Dudes on Dudes with Gronk and Jules - Gronk's Best NFL Stories & Funniest Moments

Episode Date: February 26, 2026

For this week's episode we take a look back at a mix of some of Gronk's funniest moments and best stories from his playing days with the Patriots. Support the show: https://hoo.be/dudesondudesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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in 10 years for the University of Arizona. It was the Vegas Bowl. We won there. What was most important was I was in Vegas. At 19, 20 years old. Was it fun? Yeah, it was fun. It was really fun. I was the first time. I was still too young, though, so I didn't really get to experience Vegas like that. But I was trying to. You know I was trying to. No, what wasn't that gift bag? The gift bag? Shit, I don't know. That was like 15 years ago. I never went to a bowl game and I always wanted to know. I always wanted to know because you'd hear about like guys go to the bowl games and get like an Xbox. PlayStation. We got a PlayStation. See, you got a fucking PlayStation. And I actually sold it. What was that website? Craigslist. My friend sold it for me. No, it was Nintendo Wii. My friend sold

to me because I had no money. I was like, yo, I don't really play video games. We actually had one system already. We played Halo 24-7 on, on Xbox. I was like, I don't need this Nintendo. He sold it for me on Craigslist for the amount that it goes for in stores. I threw him like 50 bucks and I had like another $200 to buy people beer. You know what? I bet you if the NCAA knew about that, he would have got fucking fined. He would have been, you would, or not fine. It was a gift. You're allowed to sell a gift. Are you? But that sound crazy. I mean, I sold like two months after. You're out here selling wheeze and you go to a college player's fucking the players lot now. All you see is Lamborghinis, these little fucking college kids. It's crazy.

Rob's over here trying to get $50 from a Craigslist. All of his. All I knew was 15 bucks a week and I was satisfied. It got the job. What did it get you? It got me a 30 pack and it got me lunch. That's all I needed. That's all I needed folks. Protein shake. It. protein shakes and beers. No, did you just get the protein shakes back at the facility? Well, actually, yeah, yeah, I got the protein shakes at the facility and a dinner, which I would bring back as well. We would like stack up the to-goes.

So then we would have kind of like an extra lunch or a dinner that night, the next night as well, just in case if we needed some backup food, beers and in the food, but dang, I forgot. Oh, oh, now I know why I had no money. That's where I was going. I had no money in college because my brother, and I, we pulled all our money together. I was left in our bank account. We bought a hot tub

the first three weeks through at the University of Arizona. Literally, we drained our bank accounts. They were at $0. Yep. What was the moment that Tom made you the most annoyed? Oh, my God. When I would return punts, like, I remember my rookie year. It was the freaking preseason game. It was my first punt return, and there was a repunt. And I ended up house in the second one, but the first one, I see Tom on the sideline

and he's got a little anxiety because it's his first game from his knee so he's like he was like coaching me up on how to return a punt and he's like just get up bill just get up you I'm sitting there and I'm looking at him like fuck this guy this guy has never done this he does not know

what I'm feeling right now I was so annoyed with him and then then they repunted it and I housed it and I fucking slammed the ball against the thing I was fired up and I was like I was so annoyed with them like this guy is he's never felt what it feels when the guys are running fulls.

This is new to me. I didn't ever felt it either at the time. So I was like, fuck this guy. Let me do what I got to do. He doesn't know how to run. And I was so annoyed with him. I'll tell you mine.

What was yours? When I was a rookie and I couldn't get outside of the defender on a flag route, which is flag route, which is a corner route. So you run about 10, 12 yards and you, you know, you give a little stick and you break it 45 degrees

and run a corner route. And the defender was always outside of me sitting at like squatting at 10 yards and he's always says get outside if you have a flag route corner route you got to get outside of the defender or else i will never throw you the freaking ball so i was a rookie i was kind of like clunky so i wasn't really that athletic as a rookie you know i wasn't running route tired right we double days and shit yeah i was tired as well i couldn't get outside and in practice i didn't get outside of the guy he's like two three yards outside of me too and i'm trying to fake him like i'm going inside and trying to get around them

on the corner and and Brady just turns around in the meeting because it's on film and he turns man he goes, Gronk, I'm fucking done throwing you the ball. I told you 50 times to get outside. You're not getting outside. And like I got all sad and LG crumpler start patting my leg and he's like, it's okay, grunk. He doesn't mean it. And I was like, yeah, he does. LG. He means it, man. He means it. And let me tell you this time you fucking throwing me the ball like a thousand times after. So, I knew he was all bullshit, Tom, telling me he was never going to throw me to ball again. I was literally like, but that fired me up. I was like, oh, all right, I'm going to show this guy.

But that's the leadership he had. He was brutally honest. Brutally honest. And he would freaking get you to go to the next level, which was crazy, which was crazy. He was so good at it. But I was so annoyed because I couldn't get outside of the guy. I'm like, I want to be like, Tom, run the freaking route. I guarantee you can't get outside of the guy either.

He's three yards outside of me. And then if I got outside of him, it was basically like an out route I was running. because I would have to flatten it so much. So I couldn't really run the corner route. Then you get the other responsibility, the other guy. But he just wanted to get a defender in practice is playing the play. Yeah. And he knew the play.

He just wanted to get the point across. Yeah. Like, so it was just always in my memory. And every time I ran a route, it was kind of just like on autopilot just to get outside of the defender. So I was annoyed at that, you know, with that situation. But, you know, times have changed. I started running routes where I would go inside the guy. and then he would still throw him

to ball as well later on because he's like, all right, he proved it enough that you can do it. Well, then you guys started throwing the back shoulder shit. Yeah, then we started doing all that.

I also used to get really annoyed when in meeting rooms, if he liked you and this, I felt both of these. I felt when he liked a guy, he would like love them up and then there would be so, like when Wes was there,

I get so annoyed when I would do the exact same thing that West would do and he wouldn't think it was good and I would get so fucking annoyed with him but I remember when Wes left then I was that guy there was guys doing trying to do what I would do and he wouldn't so like

I would get annoyed with that so much when he would always bring up like babe just do it a little more like Wesie he called him Wesley when he called him Wesie remember Wesie I used to get so annoyed you want to know what I would get annoyed with him too is like we're in the off season

we just ran 50 routes. It's like you and I out there only. We're dead tired. It's 90 degrees outside middle of the summer. And he'd be like one more. Just one more route. Because he's just throwing the ball. His arm can throw 150 passes a day.

And we're running the freaking 50 routes. And he'd be one more. So then we would run, run more. We'd give it our long. We're about to throw up. It's middle of the summer. We probably are hungover. He has no clue what that's like.

He used to. He used to. We didn't get to see him. And then he became lame. Yeah, he became lame for like a couple years. back in the day. I guess he wasn't lame. If you're saying he's not lame, he was lame, okay?

Say it, Jules. No, he was lame. Yeah. Like when it came to that, he was lame. But we didn't get him when he was young. Yeah, I know. He was already 33 when I first met him.

And I can tell you, I'm freaking lame at 33 years old. Exactly. Compared to when I was freaking 21 to 28 years old. You're right. Because he was 23, 24. he was the, you know, he was the best chugger on the team. He was.

Like, he was a dude's dude. So back to the story, like, he'd be one more. And then you would run one more route and they'd be like, one more. And then you'd just be like, Tom, I'm not effing running one more. I just ran 50 routes. You know, one more, you want to get better? One more. And then it'd be like 15 more routes.

And then finally it was the last one. And it was 50 and then you get to 75. He's like, he just wanted 75 throws. Yeah. He wanted 75 throws. Whatever time says, you do. You got to. You got to.

I remember those days, man. This what made us great, though. I have the perfect scenario where it's the worst place to take a dump, especially for a guy my size. And that's on an airplane in the sky. It's like truly impossible for me already to go in there and take a piss at a comfort level. I mean, my elbow is basically sticking out in the hallway of the airplane still. And the door won't even close.

You know how you got to close that door for the door. The light to go on. The light's never going on with me in there. And I had to take a dump one time. And I was praying to the Pope that he would pray for me and not the damn Chicago Bears anymore. Just to get me through that situation of taking the dump on the plane. Yeah. Are you calculating?

The worst. Are you sitting on the toilet? Like, I got to do this quick because people definitely saw me go to the bathroom. They definitely saw Rob Grunkowski a seven foot man. I don't care about that situation. So you're sitting in there long as you can, hairy and fucking dumb and dumber blowing up the bathroom? I don't care.

I am comfortable enough if someone saw me taking a dump, wippy, dipty do you know, my butt crack has been pulled out plenty of times in game. You know that picture on there, Google it. Grank's buck crack while getting tackled, the Baltimore Ravens playoff game. My whole ass is showing, like, you know, just add a little piece of pooping there,

and then you see me pooping. But what I worry about in that bathroom is my butt cheeks hitting in that damn toilet Are you hovering or are you hovering? I'm hovering so you're doing a squat the whole time you're shitting Yes, yes that's what makes it really difficult No, no it's not even worse Spatting the toilet we usually spat your ankles you put tape on you got to put the toilet paper on You're also worried about turbulence as well While squatting over the toilet

Turbulance is a mind have you ever missed the bowl Fuck. With turbulence? I never missed the ball. No, I never actually had. Oh, my God. No, I only took a dump one time. And thank you to the Pope.

He didn't make there, make any turbulence. Yeah, that's a tough predicament to take a shit in. This thing goes viral all over Instagram all the time, where it's a clip of me running over Ray Lewis. But let me get this clear out there. I didn't really like technically run over Ray Lewis. I mean,

I did in the clip and people just take it out of context. because, you know, on the film directly, like with, you know, you just take that three seconds of a clip and I am running over Ray Lewis. But here's the deal. Here's the situation. It was a passing play. And I was on a route. He was dropping back in the coverage.

And I was debating. I had an in-cut, 12-yard in-cut. And I was debating because he was dropping back, you know, doing his thing, trying to, making it hard on myself because, you know, he's very smart of a player, knows how to. to drop back and get you confused of where he's going. So then it kind of throws you off your route. So I'm like, do I go outside of him? Because he's dropping out of my zone, out of the area where I got to run the 12-yard income.

Or is he going inside? And I should go inside or should I go outside of him? You know what I'm trying to say to do it? So I'm debating. And I'm kind of stiff this game. You know, I'm just running straight. And I'm debating. Should I go out?

Should I go in? Should I go in? And I'm running full speed at him, debating. And then boom, I just clash right into him. So he wasn't really paying attention to me. And he was looking back at the quarterback. But when I clashed right into him on the passing route, he went flying backwards. And I ran him over.

And then I, like, jumped up real quick and acted like I was wide open. So, like, I didn't really run him over. Did you get a catch? No, I didn't get a catch either. So it was great coverage by him, actually, like, to the T, if you ask me. But it's a clip where I'm like, no, it's like just taking out of context. I will tell you when I ran someone over. That's how scary of a guy he is, is where Rob,

here, ran his ass over. I don't want to hear it, Ray. He got ran over. No, I didn't run him. He was dropping back in coverage, and I just ran my route through him. He's trying to justify running him over and did not make Ray mad at him. I don't want Ray mad at me. I can tell you that right now. You want to know what's cool. I was in Poland last year, and I swear no one knows me in Poland. It was, it would look like every other person. Yeah, exactly. I loved it. I loved it. I wanted to go back because of that reason.

No, no. Not everyone's tall. Mm-mm. So what are you? It's a laid-back European country. So a lot of these countries in Europe, you know, they're all different styles, you know, even though they're all one in Europe, but they all have their different, you know, it factor in. Poland is really, really laid back and more low-key.

But beautiful, the nature, the grass, the woods. I mean, it's the most beautiful settings I've ever seen in my life. And now it makes sense why I'm so beautiful now, too, Julie. Yeah. What was the food like? Yeah, food was phenomenal. I was eating gas station cheeseburgers left and right. Yeah.

A plus grade talking no antibiotics in those gas station cheese burgers. Bread phenomenal. I was eating them left and right. The mayonnaise, like different mayonnaise you would ever have here in the United States. Aoli maybe. Yeah, unbelievable man. I'd just be pouring the mayonnaise on, man, man, on those burgers. Oh, so good.

Gas station burgers in. Through the roof, the best. We got to go to a gas station in Poland. You do. As a burger guy, you have to. All right. Enough said. You know, quarter year I play with Randy. I thought he was a great teammate, man. And like you said, I feel like he was misunderstood in the public eye a little bit.

He didn't really care about, you know, the glam and all that. Like, he just rubbed it off his shoulders like, like it was nothing. Like it was water, man. But he cared about being a good guy and he never thought he was too big for anyone else. I mean, Randy was the best. wide receiver in the game at the time, maybe of all time. And he cared about, you know, being relatable to the young bucks. He did.

He made me feel very warm and welcome. What do he do? To the New England Patriots when I was there. What did he do to make you feel warm and welcome? So Moss always loved, you know, kicking it back, having a conversation with myself when I was a rookie. I was struggling. I was in the playbook like crazy.

Struggling a little bit. But he just loved how I played the game. and he always imitated me because I was big, I was goofy, you know, and he liked that kind of stuff. He loved it. And every time I had a catch or, you know, I had a touchdown, I'd be like myself, you know, I'd be giggling like this. He'd be like, dude, bro, you're always giggling. You're always having a good time, gronk.

Like, it's coolest shit, man. Cool as shit, how you are, man. And I'd be like, it made me feel warm and welcome to be myself on the Patriots. And I'd be like, I always did that on the field after a catch, I get up. Like, I don't know. That was just me. I was getting hyped. And Moss was like, man, I like how you do this, man, I like that cool shit how you do that.

Like, I'm going to do that after I score a touchdown. I was like, for real? He's like, yeah, yeah, I'm going to do that. So what happened? Game, I think game number two. Buffalo versus Buffalo. He scored like, you know, 40-yard or post right down the middle, like, you know, like Randy Moss does. Because fastest wide receiver I probably ever seen play the game, freakish, you know, stride.

It looked like he was going slow. He looked like, but he was just always passing. And he was just gliding. It was like a jet ski on water, like on like flat surface, just gliding across the water. Yes. And it didn't look like he was going 70. No. But he was going 70, maybe 80.

On water, which is fast. Yes. So we get to the game. He scores that touchdown and he starts doing this. Like he's like, yeah, he's being grok in the end zone. And I'm 21 years old. And this is Randy. Frickin Moss,

imitating me after one of his touchdowns. I thought it was the coolest thing. actually never even shared that story with anyone. I'm not even, I'm talking like I never shared that story with a friend, a family member. It's just kind of known within the team, you know, within the team and the organization. So that's one of the coolest stories of all time, you know, about Randy Moss, I have personally.

And he just made me feel welcome to the team. And he just made me feel like myself because he just loved how I was and how I played the game. And it was a special moment, that's for sure. We'll be right back after this quick break. I'm Luke Wilson. Join me each week for Film Never Lies. Since retiring from the NFL, I've had a lot of my mind, and now, I've got my own show. So if you're tired of lazy takes, if you want honest conversations, join us each week. Film Never Lies available on all TSN platforms in the IHeartRadio app. I'm Clayton Eckerd, and in 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor.

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I'm Hans Charles. I'm Manilic Lamouba. Listen to the A building on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Did you take food home from the facility when you were playing? I probably did it a couple times, but it was not a common occurrence. It wasn't like Gronk who, if you went to his house,

you saw the whole stadium at his fridge? No. Okay. Yeah, one time I stole a blender. Stole a blender. I wanted to make a shakes at home. So I was like, oh, I'm taking a blender. And I just took the blender.

I mean, they had 15 blenders. Well, if you announce it, you're not stealing it. Yeah. He gave it back. Right? They gave it to you. I still use it to this side of all. No.

It's old. It's all. Camille's always like, you got to buy a new blender. That's a good blender. What brand? are we dealing with that's a long-lasting blender it is man commercial blender there we go it's it's commercial great obviously i don't know the name of it but we're not going to give them that

much credit yeah yeah we don't need any free advertising no no no we would never do that make sure always get paid i got a little story my rookie year i mean it was pacman jones out there why i covered going one-on-one versus whoever he was covering and west was in the slot and uh he we did a quick pass to west so you know at the you know lined up inside at the tight end position you know how i bolt out there and i got to go block the db and this is my first game i've ever played and i saw it was pacman i was like oh shit do i really want to block this guy like i don't know what he's going to do to me i mean all these stories about pacman out there talking shit coming after you getting under your skin that was in the scouting report it was it really was it was in back on my head

but i was like i screw that i got i got to show my abilities i got to do me so i kind of ran at Pac-Man, broke down a little bit, got right into his chest, boy. Drove him about three, four yards, right to the sideline. Wes ran right behind me, scored a touchdown, baby, and I just turned around like, I just blocked Pac-Man Jones, motherfucker. Let's go to this tip without Bobby. We actually both got to tap with Wes when we got to go on the boat. Yeah, yeah, we got to go on the Hooters boat.

We went on the Hooters yacht. Yeah, the Hooters yacht. It was, West was friends with the Hooters. owner or owner or someone big up in the hooters world and the hooters yacht was in boston yeah at dinner on it we had dinner and we met matt light was there and uh that was when we got i got tapped into kind of you know the next level i think i got rocks to make him feel comfortable yeah that ron so i was his plus one we went and then matt light obviously screwed with me he took my shoes when he left he left a little bit before me and took my shoes and hit on my like another dock

when like like freaking 50 feet away and he sat there the whole time until i left and he watched me look for my shoes for like 15 minutes and then he felt bad and then he came walking over like rob your shoes are over here man i was playing with it yeah that's how much he loved me that he that was the first time he felt bad instead of sitting there for three hours having me look for my shoes he actually came back and was rob would have sat for three hours to find those shoes too bro freaking light yeah light man just cruise around boston harbor on the hooters yeah That's rocks. It was.

No shortage of flotation devices. I thought we cruised. Did we? Oh, actually we went and saw the fort? Yeah, we did. Yeah, we did cruise.

We cruised it. It was kind of sick. That sounds so boring. It was sick. And that was like the first shot I've ever been on my name. This is like NFL life. Like, you know, you can be on yachts.

Like this is crazy. But to your point, I know you guys are thinking. Was there a hundred hooter girls? No. There was no other, there was no other girls. It was just me, Rob.

Yes. Wes, his girl, and Matt Light and his wife. Yes. So it wasn't like... Wives or girls. We were like the plus together. Julian and I were looking at each other as Hooters. Put it that way.

Yeah, we were like, man, this could be so much more fun. Jules, why do we come? We thought there was going to be like 50 Hooter girls on here. And they were going to serve us chicken wings and... That's a real reason everybody goes to Hooters and the Wings, bro. Yeah, the wings. The family... Is Hooters even around anymore?

Yeah, I thought it went back. Making a revamp, though, I think they're around. They're around? I think so. Remember the one we used to drive by? The, where's the one that we used to go by? Providence. Providence, yeah.

T.F. And that one shut down now. I've never been to it, though. We never went to it, but our bus went by it to the airport every time. And every guy would just be at the locker room like, man, or at the bus window? Like, what's hooters? Should we stop or should we go and we come back? It was the worst hooters of all time, too.

It was, it looked like a dump, but wippy do. Yeah. Yeah. Whippie do. R-I-P. R-I-P. Yeah, I don't think Hooters goes anymore. There's this new one.

And my mom got me. So it's in, it's in Florida and it's Twin Peaks. And my mom, we were sitting at dinner and she had a friend over and she's like, she's like, she somehow brought up Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks was brought up and they were cracking jokes about it.

And I'm like, what's so funny? Like Twin Peaks? Like, I don't know. Mountains? Like, I don't know. And, and then, They're like, you don't get it? And I was like, no.

And they're like, twin peaks. And then my mom was like, like that, like what are tattas or just show? And I was like, oh, I get it. Two mountains. Hell yeah. Yeah, two mountains that are twinning. Oh, my God. On a chest.

It's kind of like, it's kind of like the new upper hooter. Well, speaking of welcome to the NFL, he gave me my welcome to the NFL dosage of a hit. When training camp rookie year, you know the WAM block. What's the WAM block? Explain where they let go. The guy let's the just defense of tackle free. So then he thinks he's going to go get a sack. And then the WAM black is when I come across the line of scrimmage at the

tight end position when I'm off the ball. And I'm the one that goes and I wham the defense of tackle and try to block them. Like a trap for the tight end. There you go. Exactly. And we're trapping the defense of tackle. So he knows it's coming. I mean, this is a specialty play that the new.

England Patriots been running. Nine on seven. They know the fucking script. Well, well before me. Yeah, it is. It was a nine and seven. So, yeah, the defense does notice script. So they can look really good in the run game throughout that whole period.

And I think they also told them this play was coming, uh, being specifically knowing I'm on a black vans and they wanted to see my toughness as a rookie. So the play is called. I'm in full paths. You know, I'm like a wamblock. I got to show my toughness. I got to show my keeps. I got to get to get this.

the respect of my fellow teammates, especially the veterans. Wait, wait, whoa, let me pay the picture also. Rob's a rookie here. Vee was like the big dog on campus. In practice, no one really gets close to him because you don't want to piss him off when you're new. It's like, holy shit, is that a, that is a large human being. He's like so big.

I think there's like something that orbits him, like on how round he is. Like that's, you didn't want to get in his way. You didn't want to piss him off because he was very intimidated. Get back to your story. So the play, you know, gets on its way. I do my little two, you know, two sidesteps, you know, on the motion. I'm running full speed right at Vince Wilford. This guy peeks over to his left.

He sees me coming. He has this grin on his face knowing I was coming. He put his shoulder down. I'm going full speed at him. And he gets that leverage and just tease off on me. I went flying backwards five to six yards. I didn't even land on my back. He sent me flying in the air where I landed on my feet still.

Oh my God. Yeah, and that hit hurt like a mother effort. But what's cool is I gained the respect of my teammates. And my coach at that time, tight end coach in that meeting that day when we went and reviewed the play. Farrants? Brian Farrants. I love you, Brian Farrance. He's now at Iowa with his dad doing, you know, doing his thing, doing a good job.

He goes, yo, what were you thinking trying to block Vince Wolfwork? He goes, you're not. ever going to do that again. I go, thank you. Did you ever host any recruiting trips with any other NFL guys? No, not really. So when I was at the University of Arizona, they didn't allow me to host anyone. Why? Yeah, I hosted one player and we got chased by a helicopter. No, you didn't. I swear. What do you mean you got chased by a fucking helicopter? We got chased by a helicopter. I hit under a car. Yeah, and this recruit was running around with me. There's a top juco recruit. I thought I, I thought I definitely sold him.

I thought he was definitely coming to the University of Arizona. He didn't. No, he ended up going to Arizona State. Never seen him again until he goes Arizona State. I was like, I thought he was definitely going to choose the University of Arizona. Like I was like, and then, and then I'm on the Patriots, like, 2016 or something. I don't know what year exactly. We signed some guy on the practice squad midseason, a lineman.

He comes up to me. He's like, yo, Greg, remember me? And like, you know, back of my mind, I'm like, I do. but I don't because I've never seen him again. He left after that night. He was gone and chose Arizona State big time recruit. He's like, yeah, you hosted me at the University of Arizona. And then everything just started clicking.

And I was like, oh my gosh, I was like, how you doing? How you doing? He's like, I'll remember that night for the rest of my life. But I can't believe he went to go be a devil. Yeah. I mean, he can't be CKSF foot in Tucson anymore because a goddamn helicopter will chase him. You had to go to Arizona State. The message of the story.

We should write a movie off that hangover. It's like a hangover shit. It was basically we were at a party and got broken up. And there was always a helicopter that broke it up. And everyone started running and just the premises of the of the stories, the helicopter followed us. So then I was like, oh, fuck it. Yeah. I mean, this guy's a line.

I was like, you're fucking Rob. Yeah. But we got away. We got away. Scott free. They help my skills, help my football skills on the field. So you can get away from a helicopter. You can get away from a helicopter.

defender. Yeah. This is the closest I've ever came to shitting in my pants while playing in a football game. I've had to take plenty of shits before while playing the game, but that's when you go underneath the tunnel and you go inside real quick and you hit that bathroom that's super close. You know what I'm talking about in the tunnel? And then I just pulled down my pants really quick and just take the quickest dump and have the worst wipe ever and wash my hands real quick. I probably still have poop all over my hands and I put my hand back in the glove and I still catch the ball even with poopy hands, but that's probably the closest I ever got. What I have, I have after games, I have ripped huge farts while playing, you know, in games.

And then after I've got really, really juicy. And then I, oh, my trousers. And I'm like, oh, shit, I got some serious, serious poop stains on my trousers right now. So that's the closest. Dust butter, girl. That's the closest I've ever been the shitting my pants. of the game. We'll be right back after this quick break. I'm Dylan Playfair. And I'm Tyler Smith. We're putting loneliness in the penalty box by talking to

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in black American history that you'll never forget. I'm Hans Charles. I'm Manilic Lamouba. Listen to the A building on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. You played through a back your whole career. Yeah, back. I mean, I would say the biggest, you know, injury that, like, where I had to perform at

at high level shows the last game I played for the New England Patriots. And what was that? Super Bowl, 52, the one year MVP? What was that? 52 or 53? 53. I just get all the Super Bowl is confused. Same.

Yeah, I just say, I just know the team. We're very blessed because we went to a lot. I just know the team and what city it was in and what stadium. But that one, 53, your MVP, Super Bowl. season and I took that quad contusion. Oh yeah. And then like it was a quad contusion where a thousand milliliters of blood got taken out. But by end of the game with two minutes left, I couldn't move my leg anymore. Like I maximized the amount of use I could get on it. And then the last two minutes in the

final drive, I was blocking with one leg and just kind of throwing my shoulder into like Aaron Donald and like their defensive ends. Yeah, it didn't look pretty, but it was a pretty job. You made the fucking play of the game, bro. I did. I made the play of the game. with a quad contusion where I should where I thought my leg was broken the whole entire game. Dude, they did it right after the game, right? It was, I couldn't walk.

I couldn't even sleep. I got 20 minutes of sleep that night. I couldn't walk for four weeks after that. I couldn't even put pants on my quad was that thick. That's, yeah, dude, those contusions are, brooding. I wish I could get a contusion like that to my third leg and make that thing grow.

I always felt, I'm like, grunk partied hard, he played hard. When was the first time you party with grunk? The first time I party with Grunk was The first memorable party We were always partying on the short bus Before we had the short bus was freaking awesome We sure were

I wasn't on the short bus The first memorable party was We're both in trouble But I'm just saying You had that party at the house And it had a party at the house And it had legit It was a great atmosphere

It was Great atmosphere Yeah, so it was See what's right out there A lot of players here With the best part of the girl I thought it was like, I only knew Ridd a little bit. And I just remember like, oh, shit, we need some help.

Like, we need some help. Like, we need backup. I call Ridd, and call the Rooks. I go, Rith. I go, I never know. We never hung out before, but we've been great friends in the locker room, all that. I go, but I need you at my house right now. And I need you to bring all the rookies that you can possibly bring because I need backup.

This is true. This is a hundred percent true story. And when you walk in this. house. I'm going to easily say in one house, there was 75 to 100 people that I did not know, that were not my teammates. It's when we were a little bit of a young kids. Young bachelors. Maniacs. Young bachelors. Maniacs. This guy wants to know what our favorite meal was after a game. After a game. And I would say whatever the spread was that the New England Patriots was providing, you know, because after a game, you can bring your family and friends in, you know, in like,

inside the tunnel to meet them after the game, you know, to see your family and friends. And then they would have this huge spread the New England Patriots would provide. And there'd be burgers, hot dogs, chicken tenders, with barbecue sauce, ranch, honey mustard, whatever sauce you want with those chicken tenders.

All tons of drinks that were lined up, you know, as well. They always had a southern kind of food. There was always like, because a lot of the guys come from the south. So there was brisket, there was fried chicken. and there'd be like beans and there'd be collie greens. And then they'd have like the whiter stuff. There'd be like broccoli and like chicken fingers and like roasted barbecue burgers and hot

dog. You know, so like they hit a little bit of everything. You know, you had the soul food. And then you had like, you know, the white food. So, yeah, you got to hit both parties. That's kind of true, right? You got to hit both parties. I mean, the Patriots did not discriminate.

They did not discriminate on food. So I would say... Now, the quality of the food... No, actually, yeah. You're right. The quality of this food was actually perfect for the quality that you wanted after a game. Yeah.

Put it that way. It was comfort food. Yeah. You don't want to try to eat like a Tom Brady meal after a football game. No. It's hard to put down, you know, all the emotions, the heads. You want to put down a cheeseburger with ketchup and mayonnaise. But my favorite thing to do was take those chicken tenders

and just dunk them in as much barbecue. sauce that you possibly could and as much ranch or blue cheese that you possibly could and that was my favorite go-to meal after a game was those chicken tenders yeah i remember grunk usually would take like four boxes of the chicken fingers back to his house i would and like you would go to his house after the the game and there would be a spread of what we had a spread of the post game and grub like hey guys You want some chicken fingers? So I'd say the chicken fingers too, Rob. Halloween status symbol.

He just went to a junkyard and got like a disastered car. Putting it in the graveyard, everyone that you sacked. This guy is Mr. Halloween. That's because he's the scariest player to block on the field, Julian. Did you have to block him? I actually never blocked Miles Gare. And I was just talking about this with what Kyler. Shout out to Kyler about how I blocked so many of the legendary.

legendary pass rushers still in the NFL today that are all established like you name them name name a couple big time pass rushes uh just uh joey bosa who's on the buffalo bills never black nick bosa he was the only other one go keep naming benito benito's a young buck like super young i'm talking established guys that vall miller knows their name von miller plenty of times um who else donald erin donald plenty of times face him plenty of times and you never got miles gerrit My never faced T.J. Watt. Faced some plenty of times. J.J. Watt? J.J. Watt.

Hutchinson? He's Young Buck. Young Buck. Young Gowm. Yeah, I was retired when he came back. Brian Burns? Yeah, I've placed him when he was on Carolina when I was in Tampa. And he's a young buck, though. Max Crosby went against him. But Miles Garrett, he played while I was playing. That's one of the only past rushers in the league right now that's very established that I never went against. And I'm kind of glad I never did. Dude. I am super glad. I want to want to go versus him. He, like, why?

He looks like he's not human. You want to know what's wild about Miles Garrett is just how big he is, how muscular he is. Usually those guys are dense and you could tell that they're dense. He's very functional with how big he is. He's very fluid, you know, with his strength. Usually when guys are that, Jack, you're more robotic and you can just go up the field and you can't really bend. and you can't really explode how you want to explode because nothing's working from A to Z because you're kind of clogged up with all that muscle.

This guy has all that muscle and he's super fluid. Shout out to GQ. Having Julian in it. Tom was on GQ. You know, just shout out the GQ for representing athletes because it's more of a brand for, you know, like celebrities that are actors and models.

But shout out the GQ for keeping the athletes going as well and putting us on the covers. Look at that, Jules. Look at me. made a money $100 bill towel going across me abs were popping the gronk spikes were in full effect look at the jack diesel back in those days man looking turned up turned up baby old robbie g no old robbie g we didn't chirp you for this did we no you guys didn't chirp me for this but i got churped by coach belchick before because we all thought he was see that he's cool.

I was looking cool. You can't chirp a cool guy, Jules, all right. But I got chirped by Coach Belichick when I did the ESPN cover when I had the kitty cats on my shoulder. What, what Bill say?

We're warming up in practice. I'm shy. He goes, oh, looking good with those kitty cats. It's all about the covers of ESPN and having cats as pets. It was right along those lines. But I was like,

coach, I'm going to dominate today. He's like, okay, fine. You're good to go then. I had a voicemail after I picked the University of Arizona. Like some girl that night, I guess I gave my number to, like literally left a voicemail on my phone after I picked the wildcast. I was like basically just told me how bad I messed up with my decision.

Yeah. I'm not going to exactly say what the voicemail was, but I was like, this is incredible. I thought I was so cool. Yeah. Ohio State. Ohio State was awesome. Right there. I was hung over off apple juice there too.

And that picture that went viral when I was in high school and took a visit there, I was definitely, you know, a little apple juice out. Look a little rob. And I was at the game. Let me tell you, Ohio State, Clemson, you can't beat their facilities, you can't beat their organization, you can't beat the crowd, you can't beat their stadiums. But it just wasn't my fit. And if you know me personally, I'm not a guy that can get intrigued by that type of stuff.

I'm a guy that sticks to my roots. The University of Arizona was where I belong. You know, I felt at home there. I felt like I could go there and play right away. And also at the same time, I knew if you did well enough, if it was Division 1, you're going to go to the NFL. Like, there's guys going to the NFL at Arizona. So I was like, I can get to the NFL still.

So it wasn't like. It's still D1 program. It's a D1. I wanted to be part of a team that turned it around. I like Coach Dupes. Ohio State, though, I mean, I was blown away about everything. But at the same time, I was like, I can have all this if I make it to the NFL. And you did?

Yeah, and I did. Did you almost get kicked out of Air? Arizona at all? I never really have. I mean, we got in a couple big fights. I would probably say that was the closest to getting kicked, you know, off the team. Yeah. But there was a big huge fight. There was like 10 guys involved. Like I got brought in like three days later by the police officer that was investigating it. And he was actually on our side. And later that I didn't even like open my mouth. I didn't tell tell anyone. I was like, I don't even know what fight you're talking about. And he's like, no, I'm here for you. I'm on your guys aside. But still, I'm.

I'm like, I don't know, man. I was just walking by and I don't really remember much. Grunk, no rat. Yeah, no rat. No rat. No rat. Stick to the roots. I'm Clayton Eckerd. In 2022, I was the lead of ABC's The Bachelor. But here's the thing.

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