Games with Names - 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: http://www.gameswithnames.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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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 was in 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. See, you got a PlayStation. And I actually sold it. What was that website? Craigslist.

Yeah. My friend sold it for me. No, it was Nintendo Wii. My friend sold it 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 Xbox. I was like, I don't need this Nintendo Wii. 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 are fine It was a gift You're allowed to sell a gift Are you?

But that's how crazy I saw it like two months after You were 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 it was 15 bucks a week And I was satisfied. It got the job done. 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 and 30 packs. Protein shakes and beers. Now, 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 actual lunch or a dinner that night, the next night as well. just in case if we needed some backup food. Bears and 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 put all our money together.

I was left in our bank account. We bought a hot tub the first three weeks here 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. I'm sitting there. 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 them. And 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. I was like, this guy is, he's never felt what it feels when the guys are running full. 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 routes. Tired. We had 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 him on the corner. And Brady just turns around in the meeting because it's on film. And he turns around and 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 Algy 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 oh gee he means it man he means it and uh let me tell you this time you fucking throwing me the ball like a thousand times after so i knew he was right i knew he was all bullshit

tom telling me he was never going to throw me the 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 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 autopy. 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 in a ball as well later on. Because he's like, all right.

He proved it enough that he 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 he would like love them up and then there'd be so like when when west was there

i get so annoyed when i would do the exact same thing that west would do and he he wouldn't think it was good and i would get so fucking annoyed with them but i remember when west 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 wessie He called him Wesley. When he called him Wesley, remember Wesley? I used to get so annoyed.

You want to know what I would get annoyed with him too? It's 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 could be one more. So then we would run, run more. We'd give it our on. 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 though. Yeah, and then he became lame. Yeah, he became lame for like a couple years. Nah, he, 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. 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 this, I'm freaking lame. at 33 years old. Exactly. Compared to when I was freaking 21 to 28 years old. You're right. Because when 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, but 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. That's 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. ready 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. Like, you know how you got to close that door for the door 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 were 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 take him a dump, wippy, dipty do.

You know, my butt crack has been pulled out plenty of times in games. You know that picture on there. Google it. Grank'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 pooping there. And then you see me pooping. But what I worry about in that bathroom is my butt cheeks hitting that damn toilet cheek.

Are you hovering or are you spattering? 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 and you got to put the toilet paper on. You're also worried about turbulence as well while squatting over the toilet. Turbulance is a mine. Have you ever missed the bowl? Fuck. With turbulence? I never missed the ball. No, I never actually.

Oh, my God. No, I only took a dump one time. And thank you to the Pope. He didn't make there and 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 right. 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 a I had an in cut, 12 yard incut. 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 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, out of my zone, out of, out of the area where I got to run the 12 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 him. So I'm debating and I'm kind of stiffed this game. You know, I'm just running straight and I'm debating. Should I go out? Should I go in? Should I go out? Should I go in? And I'm running full speed at him.

Debating. And then boom, I just clashed 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 over here ran his ass over. Okay, I don't want to hear it, right? 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 to 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...

Because you looked 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 jules yeah 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. Brad 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, on those burgers.

Oh, so good. Gas station burgers in Poland are 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.

thought he was a great teammate man and like you said he 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 he like he just 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 made me feel very warm and welcome. What did 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. Grank. Like, it's cool as 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 couch,

I get up. Like, I don't know. That was just me. I was getting hyped. And Moss was like, man, I like, 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 people. And he was just gliding. It was like a jet ski on water, like on like flat service.

It's 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. I 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, that I have personally. And he just made me feel welcome to the team. And he just made me feel like myself

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but it was not a comment across. 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. Stored 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 have 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.

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-laster blender. It is, man. Commercial blender. There we go.

It's commercial great, obviously. I don't know the name of it. But we're not going to give them. much credit yeah yeah we don't need any free advertisement 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

Pac-Man. 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 Pac-Man out there talking shit coming after you, getting under your skin. That wasn't the scouting report. It was. It really was. It was in back on my head. But I was like, I screw that. 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. West ran right behind me, scored a touchdown baby and I just turned around like yeah that's right I just block back man Joe motherfucker let's go to this dip because out baby we actually both got to tap with west when we got to

go on the boat yeah yeah we got to go on the hooters boat we went on the hooters yacht it was west was friends with the with the hooters owner or owner or someone big up in the hooters world and the hooters yacht was in boston yeah we had dinner on it we had dinner and matt light was there and that was when I got tapped into kind of, you know, the next level of all right. I think I got to make him feel comfortable. Yeah. Oh, that rocks. 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 him on like another dock when like, 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 through it.

That's how much he loved me. 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 like, yeah. 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 ball. It was sick. And that was like the first shot I've ever been on my name. This is like NFL life. Like you can, 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 girl. Wasn't like there. 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. Joel, why do we come? We thought there was going to be like 50 hooter girls on here. And they're going to serve us. Yeah. Chicken wings and. That's a real reason everybody goes to Hooters and the wings, man. Yeah, the wings.

It's a family. Is Hooters even around anymore? I thought it went back. They're making a revamp, though. Yeah, 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. 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? Hooters? Should we stop or should we go and we come back? It was the worst hooters of all time. It was, it looked like a dump, but wippy do. Yeah. Whippy do.

There's hooters. RIP. RIP. 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 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 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 Tatas 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 it. Where they let go, the guard let go, let's the just defense to tackle free. So then he thinks he's going to go get a sack. And then a WAM block 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. It's 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,

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 the respect of my fellow teammates, especially the veterans.

Wait, wait, whoa. Let me paint the picture also. Rob's a rookie here. V was like the big dog on campus. In practice, no one really gets close to them 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 Wolford. This guy peeks over to the,

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. Parents? Brian Farrants. Love you, Brian Farrantz. 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 never 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. 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's definitely coming to the universe 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 when, 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 host him. me, 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, he can't set foot in Tucson anymore because a goddamn helicopter

on Jason, he had to go to Arizona State. The, you know, 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 story

is the helicopter followed us. So then I was like, oh, fuck it. Yeah. I mean, this guy's a line. I was like, oh, it's 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 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 bath and 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 that I'm really really juicy and then I pulled out my trousers and I'm like

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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 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 that could get on it. And then the last two minutes on 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 in 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, 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? First time I part. party with grunk was the first memorable party, we were always partying on the short bus.

Before we had a, the short bus was freaking awesome. We sure were. I wasn't on the short bus. The first memorable party was, man, we're both in trouble. But I'm just saying, when you had that party at the house, and it had legit. Yeah, it was legit, a great atmosphere. It was.

Great atmosphere. Yes, it was. Siri wants to be right out there. A lot of players here. We can't talk about what a part of 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 here.

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. Young bachelors. 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 game. 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 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. There'd be like beans. 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 you got it you got it's kind of true right got hit both parties got to hit both parties got a hit the patriots did not discriminate they did not discriminate on food so I now the quality of the food now the 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 game. And there would be a spread of what we had a spread of at the post game.

you grow up 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 a disastered car putting 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 uh what Kyler shout out to Kyler about how I blocked so many of the legendary pass rushers still in the NFL today that are all established like you name them name name name a couple big time passers just uh joey bosa who's on the buffalo bills never black nick bosa he was the only other one go keep naming benito

bonito's a young buck like super young i'm talking established guys that everyone knows her name von miller plenty of times um who else donald Aaron donald plenty of times face him plenty of And you never got Miles Garrett? My never faced. T.J. Watt. Faced some plenty of times. J.J. Watt? J.J. Watt.

Hutchinson? Hutchinson? He's Young Buck. Young Buck. Yeah. I was retired when he came to. 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. Yeah. I am super glad. I want to go versus. him. 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 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 yeah this guy has all that muscle and he's super fluid shout out to jicu 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 of money a hundred dollar and Rob. Toll, towel going across me.

The abs were popping. The gronk spikes were in full effect. Look at the gronk, you know, 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 chirped by Coach Belchuk before. Because we all thought he was, he's cool. Fuck. 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 would Bill say? We're warming up in practice. I'm trying to look 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 Wildcats. 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 at 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, it was division one, 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, 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 could have all this if I make it to the NFL. And you did? Yeah, and I did. Did you almost get kicked out of Arizona at all? I, 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' side. But still 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.

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