Games with Names - Highlight Reels: Super Bowl Champs Stories Pt. II

Episode Date: October 19, 2025

Rob Gronkowski, Julian Edelman, Ty Law, Andrew Whitworth, and Cooper Kupp all share their stories and experiences as Super Bowl Champs...Support the show: http://www.gameswithnames.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And that was a great play. What people don't realize, that was a great play by Malcolm on that scene on Curse, when Curse made that weird back catch. And then Malcolm Butler hit it out of his hands? No, he hit it. What happened? You got it? Oh, is this a Javon's Curse catch? Oh, Malcolm Butler did make a heck of a play.

Let's see it. Oh, that's the fight. Where is it? Oh, it's the bottom. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Malcolm Butler couldn't do anything more. I remember it now. That was a spectacular catch.

And it was a spectacular catch. And it was crazy. to see Malcolm come in and have the mental toughness because, I mean, I think we, I think we went away from Arrington. Arrington was starting that game and Butler, you know, Arrington gave up some plays and Malcolm, they put Malcolm in there after he made a play on a seam because we're getting eat by those seams. Remember that? Yes. And then Malcolm came in. He was making plays left and right. He was like a little, like a little spark, little puppy dog out there. And, you know, after I saw this, I'm sitting here like, man, that's going to suck.

for this is this sucks man that was a great ass play by Malcolm and I'm not going to lie at this point I'm sitting there I'm trying to do math in my head I'm sitting here like how much time we're going to get the ball what plays do we have in our menu are they going to score right away are they going to go back out in the field what type of place are we're going to run what do I got to be ready for two minute yeah pace offense how many timeouts do we have I was preparing that's what we're doing we're we're just mentally programmed like that to be just ready for the final drive as well if they scored. Thankfully, High Tower makes a great tackle on that tackle.

That's a game-saving tackle. People don't realize that. Night Tower is absolute monster. Was it a first down or second down? That was on first. And then second down, the interception heard around the world, if you will. Malcolm makes another heck of a play, the greatest play in maybe Super Bowl history of his career. That was, I mean, that was so crazy.

but I remember vividly once they got in that formation that week of practice we practiced our defense was practicing that play four or five times and Josh Boy scored every single time on it and I'm sitting there because in Super Bowl practice where you're chilling before your next period where you sit down you hone in you want to see what the defense is doing how they're practicing because you know you want to see what we're going into and I remember do you remember watching this play with Josh Boyce

fucking lighten us up four or five times and I remember them like yeah got to get physical Browner did just that thankfully and Malcolm Butler came through I remember Malcolm in practice was sitting back more you know he wasn't being aggressive and then what happened that play was calling the game and Malcolm Butler was super aggressive and made the play that he needed to make it wasn't happening without the preparation in practice the week before so Ernie well hold on we can't we can't move on from this play yet this interception Malcolm Butler. So I know a lot of like

the public discourse about this is that this was the stupidest thing in the world. Dumb play call. She'll just give it to Marshawn Lynch. Do you guys agree with that? Or is there? There's the whole timeout situation. We're building, take the time out

because he saw the personnel group. Personnel group was in there. I mean, it's tough, man. We had like a all, I think we had. We had like 14 personnel where it's all big boys in like two corners. Who was in? I think there was three.

Three. We have safety. So you want to throw the first out personnel. So the thing. I mean, that's what, right? Technically you do.

You want to. Yes. So I'm a huge Pats fan. So I'm not going to like stand on the soapbox for the Seahawks. I just hate that the discourse is like, it's so dumb. You shouldn't give it to Marshall Lynch because when you really like dive into this play, it's a lot more like nuance and there's a lot more like chess happening between Pete

Carol and the Seahawks and what with the Patriots and the Belichick and not just like in this moment but as you mentioned chess moves happening in preparation where you knew this play was a thing here and I think that like it does this play a disservice and it does the Seahawks a disservice to just say oh you should just ran it with Marshawn because Marshaun Lynch only had five carries inside the one yard line this year only one scored a touchdown so he wasn't like an automatic goal line back he's not Mike Allstadt also situationally um the clock was running Belichick decided not to call timeout even though I'm back at my house yelling

call time out like that kind you know you don't know the shit right and so it puts them in the situation when the clock is running there's one time out there's three more downs left if you run at that play and you miss you have to call time out and now your next two plays are kind of you kind of have to pass

it or you really kind of put yourself into a box and I think that's just this play deserves more nuance and P. Carroll's not an idiot and like I don't know that's my that's my soapbox of at all, that this play is more than just run it. Without a doubt, I mean,

that's just people that don't know football is saying that. I like it. That's the best dissection I've ever heard of that play. I mean, I just fucking love football because you can just dissect this one play and there's just so much layers on it. I just hate that this is just like, oh, I just run it, Marshall Lynch. I digress.

I'll get off my soapbox. This is kind of like, I love football. You hit it right on the money, brother. It's kind of like a crow nut. You got a bunch of layers of just little beautifulness. glazed up into one you take that hole out you dip it into a little coffee

take a bite of it and that's his play that's right and I have so many notes on this but like also Pete Carroll had Browner on his roster the year before he should know that he has the ability to blow up this play right

so if you want like maybe the play call was wrong right but like the idea to pass it just he didn't check that last Belichick move to like make this the play they hit this play like five times though in the year that's what people don't realize yeah you know there's an old saying you are which you are you do what you do you hear those types of things about teams and that's what this team was it was a do what they do type of team confident in their process

confident in what they do they're not changing for you they're confident in their execution and you change for them. And Malcolm Butler may have changed that whole goddamn thing. Now, where does this interception? Malcolm's interception rank among greatest Super Bowl plays all all time. It's got to be up there. It's got to be top. At least top three.

It could be top one. It's probably number one. Number one in my book. It's got to be number one. I mean, it was to win the game. It was number one. Number one. Hands down.

Next up. tie law on what it takes to have the dog mentality in the NFL. Can you explain the dog? Huh? Can you explain the dog? The dog is a mentality, you know, that under any circumstances, are you going to break me? I'm going to win. I'm going to every play.

Even if you knock me down, I'm going to get back up. I'm going to come at you the same full tilt all day. And when adversity strikes, you still don't drop your head and you got that mentality that I'm going to beat you. this play. If you beat me, oh, the next play, oh, it's on. Do it again. You know what I mean? Class eaters. That's what, like, we're looking up right there. Kevin Garnett. Dog. Dog. All-time dog. What's some Mount Rushmore of dogs? Ooh, that's tough. That's tough. I would say, you know, okay, let's just throw out a couple from each sport. Lawrence Taylor. Dog. Dog. One that just retired, Aaron Donald. That is a dog. Ray

Lewis. Dog. Rodney Harrison. dog you know what I mean because I'm telling I'll say Ron Harris is supposed to be in a pro football of the fame no no no I'm going there I said okay no hey Jimmy Smith dog Julian Edelman dog and not just because of you know I look at the journey too okay you could make plays you can do all this stuff

but to know how tough he was to be able to go out there and do that and go out there and do what I do I told Troy Bryan you got me fired dog because I got hurt Here comes Troy Brown playing DB, you know, and did some dog shit picking stuff. He led the league. He led the team in picks, you know, you know what I mean? So when you guys come in and do that and can do more than just your job and you do it with so much passion and you're successful because no one expected you to be who you are.

Maybe you expected it, but when you got drafted or did you get drafted? Yeah, seven. Okay, you went seven round. Damn it, that's basically a free agent bullshit. You always wish you were a free agent because you don't have to do two years. Exactly. They get you for forest. But no one expected you when they brought you in.

They didn't expect you to turn them to the only person that can believe that is a dog and you've got to believe in yourself because basically when you get drafted that late, you're coming from another position. You're basically there for a tackling dummy. You're there for guys like somebody established like myself to beat up on. Exactly. So for you to make it, you know, you're a dog right there. to put it out there and perform and then you had some of the top corners out there that

didn't want to see him so that right there you fit in the dog Tom Brady was a dog because from day one he came in there and he wanted to compete he going to talk shit and I'm telling him we used to light him up but he coming right back at you as a dog on head bunch you he going to fight you come at you and he was not no punk and that's what you know then he ain't no punk right there that was like a compliment oh he ain't no punk you know now they're He ain't no bitch, but he ain't no punk. You know what I mean? So that was, Tom, I look at, like, receivers.

Like, again, Hines Ward was a dog. He wasn't fast. He wasn't in, but he will sit there and rock you. You know what I mean? He will blindside the shit out of you, too. So you always got to keep your head on the swivel. So I look at the tough guys. Even, like I said, T.O.

Randy Moss was a dog. You know what I mean? Because he was tough. Chris Carter, Michael Irvin. He will fight you all damn day too. You know what I mean? So I look at so many tough guys with like just skill, everybody in a dog, man. Now, are you born with that dog or can you develop the dog?

Because I'm sitting here looking at my seven-year-old daughter, and I'm seeing some of this attitude and effort on the field right now. Yeah. And I'm like, I don't know if we got dog in her. We got a puppy. You know what? My mom told me, you know, when I was younger, she said, you know, you used to get your ass with, you know, you wasn't that tough.

But, you know, I remember one time that I came home grinding, and she made me go back out there and fight. You know, you're like, you're going to go out there and fight. And I started development. So, yes, you can develop a dog. And you can develop a dog. Yeah. Develop the dog. I mean, you could be born into it, too.

That's a T-shirt. That's a game's a name's T-shirt. Develop. It's a T-Log T-shirt. That's right, baby. I developed both times and you get that confidence. And then it's like when you realize that you got to believe in yourself, that was my whole thing, was always believing in myself with no matter what anybody thinks.

That's, that's what a dog is. A dog is. who believes in himself, no matter what the situation is. Right, absolutely. If the situation is against you, if the world is against you, still think you're going to do it. Because when you stay ready, you ain't got to get ready. Now, Andrew Whitworth breaks down that final drive that won the Rams, Super Bowl 56.

That drive, though, was Stafford and Cup, man, unfreaking believable. You found your guy. They meet every morning. at 5 a.m. on Wednesdays, and it came to life right there. Talking about process over results, baby. Now, how was Matt right before that dried? What was his temper like? First thing I'm going to do, just, I mean, not that you're scared of Matthew.

He's real sensitive about Matt, so. Really? Can we call him Matthew? We've thrown a couple times. He's like McConaughey. McConaughey is the same way here. I'm very serious. Kelly's going to, she's going to post on Instagram.

I'm sorry. I'm just telling you. I like to couple of reports. get you on Insta, if you don't, you got to call him Matthew. I'm sorry, Matthew. Matthew. It's very serious. But, dude, honestly.

So how was Maddie before that thing? Hey, if you're like me, I'm calling Matt the rest of the day. No, anyway, so no, you know what's wild? Like, when people talk about the game, right? Like, that's the things I actually remember. It's like him walking in the huddle. So, you know, if people don't realize this, the quarterback's always on the side of the team. So, you know, he's communicating with the coach, all those things.

So obviously our side. line is away from me being the left tackle. And so Matthew's over on that side. And so we're looking dead into each other. Every time he's getting the call from Sean, I can kind of see Sean on the background making the calls. And I see Matthew like looking up at us. And I never for him getting in the huddle. And he was like, let's go do something special right here. You know? And there was just a look in his eye. Like I always said this like Matthew to me is like John Wayne. Like he just does like he's like this cowboy bad dude in the sense of he's not a cowboy type guy, but he's just a tough, never heard, never says a word. Like it's hit. You

You can literally like, ugh, like nothing. Won't say a word, like not blaming anybody. Never tell you a thing. Like they're draining his knee, his hip, whatever pre-game. Like, he doesn't care. Like, the dude's just tough. And that's who he is. And so you're just like in the huddle, it's like, let's go do something special, boys.

You know, it's like, yes, sir, you know, like nobody's touching you. Think of a necessary roughness, if you will, the movie. Like, nobody's going to touch you. You know, like that's literally how you felt with Matthew Stafford in the huddle. And, you know, that drive, obviously, him and cup, really special. and every play, you know, it's like that, you know, I look on the screen, it's like, how, you said, man, 15 play drive, gosh, it felt like four months, you know, it literally like every, oh, we found a first down. Oh, we found a first down. Let's keep going. Let's keep going. Let's

keep going. So it was a wild, wild deal. But I think really special, you know, you always think those things in the way they end to have those two guys, the relationship they form, the bond and commitment they made to meet every single morning. We also, that season had what we called the breakfast club, me Stafford and Cup and our wives would meet every single Tuesday morning for breakfast that whole entire season at Soho. Soho in Malibu. We met every week. They were all ready for us every Tuesday morning. And it really became a great bonding experience for us. And we even did it the week of the Super Bowl. And the roughest one was the Tuesday after the Super Bowl when we haven't, none of us have slept at all. But it was like, hey, let's have one

more. And we met that morning. And it was like, dude, what a journey this whole year. We won a Super Bowl. Now here we are sitting here having breakfast again. It was a special year. You know what? And that last drive pretty much summed up that team. 15 plays, you know, executing and got to have it situations. Key third downs. Your go-to players making go-to plays. One of the best no looks ever? If not the? I mean, he invented it. You know, Patrick said this. I know the people, but like, my homes has actually said, like, I grew up watching Stafford. like throw the like he is the i know nobody like talks about that much but like he is the guy who like was doing that for a long time well jo joe used to do it a little bit yeah oh yeah flat a little

flat but you know he kind of took it a little crazy a couple times you're gonna cross the damn middle no one doesn't no look across the middle it's kind of like what the fuck is this guy doing next super bowl champ cooper cup discusses the greatness of aaron donald now one guy you're probably going to be missing that was on this team Aaron Donald I mean that's how how like special is just to watch him in practice. Yeah, he's, I mean, there's nothing like what he was able to do. Yeah. The chances that his, it was really like his ability to choose when to take risks

and take his shot was unbelievable because of his preparation, because of the, you know, his preparation going into games. And then it was when he did take his shot and it wasn't there, his ability to then counter and like close gaps still, right? He'd play out of his gap more than probably anyone ever, but he would make sure that he was doing his job and closing it if it was an issue. You know, like, yeah. But he wasn't, yeah, he'd two gap, but he'd straight up, you'd run around you.

He's so fast, so quick. Like, it's like, I'm going to get past you, and I'm going to make things right on the other side. Now, was he a guy that, like, lived in the weight room? He was always around the facility. I think, so AD's thing, like, he secretly wants to be, like, like, he wants to be Dwayne Johnson. like that's where that's where his yeah he wants to be the he wants to be the rock and he so he spends so much time lifting and it's not even like like functional lift sometimes you know it's I've actually

worked out with him I went and worked out with him one time so I was like hey the offseason let's like get a workout on together tells me the time show up an hour and a half straight of arms an hour and a half you know how many muscles you up in your arms and not there's not a lot like seven yeah that's what's saying like bicep tricep yeah shoulder maybe if you count that as part of your arm and then four arms for an hour and a half i mean he looked like it yeah that's but that's what's like you don't need to be doing arms for an hour and a half no but when you're baby rhino you do that dude look like a straight rhino he is unbelievably strong and then obviously all the things on top of it that you have as a football

player where there's like he just loves working out loves lifting and it just was an extra little part on top of the fact that he is, you know, I think the best defensive player of all time and the skills and all the stuff, stuff that he had going for him in that regard. How many D-tackles in the history of the NFL have had abs? It's not a lot. Thanks for listening. Remember to tune in every Tuesday for a brand new episode and every Sunday for another games with names highlight.

Knoxville here, I want to tell you about my new true crime podcast, Crimeless, Hillbilly Heist, from Smartless Media, Campside Media, and Big Money Players. It's a wild tale about a gang of high-functioning nitwits who somehow pulled off America's third largest cash heist. Kind of like Robin Hood, except for the part where he steals from rich and gives to the poor. I'm not that generous. It's a damn near inspiring true story for anyone out there who's ever shot for the moon, then just totally muffed up the landing. They stole $17 million and had not bought a ticket to help him escape.

So we're saying, like, oh God, what do we do? What do we do? That was dumb. People do not follow my example. Listen to Crimless, Hillbilly Heist on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. The Big Take podcast from Bloomberg News keeps you on top of the biggest stories of the day. My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day. Stories that move markets. Chair Powell opened the door to this first interest rate cut.

Impact politics, change businesses. This is a really stunning development for the AI world and how you think about your bottom line. Listen to the big take from Bloomberg News every weekday afternoon on the IHeart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, it's Ed Helms host of Snafu, my podcast about history's greatest screw-ups. On our new season, we're bringing you a new snafu every single episode. 32 lost nuclear weapons.

Wait, stop? What? Yeah, it's going to be a whole lot of history, a whole lot of funny, and a whole lot of fabulous guests. Paul Shearer, Angela and Jenna, Nick Kroll, Jordan, Clepper. Listen to season four of Snafoo with Ed Helms on the IHeart Radio, app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Two rich young Americans move to the Costa Rican jungle to start over, but one of them will end up dead and the other tried for murder three times.

It starts with a dream, a nature reserve, and a spectacular new home. But little by little, they lose it. They actually lose it. They sort of went nuts. Until one night, everything spins out of control. Listen to Hell in Heaven on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. People called them murderers. Ten years later, they were gods. Today, no one knows their names.

A group of maverick surgeons who took on the medical establishment who risked everything to invent open heart surgery. Welcome to the Wild West of American Medicine. I'm Chris Pine and this is cardiac cowboys. If you like medical dramas, if you like heart-pounding thrillers, you will love cardiac cowboys. Listen on the I-Heart Radio app or wherever you listen to podcasts. Sponsored by Jasper, AI Build for Marketers. This is an I-Heart podcast.