October 5, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Games of Names.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm Julian Edelman, and we got a brand new compilation
highlight reels starting now.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Now Julis breaks down now NFL contracts actually work. This
is from Brian Kamet on YouTube. I'd love a segment
on any quote dangerous things players aren't allowed to do
while under NFL contract, either in season or out of season,
like ride a motorcycle.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Well, they can specifically negotia or they can specifically put
in things like motorcycle if they know that person is
a motorcycle driver. But they have one thing that covers everything.
If you get hurt doing something other than football, you
could lose your money any just.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Like if you get hurt, yeah, set out so like.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Skiing, parachuting, this that you know, playing basketball, pickup ball,
if you get hurt, technically they they don't have to
pay you.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
What about training if it's like, see.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
That's where the gray area is because you're trying to
better yourself for the sport. Because I've hurt myself in training,
but they covered that. Okay, but if you're gonna you
know what I mean, But it's it's kind of a
gray area unless they specifically say it in certain things
in certain people's contracts. Because remember Drew came on here
and said he went skiing even though he wasn't supposed to.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Oh forgot about that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Like in theory, you could be like dude, skydiving's part
of my training routine.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I can scuba scuba. What's all the same? Ye got
the whole point. Okay. Do you know of any.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Specific instances where you came across people getting certain things
like uh put in their contract that they can't do,
like Chris Cogan can't play lacrosse.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I don't, they don't. I didn't. No one talked about
that stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Okay, you know, like maybe JPP no firecrackers.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Fourth of July, the GM calls you doing over there, JPB.
What's on tap for today?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Little man?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It's it's so I get so scared whenever I light
the fireworks now because of that. Fireworks are dangerous, man.
My dad used to say it all the time. Blow
your fingers right off. Frank was right, it will Oh
my god. Stick to the sparklers.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Sparklers say for all you want to get into the
next one, next one from I know the dangerous stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I know we love can't do anything business.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I'm not gonna blo up anyone spot at the irony
of this coming this episode.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Oh yes, sorry, oh my goodness, no, this is a
ten terrorst episode.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah yeah. Oh oh wait, because we went on a
dirt bike ride.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, oh gosh, I forgot about that. We didn't go
on dirt It was like we're on Super seventy three.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It was a simulation. It's like a Travis Postroana backflips.
I just d Did he not know how to drive it?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Oh my goodness, that's surprising to me.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Nothing like some good peer pressure lied too.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, drive deer bikes, you see. Treat me like an
older brother or something, or like it was.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Very nervous about peer pressure coming here. Yeah, I know.
I will not put into Julian's peer pressure. He folded
like a laun chair. Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Next, we have a YouTube comment question from Jelly eight
ninety nine. Do you get paid extra for appearing in
the TV network's pregame hype videos like they have leading
up to the Super Bowl or other big games?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
What do you mean like when you're like in uniform,
like holding a ball on like Sunday Night football, and
you're like, oh, I'm looking cool. No, does that happen
before the game? Does that happen at the beginning of
the season.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That happens usually the week you're still at your home stadium.
So NFL for the Super Bowl, right when you get
to the n Super Bowl, you get there a week early.
You have like a day dedicated for certain guys to
go do media obligations for the networks.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
That's just like a green screen, like in a room.
It's like a green screen. They'll bring in a group
of guys.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
We do it pre season for our team, individual stadium
stuff and like our what our team uses, and then
you kind of do that same thing but for the
network whoever's hosting it in the NFL that week.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
So you do that before the week, you don't get
paid extra. That's party just hundred.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Now, what about for just like a regular like Sunday
Night Football, because they do some media stuff for that too.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Is that beginning of the year. That's the beginning of
the year, and like NBC will come in and shoot
with some people. No, you do like that.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Our team, I think our team's production will take stuff
for NBC or NBCBS for Fox because.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
They know the schedules, the schedule. That's your media day.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, because you do it like four different for like
you do it for like different things.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
That's cool. Yeah, that's all pre.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I always like seeing it that when there's a guy
that like his his drip will be a little different
than it would be like on field.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So you can always tell who didn't go to those
days because they have the same one from the year before.
They just you look at Brady, I think his was
from like eight years ago. He had to finally do
new ones when you went to Tampa.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
But what about the old like Monday night football where
it's like you just like it's the cutout and you
say your name, you say where you're from rand University.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So you do that that day, you do that before
before the season. Oh wow, so you got to play
in your joke high school? Like yeah, early task, which
I got to go early with it. You say Kent
State couple, I said college. I never used him though,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I never I never thought about it going into like
I was thinking about the team we were playing, you
know what I mean. Yeah, but like I never thought
about it where uh, I think I did College of
sam Mateo for one Kent State, and I just did
like Redwood City and I just did one that said
ty k mote. I think it's like fight till death
(05:56):
and like either Simon or so cool. But it was
like it was thing we all used to say, and
our football team's back in the Bay. We would be like,
I love that, so like we would we made it
kind of like a figure of speech, like you're part of.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
That's tight, And there was anyone being like what the
fuck is that? Just say your guy? Yeah, the guy
you just say Kent State, asshole. You do Kent State?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Last, Yeah, you do the give in the straight line
one last, Yeah you go the Kent State University.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Oh, because you know they're going to keep that. So
but you can get off like five or six.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Get some phone. Was like all right, cool, slappy. Julian
Edelman Red with City Julian Redwood City, forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
It's like it's like the guy in the picture day,
the guy taking in school and he's like all right,
like just get the one I can show your mom
and like that you'll actually get a haircut for.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
A picture day. That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Sometimes you'd be fully off blast now catch up, Yeah,
you go up in the locker room or you go
up in the bathroom and everyone's getting all cleaned up
and stuff for the fucking stupid ship.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
We gotta do oh his picture day. Yeah, so you
see guys getting all cleaned up.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
It's always funny when like a guy will be in
there and they're like the full body when he's like
just wearing sneakers in his full jersey.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah. You guys, like a lot of times you don't
wear pads. Looks so goofy. Yeah, we didn't wear pads.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, and we love that because it sucks putting those
pads on.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
It looks Goofy's.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Now. Jewels takes us through what travel is really like
for NFL players.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Hey, Julian Kyler back, if you could tell us, uh,
what it's like on an NFL road trip? No, no basketball, baseball, hockey,
a lot of games to be played. NFL not so much.
You guys go home, stay out there, and uh, what's
your favorite memory from a road trip? Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
So in the NFL, are away trips are business trips.
It's not like NBA baseball hockey where these guys have
three four games in the night. Once we get there
a day before and nless. It's a West coast trip.
We'll get there on a Friday. We'll leave right after practice.
We have curfew the night before the game. Yeah, night
(08:12):
before game always curfew. If we play a home game,
we stay at hotels so they can check those curfews.
And it's also because we have night meetings. So like
when we travel, usually Sunday, we'll have a walk through
at the stadium. After the walkthrough, we pack up, we
put our suits on, we get in the buses. It's
like a fucking hour bus to Providence. Then we hop
(08:34):
on the plane. When you get to the plane, right
before you get on the you go straight to the tarmac.
They have tables of all the food that you get
to pick, so there's cheeseburgers, chicken, sandwiches, PB and J's.
Then there's like every kind of snack you can have
or want, and then you go up up, you walk
(08:57):
up the stairs in the plane, you get in your seat.
We had lovely flight attendants always that were with us
for the longest time, so you'd become very personal with them,
so they knew what your drink order was. So I
always liked my electrolytes and a cramp juice, and so
I'd get to my seat, which we're hearing about how
(09:19):
the plane was right now.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
We used to have, you.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Know, the two three two plane and they were like
kind of older seats, but I'd have two seats, and
you know, that's.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
How you do it, and you go to your area.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
They'd have your favorite stuff that you like, and then
there'd be an on flight meal, some kind of chicken can,
some kind of fish usually always, and maybe a beef.
There's there's always a three and so you'd go through that,
and then on the way back you'd have like homemade
(09:55):
cookies made and stuff like on the plane. The travel
was awesome as far as traveling, I mean, the plane was.
We used to go Delta and that was the best
because you had live TV. So as soon as you'd
finish your one o'clock game in Buffalo, you're watching the
four forty five, the second half of the cool the
(10:15):
four o'clock games. That's not in the plane, you know
what I mean. So you're watching and we didn't get
when they took that away. That was kind of lame,
but it was pretty cool. Like everything else. I mean,
it's pro sports, so you have your own plane, and
then when you get to the you land in city,
(10:36):
there's four buses. We all go to our bus. You
have like forty five minutes to an hour of free time,
and then you have like treatments. At every hotel, there'll
be we take out all like the conventional area or whatever,
the big ballroom areas. We have all that taken out,
so they'll be like little film rooms. So you have
(10:58):
film room if you want to go watch film film.
There'll be a big training room, so there'll be a
lot of guys in there getting their bodies ready. So
there'll be that like a forty five minute hour of that,
and you have dinner and so then guys will start
to funnel into the cafeteria and that's where like the
breaking bread and the hanging out processes, and there's usually
(11:20):
it'd be the same kind of food. There'd be a chicken,
a steak, apasta, brown rice, a marin era meat sauce,
a chicken wing night before, and there'll be like a
specialty dish of where you were at according to the
city you were in.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Ooh, I like that.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
So like Denver always had really good food then I
remember because we say had a really nice hotel there too.
We didn't stay in the greatest hotels, so I don't know,
you know, like I hear these basketball guys they have
in their hotel in their contracts, they got to have
like presidential suites and they got to stay at five
star hotels. We were always at a hotel right next
to the airport. No distractions can eve anywhere. So then
(12:01):
you get, you eat, and then after you eat. We
had seven thirty meetings. Offensive team meeting, and then you
had offense and defense, and then you'd walk through the
whole game plan the night before in a big old ballroom.
You'd walk through every play, so that could be sixty
to seventy five plays as a team, and everyone would
go over and you know, each coach would be looking
(12:22):
at their position group. The lineman would go do a
couple of steps and kind of say what they had
to do, and they would say, all right, we're going
to us to this. The receiver would do a walk
to his routes in a condensed area, but like, all right,
we're running an incut, you're running the cross. Just to
show that everyone knows what to do, you know, So
you'd walk through those and then after that you get
(12:43):
treatment again, and by that time it's like nine thirty nine,
guys would be everyone naturally funnels into the cafeteria because
the college football is on. So guys, yeah, watching the
college football, getting a late night snack before everyone goes
and then I think, uh, curfew would be at like eleven,
(13:03):
and then you wake up and and it's the same
kind of regiment where you go and you go to
cafeteria and then you have a team meeting. You guys
go through one last key before you leave. We already
have the hay in the bank. Now we get to
the stadium and then it turns into a different operation
once you get to the stadium. But the travel, like
I was accustomed to Kent State where we're busting the places.
(13:24):
So I thought it was fucking awesome. You know, I
got the cheeseburg. I can do whatever I want.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
You can do busting the munsie, you know what I mean.
This literally we bust a munsie.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Uh So it's different than the other sports because you know,
they have so many games where it's part of the light,
the road is part of their life. Yeah, we're taking
our operation in Foxborough and we're literally bringing it to
that one spot, and we're doing everything that we do
in Foxborough at that one spot, and and and it's
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a business trip. Guys are rarely going out. I mean,
if you had friends or family, you get him a
hotel room. No one was on your on your floor,
no one was in your hotel room. That was conduct
detrimental to the team. So you would get suspended and
you'd lose a game check if anyone were ever on
your floor, even just on the floor. Can't be on
(14:15):
the floor, Well, there'd be so much secure you can
get anyone through there.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Uh, you know, So no candles, no nothing burning. That's
what Bill used to say. If it burns, you can't
have don't come in here with you have incense. This
that if it lights, you can't have it in gots
So it sort of on my bays. Some of the
(14:41):
most epic Bill times are when he would be explaining
the rules and regulations of what the schedule.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Is going to be.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Hotel yes, hotel rules with or like every year every year,
the same day, like right when you get in, right
after the conditioning test, you had like an hour and
a half meeting where we go over all like the
rules of the NFL, Like we go over the finding
for you know players, wait, the this, the that, how
(15:13):
much it was if you relate to meetings, how much
it was if you had We would go over like
an hour and a half of rules. And the way
he would project He's like like, if it's a fucking weapon,
you can't bring it here, all right? Light, no bows
and arrows, no, not like he was like the way
(15:34):
he would deliver it would be so funny.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
You know, it was funny.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Or like we were traveling to Europe. Look, we're not
gonna be out here fucking getting fishing fishing chips, guys, like,
this is a fucking business trip.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
You see Uncle Ben on your own time, like you
know what I mean? I like pepper and a little
jabb there. You know it was it was fun.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
I can just picture Bill being like, I don't care
how good that little thing uppringles looks at man, I
don't touch them any bar.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Oh yes, there was no alcohol at many bars. But
oh true. You could order. You could order whatever you like.
You could order food. Now is that on the team
or is that on you? That's on you?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
You got I think we when I first started going
we would get a per diem. Oh yeah, no, this
is good for the travel. We would get per diem.
You get you get an envelope. Bears would sit and
hand it out to every you know, all the guys.
And it started out like thirty six bucks. We get
thirty six bucks for meals because they said that, you know,
(16:40):
they they had all the meals at all times at
the hotel for us. So there was like some teams
would be getting two hundred, three hundred bucks oh yeah,
which I I don't know, but and then it got
to like sixty. But as soon as we get that money,
it'd be cash. Everyone would put their initials on it.
And one of the flights flight as attendants would come
(17:00):
and get a bag and they'd all everyone would put
their initial on their dollar and she'd go and she'd
pick two out. The first one would get the money
back and the second one would take the whole bag.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Yo lottery. It'd be like a g oh, he smokes
that rocks. Do you ever win? And I didn't do it?
Oh you didn't do it?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
No, Okay, that's gas money. When I was young, I
was like, that's fucking I'm not making a hell of money.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Thirty six bucks. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Next up, Julian walks us through what injury rehab looks
like for NFL players.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
First off, Uh, you're around the team and your schedule
depends on who you are. If you're a guy that's
new and he's still trying to learn, the system doesn't
know this, you know, offense or defense to pay on
where he's in his in his career, they'll keep them
around and they'll design after that. Now the schedule. Usually
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when you tear your a c L, everything's about your
flection and extension. So when you get your complete flection
and extension back, that's when they'll go in and cut it.
It's usually about a month, depending on if you have
your MCL or not. They wanted they want the swelling
to get out, so you do a lot of prehab
before you go into surgery with your ACO. And then
(18:17):
also who manages it. Your agent helps you manage it,
the team will manage it, but you are able to
get second third opinions that the team will pay for.
So if you have a doctor, if there's a knee specialist,
a lot of people will go down to Anderson in
Alabama and they'll send either their film or they'll go
(18:39):
have a visit with him and see what he says.
Team has to pay for it. And if you pick him,
you you can go with him. You can pick whoever
you want to operate on you. You know, I would
always have doctor Neola trosh out here. He's a close friend.
I'd always get a second opinion from Neil, just to
you know, just to keep clear thought. Pete Asnes did mine.
(19:03):
He was in Boston. He's a Boston mass general guy.
And after that, it's pretty routine. Now. How guys keep
their muscle mass. That's the biggest problem when you come
back from these injuries. So when you tell your right
leg to your right knee, that's the number one thing
you're trying to build. At like day one, you're doing
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quad flexes to try to prevent the atrophy, because once
you go in and cut and you don't move your leg,
you're gonna lose like twenty percent of your leg in
like the first week. It's freaking crazy. So they've got
a lot of things now. Also, they have this thing
called BFR blood flow restriction where they'll cut pretty much
the circulation off of your leg or whatever muscle you're
(19:49):
doing and so the work will be like a million
times harder, so you can essentially do like a regular
squat with no and it kind of manipulates your muscle
and your body to thinking you're loading your leg to
a whole other level. So then there's some kind of
thing where it'll shoot more growth hormone when you constrict it.
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So a lot of guys are doing this thing where
it's like a tournique. They tournicate your your muscles each
everyone and they work that muscle group and it's very
hard and it reduces the load that you put on
your body, but it manipulates your mind to thinking that
you're loading your body at least that's what they say.
So a lot of blood flow restriction. But that's the
(20:36):
number one thing when you're coming back from injury. That's
what I would always tell the doctor. I'm like, I'm
not trying to be one hundred percent. I'm trying to
be where I was at, you know, one hundred percent
healthy and one hundred percent where you're at is completely different.
And that's like the last that's the hardest part about
coming back from an injury, especially like a lower extremity injury,
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is the atrophy is the endurance strength. You can get
up to your top speed, but you can only hit
it one time out of five when you're supposed to
hit it five out of five.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
That's that's what you're battling. That's what the race is
right away, is trying to try to get that leg
to where your other leg is. Summary, schedule is where
you do it is usually about who you are, where
you are in that that system, scheme, organization, How long is.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
That handles it?
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Does?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I mean like a veteran. Like a veteran, I was.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Around the I was around the facility when I tore
my ACL, but I wasn't in meetings. Like a younger
guy if he was a rookie he tears ACL, he'd
do his rehab and then he'd go sit in and
all the meetings and ship because he has to still
learn the install you know I was. I wasn't in
that point in my career at that time.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Some guys, if you want, you could rehabit in different
areas at different places. Just once again, depends on who
you are and where you are in your career. Who
manages it? You usually your agent and the head trainer
your team, and then timeline is all depending on what
the severity of your injury is, because you have to
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do your prehab stuff get the swelling out before you
actually cut it. So usually they'll wait like a month
after depending and then also the recovery time depending on
what if with the ACL what they use. Are you
using cadaver or using a hamstring tenant or using pteller tenant,
But teller tenant's a longer recovery but a less rerupture rate.
I believe, uh, you know that that could all change.
(22:32):
That all changes in every few years. That's what I
was told. But it's that's like, that's the race man.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
What's the agent doing. Like, so the agent's communicating with the.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Team's communicating with team, so like he'll say, hey, do
you want to get a second opinion, And I'll say, yeah,
set it up, okay, So he'll hit up agent, will
hit up team and second doctor and have put everything
together so you have multi you can have anyone do
your surgery. That's you know, the league will take care
(23:04):
of that. Now if you're on the active roster.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Has there ever been like an instance that you've seen
where the second opinion is like vastly different, and it
becomes the thing that they have to work through.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
You got to take all that with a grain of salt.
Some of these doctors just want to, oh, be the
guy I saw all right, buddy, I gotta do it,
or what.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
My cut?
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Or not?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Shoot me straight, doctor, shoot me straight? About right about that.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Because there have been some instances in the history of
sports with like players having discrimined that had that.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Like a c O is such a routine freaking injury.
Now thirty years ago were different. Forty years ago you
know you're retiring. Yeah, now it's like Tommy John you
come back strong, crazy, No, I went to teller tenant.
No one does to kid ever when you're playing, Okay,
cadaver is the most rerupture rate. It's usually for like
the non athletic people that are or people that are
(24:07):
not going to like physically demand their knee.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
So Kurt probably went cold. Ever definitely could or hamstring tenant.
I'm kidding. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
And a lot of guys don't want to mess with
their hamstring tenant because we're speed guys.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah right, don't want to touch any of that.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
And so if you are in a schedule where you
are in the facility or you're younger and you're near
the team. You're going to games too, you're in the
facility during games, but not probably traveling with team.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
We didn't travel as hurt guys. Like my year when
I tore my a C I was, I was there,
but I wasn't. I was rehabbing, like all day. It
was rehabb you know what I mean. So like, yeah,
it's it's it's a it's a lonely It can be
a lonely place for an athlete is when you're hurt.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I can only imagine. Man, Man, that was awesome. The
calls are great. Always keep them coming, guys.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
I love those inside baseball like deep dives, like inside
of the life of a professional athlete. Like we had
a clip when you talked about travel that did really well.
So more of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
So yeah, you know, hey, oh they don't test for
weed no more. But hey, they took away our pension.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
We won that one. We won that one, guys.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Now we got jewels telling us about the worst workout
the players had to do.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Soonch for you man.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Nick Fleetwood twenty one forty six said, jewels, what is
one lift slash workout you will never do again, I e.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Hill springs, tire flips, et cetera. About runs, Oh, I've
heard of those. I'm never doing bout runs again. What
is about run?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
A bout run is where you have to run hunter.
So you start on one goal line and you run
to the other goal line for three straight minutes and
you have to get seven hundred and eighty five yards,
so you have to go touch the line, go back,
and it's just a constant run. But the slowing and
(26:04):
stopping down I think you have to average like sixteen
miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
It's fucking it's hard.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
So you said it's three minutes three minutes to do
like seven hundred and eighty five yards.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
So then like that's down and back like seven and
more and a half times. So then three times like
the whistible down back stop, and it's like if you
haven't reached here, if you do, if you don't stop,
you don't make it. What's the ramifications for son who
doesn't get there?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Uh, you may have to go and do more extra sprints,
like you may have to like come in and there's
like an earth, there's fat camp, and then there's like
non conditioning camp. And so sometimes guys that aren't in
conditioning or don't make the conditioning test, like this is
off season usually, but if you don't make the conditioning test,
you have to wake up at five am or you
(26:50):
have to be at the facility at five am and
do conditioning before the day starts until you pass the
conditioning test.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
More like, huh, how about we ever do these again?
How about we never do these again?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I've missed you, Jack, Yeah, I just renamed them for
your coach. Let's do we got any more than here?
That jump out to you guys, do like one more.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Some soccer shit though, Like we're not soccer guy, we're
fucking the lineup.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
We're like dragsters.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Perfect segue, Okay, perfect segue, perfect segue from Darren Shields eighteen.
Would be great to get a football soccer player on
here to do the best game ever. So he's referring
to football.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, we got beautiful game. We gotta get some some football.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
We've only had Brandy so far. Yeah, that's wild. We
gotta get our numbers up. We gotta get Harry Kane
on this bitch. You got to man Byron Munich. Maybe
we gotta fly over to Germany. Games with names Deutschland.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I know that'd be tight.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
That'd be tight. Let's see this one here, Jules. This
is from the Stave episode, a recent fan favorite. Man
I wish I was here for that one in Perse
This is from c Donk as a diehard Pats fan.
I love Edelman, but ranch with Greek food is a disgrace.
It's when I order Greek.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I'm not like going to a fucking Greek restaurant bringing
a hidden valley little pocket ranch with me.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
You know, I keep that thing on me.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Who's gonna like a good ranch with like a kebab
chicken kebab and shit?
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Who I think it's good? Say a note of that.
I'm with you, Okay, I'm gonna take the.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Kid out of the jailor, but he can't take the
jailer out the kid at his core, it's a creamy
sauce with some zaesz.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Baby what cover I mean? I'm with you on this one.
I'll defend your tooth and nail. Sorry.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I'm also a guy who loves a one on everything too,
so judge me.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
If you want shout out a one sauce, shout out
on one auto.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Steak a right without the AA.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
So I stayed, dipped the sauce and they come bars.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Remember to tune in every Tuesday for a brand new
episode and every Sunday for another.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Games with Names highlight l
Welcome to Games of Names.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
I'm Julian Edelman, and we got a brand new compilation
highlight reels starting now.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Now Julis breaks down now NFL contracts actually work. This
is from Brian Kamet on YouTube. I'd love a segment
on any quote dangerous things players aren't allowed to do
while under NFL contract, either in season or out of season,
like ride a motorcycle.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Well, they can specifically negotia or they can specifically put
in things like motorcycle if they know that person is
a motorcycle driver. But they have one thing that covers everything.
If you get hurt doing something other than football, you
could lose your money any just.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Like if you get hurt, yeah, set out so like.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Skiing, parachuting, this that you know, playing basketball, pickup ball,
if you get hurt, technically they they don't have to
pay you.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
What about training if it's like, see.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
That's where the gray area is because you're trying to
better yourself for the sport. Because I've hurt myself in training,
but they covered that. Okay, but if you're gonna you
know what I mean, But it's it's kind of a
gray area unless they specifically say it in certain things
in certain people's contracts. Because remember Drew came on here
and said he went skiing even though he wasn't supposed to.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Oh forgot about that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Like in theory, you could be like dude, skydiving's part
of my training routine.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
I can scuba scuba. What's all the same? Ye got
the whole point. Okay. Do you know of any.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Specific instances where you came across people getting certain things
like uh put in their contract that they can't do,
like Chris Cogan can't play lacrosse.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I don't, they don't. I didn't. No one talked about
that stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Okay, you know, like maybe JPP no firecrackers.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Fourth of July, the GM calls you doing over there, JPB.
What's on tap for today?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Little man?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
It's it's so I get so scared whenever I light
the fireworks now because of that. Fireworks are dangerous, man.
My dad used to say it all the time. Blow
your fingers right off. Frank was right, it will Oh
my god. Stick to the sparklers.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Sparklers say for all you want to get into the
next one, next one from I know the dangerous stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I know we love can't do anything business.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
I'm not gonna blo up anyone spot at the irony
of this coming this episode.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Oh yes, sorry, oh my goodness, no, this is a
ten terrorst episode.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Yeah yeah. Oh oh wait, because we went on a
dirt bike ride.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, oh gosh, I forgot about that. We didn't go
on dirt It was like we're on Super seventy three.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
It was a simulation. It's like a Travis Postroana backflips.
I just d Did he not know how to drive it?
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Oh my goodness, that's surprising to me.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Nothing like some good peer pressure lied too.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Yeah, drive deer bikes, you see. Treat me like an
older brother or something, or like it was.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Very nervous about peer pressure coming here. Yeah, I know.
I will not put into Julian's peer pressure. He folded
like a laun chair. Uh.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Next, we have a YouTube comment question from Jelly eight
ninety nine. Do you get paid extra for appearing in
the TV network's pregame hype videos like they have leading
up to the Super Bowl or other big games?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
What do you mean like when you're like in uniform,
like holding a ball on like Sunday Night football, and
you're like, oh, I'm looking cool. No, does that happen
before the game? Does that happen at the beginning of
the season.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That happens usually the week you're still at your home stadium.
So NFL for the Super Bowl, right when you get
to the n Super Bowl, you get there a week early.
You have like a day dedicated for certain guys to
go do media obligations for the networks.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
That's just like a green screen, like in a room.
It's like a green screen. They'll bring in a group
of guys.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
We do it pre season for our team, individual stadium
stuff and like our what our team uses, and then
you kind of do that same thing but for the
network whoever's hosting it in the NFL that week.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
So you do that before the week, you don't get
paid extra. That's party just hundred.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Now, what about for just like a regular like Sunday
Night Football, because they do some media stuff for that too.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Is that beginning of the year. That's the beginning of
the year, and like NBC will come in and shoot
with some people. No, you do like that.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Our team, I think our team's production will take stuff
for NBC or NBCBS for Fox because.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
They know the schedules, the schedule. That's your media day.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, because you do it like four different for like
you do it for like different things.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
That's cool. Yeah, that's all pre.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I always like seeing it that when there's a guy
that like his his drip will be a little different
than it would be like on field.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
So you can always tell who didn't go to those
days because they have the same one from the year before.
They just you look at Brady, I think his was
from like eight years ago. He had to finally do
new ones when you went to Tampa.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
But what about the old like Monday night football where
it's like you just like it's the cutout and you
say your name, you say where you're from rand University.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
So you do that that day, you do that before
before the season. Oh wow, so you got to play
in your joke high school? Like yeah, early task, which
I got to go early with it. You say Kent
State couple, I said college. I never used him though,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I never I never thought about it going into like
I was thinking about the team we were playing, you
know what I mean. Yeah, but like I never thought
about it where uh, I think I did College of
sam Mateo for one Kent State, and I just did
like Redwood City and I just did one that said
ty k mote. I think it's like fight till death
(05:56):
and like either Simon or so cool. But it was
like it was thing we all used to say, and
our football team's back in the Bay. We would be like,
I love that, so like we would we made it
kind of like a figure of speech, like you're part of.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
That's tight, And there was anyone being like what the
fuck is that? Just say your guy? Yeah, the guy
you just say Kent State, asshole. You do Kent State?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Last, Yeah, you do the give in the straight line
one last, Yeah you go the Kent State University.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Oh, because you know they're going to keep that. So
but you can get off like five or six.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Get some phone. Was like all right, cool, slappy. Julian
Edelman Red with City Julian Redwood City, forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
It's like it's like the guy in the picture day,
the guy taking in school and he's like all right,
like just get the one I can show your mom
and like that you'll actually get a haircut for.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
A picture day. That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Sometimes you'd be fully off blast now catch up, Yeah,
you go up in the locker room or you go
up in the bathroom and everyone's getting all cleaned up
and stuff for the fucking stupid ship.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
We gotta do oh his picture day. Yeah, so you
see guys getting all cleaned up.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
It's always funny when like a guy will be in
there and they're like the full body when he's like
just wearing sneakers in his full jersey.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yeah. You guys, like a lot of times you don't
wear pads. Looks so goofy. Yeah, we didn't wear pads.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, and we love that because it sucks putting those
pads on.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
It looks Goofy's.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Now. Jewels takes us through what travel is really like
for NFL players.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Hey, Julian Kyler back, if you could tell us, uh,
what it's like on an NFL road trip? No, no basketball, baseball, hockey,
a lot of games to be played. NFL not so much.
You guys go home, stay out there, and uh, what's
your favorite memory from a road trip? Uh?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
So in the NFL, are away trips are business trips.
It's not like NBA baseball hockey where these guys have
three four games in the night. Once we get there
a day before and nless. It's a West coast trip.
We'll get there on a Friday. We'll leave right after practice.
We have curfew the night before the game. Yeah, night
(08:12):
before game always curfew. If we play a home game,
we stay at hotels so they can check those curfews.
And it's also because we have night meetings. So like
when we travel, usually Sunday, we'll have a walk through
at the stadium. After the walkthrough, we pack up, we
put our suits on, we get in the buses. It's
like a fucking hour bus to Providence. Then we hop
(08:34):
on the plane. When you get to the plane, right
before you get on the you go straight to the tarmac.
They have tables of all the food that you get
to pick, so there's cheeseburgers, chicken, sandwiches, PB and J's.
Then there's like every kind of snack you can have
or want, and then you go up up, you walk
(08:57):
up the stairs in the plane, you get in your seat.
We had lovely flight attendants always that were with us
for the longest time, so you'd become very personal with them,
so they knew what your drink order was. So I
always liked my electrolytes and a cramp juice, and so
I'd get to my seat, which we're hearing about how
(09:19):
the plane was right now.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
We used to have, you.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Know, the two three two plane and they were like
kind of older seats, but I'd have two seats, and
you know, that's.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
How you do it, and you go to your area.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
They'd have your favorite stuff that you like, and then
there'd be an on flight meal, some kind of chicken can,
some kind of fish usually always, and maybe a beef.
There's there's always a three and so you'd go through that,
and then on the way back you'd have like homemade
(09:55):
cookies made and stuff like on the plane. The travel
was awesome as far as traveling, I mean, the plane was.
We used to go Delta and that was the best
because you had live TV. So as soon as you'd
finish your one o'clock game in Buffalo, you're watching the
four forty five, the second half of the cool the
(10:15):
four o'clock games. That's not in the plane, you know
what I mean. So you're watching and we didn't get
when they took that away. That was kind of lame,
but it was pretty cool. Like everything else. I mean,
it's pro sports, so you have your own plane, and
then when you get to the you land in city,
(10:36):
there's four buses. We all go to our bus. You
have like forty five minutes to an hour of free time,
and then you have like treatments. At every hotel, there'll
be we take out all like the conventional area or whatever,
the big ballroom areas. We have all that taken out,
so they'll be like little film rooms. So you have
(10:58):
film room if you want to go watch film film.
There'll be a big training room, so there'll be a
lot of guys in there getting their bodies ready. So
there'll be that like a forty five minute hour of that,
and you have dinner and so then guys will start
to funnel into the cafeteria and that's where like the
breaking bread and the hanging out processes, and there's usually
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it'd be the same kind of food. There'd be a chicken,
a steak, apasta, brown rice, a marin era meat sauce,
a chicken wing night before, and there'll be like a
specialty dish of where you were at according to the
city you were in.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Ooh, I like that.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
So like Denver always had really good food then I
remember because we say had a really nice hotel there too.
We didn't stay in the greatest hotels, so I don't know,
you know, like I hear these basketball guys they have
in their hotel in their contracts, they got to have
like presidential suites and they got to stay at five
star hotels. We were always at a hotel right next
to the airport. No distractions can eve anywhere. So then
(12:01):
you get, you eat, and then after you eat. We
had seven thirty meetings. Offensive team meeting, and then you
had offense and defense, and then you'd walk through the
whole game plan the night before in a big old ballroom.
You'd walk through every play, so that could be sixty
to seventy five plays as a team, and everyone would
go over and you know, each coach would be looking
(12:22):
at their position group. The lineman would go do a
couple of steps and kind of say what they had
to do, and they would say, all right, we're going
to us to this. The receiver would do a walk
to his routes in a condensed area, but like, all right,
we're running an incut, you're running the cross. Just to
show that everyone knows what to do, you know, So
you'd walk through those and then after that you get
(12:43):
treatment again, and by that time it's like nine thirty nine,
guys would be everyone naturally funnels into the cafeteria because
the college football is on. So guys, yeah, watching the
college football, getting a late night snack before everyone goes
and then I think, uh, curfew would be at like eleven,
(13:03):
and then you wake up and and it's the same
kind of regiment where you go and you go to
cafeteria and then you have a team meeting. You guys
go through one last key before you leave. We already
have the hay in the bank. Now we get to
the stadium and then it turns into a different operation
once you get to the stadium. But the travel, like
I was accustomed to Kent State where we're busting the places.
(13:24):
So I thought it was fucking awesome. You know, I
got the cheeseburg. I can do whatever I want.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
You can do busting the munsie, you know what I mean.
This literally we bust a munsie.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Uh So it's different than the other sports because you know,
they have so many games where it's part of the light,
the road is part of their life. Yeah, we're taking
our operation in Foxborough and we're literally bringing it to
that one spot, and we're doing everything that we do
in Foxborough at that one spot, and and and it's
(13:54):
a business trip. Guys are rarely going out. I mean,
if you had friends or family, you get him a
hotel room. No one was on your on your floor,
no one was in your hotel room. That was conduct
detrimental to the team. So you would get suspended and
you'd lose a game check if anyone were ever on
your floor, even just on the floor. Can't be on
(14:15):
the floor, Well, there'd be so much secure you can
get anyone through there.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Uh, you know, So no candles, no nothing burning. That's
what Bill used to say. If it burns, you can't
have don't come in here with you have incense. This
that if it lights, you can't have it in gots
So it sort of on my bays. Some of the
(14:41):
most epic Bill times are when he would be explaining
the rules and regulations of what the schedule.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Is going to be.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Hotel yes, hotel rules with or like every year every year,
the same day, like right when you get in, right
after the conditioning test, you had like an hour and
a half meeting where we go over all like the
rules of the NFL, Like we go over the finding
for you know players, wait, the this, the that, how
(15:13):
much it was if you relate to meetings, how much
it was if you had We would go over like
an hour and a half of rules. And the way
he would project He's like like, if it's a fucking weapon,
you can't bring it here, all right? Light, no bows
and arrows, no, not like he was like the way
(15:34):
he would deliver it would be so funny.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
You know, it was funny.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Or like we were traveling to Europe. Look, we're not
gonna be out here fucking getting fishing fishing chips, guys, like,
this is a fucking business trip.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
You see Uncle Ben on your own time, like you
know what I mean? I like pepper and a little
jabb there. You know it was it was fun.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
I can just picture Bill being like, I don't care
how good that little thing uppringles looks at man, I
don't touch them any bar.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Oh yes, there was no alcohol at many bars. But
oh true. You could order. You could order whatever you like.
You could order food. Now is that on the team
or is that on you? That's on you?
Speaker 2 (16:16):
You got I think we when I first started going
we would get a per diem. Oh yeah, no, this
is good for the travel. We would get per diem.
You get you get an envelope. Bears would sit and
hand it out to every you know, all the guys.
And it started out like thirty six bucks. We get
thirty six bucks for meals because they said that, you know,
(16:40):
they they had all the meals at all times at
the hotel for us. So there was like some teams
would be getting two hundred, three hundred bucks oh yeah,
which I I don't know, but and then it got
to like sixty. But as soon as we get that money,
it'd be cash. Everyone would put their initials on it.
And one of the flights flight as attendants would come
(17:00):
and get a bag and they'd all everyone would put
their initial on their dollar and she'd go and she'd
pick two out. The first one would get the money
back and the second one would take the whole bag.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Yo lottery. It'd be like a g oh, he smokes
that rocks. Do you ever win? And I didn't do it?
Oh you didn't do it?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
No, Okay, that's gas money. When I was young, I
was like, that's fucking I'm not making a hell of money.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Thirty six bucks. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Next up, Julian walks us through what injury rehab looks
like for NFL players.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
First off, Uh, you're around the team and your schedule
depends on who you are. If you're a guy that's
new and he's still trying to learn, the system doesn't
know this, you know, offense or defense to pay on
where he's in his in his career, they'll keep them
around and they'll design after that. Now the schedule. Usually
(17:56):
when you tear your a c L, everything's about your
flection and extension. So when you get your complete flection
and extension back, that's when they'll go in and cut it.
It's usually about a month, depending on if you have
your MCL or not. They wanted they want the swelling
to get out, so you do a lot of prehab
before you go into surgery with your ACO. And then
(18:17):
also who manages it. Your agent helps you manage it,
the team will manage it, but you are able to
get second third opinions that the team will pay for.
So if you have a doctor, if there's a knee specialist,
a lot of people will go down to Anderson in
Alabama and they'll send either their film or they'll go
(18:39):
have a visit with him and see what he says.
Team has to pay for it. And if you pick him,
you you can go with him. You can pick whoever
you want to operate on you. You know, I would
always have doctor Neola trosh out here. He's a close friend.
I'd always get a second opinion from Neil, just to
you know, just to keep clear thought. Pete Asnes did mine.
(19:03):
He was in Boston. He's a Boston mass general guy.
And after that, it's pretty routine. Now. How guys keep
their muscle mass. That's the biggest problem when you come
back from these injuries. So when you tell your right
leg to your right knee, that's the number one thing
you're trying to build. At like day one, you're doing
(19:26):
quad flexes to try to prevent the atrophy, because once
you go in and cut and you don't move your leg,
you're gonna lose like twenty percent of your leg in
like the first week. It's freaking crazy. So they've got
a lot of things now. Also, they have this thing
called BFR blood flow restriction where they'll cut pretty much
the circulation off of your leg or whatever muscle you're
(19:49):
doing and so the work will be like a million
times harder, so you can essentially do like a regular
squat with no and it kind of manipulates your muscle
and your body to thinking you're loading your leg to
a whole other level. So then there's some kind of
thing where it'll shoot more growth hormone when you constrict it.
(20:14):
So a lot of guys are doing this thing where
it's like a tournique. They tournicate your your muscles each
everyone and they work that muscle group and it's very
hard and it reduces the load that you put on
your body, but it manipulates your mind to thinking that
you're loading your body at least that's what they say.
So a lot of blood flow restriction. But that's the
(20:36):
number one thing when you're coming back from injury. That's
what I would always tell the doctor. I'm like, I'm
not trying to be one hundred percent. I'm trying to
be where I was at, you know, one hundred percent
healthy and one hundred percent where you're at is completely different.
And that's like the last that's the hardest part about
coming back from an injury, especially like a lower extremity injury,
(20:56):
is the atrophy is the endurance strength. You can get
up to your top speed, but you can only hit
it one time out of five when you're supposed to
hit it five out of five.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
That's that's what you're battling. That's what the race is
right away, is trying to try to get that leg
to where your other leg is. Summary, schedule is where
you do it is usually about who you are, where
you are in that that system, scheme, organization, How long is.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
That handles it?
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Does?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I mean like a veteran. Like a veteran, I was.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Around the I was around the facility when I tore
my ACL, but I wasn't in meetings. Like a younger
guy if he was a rookie he tears ACL, he'd
do his rehab and then he'd go sit in and
all the meetings and ship because he has to still
learn the install you know I was. I wasn't in
that point in my career at that time.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Some guys, if you want, you could rehabit in different
areas at different places. Just once again, depends on who
you are and where you are in your career. Who
manages it? You usually your agent and the head trainer
your team, and then timeline is all depending on what
the severity of your injury is, because you have to
(22:11):
do your prehab stuff get the swelling out before you
actually cut it. So usually they'll wait like a month
after depending and then also the recovery time depending on
what if with the ACL what they use. Are you
using cadaver or using a hamstring tenant or using pteller tenant,
But teller tenant's a longer recovery but a less rerupture rate.
I believe, uh, you know that that could all change.
(22:32):
That all changes in every few years. That's what I
was told. But it's that's like, that's the race man.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
What's the agent doing. Like, so the agent's communicating with the.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Team's communicating with team, so like he'll say, hey, do
you want to get a second opinion, And I'll say, yeah,
set it up, okay, So he'll hit up agent, will
hit up team and second doctor and have put everything
together so you have multi you can have anyone do
your surgery. That's you know, the league will take care
(23:04):
of that. Now if you're on the active roster.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
Has there ever been like an instance that you've seen
where the second opinion is like vastly different, and it
becomes the thing that they have to work through.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
You got to take all that with a grain of salt.
Some of these doctors just want to, oh, be the
guy I saw all right, buddy, I gotta do it,
or what.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
My cut?
Speaker 5 (23:31):
Or not?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Shoot me straight, doctor, shoot me straight? About right about that.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Because there have been some instances in the history of
sports with like players having discrimined that had that.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Like a c O is such a routine freaking injury.
Now thirty years ago were different. Forty years ago you
know you're retiring. Yeah, now it's like Tommy John you
come back strong, crazy, No, I went to teller tenant.
No one does to kid ever when you're playing, Okay,
cadaver is the most rerupture rate. It's usually for like
the non athletic people that are or people that are
(24:07):
not going to like physically demand their knee.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
So Kurt probably went cold. Ever definitely could or hamstring tenant.
I'm kidding. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
And a lot of guys don't want to mess with
their hamstring tenant because we're speed guys.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Yeah right, don't want to touch any of that.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
And so if you are in a schedule where you
are in the facility or you're younger and you're near
the team. You're going to games too, you're in the
facility during games, but not probably traveling with team.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
We didn't travel as hurt guys. Like my year when
I tore my a C I was, I was there,
but I wasn't. I was rehabbing, like all day. It
was rehabb you know what I mean. So like, yeah,
it's it's it's a it's a lonely It can be
a lonely place for an athlete is when you're hurt.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I can only imagine. Man, Man, that was awesome. The
calls are great. Always keep them coming, guys.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
I love those inside baseball like deep dives, like inside
of the life of a professional athlete. Like we had
a clip when you talked about travel that did really well.
So more of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
So yeah, you know, hey, oh they don't test for
weed no more. But hey, they took away our pension.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
We won that one. We won that one, guys.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
Now we got jewels telling us about the worst workout
the players had to do.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Soonch for you man.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Nick Fleetwood twenty one forty six said, jewels, what is
one lift slash workout you will never do again, I e.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Hill springs, tire flips, et cetera. About runs, Oh, I've
heard of those. I'm never doing bout runs again. What
is about run?
Speaker 2 (25:41):
A bout run is where you have to run hunter.
So you start on one goal line and you run
to the other goal line for three straight minutes and
you have to get seven hundred and eighty five yards,
so you have to go touch the line, go back,
and it's just a constant run. But the slowing and
(26:04):
stopping down I think you have to average like sixteen
miles an hour.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
It's fucking it's hard.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
So you said it's three minutes three minutes to do
like seven hundred and eighty five yards.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
So then like that's down and back like seven and
more and a half times. So then three times like
the whistible down back stop, and it's like if you
haven't reached here, if you do, if you don't stop,
you don't make it. What's the ramifications for son who
doesn't get there?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Uh, you may have to go and do more extra sprints,
like you may have to like come in and there's
like an earth, there's fat camp, and then there's like
non conditioning camp. And so sometimes guys that aren't in
conditioning or don't make the conditioning test, like this is
off season usually, but if you don't make the conditioning test,
you have to wake up at five am or you
(26:50):
have to be at the facility at five am and
do conditioning before the day starts until you pass the
conditioning test.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
More like, huh, how about we ever do these again?
How about we never do these again?
Speaker 3 (27:03):
I've missed you, Jack, Yeah, I just renamed them for
your coach. Let's do we got any more than here?
That jump out to you guys, do like one more.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Some soccer shit though, Like we're not soccer guy, we're
fucking the lineup.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
We're like dragsters.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Perfect segue, Okay, perfect segue, perfect segue from Darren Shields eighteen.
Would be great to get a football soccer player on
here to do the best game ever. So he's referring
to football.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Yeah, we got beautiful game. We gotta get some some football.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
We've only had Brandy so far. Yeah, that's wild. We
gotta get our numbers up. We gotta get Harry Kane
on this bitch. You got to man Byron Munich. Maybe
we gotta fly over to Germany. Games with names Deutschland.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I know that'd be tight.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
That'd be tight. Let's see this one here, Jules. This
is from the Stave episode, a recent fan favorite. Man
I wish I was here for that one in Perse
This is from c Donk as a diehard Pats fan.
I love Edelman, but ranch with Greek food is a disgrace.
It's when I order Greek.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I'm not like going to a fucking Greek restaurant bringing
a hidden valley little pocket ranch with me.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
You know, I keep that thing on me.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Who's gonna like a good ranch with like a kebab
chicken kebab and shit?
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Who I think it's good? Say a note of that.
I'm with you, Okay, I'm gonna take the.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Kid out of the jailor, but he can't take the
jailer out the kid at his core, it's a creamy
sauce with some zaesz.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Baby what cover I mean? I'm with you on this one.
I'll defend your tooth and nail. Sorry.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
I'm also a guy who loves a one on everything too,
so judge me.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
If you want shout out a one sauce, shout out
on one auto.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Steak a right without the AA.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
So I stayed, dipped the sauce and they come bars.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Thanks for listening.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Remember to tune in every Tuesday for a brand new
episode and every Sunday for another.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
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