balls. I mean, he was in coverage, kind of tripped over his own feet or the opponent's feet, the wide receivers feedback. It was tough to see. Usually that never happens. That was more surprising to see how many points the defense allowed. Yeah, we seen turnovers with the offense before. So that's not surprising. Drake made turn the ball. We seen that this year. It was the defense, giving it up the seam routes, the deep balls and so many points. You know what they were struggling with. What were they struggling with, you know, packers were getting them in bunches and stacks. And so then the DB's got to communicate DB's are on the same level. You're getting picks. You're getting guys are all in out of position, like the one on Gonzo where he was out of position and they're just tossing them up there. They couldn't get the bunches or stacks figured out. I mean, it just was a really good day and a really good showing for the packers pass offense, pass offense. They didn't have any run game and they still lit them up. Which is, that's, that's worrying how many yards of the packers run for it today. I think they may be like 78 really, that's all and they still dominate. It could have been over 100, but they were running the clock out by the end area. Here's a question is Jordan love in MVP consideration. Because this guy I'm pretty sure I've thrown two plus TDs in every single game this year. Correct. It's he. He got it. He got it like 380 yards today. And how many pass in touchdowns did he throw for it? He had three. Three. He had a golden 171 for Watson, 164 for both at Tuddy's man. You're a wide receiver. What do you see in Matthew golden and Christian Watson because no one expected them to be this good. Yeah, Christian Watson's, you know, been a solid player, but his route tree is just solidified now and he's turning up. He's turning into a $35 million player instead of what is contract like 23 24, I think he's making 30. No, I don't know. Is he? I thought he signed a little bit less than what the typical market is and I'm like in this year, he's proving that he should have been at top of the market. Well, I'll tell you what they do, but what makes those two so good Christian Watson's a burner. So he's really good down the field. He's got speed that you can't teach and he's got good ball skills on those 50 50 balls. He makes those plays golden. He's got a lot of speed, but he also has a lot of good route running ability. If you watch him at the top of like routes, you see the separation he gains, he can weave guys. So they have a good yin and yang. One guy's good deep, golden, still good deep, but he's a good route runner so they could utilize him and they also got Tucker craft, which he didn't really get a quiet game. But they have they have a lot of guys that can catch the football over there. If they can get that run game going, that's when they'll be dangerous because there's going to be a good team that can stop that. I'm sorry to interrupt you. We got Danny M and Dolor face time. Danny. We're on the show. We're on the show podcast. We are live right now. You're on the show. You're on the show. You're on the show. We are alive. And I saw you calling me. What do you got to say, Danny? You're live on the Grancon Jewel show. All we do is throw touchdown passes, baby. Who? All we do is throw touchdown passes. Let him know, Dolor. Let him know. All right. All right, you're at Waxies now now called Conrads in Foxboro. That's where we used to go back in the heyday and rip it up plate, darts, play pool. What else you got for us, Dolor? Give us one more thing before you go. Let's go, baby. Congratulations to the one time Hall of Famer, New England Patriots Rob Grunkowski. All right. Thank you, Dolor. Much love, brother. We'll see you soon. We'll see you later, man. Thank you for joining our show. Yes, you were more willing to join our show than Tom Brady. Thank you. We'll see you. We got to go. We'll see you later right here. I don't got it right now. Yeah, he's saying that. Yeah. It's in the dry cleaners. Julianne. We got to go. He's a messy guy. You got to finish his show. You're not messy. You're really clean. You know, I see you. Hang up. Hang up. Hang up. Just hang up. Wow. Yeah. Just hang up, Dolor. Just hang up, Dolor. Oh, ho, ho. Santa Grunk here, everybody. I'm like all Saint Nick, but with more ball knowledge, I'm a smart Santa Claus, all right. I give gifts to everyone around the NFL and since it's holiday season, let's check my list. Oh, I love it. First on my list is Bengals QB Joe Burrow. He wore his Pikachu hoodie to Milan and it got him a big win. So I think he needs a squirtle Christmas sweater to go with that. I love that. And so far, am I being a nice Santa or a naughty Santa? I think you're doing the grunk Santa. That makes a both. All right. And next on our list is Chargers, Coach Jim Harboh. It's been a tough year and there's a lot that he needs. Maybe it's time to go back to the khakis. He's wearing black pants all year, Julian. I think that's it. I think that's the reason. Definitely go back. How about giving? Yeah. So how about giving these chaps khakis a try? I like chaps, guys. Chaps khakis. Chaps khakis. You can get them all more. Walmart. Really? I think John Harboh did he win or lose today? He lost. Okay. He needs those chaps khakis. All right. Chaps khakis. They're coming. They're coming. I want him to win a game. I don't want him to be on my Monday list. Where it's going to sting. It's bad. Yeah. It's bad. All right. And last we have Ravens running back. Derek Henry. Absolutely beast. Even Santa won't let him sit on his lap because he's he's so strong. He hurts my leg. So there you have it, he just talks to me and sits next to you. to me when he asked for gifts. - Definitely. - Yeah, so Santa Grant thinks he might be on the move, this trade deadline, which is in like a day or two. - Two. - Two. - On Tuesday. - It's Sunday night right now. Yeah, on Tuesday. So how about this lovely three piece luggage set? - Ooh, you can get that out, you can get that wear. - Yeah, you can get that out of Walmart. - Oh, wow. - Don't write, man, you get that list covered like that. - Yeah. - It's almost a holiday season, right? - Jules, have you seen that Walmart has some seriously great gifts this season? - Who knew? - That's right. Walmart has great gifts from top brands you know and love, like LEGO, Garmin, Orring, and more. - They've got everything for the sports fanatics in your life, like TVs and sound bars to gaming systems and kitchen appliances, like the Ninja Slushy Machine. 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Jules, who was hymns this week? - There's only one hymns this week, Rob. - And who's that, Jules? - Mr. Yosoi Fiesta himself. - That's not so kind, man. - Mr. hymns of the week. - I am him of the week. Hall of Famer of the week. Himster of the week. You're not a hamster, you're the himster. - All right buddy. - I'm the hemi shemi, I'm the himster, I'm the him. What else? - For him? - I'm hemi, I'm hemi, Timmy. - Hemi Timmy. - Hemi slimy, 'cause I'm a little slimy now. - No, no, there's gotta be one more. There's gotta be one more. Hemi, hemi, hemi, uh. - Himdoza? - Himdoza. - Himdoza. - Yeah, himdoza. Now we talking. - Himdoza. - Yeah, I mean. - Rob Grungowski. - Rob Grungowski is him. - Yes. I am him. I am him. - There we go. - And no lie. I am him this week and this past week and like I know when I perform well and I know when I don't perform well. - You killed it. - And I killed it this week and because I am him. What a week though. 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