June 1, 2025 • 19 mins
In our very first edition of Games with Names: Highlight Reel, we've pulled a selection of some of the best Patriots stories from the show...so far. From Matt Light's pranks to Ty Law's contract negotiations and everything in between, we've got it all. Enjoy some of the best stories from Foxboro ever told in The Nuthouse!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Games with Names.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We've got a brand new compilation on some of our
favorite moments from the show.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Let's Go.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
I will tell you this, one of the favorite lines
I ever heard Vrabel say that was directed towards me,
is we had a stag night to raise money for
the Light Foundation in my hometown, right, And we stopped
doing it because I thought, man, there's gonna be a
lot of kids born in my little hometown that don't
belong to these daddies. And so I was like, we're
gonna and I'm telling you it became a little crazy.
But Rabe would come in town with all these other guys.
(00:30):
We had Ajhawk when he was at Ohio State and
younger cats too, right, and the mayor of my little
town now you got to think Mayberry, right, And he
gets up and he has this proclamation where he's gonna
make it Matt Light Day, right, and he stumbles on
some words. An hour later, Rabel gets up and we're
having an auction and he's like, hey, and you know
(00:51):
when he gets the mic, man, it's gonna be profound
and it's gonna be hilarious. He stops everything and he
goes listen I'll give anybody one thousand dollars right now
they can get the mayor to spell matriculate, because he
tried using that in a sentence and he stumbled over
it and in real time, man, it was really uncomfortable,
but nobody said nothing. An hour later, Vrabel has it
(01:12):
up there on the auction block.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I'll give you a thousand if.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
You can get the mayor of Greenville's spell matriculate.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
And we lost it. But that's our boy. Man, that's
a funny, very funny.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Man. We went to the derby for two days and
then the day of the race, we saw like the
start of the race, and then Tom rallied everybody up.
We went and got on some on some planes, and
then we we flew to the Many. I was still
wearing my smelly ass Kentucky Derby suit, was sweating through it.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
In Las Vegas casino, we all were. I know how
many times you think we fought? How many times we
fought at the derby? We fought in Vegas? Didn't we
fight on this Vegas trip in the middle of the street.
Remember you fish hooked me, Yeah, you bit my you
beat my pinky?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, how you got a fish?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Had a bite. We were in the van. The the
back of the van rallied out.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeah, and then we got we hopped out of the van.
It's like as if nothing happened, just walked into the room.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah. We we literally were we were fighting in the car.
What sparks a fight between you guys, anything, anything, I
don't know. We were just we were riled up.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Let's just say we had been drinking probably eighteen straight hours,
teen straight hours.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
We get out, we start fighting, We're like pushing each other,
and then like the door opens, We're literally in the
middle of the strip fighting.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
He gives me in a fish hook with my with
my pinky, and he bites my pinky, almost bit it off.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
I had to almost bit that thing off, and we
fought on it like with the sunset.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
It was the most beautiful fight I've ever been. It
was so beautiful. We'll have to get the picture of it.
Picture and showed.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I have a still frame of that.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
We were literally I don't know why why were we
drinking that day or fighting that day because we were drinking.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Because we were drinking.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Yeah, the city limits in Mississippi, as long as you're
out of the city limits, you can blaze, like freaking
your sickitty Sam. I mean, it's like whatever you want
to do. But we have the target set up, and
of course mooses filming and catching this because me and
my partner are sitting there side by side ear muffs on,
shooting the targets. And I put a Rick Ross song
(03:21):
because I've been playing with the social media way too long,
long enough to get me in trouble. But I put
a Rick Ross song behind it, black Coffins, and it's
in the name of the song is one hundred Black
Coffins and it's by Rick Ross, and I put it
in black and white, so it's like in this like
slow mowing, and you just see me and my buddy
up here shooting these targets and I literally just unloaded
bah bah blah and probably missed the target every time,
(03:45):
but I caught the video and I posted on my
social media, no big deal until Bears rings my damn
phone and I'm like, this has never happened before, and
why is he calling me? So Bears caused says.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Is it you have him saved in the phone or
is it just random Bear's Nigerian.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
I don't know if I pronounced that the right way.
Bill's secretary is what was in my phone. It's still
in there right now. So when I saw this name
come across my phone, my heart just hit my stomach
and I'm like, this ain't good.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
How long after the post thirty minutes?
Speaker 6 (04:22):
It was like no time, Like I tell you that, Hey,
the page got like the FBI broy, they don't miss nothing, okay.
So he called me and I answer phonem like hello,
he said, Rid. I said, what's up, bears. He says,
Coach wants to speak with you, Like all right, So
(04:43):
I sat on the phone. Bill gets on the phone
and he I guess he hops on. I was like hello,
and Coach says Rid. I say, y'all gonna have to
edit this because my mom's gonna punch me in the
face for using this language. But you know, Bill loved
them f bombs. Coach goes, Rid, just what the fuck
(05:04):
are you doing? And I'm like, what you mean, Coach,
the freaking post that you just put up there. Really
think about it, man, you're unloading a freaking pistol on
a video on your socials.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I mean, we just had a guy arrested. Give me
a fucking break.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
I said, damn, coach, Like I wouldn't even thinking about
it that way. You know, I'm just back home, chilling
with the boys, shooting targets. Better yet, just don't even
bring your ass back up here. I was like, whoa
that just get cut? Like how does this go down?
So I looked at my boy and I'm like, bro,
(05:47):
I don't know if I got fired or not, Like
what's going what's going on? So Bill hung up the
phone or we kind of had some choice words. No
before he hung up the phone, We're gonna cut this part,
but I gotta continue this sort see, I'll just choose
if y'all want to say it or not. But when
he told me, he said, you just don't even bring
your ass back up here, I'm like, oh wow. So
automatically I went into coach, I have the utmost respect
(06:10):
for you. I did not know that I had messed
up that bad. I said, there's targets in the background.
We weren't doing anything wrong. I said, you're comparing me
to a murderer because I'm shooting targets in the backyard.
I said, but either way, I hear you, I will
not be back there, and I'm gonna let you know this.
My faith is in Godden upstairs. I said, this is
(06:31):
not the end of my career. If I am cutting.
I hung up the phone. It was probably a dumb
move to do that, but hung up, bro, because I
was like, I was blown away, Like you just called
me a freaking murderer because I'm shooting at targets in
the backyard. This is what we do on a regular bro, Like,
this is life. So I hung up and probably wasn't
(06:52):
the swartest thing to do. And within like I would say,
thirty to an hour, I got another phone call and
it was Bill and he said, you know what better Yet,
when you come here, do not even stop at my office.
He says, you go straight upstairs and see Robert. I'm like, Robert, Robert,
mister crap. I'm like, oh my god, Bro. Like I'm like,
(07:15):
I don't know. I don't know what, Like, I don't
know how this goes. Because Bill, whether y'all know it
or not, Bill moves the needle on everything around there.
He's making all the calls for him to push me
to the big dog. I'm like, Bro, I'll just stay
in Mississippi.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Brady, We'll talk about Brady's deal because I didn't get
to do your deals. So Brady's first deal was you know,
the rookie contract. And I'll say this, unfortunately, we were
doing business at that point in time, not thinking long
term and relationships. It was a very bottom line way
of doing things, and it was something Bill and I
(07:50):
weren't comfortable with. And we so Tommy's first deal he
got lesson he should have for his slot. There wasn't
slotting back then, but everyone knew what the slot was.
It wasn't called the slot, and we broke his shoes
a little bit. Unfortunately, the people that were doing the
contracts at that time. And then when it came time
(08:11):
for Tommy's next deal, I was doing the next deal
and then the next deal, and I'll never forget we
were at this one point in time. I think it
was maybe Tommy's third deal, it might have been, and
Don and I weren't making progress and we were trying
to keep the team together, right, that was part of
our thing. We didn't expect people to take home team discounts.
(08:32):
We were hopeful that people would want to spread it
and keep the winning because we felt, you know, high
tides raise all boats. And the more that we won,
there was all these other opportunities, marketing, eta, et cetera.
And I'll never forget Don and I couldn't get anywhere.
And Tommy was getting annoyed because he was getting distracted,
not annoyed with anyone. He just wanted to think about ball.
(08:53):
And I'll never forget. One morning he comes up to
my office and he knocks, and he comes in and
he closes the door and he says, hey, can we
talk about this contract. I'm like, Tommy, you we can't
have a negotiation. That's against the rules. We're not allowed.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
He listen. We got to talk.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
But he and I had a really good and close relationship.
And he said, where are you guys at? So I
told him where we were at, told him where you
guys are at? And he says, what's the drop dead number?
I'm like, Tommy, we can't have this conversation. I got
to talk to Don about this. And I'll never forget.
It was the deal when he signed, It was the
I want to say it was the six year, ten
(09:27):
million a year deal. Think about that, six years sixty mill.
It was like, and I'll never forget. I said, that's
probably our our choke point. But we're playing this game, Don,
and I that it's not a game. I shouldn't call it.
That we're having this negotiation where one team's low, one
side's low, one team's high, and you're trying to find
the middle spot. And I'll never forget. Tommy looks at me,
(09:50):
shakes his head, looks away. He goes, if I can't
live the rest of my life, well for sixty million
dollars and my family, he said, I've got problems. He's like,
get Don on the phone. I'm like, Tom, we can't,
we can't, we can't do this. He is, get him
on the phone. We got on the phone and put
it on speaker and Tommy goes, hey, Don, it's Tom.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
He goes, hey, how you doing today?
Speaker 7 (10:16):
He goes and you know, Don's all up eat and
he goes, I got you on speakerphone. I'm in Scott's office.
Dead silence, dead silence because and Don's like, what are
you doing there? He's like, don listen, man, this is ridiculous.
He says, I'm talking to Scott and I'm like sweating
because it wasn't a negotiation.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
He was just asking.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
And anyway, Tom He's like, listen, you guys, just get
this done. And I go, I'm bringing this story up
because I go back to Don, Don and Steve could
have made so much more money if they didn't do
what their client wanted. And Tom, you know, Don and
Steve have left money on the table year after year
(10:58):
after year after year, or by doing what their clients
wanted and maybe not trying to talk their clients into
something that would pay them greater three percent. Anyway, I
don't mean to make that a long story, but it's
just I think the world of Don Yee.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, Donye's we call him the Dragon bro. He just calm,
cool and collect.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
I always wanted to spike the ball in high school
in college, but it was always a fifteen yard penalty,
so I never did it. And then my rookie year
I got to the NFL and I never even Gronk
spiked my rookie year.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I don't think I did, even won my brook he
did in the preseason.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
No, I don't think I grondkspiked at all. Maybe one time,
but I really can't recall it. But the Gronk spike
picked up my second year when I started just scoring
touchdowns like a machine week in and week out, and
I started gronk spiking it. And I don't know exactly
what spike caught on, but I remember I finally did it.
I was like, oh, I finally got to spike the ball,
and then it just became like a meme. And I
(11:51):
couldn't tell you exactly what spike it was. But then
everyone's like, you got to keep spiking the ball, and
it was just going all over the internet. Fans were
loving it. And I can't tell you, is Zach, I
can't pimp on exactly when it truly caught on. Du
do you remember?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I don't remember which spike it was, but I just remember,
like the first one that you did spike, he scored
a touchdown. It was an insane touchdown and he threw
it and he threw it down so hard the ball
went like forty five yards in the air. And that's
why it became the Gronk spike because people were like.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Oh my god, he just break the fucking football.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
September twenty six, twenty ten, is what ESPN credits as
the debut of the Gronk spike.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
That was your second ever NFL touchdown. How can we
ran extra hills out.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Did you guys know this is gonna be one hundred
and twenty play fucking game, you know.
Speaker 9 (12:42):
Because we are sitting we practiced so for at Houston University.
I remember, and we're sitting in the locker room and
Bill said, you know what, we really need to be
ready with these two point players.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So that's what that was.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
You know, he had you know, he had a sense
we need to be ready for him. No guarantee that's happened,
but we need you know, we need to be ready
for this.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (13:04):
And that was and you know, the running the running
the hills put it in the bank. Put it in
the bank. But you know, one of the great moments
to me was, you know, you go on some teams
say we're gonna run hills in December, you'd have a rebellion. Okay.
And we had one game, it's probably around twenty sixteen.
(13:29):
Practice was over. Bill didn't say a word. The whole
team just went over to the hill because you.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Know what we're going.
Speaker 9 (13:41):
Yeah, because and I hey, you know what, this team
totally gets a chat. They champion. They don't need to
be told. They know that, and they know this is
going to payoff. In a big way. Because one of
the great quotes was after Super Bowl fifty one, Dan Quinn,
(14:02):
the head coach of the Falcons. You remember what he said,
we ran out of gas. And you know what, the
new Ngom Patriots did not run out of gas.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
We never ran a gas.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Meanwhile, at halftime, Jules is saying, gotta believe it's another.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Gonna be a hell of a story. There it is,
It's gonna be a hell of the story. But can
you walk us through beat for beat?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
The pick six, he's an easy one.
Speaker 9 (14:24):
That was.
Speaker 10 (14:26):
That was one of the easiest you know, you know
picks like because I always give.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Credit to Rabel.
Speaker 10 (14:32):
You know, Rabel, you know made Aaron though. It was
one of those things where you know, he did the
same thing that Indy used to do and start putting
Marvin in motion. So they put Isaac in motion so
I couldn't get him at the line of scrimmage, and
it was one of those places you had to back off.
You go in to motion and you just seen it,
You're coming. Rabel got through so clean that okay, now
I'm just reading him. And then it was an Aaron throw.
(14:54):
So I said, I'm gonna be Hesitan case Isaac because
he had an Isaac can route. He will wrap the
hell out of you. So like, okay, you're playing for
the double move. It might be because I didn't know
because he wasn't going in motion like that until then.
So I was kind of trying to feel it out.
So what type of games is going to be? And
Rabel came in there and he wind back to thought,
I'm like, you bullshit. He dude, come on, man, come on, Kurt,
(15:17):
you know what I mean. And it was coming like
it was slow motion. I was like, oh, this is
the super Bowl. That's the kind of shit you dropped
because it's so easy. It's so easy, and you would
drop it. But you know, once I got it, man,
all you seen was flashes and it was like everything
would blank, you know, and you know it's like you
hear the screens and it just went silent, and I'm
running down there and just flashes and knowing that this
(15:39):
is it, you know, in the super Bowl, and got
that pic and the rest. We rolled the hell out
of it, you know what I mean. We rode the
hell out of that thing.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Hand That's just like I.
Speaker 10 (15:49):
Don't even know what I was doing.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
You know, I just I just super I just lew
it up, you know what I mean.
Speaker 10 (15:54):
It's something that I've never done before in any of
my pics or my pick six. I didn't throw that.
It was just something that just happened, and I threw
it up there and it's been the iconic pitcher ever since.
Speaker 11 (16:05):
It was like, you know, we're gonna draft I don't mean,
I'm like, oh, and we're gonna make him a receiver.
So we're just gonna keep him at receiver, teach him receiver.
We're gonna teach him how to return punts, be on
special teams. And so he showed up and it was
it was I'll never forget this. And Tom was hard
on rookies, and I was hard on rookies too, I
mean I really was. But like it was Welker in
(16:26):
the like when you did routes on air, it would
be Welker, who was incredible, Julian who was learning, and
then Buddy Farnham. Wasn't it Buddy Farnham or wasn't he
the third guy?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Baby? I don't know, but there was another guy and buddies.
Speaker 11 (16:39):
From my hometown. So I just want to pick his
name in there to it get get andover mentioned a
little bit. And so so Wes would run the route
and tom would throw West the ball. Yeah, and Jeweles,
I mean you'd step up and run the route basically
the same exact way that West rent the route. And
then Tommy would be like, Jewels, I mean, did he just.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, West did it, And you'd say, I'm doing it
the same way. I'm doing it the same way.
Speaker 11 (17:05):
But you know what, over time, he's stuck with it
and stuck with it, and he got better and better
and then returned punts and he was hurt a lot
when he had injuries when I was there, and so
he became Julian Edelman kind of like after I left.
But I mean in the two thousand and nine wild
Card game, we got drilled. He was the best player
on offense. I mean, he made a bunch of plays
(17:27):
in that game. And we came in after that game
and said, like, this guy's gonna be a great player
for us.
Welcome to Games with Names.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
We've got a brand new compilation on some of our
favorite moments from the show.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Let's Go.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
I will tell you this, one of the favorite lines
I ever heard Vrabel say that was directed towards me,
is we had a stag night to raise money for
the Light Foundation in my hometown, right, And we stopped
doing it because I thought, man, there's gonna be a
lot of kids born in my little hometown that don't
belong to these daddies. And so I was like, we're
gonna and I'm telling you it became a little crazy.
But Rabe would come in town with all these other guys.
(00:30):
We had Ajhawk when he was at Ohio State and
younger cats too, right, and the mayor of my little
town now you got to think Mayberry, right, And he
gets up and he has this proclamation where he's gonna
make it Matt Light Day, right, and he stumbles on
some words. An hour later, Rabel gets up and we're
having an auction and he's like, hey, and you know
(00:51):
when he gets the mic, man, it's gonna be profound
and it's gonna be hilarious. He stops everything and he
goes listen I'll give anybody one thousand dollars right now
they can get the mayor to spell matriculate, because he
tried using that in a sentence and he stumbled over
it and in real time, man, it was really uncomfortable,
but nobody said nothing. An hour later, Vrabel has it
(01:12):
up there on the auction block.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I'll give you a thousand if.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
You can get the mayor of Greenville's spell matriculate.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
And we lost it. But that's our boy. Man, that's
a funny, very funny.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Man. We went to the derby for two days and
then the day of the race, we saw like the
start of the race, and then Tom rallied everybody up.
We went and got on some on some planes, and
then we we flew to the Many. I was still
wearing my smelly ass Kentucky Derby suit, was sweating through it.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
In Las Vegas casino, we all were. I know how
many times you think we fought? How many times we
fought at the derby? We fought in Vegas? Didn't we
fight on this Vegas trip in the middle of the street.
Remember you fish hooked me, Yeah, you bit my you
beat my pinky?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, how you got a fish?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Had a bite. We were in the van. The the
back of the van rallied out.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeah, and then we got we hopped out of the van.
It's like as if nothing happened, just walked into the room.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah. We we literally were we were fighting in the car.
What sparks a fight between you guys, anything, anything, I
don't know. We were just we were riled up.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Let's just say we had been drinking probably eighteen straight hours,
teen straight hours.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
We get out, we start fighting, We're like pushing each other,
and then like the door opens, We're literally in the
middle of the strip fighting.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
He gives me in a fish hook with my with
my pinky, and he bites my pinky, almost bit it off.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
I had to almost bit that thing off, and we
fought on it like with the sunset.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
It was the most beautiful fight I've ever been. It
was so beautiful. We'll have to get the picture of it.
Picture and showed.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
I have a still frame of that.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
We were literally I don't know why why were we
drinking that day or fighting that day because we were drinking.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
Because we were drinking.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Yeah, the city limits in Mississippi, as long as you're
out of the city limits, you can blaze, like freaking
your sickitty Sam. I mean, it's like whatever you want
to do. But we have the target set up, and
of course mooses filming and catching this because me and
my partner are sitting there side by side ear muffs on,
shooting the targets. And I put a Rick Ross song
(03:21):
because I've been playing with the social media way too long,
long enough to get me in trouble. But I put
a Rick Ross song behind it, black Coffins, and it's
in the name of the song is one hundred Black
Coffins and it's by Rick Ross, and I put it
in black and white, so it's like in this like
slow mowing, and you just see me and my buddy
up here shooting these targets and I literally just unloaded
bah bah blah and probably missed the target every time,
(03:45):
but I caught the video and I posted on my
social media, no big deal until Bears rings my damn
phone and I'm like, this has never happened before, and
why is he calling me? So Bears caused says.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Is it you have him saved in the phone or
is it just random Bear's Nigerian.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
I don't know if I pronounced that the right way.
Bill's secretary is what was in my phone. It's still
in there right now. So when I saw this name
come across my phone, my heart just hit my stomach
and I'm like, this ain't good.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
How long after the post thirty minutes?
Speaker 6 (04:22):
It was like no time, Like I tell you that, Hey,
the page got like the FBI broy, they don't miss nothing, okay.
So he called me and I answer phonem like hello,
he said, Rid. I said, what's up, bears. He says,
Coach wants to speak with you, Like all right, So
(04:43):
I sat on the phone. Bill gets on the phone
and he I guess he hops on. I was like hello,
and Coach says Rid. I say, y'all gonna have to
edit this because my mom's gonna punch me in the
face for using this language. But you know, Bill loved
them f bombs. Coach goes, Rid, just what the fuck
(05:04):
are you doing? And I'm like, what you mean, Coach,
the freaking post that you just put up there. Really
think about it, man, you're unloading a freaking pistol on
a video on your socials.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I mean, we just had a guy arrested. Give me
a fucking break.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
I said, damn, coach, Like I wouldn't even thinking about
it that way. You know, I'm just back home, chilling
with the boys, shooting targets. Better yet, just don't even
bring your ass back up here. I was like, whoa
that just get cut? Like how does this go down?
So I looked at my boy and I'm like, bro,
(05:47):
I don't know if I got fired or not, Like
what's going what's going on? So Bill hung up the
phone or we kind of had some choice words. No
before he hung up the phone, We're gonna cut this part,
but I gotta continue this sort see, I'll just choose
if y'all want to say it or not. But when
he told me, he said, you just don't even bring
your ass back up here, I'm like, oh wow. So
automatically I went into coach, I have the utmost respect
(06:10):
for you. I did not know that I had messed
up that bad. I said, there's targets in the background.
We weren't doing anything wrong. I said, you're comparing me
to a murderer because I'm shooting targets in the backyard.
I said, but either way, I hear you, I will
not be back there, and I'm gonna let you know this.
My faith is in Godden upstairs. I said, this is
(06:31):
not the end of my career. If I am cutting.
I hung up the phone. It was probably a dumb
move to do that, but hung up, bro, because I
was like, I was blown away, Like you just called
me a freaking murderer because I'm shooting at targets in
the backyard. This is what we do on a regular bro, Like,
this is life. So I hung up and probably wasn't
(06:52):
the swartest thing to do. And within like I would say,
thirty to an hour, I got another phone call and
it was Bill and he said, you know what better Yet,
when you come here, do not even stop at my office.
He says, you go straight upstairs and see Robert. I'm like, Robert, Robert,
mister crap. I'm like, oh my god, Bro. Like I'm like,
(07:15):
I don't know. I don't know what, Like, I don't
know how this goes. Because Bill, whether y'all know it
or not, Bill moves the needle on everything around there.
He's making all the calls for him to push me
to the big dog. I'm like, Bro, I'll just stay
in Mississippi.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Brady, We'll talk about Brady's deal because I didn't get
to do your deals. So Brady's first deal was you know,
the rookie contract. And I'll say this, unfortunately, we were
doing business at that point in time, not thinking long
term and relationships. It was a very bottom line way
of doing things, and it was something Bill and I
(07:50):
weren't comfortable with. And we so Tommy's first deal he
got lesson he should have for his slot. There wasn't
slotting back then, but everyone knew what the slot was.
It wasn't called the slot, and we broke his shoes
a little bit. Unfortunately, the people that were doing the
contracts at that time. And then when it came time
(08:11):
for Tommy's next deal, I was doing the next deal
and then the next deal, and I'll never forget we
were at this one point in time. I think it
was maybe Tommy's third deal, it might have been, and
Don and I weren't making progress and we were trying
to keep the team together, right, that was part of
our thing. We didn't expect people to take home team discounts.
(08:32):
We were hopeful that people would want to spread it
and keep the winning because we felt, you know, high
tides raise all boats. And the more that we won,
there was all these other opportunities, marketing, eta, et cetera.
And I'll never forget Don and I couldn't get anywhere.
And Tommy was getting annoyed because he was getting distracted,
not annoyed with anyone. He just wanted to think about ball.
(08:53):
And I'll never forget. One morning he comes up to
my office and he knocks, and he comes in and
he closes the door and he says, hey, can we
talk about this contract. I'm like, Tommy, you we can't
have a negotiation. That's against the rules. We're not allowed.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
He listen. We got to talk.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
But he and I had a really good and close relationship.
And he said, where are you guys at? So I
told him where we were at, told him where you
guys are at? And he says, what's the drop dead number?
I'm like, Tommy, we can't have this conversation. I got
to talk to Don about this. And I'll never forget.
It was the deal when he signed, It was the
I want to say it was the six year, ten
(09:27):
million a year deal. Think about that, six years sixty mill.
It was like, and I'll never forget. I said, that's
probably our our choke point. But we're playing this game, Don,
and I that it's not a game. I shouldn't call it.
That we're having this negotiation where one team's low, one
side's low, one team's high, and you're trying to find
the middle spot. And I'll never forget. Tommy looks at me,
(09:50):
shakes his head, looks away. He goes, if I can't
live the rest of my life, well for sixty million
dollars and my family, he said, I've got problems. He's like,
get Don on the phone. I'm like, Tom, we can't,
we can't, we can't do this. He is, get him
on the phone. We got on the phone and put
it on speaker and Tommy goes, hey, Don, it's Tom.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
He goes, hey, how you doing today?
Speaker 7 (10:16):
He goes and you know, Don's all up eat and
he goes, I got you on speakerphone. I'm in Scott's office.
Dead silence, dead silence because and Don's like, what are
you doing there? He's like, don listen, man, this is ridiculous.
He says, I'm talking to Scott and I'm like sweating
because it wasn't a negotiation.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
He was just asking.
Speaker 7 (10:37):
And anyway, Tom He's like, listen, you guys, just get
this done. And I go, I'm bringing this story up
because I go back to Don, Don and Steve could
have made so much more money if they didn't do
what their client wanted. And Tom, you know, Don and
Steve have left money on the table year after year
(10:58):
after year after year, or by doing what their clients
wanted and maybe not trying to talk their clients into
something that would pay them greater three percent. Anyway, I
don't mean to make that a long story, but it's
just I think the world of Don Yee.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Yeah, Donye's we call him the Dragon bro. He just calm,
cool and collect.
Speaker 8 (11:17):
I always wanted to spike the ball in high school
in college, but it was always a fifteen yard penalty,
so I never did it. And then my rookie year
I got to the NFL and I never even Gronk
spiked my rookie year.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
I don't think I did, even won my brook he
did in the preseason.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
No, I don't think I grondkspiked at all. Maybe one time,
but I really can't recall it. But the Gronk spike
picked up my second year when I started just scoring
touchdowns like a machine week in and week out, and
I started gronk spiking it. And I don't know exactly
what spike caught on, but I remember I finally did it.
I was like, oh, I finally got to spike the ball,
and then it just became like a meme. And I
(11:51):
couldn't tell you exactly what spike it was. But then
everyone's like, you got to keep spiking the ball, and
it was just going all over the internet. Fans were
loving it. And I can't tell you, is Zach, I
can't pimp on exactly when it truly caught on. Du
do you remember?
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I don't remember which spike it was, but I just remember,
like the first one that you did spike, he scored
a touchdown. It was an insane touchdown and he threw
it and he threw it down so hard the ball
went like forty five yards in the air. And that's
why it became the Gronk spike because people were like.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
Oh my god, he just break the fucking football.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
September twenty six, twenty ten, is what ESPN credits as
the debut of the Gronk spike.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
That was your second ever NFL touchdown. How can we
ran extra hills out.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Did you guys know this is gonna be one hundred
and twenty play fucking game, you know.
Speaker 9 (12:42):
Because we are sitting we practiced so for at Houston University.
I remember, and we're sitting in the locker room and
Bill said, you know what, we really need to be
ready with these two point players.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So that's what that was.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
You know, he had you know, he had a sense
we need to be ready for him. No guarantee that's happened,
but we need you know, we need to be ready
for this.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (13:04):
And that was and you know, the running the running
the hills put it in the bank. Put it in
the bank. But you know, one of the great moments
to me was, you know, you go on some teams
say we're gonna run hills in December, you'd have a rebellion. Okay.
And we had one game, it's probably around twenty sixteen.
(13:29):
Practice was over. Bill didn't say a word. The whole
team just went over to the hill because you.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Know what we're going.
Speaker 9 (13:41):
Yeah, because and I hey, you know what, this team
totally gets a chat. They champion. They don't need to
be told. They know that, and they know this is
going to payoff. In a big way. Because one of
the great quotes was after Super Bowl fifty one, Dan Quinn,
(14:02):
the head coach of the Falcons. You remember what he said,
we ran out of gas. And you know what, the
new Ngom Patriots did not run out of gas.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
We never ran a gas.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Meanwhile, at halftime, Jules is saying, gotta believe it's another.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Gonna be a hell of a story. There it is,
It's gonna be a hell of the story. But can
you walk us through beat for beat?
Speaker 2 (14:22):
The pick six, he's an easy one.
Speaker 9 (14:24):
That was.
Speaker 10 (14:26):
That was one of the easiest you know, you know
picks like because I always give.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Credit to Rabel.
Speaker 10 (14:32):
You know, Rabel, you know made Aaron though. It was
one of those things where you know, he did the
same thing that Indy used to do and start putting
Marvin in motion. So they put Isaac in motion so
I couldn't get him at the line of scrimmage, and
it was one of those places you had to back off.
You go in to motion and you just seen it,
You're coming. Rabel got through so clean that okay, now
I'm just reading him. And then it was an Aaron throw.
(14:54):
So I said, I'm gonna be Hesitan case Isaac because
he had an Isaac can route. He will wrap the
hell out of you. So like, okay, you're playing for
the double move. It might be because I didn't know
because he wasn't going in motion like that until then.
So I was kind of trying to feel it out.
So what type of games is going to be? And
Rabel came in there and he wind back to thought,
I'm like, you bullshit. He dude, come on, man, come on, Kurt,
(15:17):
you know what I mean. And it was coming like
it was slow motion. I was like, oh, this is
the super Bowl. That's the kind of shit you dropped
because it's so easy. It's so easy, and you would
drop it. But you know, once I got it, man,
all you seen was flashes and it was like everything
would blank, you know, and you know it's like you
hear the screens and it just went silent, and I'm
running down there and just flashes and knowing that this
(15:39):
is it, you know, in the super Bowl, and got
that pic and the rest. We rolled the hell out
of it, you know what I mean. We rode the
hell out of that thing.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
Man.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Hand That's just like I.
Speaker 10 (15:49):
Don't even know what I was doing.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
You know, I just I just super I just lew
it up, you know what I mean.
Speaker 10 (15:54):
It's something that I've never done before in any of
my pics or my pick six. I didn't throw that.
It was just something that just happened, and I threw
it up there and it's been the iconic pitcher ever since.
Speaker 11 (16:05):
It was like, you know, we're gonna draft I don't mean,
I'm like, oh, and we're gonna make him a receiver.
So we're just gonna keep him at receiver, teach him receiver.
We're gonna teach him how to return punts, be on
special teams. And so he showed up and it was
it was I'll never forget this. And Tom was hard
on rookies, and I was hard on rookies too, I
mean I really was. But like it was Welker in
(16:26):
the like when you did routes on air, it would
be Welker, who was incredible, Julian who was learning, and
then Buddy Farnham. Wasn't it Buddy Farnham or wasn't he
the third guy?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Baby? I don't know, but there was another guy and buddies.
Speaker 11 (16:39):
From my hometown. So I just want to pick his
name in there to it get get andover mentioned a
little bit. And so so Wes would run the route
and tom would throw West the ball. Yeah, and Jeweles,
I mean you'd step up and run the route basically
the same exact way that West rent the route. And
then Tommy would be like, Jewels, I mean, did he just.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Yeah, West did it, And you'd say, I'm doing it
the same way. I'm doing it the same way.
Speaker 11 (17:05):
But you know what, over time, he's stuck with it
and stuck with it, and he got better and better
and then returned punts and he was hurt a lot
when he had injuries when I was there, and so
he became Julian Edelman kind of like after I left.
But I mean in the two thousand and nine wild
Card game, we got drilled. He was the best player
on offense. I mean, he made a bunch of plays
(17:27):
in that game. And we came in after that game
and said, like, this guy's gonna be a great player
for us.
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