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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.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We're bringing you another compilation of some of my favorite
stories from games with names.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Let's go now Gronk's first impression of Tom Brady.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
What's your favorite Tom memory?

Speaker 4 (00:15):
My favorite Tom memory? Man, I'll always remember the time
when I first met him in the locker room.

Speaker 5 (00:22):
You brought it up during your speech. He just came
up to me.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
I was getting my ankle tape by Jimbo, the Great
Jim Wallen, Great Jim Wallen, Whalen Wallen. It's been a while,
Jim Man. I just called you Jimbo for so long.
I'm forgetting your last name a little bit. You got it,
all right, I got I got it though, And he
was taping my ankles and Tom just came cruising by.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
You know. I was just some good old rookie and
he just walked up to me.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
And he goes, hey, I'm Tom Brady, and I go,
very nice to meet you, Tom Brady.

Speaker 5 (00:51):
I'm Rob Gronkowski.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
And then he's like, let's get after it this year,
and then he walked.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
Away, and I just was like shook.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
I was like, man, Tom Brady just came up to
me and introduced himself as Tom Brady.

Speaker 5 (01:05):
Like of course, I know who you.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
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, 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 really believes in. And he was all business twenty

(01:27):
four to seven when he was in that building.

Speaker 6 (01:29):
What was your favorite moment too, while we're at it.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
My favorite moments were the ones who are like we'd
be throwing routes or some in like he would yell
at me or something like. I remember my rookie year,
we put in a four white personnel group first the
first day of rookie or the first day of veteran camp,
and so it was me, Wes, Joey Galloway, and Randy

(01:56):
and we put it in there and I was the
why and I did the right thing and end up
dropping the ball and he starts just yelling at me,
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, he goes, hey, you know,

(02:19):
if I yell at you.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
That means I like you, And I was like, you know,
you must really love me then, bro.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
You know that was kind of like those those moments
where 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 the big plays of that and the other,
but I think it's the behind the scenes stuff is

(02:49):
that was my favorite.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
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 a mile out on a Robbie.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
I didn't really like.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
Him my rookie year.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
I mean, he was just getting on my case just NonStop,
and it was kind of kind of mind fucking me
so much, and 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. Aft 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

(03:22):
all clicks. It took me about halfway through my rookie year,
and then obviously going in my second year, it clicked
to a whole other level. I mean we went for
twenty one touchdowns total in cooling 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 in the meeting after the practice and

(03:44):
told me he's never gonna throw me the ball again.
And like I got buyer and alg Crumpler saw it too,
and he he just tapped on my die and he
was like, yop, gronk, don't worry about that.

Speaker 5 (03:53):
He's just Tom, just being Tom Man. Just don't worry
about keep doing you.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
And then it kind of like, you know, put a
fire under your ass though, and that's what Tom was so.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
Great at doing it.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
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 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 gonna run this flag
round every time now and You're never gonna throw me
to the ball, but I'm gonna be open by five
yards and.

Speaker 5 (04:20):
You're gonna look like the idiot now.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
And that happened, and then then he threw me to
the ball about six hundred more times from there on out.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
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.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
That was the way he got us going.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
You know, other guys he didn't do that with and
he would do it in a different way, you know.
Then that's 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.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
And I've seen this before Coach Batocheck and Tom challenging
wide receivers and they don't and they don't step up
to the play 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,

(05:18):
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.

Speaker 5 (05:25):
It's either you got it or you don't.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Swinker sim swim.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Next up, Julian tells Ryan Rossello what he did that
made Tom Brady very mad.

Speaker 7 (05:34):
Early in his career, a couple guys said, don't ever
put your hand up like your Randy Moss for the
entire route. That's a no, no. You got to be
Randy Moss.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
You got to I remember, could.

Speaker 7 (05:44):
You ever put your hand up always?

Speaker 1 (05:47):
And I would be but you were pretty good, so
it'd be more of like, uh, but I remember I
did it once and Tom.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
I used to do it early in my career. And
Tom came up and he goes, Julie, I.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Can see you don't put random 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 one hundred balls.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
And doing it again.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
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 see that red
glove get that's a touchdown.

Speaker 7 (06:25):
I want to touchdown red gloves. What's the maddest he
ever got at you? He never really like I was
fishing for a story.

Speaker 1 (06:32):
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 your with rookies,
you know, and then then the bucks get there, and
you know, then the top dogs get there and like

(06:53):
your reps go down and stuff, and like you're sitting
and you're watching fucking Tom Brady execute at a high level,
throwing fucking beauty for balls.

Speaker 3 (07:01):
Randy Moss and that was crazy.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
But the first day I go in, they put in
a four y 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.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
Says, juice, catch the fucking ball.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
And I was like tailing between my leg thought 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.

Speaker 7 (07:29):
Because it still had to be surreal.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
It was still very surreal. I mean, like, yeah, I
was watching him.

Speaker 7 (07:34):
How could it not be.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
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 when I because I got
the tail end of that whole thing, the Indie pats. Sure,
but I never liked you know, I never liked Peyton man.
And he always he was always the guy. He was
the best guy in college. He was the best guy

(07:56):
in high school. His dad was a pro, you know
what I mean. I mean, he was just how he's
He was the guy, and he was a fucking stud.
I liked Tom because everyone always at that point, early
in the Super Bowls, people were still saying Peyton was
the best quarterback.

Speaker 7 (08:13):
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.

Speaker 5 (08:20):
Brought it up to.

Speaker 3 (08:21):
He's an underdog and he was fucking hungry.

Speaker 7 (08:23):
Honestly, Like game 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 offseason or something.
It became more personal. But like I started rooting for
like his resume. You know that it wasn't even about
the Pats 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

(08:44):
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 with 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 mentioned the winery. He couldn't be a
nicer guy. And my co host that was filling in
that day was from Dallas. He's like, okay, So on

(09:05):
the same lines like when you got benchure Romo and
I was like, oh my god, this is the worst
twelve 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

(09:26):
most of us to talk about have literally no clue.
We don't know what the protection are supposed to be.
We don't know what the covers are 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'm 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

(09:47):
to a guy to make this route thing all the
time like Romo used to do, then you're watching on
TV being like that 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 right? And then every year he'd
come back with a piece like his play action was incredible,

(10:07):
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 throw for fifty. 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's part of.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
It, but next up thy law and how Tom Brady
never looked back after taking the Patriots starting job.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
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?

Speaker 8 (10:43):
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 at and you know when
I said on the Dynasty, you know we were going out,

(11:03):
We're doing our little team dinner, and myself Tom Lloyd
malloy going up and he was like, I ain't giving
this shit back.

Speaker 7 (11:11):
You know.

Speaker 6 (11:11):
That's all you can say is that's you know, that's
the spirit, you know. Hey, But me and Lurid looked
at you.

Speaker 8 (11:15):
Like, bullshit, that's a hundred million dollars, and hey, you're
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 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

(11:38):
seen in our life.

Speaker 6 (11:39):
At that time. He was still a young guy. You know.

Speaker 8 (11:42):
We had a run game. Our defense was phenomenal. I
mean you I mean, you're not going to put up
a lot of points on it. We had like the
number one, number two defense in the league, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 6 (11:51):
We were like that.

Speaker 8 (11:51):
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.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Always, he was always real chilly.

Speaker 8 (12:09):
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, uh you know, vo guys like a Teddy
Bruce kid, 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, sometime

(12:30):
you got to tell a lawyer to shut the head up, man,
we're trying to go home. But he liked to get
a you know, the end of the speech. I normally
hear this when he see it, but sometime I'd be like, lawyer, man,
would you shut the head up so we can go home?
Long ass day, you know. But Tom eventually became that
person to you know, talk, and he gained everybody's respect.

Speaker 6 (12:48):
Man, So you know, much love to the God.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
Was there a specific game where you're like, all right,
we could win with this guy. He's a super Bowl
caliber quarterback. Now it may not have been that first seed,
that first super Bowl, but somewhere along in this two
thousand and three season, I mean, you guys started you
guys were fourteen to two.

Speaker 8 (13:07):
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 type. No,
he didn't let the fame get to his head to
where he wasn't willing to put in that work. And

(13:27):
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
you just got here. Yes, you're our teammate, but it's
our job to talk shit every time in practice and
put it 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

(13:49):
just backed the motherfucker. I ain't gonna throw that bullshit.
You know that's a pit. Come on, man, Willie McGinnis
is Addy Rabel. I mean, Rabel was hilarious.

Speaker 7 (13:59):
Rabel, man.

Speaker 5 (14:00):
It is nothing that is.

Speaker 8 (14:02):
Off limits, you know when it comes to you know,
Rabel in his answer, whatever he might say, You know
what I mean, As long as they ain't. You know,
it might even be on the borderline personal, you know,
for rape. You know, he might say something about your
mom and your sister. I mean, just anything. But that's
how he motivated, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (14:19):
And and like I.

Speaker 8 (14:20):
Said, he would just touch that line and back up
off of it, you know what I mean.

Speaker 6 (14:24):
Rabel was the guy that passing out the damn drinks
before practice.

Speaker 8 (14:27):
Cold as hell. We used to have to drive, said Judie.
You you came in when the when the house was built,
we had to drive the practice. Man were in there,
a bunch of like a little bunch of Pop Warner
kids would show the paths and camels and benzes and
ship going to practice.

Speaker 6 (14:40):
You know, everybody got their little Rabel got the flask over.

Speaker 5 (14:42):
Everybody go take a swig.

Speaker 8 (14:43):
So next thing, you know, everybody keeping something in the car.
So we out there as cold as hell. Cold cold
sounds like you today? Huh oh yeah, that's hey, Mike Rabel,
thanks man, you know you inspired me.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Now we got Ernie Adams on how the Patriots knew
Tom Brady would be great.

Speaker 1 (14:58):
You remember the scouting process when you guys were scouting Brady.

Speaker 9 (15:04):
You know, really it was. Yeah, the number one thing
you want to see our football player is what does
he do 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 one person you never knew, a great guy,

(15:28):
Dick Raybine was our quarterback coach who unfortunately died during
training camp in two thousand and one. Oh, I mean
got on treadmill and you know, had a had a harder.

Speaker 5 (15:41):
Show and he died.

Speaker 9 (15:42):
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 play as well,
that is what we're trying to do. It's not about
you know, the combine stuff, which is important, but you know,
it's really what does the guy do when he gets
on the field against a good competition and so you

(16:04):
get great, Hey, have a great bowl game against Alabama.
I mean, you know, 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.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
He always to talk about that. When did you know
he was a killer?

Speaker 9 (16:20):
You know, when I first Tom's rookie year in two thousand,
he was like he was with a third string quarterback
and he was not going to get in the game.
I mean, you know, unless you say, look, if you
have two guys get injured in the same game, he
can get in.

Speaker 5 (16:36):
But it wasn't going to happen.

Speaker 9 (16:38):
And after practice he would go he would go grab
our young rookie tight end Chris Heisman 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, heights, this

(16:59):
is the player we're gonna run, call it out. You know,
just Tom wanted to put himself through the situation. Here's
here's the way I'm gonna call the play in this situation.
It's not just let's just go, you know, go run around,
play catch. You know, as you're thinking a game, thinking situations,
and you know, and I always figured if a player
is gonna stay out light after press, somebody should you know,

(17:20):
honor him by going over and watching.

Speaker 5 (17:22):
I'm just standing watching this guy.

Speaker 9 (17:24):
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, you know if he
wanted to get in the right stance. How do you
get in the right stands? You practice it in front
of the mirror.

Speaker 6 (17:37):
You just do.

Speaker 9 (17:38):
You know, 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. You know,
Tom is the ultimate obsessive compulsive, you know, among players,
because he's not you know, 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

(18:00):
people would tell me at the drafty work I work
hard as Brady, you're for shit. You have no idea
what you're talking about.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
And that's the correct I mean, I got there.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
He already had three Super Bowls and he was still
flying in a coach week eleven to work on his
little fundamentals after a practice.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
Hey, but you know what if that was when he
was a four. You know that that's what people don't see.

Speaker 9 (18:26):
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,
I mean it's dead ass serious hundred every time. Yeah,
there's no you don't take any plays off in practice.
He never did, never did. And you know what he
would if if you ran around first time? He told jee,

(18:49):
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 we explained it to you,
that's a problem.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
Make a mistake. He just can't make the same mistake
twice right. And with him, you know, 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.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Next week got Grink talking about Brady's insane ability to
exploit mismatches.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
Tom throws the mismatch.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
Yeah, whenever there's a mismatch, Tom throws it to the
mismatch every single time, basically ninety nine percent of the time.
He's throwing to the mismatch, and he's not looking at
anyone else on the field.

Speaker 5 (19:38):
When he sees that mismatch.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
Even if Julian you were wide open by twenty yards
or whatever, it doesn't matter. He wasn't looking at you
because you weren't the mismatch at that moment. I was
a mismatch there. He considered that mismatch because there was a.

Speaker 5 (19:49):
Linebacker on me.

Speaker 4 (19:50):
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 gonna throw you
to because that's a mismatch. You're faster than linebackers and
you're more athletic than linebacker.

Speaker 5 (20:05):
So right when I went out there, I knew that
ball was coming to me. Man.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
And it's also another thing where like you know, I
think we were in the fringe. We we were on
like the thirty six were the thirties?

Speaker 6 (20:16):
What was it?

Speaker 5 (20:16):
How big of a was that twenty eight yarder?

Speaker 3 (20:18):
Was twenty two yard twenty three yarder?

Speaker 1 (20:20):
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. When once that ball

(20:41):
is snapped and you see that linebacker as a quarterback
doesn't give any ground and Gronks going full speed, that's
a layup, you know what I mean, because he's got
to flip his hips. Gronks going full speed. Gronk's big
enough to play through contact even if the guy tries
to grab him.

Speaker 6 (20:59):
Like.

Speaker 1 (20:59):
That's why it's such a mismatch. That's why we wh
only saw that look one time. We saw that look
once and then they stopped doing it because it was
a twenty two yard touchdown.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
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 press up 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 celeration where I would just absolutely burn
by a linebacker.

Speaker 5 (21:27):
But once I got going and I was in my stride,
you couldn't stop me. Then that's when I was lethal.

Speaker 4 (21:32):
And then 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 to
right on the money man, right on the money.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
Even if they pressed though, that's bullshit. You were quicker
than Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 5 (21:52):
I was just being humble Jewels.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Next up, Steven Ridley. On that time Tom Brady took
him to a secret jay Z and justin Timberlake concert.

Speaker 10 (22:02):
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?

Speaker 6 (22:21):
You know who it was?

Speaker 9 (22:21):
Who? Oh?

Speaker 6 (22:23):
Bro jay Z? I met jay Z for the first
time with Tom Brady.

Speaker 9 (22:28):
Dog.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
That's Tom's story.

Speaker 10 (22:29):
You have twelve man. First day, very first day I
got there, coming out of LSU. We believe it's stepping
in there and trying to go in and make a difference.
Wheen't scared of the line up trying to do it.
So I got in there and got behind twelve for
the first time, and Tom turned around and looked at me,
look forward to get and look back. Now really get

(22:50):
out here, keV come on and he sat me down
before even handing me the first ball, told Keiv Faulk,
come on in here and take the first LSU running
back real LSU back, a goat a legend. Got to
give it to him, but he he did. He kind
of humbled me on that very first day.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
Did he talk to you about that afterwards or anything?

Speaker 7 (23:10):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (23:10):
Did he call you after he got drafted the Patriots LSU?
Or is there like a coolness with keV?

Speaker 1 (23:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (23:17):
For sure, for sure.

Speaker 10 (23:18):
keV hit me up, let me know that Jarvis Green
had left there and so the LSU guys kind of
welcomed me in when I when I got that call,
So that would be a good story.

Speaker 6 (23:27):
But I got a better I got a better twelve store.

Speaker 10 (23:30):
It's off the field, and uh, because Tom never went out,
kind of never did much and I remember the first
time Tom ever invited me to his crib.

Speaker 6 (23:39):
I gotta say that.

Speaker 10 (23:39):
I don't know what year it was, but we had
done practice or something, and Tom was like, red rid dog,
red dog, come here, and I ran over there. I'm like,
what's up?

Speaker 9 (23:48):
Bro?

Speaker 6 (23:49):
He's like, look, I want you to come with me.
And I'm like what caught you?

Speaker 5 (23:54):
Where?

Speaker 7 (23:54):
Like?

Speaker 5 (23:54):
Where?

Speaker 6 (23:55):
When? Where I need to be?

Speaker 10 (23:56):
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 twelve, you know, quarterback.
Invite me out. So I hauled ass up up up
the highway. Was that ninety five leave because everybody thinks
Patriots Boston, No, the Patriots in Foxborough. That's a freaking
our ride from Foxboro forty five minutes from First Row

(24:18):
to Boston. But Tom gave me his address, and I
remember texting Mom and Dad. I'm like, man, Tom just
invited me to come over here to go meet it.
I didn't know where I was going. I didn't care,
so I went on up and drive the boss. 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 are we going? Bro, Like, what's the
what's the move? He was like, man, just just come

(24:40):
on a 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 traffics 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. The kind of knew

(25:00):
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,
that's not a baseball game going on?

Speaker 6 (25:10):
What is the deal?

Speaker 10 (25:11):
We go in there and park and we walked back
across the street to the stadium. When we walk in there,
it was a concert, So bring you back to this
time and this day in time. Walk in and we
go behind stage. Justin Timberlake is walking onto the stage.
So I don't know if y'all remember Holy Grill. Okay,

(25:31):
so they were performing in Fenway. Part of course, Tom
has the plug and he's inviting me in there. I'm like, bro,
I'm the man, you know what I mean?

Speaker 6 (25:39):
Like Tom invited their running back up there, arling with
QB one like we're twelve.

Speaker 10 (25:44):
We're going to the stadium and get in there and
he hollers at JT O JT da da and they're
like homies. I'm like, oh, how tight is that? The
story gets better from there, we go and watch JT
go on. I think we might have watched like one
song or something like that performer, maybe it hadn't even started.
And we walked back across to where his car was.

(26:05):
So when we walked 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

(26:27):
what I'm seeing?

Speaker 6 (26:28):
You know who it was?

Speaker 5 (26:29):
Who? Oh?

Speaker 6 (26:30):
Bro? Jay Z.

Speaker 10 (26:32):
I met jay Z for the first time with Tom
Brady dog and I realized how tight they really were.

Speaker 6 (26:38):
So when I walk up there, I'm shot.

Speaker 10 (26:41):
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.

Speaker 6 (26:46):
You know, I got at least be cool a little bit.
But I'm like, whoa man?

Speaker 10 (26:50):
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 rid, I want to say, calm ready,
say Rick, can I pick you up in fantasy this year?
And before I could even say anything, I remember this
time touched me and he don't even know. He's like,
you're damn right, you could pick him up a fantasy
this shit. And I'm like, oh, I made it.

Speaker 6 (27:10):
I made it. I freaking made it.

Speaker 10 (27:12):
But I'm in here with freaking Tom and jay Z
and they're performing the Holy Grail at the concert, and
of course twelve got backstay passing 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
could say with twelve on the field, we have countless
moments in my four years there that I could talk about,

(27:33):
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.

Speaker 6 (27:40):
That him jay Z.

Speaker 10 (27:44):
I want to say, what Chapaul was there too? KD
was there maybe Kevin Durant maybe, and so I think
he was there too. But it was like one of
those times that was just like if you knew or
you had that in you were there. And I definitely
didn't have that end. I was just rolling with the man.
So that was a cool last story. That twelve 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

(28:05):
to that altum that.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
Was bon That's insane.

Speaker 6 (28:08):
Get to meet ho j T j D sliding backstage
way Park was just jealous.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
I was at I was at that concert. I was there.

Speaker 6 (28:20):
You wasn't backstage with me?

Speaker 3 (28:21):
Now I'm backstage, I wasn't there.

Speaker 5 (28:23):
What year was this?

Speaker 3 (28:24):
Twenty eleven? Not not yet? He forgot the hundred Ya.

Speaker 6 (28:27):
He's lying, He's lying. Thanks for listening. Remember to tune
in every Tuesday for a brand new episode and every
Sunday for another Games with Names.

Speaker 5 (28:36):
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