Games with Names - Dudes on Voicemails

Episode Date: May 22, 2025

We're back in Boston and this week we're hitting the hotline to answer your voicemails! We're talking everything from post game meals, road trips, the new Pope, and a whole lot more. We wrap up the episode by crowning our Chillest Caller in this week's Chillest Dude of the Week presented by Coors Light. Support the show: http://www.gameswithnames.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

You're listening to an I Heart podcast. If I was playing in the 70s, 80s and 90s era, it would be how many players. Does it take the tackle? The Gronkula. And it would take the whole entire team, buddy. Especially in the 70s, the 80s, probably just, you know, I don't know. I don't want to take anything from them in their generations because I have respect. That's a good way to put it.

My answer was just silly. Yeah. No, but you are a beast. You probably. I take it back. I would have been on the bench. Welcome to Dudes on Dudes. I'm Julian Edelman. I would have been on the bench. Yeah. Welcome to Dudes on Dudes. I'm Julian Edelman. I'm Rob Gronkowski.

And this is a show where your favorite dudes get to talk about their favorite dudes. And today we're hitting the hotline to answer your voicemails. That number is 561-203-5789. What are we talking about today? Our go-to post-game meals. Brisket, fried chicken, burgers, hot dogs, chicken fingers, barbecue sauce, ranch, honey mustard. Who will benefit

the most playing for Grable? It only matters about one. How's Drake make gonna play? And what it's really like at a rookie mini camp. And then literally showed up and dominated every single day. Vastly different than mine. And then we wrap it up with the chillest caller in this week's Chillest Dude of the Week presented by Coors Light. You gotta stick around to the very end. Let's go.

Dudes on Dudes is a production of iHeartRadio. Great to be back in Boston. Episode 2 here in Boston. It's always nice to be back. It is. It's home. And what's the first thing that you do, Jules, when you're back in Boston? I know you like your spots that you eat at You know a spot where you go drink your coffee at a spot where you you know go sip some champagne at but what's the?

Truest first thing that you do went to Mike and Patty's breakfast sandwich. I like I like their there What's their their og with it's like their house made English muffin medium over fried egg House made English muffin medium over fried egg. American cheese, sausage and a sriracha ketchup on there. I get it because it reminds me of the facility. Remember, I used to get the sausage, egg and cheese. That was like my first meal a day after my smoothies. It would be a sausage, egg and cheese.

You're making me hungry for breakfast right now. I know, dude. And they cook it. Mike and Patty's, they cook the egg perfect. I get to over medium. So it's like it's not like jizzing in your face when you cut it. Oh, Jesus, I'm not hungry anymore. Yeah. You know, I was, but not anymore.

Sometimes it gets sloppy when you have like a over easy egg and it bursts while you take your and I'm over here having to get wet wipes. That's what I get. What's the first thing you get or do when you come back? Well, in the city of Boston, the first thing I typically do is drive through the city to get to your place, you know, so I get to see all the trees, how blossom they are when the sun is out.

You know, all the people crossing the street, just feel the energy of the whole city and why it's such a great city. And you actually really see why it is when you drive through the city on a nice day. I mean, there's so many people outside shopping, going out to eat, you know, for lunch, dinner, whatever it is. And it's just really, really cool to see.

And you feel, you know, that energy of Boston strong as well. So that's the first thing that I see when I go through city because I don't live in the city, but you know, and I usually get the cowboy rib eye steak from Davios at Patriot Place. Yeah, it's easy. It's close to you too.

You order it or you go in? I order it, curbside pickup. Curbside pickup. And that's why I still You know do it. You know it's a go-to because I just put your dad That's a grunk side. What do you like? And it's probably like a green you have some kind of green asparagus that makes your pee stinky Yeah, you know which is a gene by the way now. It doesn't make every not everyone

Smells or produces that smell. Really? Yeah, it's a gene morph. There's something that morphs in your gene that allows you to have that. I got in a huge argument about it, because I read about it. Well, I didn't read about it, I saw it.

Scientific evidence by Julian Edelman. It's on TikTok. Scientific evidence by Julian Edelman. Yeah, it's TikTok. About asparagus. TikTok source. I think somebody 12 yearelman. Yeah, it's tick tock. About asparagus tick tock source. I think so. Make your piece smell or not. Yeah.

Only if you have the gene. And then what's your star? I have the gene. I'm I'm a potato guy, but like garlic mashed potatoes, garlic mashed. Now, like a Negrotten. What's in the grotten? The grotten is where they like scallop the potatoes and then they saute them. And then they put the cheese and like the creaminess in it

And then they go and bake it so it's like the skin like the thin potatoes So kind of like a twice baked potato No twice baked potatoes where they carve it out and they mash it and then they put in all the juices And then they put it back in the skin. This is they scallop The potato so they thinly slice it they saute those they put it in a cream Cheese sauce layer of cheese on the top bake it and it becomes casserole Yeah, I'm a garlic mashed potato guy Yeah, Gronk likes it easy

Let's get in some calls. Yeah, letronk likes it easy. Let's get in some calls. Yeah, let's do it. Let's answer some voicemails. Voicemails? These are my favorite. Hey Jules, hey Gronk, what was your favorite meal you would enjoy? See, this is why I love these questions. Favorite meals.

I just love answering like what's my favorite meal? We were just talking about our first thing that we do when we get to Boston and it's you going to Mike and Patty's breakfast spot and ordering a sandwich and I'm going to Davio's place and ordering the cowboy ribeye for curbside pickup while 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. 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 would be burgers, hot dogs, chicken tenders with barbecue sauce, ranch, honey mustard, whatever sauce you wanted with those chicken tenders. 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, there'd be like beans and there'd be collard greens and then they'd have like the whiter stuff there'd be like beans and there'd be collard 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 have the soul food and then you had like, you know, the white food. So, yeah, you got it. You got to have both parties. Kind of true, right?

Got to have both parties. You got to hit both. The Patriots did not discriminate. They did not discriminate on food. So, yeah, you got it. You got it. Both parties kind of true, right? I got hit both parties got hit. I mean the Patriots did not discriminate. They did not discriminate on food so I know the quality of the food 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 comfort food Yeah, you don't want to try to eat like a Tom Brady meal after a 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 We 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 came So I'd say the chicken fingers to Rob let's go to the next question Oh Where oh no way oh shit no way Jose. That's tight. I love that color too like that light blue What kind of blue is this? That's I think that is a baby Carolina blue Carolina blue it like really shines like I would Look really good with a t-shirt that is this color it would bring out your eyes

It would and you're tan so look good. Yeah, well thank you, Core's Light, for this wonderful cooler with speakers on it. That's always the best. What's up, Gronk and Jules? This is Greg from Delaware. Big Paps fan and even bigger fan of the Dudes on Dudes podcast. So I was wondering, with Josh McDaniels back at offensive coordinator, who's definitely a whiz by the way, I was wondering if you guys could speak to any qualities that it takes to play in a Josh McInnes offense and then any qualities to look out for with the

NFL draft coming up, if there's any type of qualities you would see in a rookie. Well, before you start answering this question, Julian, I'm going to leave this one for you. Well, majority of it, but he's a big Patriots fan and he's even a bigger fan of the Dudes on Dudes podcast. So we made it, brother. We made it. We made it because these Patriot fans, they're big fans. They're all in with the Patriots. So that means they're all in with Dudes on Dudes. So we appreciate you, brother. Thank you. Thank you, Greg. Yeah, I would say a good prerequisite to have as a Personality or a player in Josh's system is being a smart tough football player that performs under pressure. That's what he's gonna preach

You know if you can remember your formations if you're if you're a smart guy You could you can be a versatile guy. You could play multiple positions could you could be a versatile guy. You could play multiple positions. Which you get that vibe out of Hendrickson in the second round that they drafted, a guy that could play that third down running back, pick up protections, put them out in the Kevin Falk spots in the slot in the pass game on those Tiger formations and stuff. Like I think Josh is going to be great for that.

So like being a tough guy that's smart that knows How to get on the same page with Josh? I mean, it's not rocket science, but you just can't you just got to be able to take in the install which I'm excited Mm-hmm. You hit it right on the nose brother And one other thing is that he gives everyone an opportunity to shine and showcase your skills So when you get that opportunity to shine and showcase your skills. So when you get that opportunity, especially if you're an undrafted free agent

or if you're like a seventh round or sixth rounder, you gotta shine in those opportunities. And if you don't shine in those opportunities, it's gonna be the next man up and he's gonna let you know that too. So make sure you take advantage of those opportunities. That's what you did, Julian, that's what I did. And you gotta be consistent as well

out there on the football field He loves consistent players, but He's gonna give you an opportunity and it's gonna be one of your strengths Mm-hmm You know, you may only get that nugget once or twice whatever your your strength is and your route type of route you run Or your quickness or your longs he's gonna give you that you just got to make that play and that's how you Continue to gain his trust and the more plays you make, the more opportunities you get. So that's what I think.

Smart, tough football players that perform under pressure. Hey, man. How about this new pope being from Chicago? I mean, anything for the Bears hopes this season? Yo, when when I found out what the smoke comes out, right, is that the smoke came out? That's right. With the little came out? That's what that right with the little pigeon I saw the video Yeah, the smoke comes out new Pope from Chicago when that came out I went

Down to Vegas and I put a future bet that they would make the playoffs. Mm-hmm I mean the Pope went to the damn White Sox game back in 20, whatever. And what happened? They fucking sweep them, didn't they? Swap Houston, Swap Houston. This guy's after the pope was there. Game one. It literally swept them. It's going to literally take a pope to make the

Chicago Bears pretty good now. They're not going to make the Super Bowl, but they're going to make the playoffs because of the ball. You make the playoffs. That's that's making us that's that's big for them. That's a big step. I mean, the Bears also got hope that the pope is praying for them every single day as well.

So that's behind them. I mean, the Bears, the Bears, the Bears, the Bears be playoff decency because of the pope. They got a pope before they got a 4000 yard passer, huh? They sure did. Things are looking up. They got they got Johnson. They got a couple linemen. They got the pope. Look, this is the bear season. They're hoping that Cal makes that second year step.

This is if there's any step to be made, I'm banking the Pope, you got the Pope. You don't even have to be Catholic. Put all your money on the Bears making the playoffs. Yeah, pretty much, oh my God, hopefully. Everyone goes and puts all their money on, and they go fucking three and 16. Well, I'm going to, I'm gonna back it up,

I'm gonna put some money on the Bears. I'll put some, I did, I told you, when I saw the pigeon video smoke From the Vatican. Mm-hmm. I saw I've been there. I've seen it. I saw little dudes touching. Well, we're gonna be rich Next question. All right. All right fellas. Let me get right down to business here grouch Greatest tie down to whatever steps foot on the grid iron jewels The greatest catch not only in a Superbowl, but of all time, blue guy, slot guy, nasty player.

So not football ready question yet. What is the worst circumstance? Either of you have had to take a shit in because honestly, I just woke up. I got one loaded into the chamber here and I think it's going to be a bamboo. All right, fellas, take it easy. Keep up the good work. I really liked this guy. I mean the props that he gave us and then just great intro, just whatever just totally went off the beaten path and just brought that situation up.

But we were just talking about shit. We were how I just took 15 active wet dumps in the last two days Yeah, I went to got a little so I don't know what was going through me But we were just talking about it before we started this show So this is actually a great question right here But 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 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 gotta close that door for 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. Now are you are you calculating? The worst. Are you sitting on the toilet like I got to do this quick because people are definitely saw me go to the bathroom they definitely saw Rob Gronkowski a seven-foot man. I don't care about that situation So you're sitting in there long as you can hairy and fucking dubbing dummer blowing up the bathroom. I don't care

If I am comfortable enough if someone saw me taking a dump Whippy dippy do you know my butt crack has been pulled out plenty of times in games you know that picture on there google it Gronk's butt crack while getting tackled the Baltimore Ravens playoff game my whole ass is showing like you know just add a little piece of poop in there and then you see me pooping but uh what I worry about in that bathroom is my butt cheeks hitting that damn toilet are you hovering or do you sp I'm 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. It's batting the toilet

We usually spat your ankles you put tape and then you're put the toilet paper on you're also worried about turbulence as well while squatting over the toilet Turbulence is mine. Oh mine have you ever missed my ball fuck with I never missed a ball no I never actually oh my god I only took a dump one time and thank you to the Pope he he didn't make there and make any turbulence yeah that's that's a tough predicament to take a shit in for me my my worst he's got one in the chamber. So he's got double dumping before ten o'clock over here I'd say anytime you got you're on a date or something, right?

Like a first time date. It's literally like the the dumb and dumb are script. That's like the worst situation Or like if you excuse me, babe, I just gotta go I just gotta go to the bathroom real quick or when you shart a little like you and you don't have anywhere to take a shit oh that's the worst the shirt is like you thought it was a fart but it was a little shit but you caught it but it could be a little moist in there which girls hate oh yeah girls do that. They either want to they either want just a clean or they don't want no like a chart or it's wet and farty. They're like, that's disgusting.

Like what if it's just a clean, loud one? It's fine. It's fine. I mean, yeah, it's manly. Yeah. Charts are bad. Chart. No charts. Let's go to the next one. Hey, Jules. Hey, Gronk. You know, the boys and I are sitting down here in Prov. That's going to watch your buddy play lacrosse.

You know, it kind of came across our minds. Why are manholes shaped in a circle? Like, why not a square? Why not a triangle? Let's put the circle, I don't know. We just wanna know what you guys thought. Stupid question, but oh well. What is a manhole?

Why are they circle? Cause dude, the Ninja Turtles went down there and they like pizza and it looks like a pizza and they used to throw it like a pizza, dude. It's fucking easy science. Dude. I didn't even know what a manhole was. It's the sewer drain thing, huh? Yeah. Triangles because circle, right?

Yeah. Like a triangle like just one go right. No, because that's circle of life, dog. Yeah. You don't put a square up there. What what Julian said with the Ninja Turtles. Don't you remember in the video game they would come up and they would throw them? Science. The circle on the manhole cannot fall into the hole. That's science.

We'll be right back after this quick break. Hi, Gronk and Jules. This is John from Michigan. There's all these questions about whether 100 humans can take on the one gorilla. How many Gronks and Jules do you think it would take to take one down and what would your strategy be? Thanks, guys. How many Gronks and Jules? I'd say like, are we didn't they say the simulation would even a thousand, ten thousand, wouldn't be able to do it. Are we are we kidding?

Ten thousand humans wouldn't be able to take down one gorilla. And I simulation. No. How big is this? I'm broken eyes. So I think I think it I think it would take 200 me and a hundred grunks to take down a gorilla yeah I mean a hundred just normal people can't take down a gorilla they're saying the gorilla wins yeah they're like a dude put it in the same put it in AI let's

see what AI's house An average silverback, which was one of the strongest most powerful Six 200 Scrappy tough quick gritty But not overpoweringly strong. Oh, what? Come on, dude. That's weak. Come on Ai is fucking weak. I was strong watch the tape One of the strongest tight ends in NFL history Rob Gronkowski known

for absurd strength durability and blocking ability, so look Are they coordinated? Yes, they may be fewer are needed if It's a chaotic swarm the gorilla could take them down at one time Do they know it's a fight till death if yes their NFL instincts would help but gorillas fight to kill Not to win on points stamina gorillas are fast and explosive but humans may outlast them if it goes long distraction verse attack rolls a few Edelman's distracting could let gronks go for joint holds or leverage. One gronk and one Edelman gorilla wins easily. Two gronks and three Edelman's still loses

but maybe a moral victory if they last more than 10 seconds. Five Gronks, five Edelmans, now it gets interesting. If Gronk coordinates tackles while Edelman distracts and gouges eyeballs, maybe they win. Ten Gronks, 10 Edelmans, enough mass and force to potentially subdue a gorilla through sheer numbers. So they're saying 10 of us, 10 gronks and 10 Edel nuts will take down a gorilla. So Gronk, so like the first five of me are probably gonna get decapitated, ripped out and fucking gouged. But that's the distraction.

Yeah, but then like the second 10 of me, or the second five of me, if I can get on, and like, cause I've seen little ass like, cats get on them. If I get on and I grab an eyeball and he's biting me and stuff, you gotta go straight for Dick. Oh.

You go straight. You tell your five other ones go, everyone goes for Dick. Like we all know what a horse cock is, but like what's a gorilla cock? It's small. Oh, it's small? But is it potent?

Because it's so small? Does it feel it? I feel does he feel dick pain? Yeah, I think I think the first five me's would see the The second or the real a cock is only one point one inches long All right, I'll go for it I'll rip it right off of them while you're distracting. So if you rip that off gotta do what you gotta do. Do we feel pain? That would hurt. That's like that's like his funny bone. Now we only have like how do we you gotta get the hardest part of your you got that thing's hard. What would the first five of me do? So the first five of you kind of were the distractions and basically demolish

And now the other five of you are on his back and just throwing and clawing and ripping eyeballs out I mean, there's one of me going for his cock that we already established that but what about the other first four of me? And then the last five of me like I like I think each one goes for extremity. Okay, each one goes for an arm. A let everyone go for one. Mm hmm. OK, everyone go for one. Can we take a shoelace off? Because if I take shoelace off and I fucking strangle this guy. Yeah. I still think we don't have a shot. No, we do. We do.

It just takes 10 of us each. Do that. I think that the AI is dumb. That AI is real dumb. Let's get on to the next one, dude. I'm getting anxiety. Hey, dude. What's the craziest pregame routine you ever saw a former teammate have? Anybody have any crazy superstitions either? You know, you really don't see like your teammates routines because you're kind of really focusing what's going on, you know, with what you got to do and what your routine is and you're getting ready for the game.

I mean, you see some guys just, you know, just blasting absurdly loud music. No, they but that really that's only on practice, really. Yeah, that would be practice. Game day they wouldn't allow it. You're right, game day they wouldn't allow it. So like, there really wasn't any crazy routines that I've ever seen by another former player. Nothing that stands out.

No, and if there was, I mean, it was kind of like, it wasn't in the public eye in the locker room. It was kind of like at home, whatever they were doing beforehand Everyone's in the zone man. You got it. Yeah, you know, it's it's kind of calm before the storm. Yeah No, nothing crazy at all. Everyone would just say normal normal routines Everyone differs a little bit, but it wasn't anything like spectacularly crazy like wall. Okay. Look what he's doing It was just all everyone getting ready getting in the zone

i was just calling in with a crazy hypothetical say you taking a cross-country road trip first are you taking the northern route or the southern route second what vehicle would you choose and then third you could bring anybody with you as a companion or multiple people, even who you bring in with you. Celebrities, former teammates, you name it. Let me know, guys. And we we road trip and that's all I know. I ain't going to take the guys that we're in the movie Road Trip. No, no, no, that was a tough one.

That was a thought was that that was a die on me. I'm on your face. My body is on your face. One great movie. I don't remember it that that well. I remember the bomb song, though. Mm hmm.

Um, are you going north or south? I'm going, uh, going west. It's longer. South, you know, you get the Carolinas, Virginias, like, and then you're in Florida already. I wanna go cross-country. It's longer, more sustainable.

But you gotta go either this way or this way. So it's either the southern route or the northern route. All right, I'm going southern route then. So you're gonna go through tornado alley. Yeah. Hurricanes. And the vehicle of choice would be like, I'm going southern route then so you're gonna you're gonna go more so I know Ali. Yeah hurricanes and in the vehicle of choice would be like an RV Yeah, I'm going like a camper. I'm going original h1 Going northern I'm going through the fucking mountains the cold. I know this thing's gonna be able to do it

We don't got no hurricanes. We don't have tornado avalanches. Hey We got avalanche packs though. I'll bring in blizzards Yeah, I'm bringing Dom dear remember Dom the Navy Sea. Yeah beast. I'm bringing him Mm-hmm. It's just like an apocalyptic thing or is this just like for fun and like shits and giggles like? stampede Stampede like yeah, what is this yellowstone stampede of like rams and deer And mooses Gathering together in Buffalo's

Yeah, there's a goddamn interstate Taking the interstate the whole way no What I'm talking like when you get in the middle of nowhere, the interstate doesn't have any borders. Just, just there's no fences left and right. Just fucking a wild stampede of horses or just coming around out of nowhere and hit me. I got an H1.

They better bring their fucking their power. And I would bring Stephen Ridley with me guys and outdoors guys outdoors Yeah, he's from Louisiana He goes hunting all the time. He knows the South. Yeah, he does he plays golf as well Yeah, so we could stop and hit a couple golf balls for fun if we need some entertainment Yeah, I'm bringing I'm bringing light to pre light. Oh, it's a good choice Smart knows he knows the he knows Ohio, he's from Ohio, he knows all the fuckin', those areas.

He probably goes bow hunting in Dakotas and shit. He's definitely caught some bears somewhere in those areas, Wyoming, I don't know, but I know. You're gonna get stampeded. Next trip, next question. All right. Hey fellas, I was just wondering, back in your playing days,

how often would you guys go out to eat with other members of the team? And who usually went with you? What restaurants did you like? That's Jack. That's Jack. That's Jack. Oh my gosh, man.

I knew that. I'm like, oh man. This sounds like somebody we know. Oh, Jack, we miss you, buddy. We miss you, bubs. But grabbing with the boys. We would go out to eat like once a week on like a Friday night.

We were young a lot. Yeah. And then when we got older. Every week, yeah. You stop. So when we were young, once a week on like a Friday night or young a lot. Yeah, then we got old every week. Yeah, you start you get You stop so when we were young once a week once a week remember we'd always go find a little spot Friday night of Edie's Fletch that's what it was all about go get a steak. So let's take house You know or a Greek fucking restaurant with kuda VDs. We'd find one Greek restaurant in every goddamn city We'd we'd we would we would eat their breaking glass and dancing on the tables. Yeah

fucking twisting light bulbs and shit Hey, what's going on guys ronk Julian my name is Kyle from Worcester, Massachusetts Huge fans you guys basically changed my my family family's lives growing up watching you guys, meant a lot to all of us. Anyways, my question is, how do you guys think both of you would have fared playing football back in the 70s, 80s, 90s when the game was a little bit more physically taxing and there wasn't as many rules that benefited offensive players? I personally think someone like Gronk would have dominated in any single era because look at him

and I'm not saying you wouldn't Julian, but I just want to know you know get you guys opinions on that. Everybody's always comparing eras and stuff like that. So thank you guys. Love the show. Well, we got that, you know that take going on right now. How many humans would it take to take down a gorilla and we already talked about that. How many Gronk's and Julian's would it take down to take down a gorilla? And we already talked about that. How many grunts and Julians would it take down a gorilla? Well, if I was playing in the 70s, 80s and 90s era, it would be how many players does it take to tackle the gronkula?

And it would take the whole entire team, buddy. Especially in the 70s. The 80s, probably just, you know. Well the thing is, 11 guys on defense. They wouldn't go low on you. Cause in the 90s, they tried to blow you up.

In the 90s they got bigger. The guys were small in the 70s, would have dominated just to a whole nother level. 90s though, I would have taken like four, five, six guys to take me down then. Well we played in that football in the 90s as kids so like we were accustomed to that style of football it trans you know get it started softening halfway through our career really to a unnoticeable softening now like rule changes and all that stuff

But yeah, I don't know I mean those guys are tough It's a different game like you watch Terry Bradshaw getting clothesline picking up his fucking teeth and stuff Howie long, you know ripping a guy's helmet off like it was those guys were barbaric. Mm-hmm like so I Like to think that I tried to play the game like those guys so I don't know I don't want to take anything from them in their in their generations because you know that that's I have respect mm-hmm it's a good way to put it my answer was just silly yeah no you are a beast you probably I take it back I would have been on the bench.

Yeah. Yep. Next question. Which player on the Patriots do you think will benefit most from Mike Raible this year? Oh, that's a good question. I would say somebody on the defensive side of the ball. It doesn't matter which it only matters about one. How's Drake make going to play? Okay.

Cause that's the only one that really, I mean, everyone matters. The whole team matters. The whole link of the chain matters, but there is that. I like it with the French. I know, but the master link, that's how they're, that's how we're all going to judge them. How, how is Drake making a do do because as good as he's gonna do is gonna make the team do well, you know what I mean? so That's the only thing that really does matter. Does he influence and make Drake may better which I think he will because He's got Josh McDaniel's I like that system He's gonna be a great overall head coach that can coach the coaches and all the players

You know because he has a good offense coordinator that that I think that they know each other and then have a working relationship Where he can watch the whole team in the offensive coordinator guy wants to know Which guy is gonna benefit the most? Not the organization as a whole which guy guy is going to benefit the most? Which guy? Who do you think? I'm going to go with a defensive player that he took from the Tennessee Titans and brought him to the New England Patriots.

Didn't he bring Edge? What's his name? Harold Landry. He brought Harold Landry from the Tennessee Titans to the New England Patriots And that's who's gonna benefit the most and he already benefited from it because he probably wouldn't be a New England Patriot if it Wasn't for variable coming here to be the head coach of the of the Patriots So Harold Landry is the guy that's benefiting the most Banking count wise having a job wise and scheme wise on the defense side of the

ball. You know, that simple math. We'll be right back after this quick break. Let's get into the chillest dude of the week brought to you by our favorite beer Coors Light. Get Coors Light delivered straight to your door. Visit CoorsLight.com slash dudes and celebrate responsibly. Is there something in here?

Of course there's a Coors Light in there. Oh, rocket science, Jules. Celebrate responsibly. And once again, that was another great batch of phone calls. We appreciate you listeners for calling in, asking questions and letting us answer. And share our knowledge. But Roberto.

Yes, what is that? We've got one more. Here is the chillest caller of the week, brought to you by Coors Light and Mount Wilson. Well, cheers to the chillest caller of the week. Gronk, Jules, dudes on dudes is the best. Quick question for you. It's mini camp season right now.

You both had different paths in the NFL. Gronk, second round, Jules, seventh round. Can you explain what your first off season was like from that April when you get on the team all the way up to the first game of the season? You see all these OTAs and this and this and rookies and this can you just give some more details and some explanation? I'm what that whole process is like. Thank you Alright, well, I'll go first here jewels This is a great question because I was kind of in a different situation here the lockout occurred after my rookie year

So I never had an off season and he asked specifically, I'm pretty sure your first off season was like, so that's why I'm going into my first off season. Cause I never had a typical NFL off season because I was off for six months straight because of the lockout. And I loved every moment of it. You know I can tell you that and in April I was at the University of Arizona at pool parties. I also you can look at on YouTube I'm dancing with the basketball players on a ledge at the pool just absolutely going ham pounding

Coors lights left and right probably about 25 of these bad boys I was 21 years old I was still supposed to be in college so it was the best time of my life and the lockout couldn't have happened at a better moment in my life as well because I didn't have to go and train because I got to train in the morning wherever I was and then I would just party all day and I was 21 years old typical college student going ham I was also visiting my friends one of my friends Tico he went to the universe, not the university, he went to Miami, Ohio. Great college town, great place to party, especially when you're that age as well. What else did I do?

Wait, wait, did you have your signing bonus though? Yeah, I had my signing bonus. Oh, so you had money. I had money already. So I had about a million in the bank rolling around going to colleges still getting tables for $400 and I felt like I was a multi multi billionaire just rolling in with a million dollars and getting tables for 400 bucks and buying all these college students bottles and I would how did I train I would wake up after a couple nights and just go run a couple hundreds, you know, catch some footballs from my friends

that drank with me the whole night before. And then literally showed up and dominated every single day where coach Balachek gave me a parking spot in the front row because I had the best training camp of all time. And that's how it happened because of the lockout and I had videos of me partying everywhere here This was after my yeah after my rookie year. Yeah, it was like a slow key Like people knew about my skills like at that time Like those those type of skills vastly different than mine. What was your first off season like?

First off season is still stressed. Are we talking rookie off season or going into our rookie year? No, going into your second year. Or is it going into our second year? First off season. So my first off season is after your first year of playing. Well, I'll go my second year. First off season. So my first off season was is after your first year of playing. Well I'll go my rookie year. All right. Rookie year off season you get drafted you go to rookie mini camp so it's just the rookies. They put you through these camp installs so they give you kind

of the day-to-day life of what it's going be like a little taste of it in your rookie camp that's like a three-day camp for me it was like very stressful and very hard you know I'm a seventh round draft pick I'm in a part of the country I've never been or never even heard of I didn't know if I thought I didn't know where New England really was I didn't Pay attention in my sociology Social Studies class geography geography, whatever so I'm a geography guy Yeah, like math my math skills are like my geography skills. I didn't know where New England. I kind of knew her was But it's up here. You have so many of these things going through your head as a kid.

Am I going to be around? How's this going? I was learning a new position. You got to learn your formations. You got to learn. What was your favorite position you learned? I like the Z position. Oh, sorry.

Get back to what you're really talking about. Oh, the F. Oh, the F position. Yeah. Wow. So, you know, it's very stressful time for these kids Oh the F? Oh the F position. Ha ha ha ha. Yeah, wow. So, you know, it's a very stressful time for these kids that come into a new area,

they're learning at a very rapid rate, you know, cause you wanna learn as much as you can and get all the reps you can before the vets come, cause once the vets come, you don't get any reps. And then it becomes super mental. So then, you know, the one or two reps that you do have, you have to not fuck up the formation, not fuck up the snap count, nowhere to go. Know the personnel group, know your assignment,

know what the other defense is doing, know your adjustments and, and do it all properly. So you get another opportunity, you know, so this is a tough time for a lot of guys. And it shouldn't be a tough time because they're digesting a lot and they're learning a lot, which is completely different than your second season where you have that all in, you know, your brain already a little bit. So it becomes a little easier. But you're rookie years. It's a tough year if you're trying to go in and learn and make the team you know I mean so

next that was a great call that was a great call that was it was a great question we had different scenarios well you do the time here I did the rookie year it's all the same but different I I did the same thing even going into my first year. Oh, segue us out. Well, that was the chillest dude of the week. Thanks to our favorite beer, Coors Light. Get Coors Light delivered straight to your door. Visit coreslight.com slash dudes and celebrate responsibly. Cold as the Rockies.

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