Games with Names - Highlight Reels: Tom Brady Stories

Episode Date: July 27, 2025

Patriots teammates and coaches give their best stories of what made Tom Brady so great during his time in New England. From Rob Gronkowski and Ty Law, to Ernie Adams and Stevan Ridley, everybody's got a favorite Tom story. Tickets for the Live Show are ON SALE NOW! GRONK & JULES PRESENT WELCOME TO THE NUTHOUSE! August 28th at MGM Music Hall at Fenway in Boston. Get Tickets Here!Support the show: http://www.gameswithnames.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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My favorite Tom memory, man. I'll always remember the time when I first met him in the locker room. You brought it up during your speech. He just came up to me. I was getting my ankle taped by Jimbo, the great Jim Wallen. Right, Jim Wallen?

Whalen. Wallen. It's been a? Whalen. Whalen. It's been a while Jim, man. I just called you Jimbo for so long. I'm forgetting your last name a little bit. No, you got it. All right. I got it though.

And he was taping my ankles and Tom just came cruising by, you know. I was just a good old rookie and he just walked up to me and he goes, hey, I'm Tom Brady. I go, very nice to meet you Tom Brady. I'm Rob Gronkowski. And then he's like, let's get after it this year.

And then he walked away and I just was like, shook. I was like, man, Tom Brady just came up to me and introduced himself as Tom Brady. Like, of course I know who you are Tom Brady's, but that was just one of the coolest moments I would remember, you know, for rest of my life. And we just, you know, rest of my life and we just you know got to work from there on out and he was all business right from the beginning he

really was like we said what he puts on his persona what he shows that's what he believes in he was all business 24-7 when he was in that building what was your favorite moment to over at it? My favorite moments were the ones were like we'd be throwing routes or something and like he would yell at me or something. Like I remember my rookie year we put in a four white personnel group the first the first day of rookie and are the first day of veteran camp and so it was me, Wes, Joey, Joey Galloway and Randy. And we put it in there and I was the why. And I did the right thing and I ended up dropping the ball.

And he starts just yelling at me. Jaws, what the? And I like, oh snap. And then as soon as we got in the locker room He you know he he came up to me goes. Hey, you know If I yell at you that means I like you And I was like you. We you know you must really love me then bro You know that was kind of like those those moments were you know he was getting on you

That's the stuff you remember you like or, you know, the stuff when we'd be training out and throwing on a field or something. Those are always the great memories that you'll remember. Yeah, it's the big plays that the other, but I think is the behind the scenes stuff is that was my favorite. I would have to agree with you, man. If he gets on you, he sees potential in you. And that's why he got on your, your ass all the time. He got on my, my rookie.

I didn't really like him. My rookie. I mean, he was just getting on my case just nonstop and it was kind of, kind of mind fucking me so much that I couldn't be myself out there. Sometimes I couldn't run the right route because I was just thinking so much because there was just so much on the plate at first. I got a coach telling me to do this. I got Tom telling me to do this.

And then finally you just figure it out and it all clicks. It took me about halfway through my rookie year and then obviously going in my second year it clicked to a whole nother level. I mean we went for 21 touchdowns total including the playoffs. But just my rookie year he was on my case. I remember. I ran a flag route and I ran inside the guy instead of getting outside of him. And he flipped out on me, uh, in the meeting after the practice and told me

he's never going to throw me the ball again. And like, I got butter and algae crumper saw it too. And then he just, he just tapped on my thigh and he was like, yo, grunk. Don't worry about that. He's just, Tom's just being Tom, man. Just don't worry about keep doing you. And then it kind of like, you know, put a fire under your ass. So, and that's what Tom was so great at doing. I didn't really realize that's what he was doing either.

Like he was just trying to get the best out of you. And uh, it kind of lit a fire, you know, under my ass. And then I just wanted to prove Tom wrong. Like, all right, I'm going to run this flag route every time now and you're never going to throw me the ball, but I'm going to be open by five yards and you're going to look like the idiot now. And that happened. And then he threw me the ball about 600 more times from there on out. So that was also that example is an example of why Tom was Tom because he knew what kind of guy each guy was.

Like he could challenge Rob, he could challenge me because we retaliated to that challenging like in a whole nother, like that was the way it got us going. You know, other guys he didn't do that with and he would do it in a different way. You know, then that's the sign of a good leader is when someone

knows what to get out of the guys and how to get it out of them. And I've seen this before coach battle check and time challenging wide receivers and they don't, and they don't step up to the plate after the challenge. And let me tell you those wide receivers or tight ends were gone the next week. So, hey, if you don't step up to the challenge, you know, you're gone. That's why I love football. That's why I love sports, because there ain't no politics here, buddy. It's either you got it or you don't. Swinkers. Swim.

Next up, Julian tells Ryan Rossello what he did that made Tom Brady very mad early in his career A couple guys said don't ever put your hand up like you're Randy Moss for the entire route That's a no-no. You got to be Randy Moss. You got to yeah, I remember did you ever put your hand up always? And I would yeah, but you were pretty good. So I'd be more like uh, but I remember I did it once and in Tom I used to do it early in my career and Tom came up and goes, Charlie, I fucking see you.

Don't put your hand up. Like he yelled at me when I was like a young player about it. So I didn't do it until I got older and I started catching like a hundred balls. And I would be doing it again. And I would only do it in like the red area when like you get a little scramble and they would pee us, you know, if they pee drop, they're

only rushing three and Brady, he'd have time. So I'd always put my hand up because you'd see that red glove. That's a touchdown. I want a touchdown. Red gloves. What's the maddest he ever got at you? He never really like.

I was fishing for a story. Yeah. And I don't got anything. You got along that well. That's a great credit to your friendship. I remember fishing for a story. Yeah. I don't got anything. You got along that well. That's a great credit to your friendship. I remember my first day though with them or my first, my first spring practice with the team, they put in four wide and you go into rookie

camps and you're with rookies, you know, and then, then the bucks get there and then the top dogs get there and like your reps go down and stuff and like you, you, you sit and you're watching fucking Tom Brady execute at a high level throwing fucking beautiful balls to Randy Moss. And that was crazy. But the first day I go in, they put in a four wide package and I was the Y and I ran this hook route and Tom threw it to me and I dropped it. And like he just says, Joe, catch the fucking ball.

And I was like tailing between my leg that I was getting cut. Like, that's that's the one time like we it was just nuts. That's the only time I remember him. Because it still had to be surreal. It was still very surreal. I mean, like, yeah, I was watching him. How could it not be? I was watching him win Super Bowls in eighth grade

on the asphalt saying like, hey, I'm Tom on the fucking, you know, because he was a Bay Area guy and I never liked Indy because I got the tail end of that whole thing. The Indy Pats. Sure. But I never liked, you know, I never liked Peyton Manning. He always he was always the guy. He was the best guy in college. He was the best guy in high school. His dad was a pro.

You know what I mean? He was just always, he was the guy and he was a fucking stud. I liked Tom because everyone always at that point, early in the, uh, the, the, the super bowls, people were still saying Peyton was the best quarterback. Remember? Yeah, look, I, I had a phase even as somebody who loves Tom because I just People were still saying Peyton was the best quarterback. Remember? Yeah. Look, I had a phase even as somebody who loved Tom, because I just was like, I loved it. The same reasons you brought it up too.

He's an underdog. He was fucking hungry. Honestly, like towards the end, I started like rooting for guys I knew or guys that, you know, would come through and work with us in the off season or something. It became more personal. But like I started rooting for like his resume. You know, that, it wasn't even about the paths anymore. It wasn't about being from there.

It was like, I just want the resume to keep going. And I'll admit that yeah, earlier in that window, even when he got his first one, which was crazy to me, because I mean, that was a huge deal. All of us still kind of loved Bledsoe, even though the writing was on the wall was sort of the evolution of the whole thing. I remember we had Bledsoe on the show once and I

was like, let's do a deep dive into this. He was like, all right, cool, whatever, no problem, just mention the winery. Couldn't be a nicer guy. And my cohost that was filling in that day was from Dallas. He's like, okay, so on the same lines, like when you got Benchiromo and I was like, oh my God, this

is the worst 12 minutes ever. We're like back to back, like I get the first one and this kid was a Cowboys fan. So he's like, let's do the same topic, but different location. So that's just an aside on Bledsoe. But I was guilty of the manning thing because I don't know that I really, you know, football is weird because I think most of us that talk about have literally no clue. We don't know what the protections are supposed to be. We don't know what the coverage is supposed to be. We don't know what the routes are supposed to be. We don't know what the reads are supposed to be. We don't know what the coverage is supposed to be. We don't know what the routes are supposed to be. We don't know what the reads are supposed to be.

Like it's, you have to really know. And we're all watching the wrong angle. And so I'm always a little admittedly unsure. I'll be like, Hey, I think this guy's good. I think this guy might not be, but there also could be a version of things that I don't quite understand. And hell, if I were a quarterback and just point to a guy

to make this route thing all the time, like Romo used to do, then you're watching on TV being like, I wasn't on Romo. It's like really smart to do all the time. Just like, hey, hey, hey, like the cut symbol with your hand. But when I was watching Tom early,

I'm like, well, he's not as good as Manning. And then it was like, wait, you want to see it? And then every year he'd come back with a piece. Like his play action was incredible. Then the pop on his arm, like what he did to build himself up. And then to turn to this guy, then it's like, oh, you want me

to do a Randy Moss season? I'll go, I'll throw for 50. You wanted to be about me and not the defense and special teams and all this stuff. And it's like he had three different careers in the same career, granted longevity is part of it, but. Next up, Ty Law on how Tom Brady never looked back after taking the Patriots starting job. No, you saw early Tom. What do you, what do you think the, what's the biggest thing he developed? Or what did you see in the later part of his career that he developed? starting job. Now you saw early Tom. What do you think, what's the biggest thing he developed or what did you see in the later part of his career that he

developed through his career? What made him special to you? The willingness one to learn, not have that much ego to where he wasn't that he couldn't you know get frustrated with not getting his opportunity I Respect Tom so much for when he got that opportunity He took it and ran with it and I think you know when I said on the dynasty, you know, we were going out We're doing our little team dinner and myself Tom. Lori Malloy going up and he was like I ain't giving this shit back You know also you can say is that you know, that's the spirit. You know, hey, but me and Lori look at each other like, bullshit. That's a hundred million dollar.

Hey, you going back to the pine, big buddy. When Drew come back, I mean, that's just what we thought from the business side of it. But when he was out there to play, all we asked him was don't blow it. You know what I mean? Don't turn the ball over. He didn't develop into Tom Brady

The best that we ever seen in our life at that time. He was still a young guy You know, we had a run game our defense was phenomenal. I mean you I mean, you're not gonna put up a lot of points on We had like the number one number two defense in the league You know what I mean? We were like that So, I mean he got to you know what I mean? We were like that, so, I mean, he got to, you know, come in easy, not as much pressure, but when it was time, that's when you kind of seen that something special about this kid is when, in crunch time, as a young buck,

he was cool. He was always real chill. He was the same guy. And then you start seeing him take more of a leadership role, a more vocal role, because he wasn't that vocal You know before I don't think he was that confident to get up in front of the team when you got guys You know Both guys like a teddy bruski at william mcginnis and those guys they did they did a lot of the talking

You know what I mean lawyer, you know, he was a big talker, you know Sometimes you gotta tell lawyer to shut the hell up man We're trying to go home, but he liked liked to get a you know the end of the speech I know i'm gonna hear this when he see it, but sometimes I'd be like lawyer man Would you shut the hell up so we can go home? long-ass day You know, but tom eventually became that person to you know talking he gained everybody's respect man So, you know much love to the goat was there a specific game where you're like, all right

We could win with this guy. He's a Super Bowl caliber quarterback. It may not have been that first season, that first Super Bowl, but somewhere along in this 2003 season, I mean, you guys started, you guys were 14 and 2. I mean, from the time that he won the Super Bowl and became this big phenomenon and you know, everything that had happened and transpired during the season you've seen it right there he came in the next you know season with a different type of confidence different time no he didn't let the fame get to his head to where he

wasn't willing to put in that work and he did that because I'm telling you I think I know we gave him a hard time because we didn't trust you yet, you know what I mean? You just got here, yes you are a teammate, but it's our job to talk shit every time in practice and throw it back in your face. You know, we was all talking at all times. He throw that over here, sometimes I wouldn't even pick it up, I just bat the motherfucker down.

He don't throw that bullshit, you know, that's a pit. Come on man, Willie McGinnis is adding. Vrebo, I mean Vrebo is hilarious. Vrebo's a suck. I mean Vrebo, man, it is nothing that is off limits. When it comes to Vrebo and his answer, whatever he might say, you know what I mean? As long as it ain't, you know.

It might even be on a borderline personal for Vre. He might say something about your mama, your sister, I mean, just anything, but that's how he motivated, you know what I mean? And like I said, he would just touch that line and back up off of it, you know what I mean? Vrabe was the guy that passed out the damn drinks before practice, cold as hell. We used to have to drive, see,

you came in when the house was built. We had to drive to practice, man. We in there a bunch of little bunch of pop warner kids with shoulder pads and helmets and Benz's and shit going to practice. You know everybody got their little, Vrable got the flask over there, everybody go take a swig.

Next to you know everybody keeping something in the car. So we out there as cold as hell. Cold. That sounds like you today. Oh yeah, that's what I mean. Hey, Mike Vrable, thanks man. You know, you inspire me. Now we got Ernie Adams on how the Patriots knew Tom Brady would be great.

You remember the scouting process when you guys were scouting Brady? You know, really it was, yeah. The number one thing you want to see on a football player is what is he doing in the games? I mean, it's, you know, that is, it's kind of a bottom line business. And when you get somebody who goes in

and plays well in the games, that's what gets your attention. And we had, you know, one person you never knew, great guy, Dick Rabine was our quarterback coach who unfortunately died during training camp in 2001. Oh wow. And we got on a treadmill and had a heart issue and he died but you know, you get, you know, you look,

you don't try to make it too complicated. If a guy goes in the game against good competition and plays well, that is what we're trying to do. It's not about, combine stuff, which is important, but it's really what does the guy do when he gets on the field against good competition? And so you get Brady Higg, have a great bowl game against Alabama.

I mean, and play well when you're in there. There's a lot of things as a player you can't control, but what you can control is what you actually do when you get out on the field. He always used to talk about that. When did you know he was a killer? You know, when I first, Tom's rookie year in 2000, he was like, he was the third string quarterback.

And he was not going to get in the game. I mean, you know, unless you, look, if you have two guys get injured in the same game, he can get in, but it wasn't going to happen. And after practice, he would go grab our young rookie tight end, Chris Eitzman, and take him over on the side and make Chris run patterns for him.

But it wasn't just running patterns. Tom wanted to call the play. It's third and six, all right, Aites. This is the play we're gonna run. Call it out, you know. Just Tom wanted to put himself through the situation. Here's the way I'm gonna call the play in this situation. It's not just, let's just go run around and play catch.

You know, we're actually thinking a game, thinking situations. And you know, and're actually thinking a game, thinking situations. And I always figured if a player's gonna stay out late after practice, somebody should honor him by going over and watching. So I'm just standing watching this guy. This guy, he's really trying to get ready to play, even though he has no chance of playing this week.

And of course, Tom's the guy, if he wanted to get in the right stance, how do you get in the right stance? You practice it in front of the mirror. You just do, being obsessive compulsive can get you in trouble sometimes, but you can also lead to great results. And that's the way I kind of look at that.

Tom is the ultimate obsessive compulsive among players because he's not, Tom Brady didn't just drop out of the sky a Hall of Fame quarterback. He made himself into a Hall of Fame quarterback. And when people would tell me at the draft, yeah, I work hard as Brady, you're full of shit. You have no idea what you're talking about. And that's the-

100% correct. I mean, I got there, he already had three Super Bowls, and he was still flying in a coach, week 11, to work on his little fundamentals after a practice. Hey, but you know what? That was when he was a four, you know, that's what people don't see. They don't see, they don't understand.

And that was kind of like when I was talking about being impressed with Peyton Manning warming up before the game. When it's football now, it's dead ass serious, 100% every time. You don't take any plays off in practice. He never did. Never did.

And you know what? First time, hey, Julius, we really want to do it this way, and then he expects you to get it right that second time. Hey, if you might not quite understand the first time, that's not a problem. Screwing up after he explained it to you, that's a problem. Make a mistake, he just can't make the same mistake twice.

And with him, I was a punching bag for him because the more success that we had, he could never really get on guys as hard as he wanted to because they, you know, they've been watching him since before they were born. Next we got Grant talking about Brady's insane ability to exploit mismatches. Tom throws it.

Mismatch. Yeah, whenever there's a mismatch, Tom throws it to the mismatch every single time, basically. 99% of the time he's throwing to the mismatch and he's not looking at anyone else on the field when he sees that mismatch Even if Julian you were wide open by 20 yards or whatever. It doesn't matter He wasn't looking at you because you weren't the mismatch at that moment. I was the mismatch there He considered that mismatch because there was a linebacker on me It didn't matter what linebacker KJ right great player, but he didn't care Tom didn't care whenever he saw a linebacker on me He always told me I don't care what linebackers on me. It didn't matter what linebacker. KJ Wright, great player, but he didn't care. Tom didn't care. Whenever he saw a linebacker on me, he always told me, I don't care what

linebacker is on you, Gronk. I'm going to throw you the ball because that's a mismatch. You're faster than linebackers and you're more athletic than linebackers. So right when I went out there, I knew that ball was coming to me, man. And it's also another thing where like, you know, I think we were in the fringe. We were on like the 36 or what were were we, the 30s? What was it? How big of a touch? Was it a 28 yarder?

It was 22 yard. 22 yarder. So you're right there, you're about to hit that red area. And anytime you see a defender, like a linebacker five yards off on Rob, it's automatically a mismatch. Because what people don't realize, Rob was faster than every linebacker,

and he could accelerate. So instantaneously, once that ball is snapped, and you see that linebacker as a quarterback doesn't give any ground, and Gronk's going full speed, that's a layup. You know what I mean? Because he's got to flip his hips, Gronk's going full speed.

Gronk's big enough to play through contact, even if the guy tries to grab him. Like, that's why it's such a mismatch. That's why we only saw that look one time. We saw that look once, and then they stopped doing it because it was a 22-yard touchdown. Yes, and like you said, I knew I already had the advantage as well.

I think he would have been better off playing me up tight press coverage because that's where we're kind of even. I mean, I didn't have, I had acceleration, but I didn't have acceleration, you know, like an insane celebration where I would just absolutely burn by a linebacker. But once I got going and I was in my stride, you couldn't stop me then. That's when I was lethal. And then when he was about, I think he was like eight yards off of me, I knew I could get in that stride, get on his toes,

make a little move at the top when I got on his toes. And then boom, went right around him for the fade route. And Tom threw a nice ball too, right on the money, man. Right on the money. Even if they press though, that's bullshit. You were quicker than him. Yeah, you're right. I was just being humble, Jules.

All right. All right. All right. Next up, Steven Ridley on that time Tom Brady took him to a secret Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake concert. I'm following Tom wherever he goes. And y'all, it was almost like a movie. This figure walks out and it's like, there's nobody in Boston, not really many people in America

that are bigger than Tom Brady. And I'm like, who am I really seeing what I'm seeing? You know who it was. Who? Hove, bro. Jay-Z. I met Jay-Z for the first time with Tom Brady, dawg. Best Tom story you have.

12. Man. First day. Very first day I got there. coming out of LSU we believe in stepping in there and trying to go in and make a difference. We ain't scared, we're lining up trying to do it. So I got in there and got behind 12 for the first time and Tom turned around and looked at me. Look forward again, look back. Nah, Rick, get out of here. Kev, come on. And he sat me down before even handing me the first ball, told Kev Falk, come on in here and take the first.

A real LSU running back. Real LSU back, a goat, a legend. Gotta give it to him. But. Kev Feasley. He did, he kind of humbled me on that very first day. Did Kev Falk talk to you about that afterwards or anything? Did he call you after you got drafted to Patriots LSU?

Or is there like a coolness? With Kev? Yeah. For sure, for sure. Kev hit me up, let me know, and then Jarvis Green had left there. Yeah. And so the LSU guys kind of welcomed me in

when I got that call. So that would be a good story. But I got a better 12 store. It's off the field. And cause Tom never went out, kind of never did much. And I remember the first time Tom ever invited me to his crib, I gotta say that, I don't know what year

it was, but we had done practice or something, and Tom was like, Red, Red Dog, Red Dog, come here. And I ran over there, I'm like, what's up, bro? He's like, look, I want you to come with me. And I'm like, what? Go with you where? Like, where, where, where I need to be? So he was like, meet me in Boston, gave me an address, I didn't even know where I was going.

Didn't matter, I was going with 12. You know, quarterback invited me out. So I haul ass up the highway, what's that, 95? Leave, because everybody thinks Patriots, Boston, no. The Patriots are in Foxboro, that's a freaking hour ride from Foxborough, 45 minutes. 45. From Foxborough to Boston. But Tom gave me his address,

and I remember texting Mom and Dad, and I'm like, man, Tom just invited me to come over here to go meet him. I didn't know where I was going, I didn't care. So I went on up and drive to Boston. I don't know if he even remembers this, but I was like, got to his house, he showed me around the crib.

I'm like, where we going, bro? Like, what's the move? He's like, man, just come on the ride with me. So I hopped in the back of the car and we pull into, we leave his house, go downtown. Tom's the man, rides through, traffic's everywhere. I'm thinking it's like a Red Sox game or something like that.

And as we pull up there, Tom literally pulls up and cracks his window like this much. And didn't even have to say much. They kind of knew who he was and like let us ride on through and then we parked across the street from the stadium. And I'm like the stadium's packed out and I'm like, there's not a baseball game going on. What is the deal? We go in there and park and we walk back across the street to the stadium. When we walk in there, it was a concert. So, bring you back to this time, this day and time.

Walk in and we go behind the stage. Justin Timberlake is walking onto the stage. So I don't know if y'all remember Holy Grail. Okay, so they were performing in Fenway Park. Of of course Tom has the plug and he's inviting me in there I'm like, bro, I'm the man, you know, I mean like Tom invited their running back up there Marla with QB one Like I went 12 we're going to to the to the stadium and get in there and he hollers at JT. Yo JT And they're like homies. I'm like dog, how tight is that? The story gets better. From there, we go and watch JT go on.

I think we might've watched like one song or something like that perform, or maybe it hadn't even started, and we walk back across to where his car was. So when we walk back across to where his car was, I walk in there and I'm following Tom wherever he goes, and y'all, it was almost like a movie. You know, this figure walks out and it's like,

there's nobody in Boston, not really many people in America that are bigger than Tom Brady. And I'm like, who am I really seeing what I'm seeing? You know who it was. Who? Hove, bro, Jay-Z. I met Jay-Z for the first time with Tom Brady, dog. And I realized how tight they really were.

So when I walk up there, I'm shocked. I'm like, bro, pick your jaw up. Act like you've been somewhere before. You know what I mean? Like, get your shit together. You know, I got to at least be cool a little bit, but I'm like, whoa. Man, Jay-Z had on these gold chains, bro.

I'm talking about stacked up, almost touching his ear and he comes in there and he daps off Tom. And he was like, and he called me Red. I want to say he called me Red. He said, Red, can I pick you up in fantasy this year? And before I could even say anything, I remember this, Tom touched me and he don't even know. He was like, you damn right,

you could pick him up in fantasy this year. And I'm like, oh, I made it. I made it, I freaking made it. But I'm in here with freaking Tom and Jay-Z and they're performing the Holy Grail at the concert. And of course, 12 got backstage passes and just rolls in this thing like he's on in the stadium, which he did.

And it was like one of those moments that I can say with 12 on the field, we have countless moments in my four years there that I could talk about. But that was one of those times off the field that I was like, it was super dope to just see because I figured out that him, Jay-Z, I want to say what you call it was there too,

KD was there maybe, Kevin Durant? Maybe, no. And so I think he was there too, but it was like one of those times that it was just like if you knew or you had that in, you were there, and I definitely didn't have that in. I was just rolling with the man. So that was a cool ass story that 12 kind of let me know

that I was kind of handling my business a little bit to even be with him off the field and him to take me to that album. That was bomb. That's insane. Get to meet Hov, JT, JD. Sliding backstage. Fenway. Fenway.

Fenway Park. Jules is just jealous right now. Dab it, man. I was at that concert. I was there. You wasn't backstage with me. No, I wasn't backstage. I wasn't there.

What year was this? 2011? No, not yet. Nah, he forgot the year. What year is this? He didn't even have a first hundred yet. False, he's lying. Ricky's lying.

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