Julian Edelman explains why everyone is wrong about Rob Gronkowski

[@postive-vibes]

From what I've read, Gronk's parents made sure all the boys did their homework, etc. and didn't just play non-stop sports. Their father said he emphasized sports so they could all get scholarships to go to college. All 5 got athletic scholarships and graduated from college. They were raised right IMO.

[@marcusaurelius5149]

Gronkowski scored higher on the Wonderlick than most NFL players, including QBs. Immaturity is does not mean a person is stupid, even when immature people do dumb things.

[@CorePathway]

Immaturity is when it hurts someone - the person, the team, someone else. Sure Gronk partied like he was still in college, but he never let anyone down. I don’t think that label fits. He just lives his life.

[@HelpMeFindMyDad]

Gronk is not immature in any way. He's the bro everyone wished they had

[@EXG21]

@@CorePathway He gives the illusion of immaturity because he tries to live life to it's fullest.

[@evsta100]

@@EXG21 and I do beleive he never gets drunk. It's all an illusion except he still knows how to have a good time. He's never been arrested for anything and has been a great example of having a good time without hurting anyone.

[@Rllnstone]

NE Pats guy here. Love the Gronk and JE11, both absolute beasts. My respect for Travis K was grudging, but gained a ton of respect for the brothers here. True ballers who show respect for all players. I'll watch them both differently now. Well done.

[@Flex_Mayo]

This is the shit I love. Real players talking football that I have the utmost respect for. Not being held back by the office bosses. Thank you Jason and Travis. Can't wait to watch more ❤️🤘

[@chadbinette3201]

Gronk has made a lot of money off that big party animal dubba personality. When in actuality gronk has never spent any of his football contract money and lived off his endorsement money. He was an all pro tightend and still sharing an apartment with like 3 or 4 other guys in like 2016 or 2017, it was a big story in new england when gronks place got broken Into and I remember thinking "WTF does gronk have roommates? He could obviously afford to buy his own house, MULTIPLE houses" but he just saved all his contract money. Athletes like that should be giving seminars to incoming rookies.

[@alexgaspar2525]

That's what I loved about Gronk is that he was smart with his NFL money unlike alot of people that get into his position.

[@jimbarino2]

He could talk to them - I doubt it would sink in.

[@ppumpkin3282]

Props that these guys who all played in big games against each other can get together without animosity.

[@zion1711]

They all play offenes, so they didnt played against each other

[@jonkash21]

@@zion1711 -_-

[@AttilatheThrilla]

The part Julien left out was the Gronks block was actually clean at the time so he technically didn’t do anything wrong.. VB just folded because of it

[@patricklemire9278]

Gronk was way too good of a blocker to not have been paying attention to detail

[@mrj1341]

He is a troll. It takes a certain kind of intelligence to seem a little dumb but to perform at the highest level consistantly. Thats lowkey a genius move

[@jonathanbraden2527]

My mom grew up with Kyle vanden Bosch in a small town high school in Iowa. We loved him! I never knew it was because of gronkowski that he actually got injured badly though! All I remember was my mom telling me that he was letting his family know that he was planning to retire after he got surgery on his neck. We would go to lions games to support him. Still sad he went out that way

[@jonathanbraden2527]

@@gordonlove5121 I have no idea if he was as massive of a trash talker as you claim, but I can testify that he is an amazingly humble dude off the field. He has his quirks for sure, but anyone who has ever talked about him has never talked about him in a negative light but in a positive one. He is a funny dude, high energy, passionate, a family man, and more in my experience.

[@marcusaurelius5149]

@@jonathanbraden2527 A lot of guys are like that at the professional level. They get hyper competitive and throw everything at it. That competitiveness is why they make it to the NFL or NBA, or any very competitive sport. Off the field when they're not competing they're very different. It's easier to see today because there are cameras everywhere and film footage of everything. Watch videos of any great player and it's way more common than you'd think. A humble, cool superstar like Joe Montana is the exception, not the rule. What's more common is Brady, Shaq, Barkley, Gronk, Kobe, Bird, Jordan, Sapp, the list could go on forever of all-time great athletes who quickly turn into the meanest, most driven, ruthless players on the field.

[@hunterlatta8580]

So when we getting brady

[@Triqkshot]

Would be a triangle of people who beat each other in super bowls lol Brady beat Kelce for a Super Bowl in Tampa, Travis beat Jason last year, and Jason beat Brady.

[@MsWarriordiva]

No thanks.

[@hunterlatta8580]

@@MsWarriordiva why

[@hunterlatta8580]

@@MsWarriordiva best qb of all time be salty cuz your team couldnt beat him unless your a gaints or eagels fan

[@kingdingaling2469]

After The Raiders Before MuFu’s spazz out about his retirement He’ll be back 1/3 of the season in.

[@bigorange000]

Travis, as a 62 year old man, I too love football from back in the day.

[@mikehamelin7520]

I can see Gronk and Edelman coming down the Vegas escalator dressed like Tom Cruise and Dennis Hoffman. hilarious visual

[@marcusaurelius5149]

A cart of footballs tips over at the ground level and Gronk sees it, "27".

[@krisharkleroad8]

Dustin.

[@busterdog321]

Props to Jules for the rare ability to grow the rare "high cheek beard hair."

[@BLTwithBACON]

Props to you for giving him props

[@WheelchairWolverine]

@@BLTwithBACONprops to you for giving him props, for giving him props!

[@mojoschmee9320]

@@WheelchairWolverine Props All Around!!!

[@EXG21]

@@mojoschmee9320 Windmill wind farm party over here.

[@joshpandola]

“Damn I love football back in the day….” Tells you all you need to know.

[@paineintheass233]

yup

[@christaylor9095]

Agreed...as they're talking about a guy getting his neck broken.

[@chicagodude8888]

I couldn’t believe he scored a 36 on the wonderlic. Don’t judge a book by its cover.

[@QueensWino]

Stories like this make me love Gronk even more! A sneaky smart Rain Man...dude!

[@luishenriquedesantana3589]

Imagine Kelse and Gronk in the same team!

[@markmac2206]

the next day 31 defensive coordinators would retire. especially if they had either Brady or Mahomes as QB.

[@omarbahrour]

Dude Travis hahahaha “nope, well…Gronk broke his neck.”

[@heyheyhey33351]

Calling him Rainman is such a perfect compliment/insult combo 😂

[@chrismeeks809]

not only did gronk retire to avoid the lions, he also broke our best linebacker in half😭

[@oneball1926]

Avoid the Lions?! They were a dogshit team when Gronk played. What are you talking about?

[@garrettwalker9917]

Patriots were thinking of trading him to Detroit so he got out of dodge

[@RyTrapp0]

@@oneball1926 ...because Gronk is retired, and the Lions are actually pretty good now...

[@johndoedoe1425]

@@oneball1926 He was almost traded to the lions, so Gronk retired cause he didn't want to go there.

[@Alex-sk2lb]

i remember that game. this convo hurts as a lions fan

[@chadbinette3201]

I'm guessing a lot of conversations hurt as a lions fan. Jk

[@TK-le5ev]

Detroit up this year

[@debocrema]

gronk would've said 69

[@TheRealInconvenientTruth]

Should have had Edel-nut and Gronk for the casino scene in the hangover...

[@SteezyKyung]

Bro had TB12, all he had to do was ask “Hey Tom, what do I do?”

[@blamatron]

"Stand up!"

[@lincolnvalavala9051]

Is it just me or is this the same room that Paul George uses for his podcast???

[@paoloalfaro214]

Why does their podcast room look the same as podcast p?

[@chuchotheace3126]

Having any of these guys as your fathers is beyond a privilege I hope the kids can understand that sooner rather than

[@RedsoxPats34]

Get TB12 on the Show

[@double8beats]

Jason Kelce has CTE without the irritability.

[@hundredpercentjuice]

Whoa. That square root example was actually really close. 1022 is almost 1024, which is 2^10, so the square root is 2^5. Now Edelman did say 64 (2^6) instead of 32 (2^5), but that's still crazy fast math. That made me check if his dad is the Computer Scientist Alan Edelman (he's not)

[@Irishboy-cj4zn]

Not necessarily. It's likely more pattern recognition. Ie he has previously seen/heard the square roots of numbers near that and knew the "area code". I assume his memory is pretty solid to be an NFL WR

[@0ffspringfan]

I'd say 1022 and 4096 are not very close.

[@RandomPlaceHolderName]

Terrible quick math considering 60x60 is 3600. Real quick, you know 1022 is closer to 900 than 1600 and can guess low 30s.

[@dogegaming9036]

Does anyone have video of Gronks block on Vanden Bosch? I tried looking it up and only found a different highlight of him destroying a detroit lions defensive end 😂

[@kosciuszko1944]

Here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3KkdZWMntigjK8 Announcers don't make a big deal of the hit, but he was laid out on that crack block, didn't play the rest of the game.

[@Daniboi971]

@@kosciuszko1944oof. Well, he does hammer him!

[@erikpuka2627]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3KkdZWMntigjK8 1:08:56 Check the left side of the LOS. In pass pro he drove him backwards about 20 yards. This is the most dominant pass blocking rep I have ever seen of any player since 2006. 15 yr olds shouldn't get overpowered like this by TEs. This was before the Crack play where Gronk injured him

[@watchtv2178]

"Genius". These guys must be in Mensa.

[@rickpatterson3065]

Could you please drop the four letter words

[@TheJohnnywbred]

That’s not so easy to do if it’s part of your normal everyday vernacular.

[@mojoschmee9320]

Gronk being an idiot savant is totally on-brand.

[@ppumpkin3282]

Skip this and just watch the whole show with edelman 90 minutes.

[@FasuloA]

Gronk always comes across as a meathead in media - I wonder if the facade is on purpose or just something he does inadvertently. The way he talks “and bro, I was like, ‘you ain’t gettin me today dawg’ so I had to throw em out of the club” versus “he went low and I knew he lost his leverage since he was committed at that point, so I used his momentum against him to throw him down and juke to the side”. He knows that’s what happened it just doesn’t come out of his mouth that way. He’s an interesting cat.

[@brentplaysmadden2128]

Straight facts

[@Slowhand871]

Go watch the hit Earl Thomas made on Gronk. Earl was at least 80# lighter.

[@rsdhillon4198]

This is the most beta way of telling Travis, he's not Gronk. lol

[@christopherzilli6485]

Jason I was born on the same day as your kid Feb 23

[@davidharris8628]

We’re asking these guys? 🤦🏼‍♂️🥲

[@Dayhawk101]

4x Super Bowl TE. Gronk!

[@kingdingaling2469]

Julian Edelmans “ Games With Names “ With the illest Podcast I highly recommend it

[@LARRYB1RD]

Pretty sure this (kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3KkdZWMntigjK8 -- 1/:28/:29 mark if it doesn't jump to the timestamp) is the play where Gronk hits Vanden Bosch on the toss crack. If you listen you can hear what sounds like someone spazzing out screaming on the field...as a longtime Pats fan I am 99.9% certain these are the spastic, Ric Flair-style screams of delight of Gronk - who you can see basically headbanging with joyous rage at the top of the screen after the block before the camera pans away. To his credit, Vanden Bosch popped right up, but I didn't see him take another snap during this series before CBS shows him grimacing in pain on the sideline and Phil Simms points out that he's out.

[@Fokko]

Watch the roast of Tom Brady and see yourself Gronkowski is a true genius❗️👌🏻😎

[@ohiomack]

"Gronk is like rainman" "To who dogg?"

[@KDH901]

Here’s about a former player getting his neck broken… Kelce “Damn i love football back in the day”. Sick

[@johnrobinson1648]

C'mon Edelman bro come outta retirement bro and join the chiefs

[@Moananuiākea]

Gronk > Kelce

[@alan30189]

Travis could quit with the potty mouth and be just as entertaining. Same with “Edlenut.”

[@SwapMeet_SportsCards]

Travis Kelce should have punched Derwin James after he slammed his ass to the ground

[@seanogrady2629]

Apparently all the Gronkowski kids got good grades in school.

[@jinkerGM]

He's a genius for hiding his massive steroid use.

[@misevibre]

most of em are on drugs...

[@na7ethegrea7]

CHIEFSKINGDOM!

[@lamarbearden7927]

Ole Kansas city cheets

[@bsmith8943]

​@@lamarbearden7927lmao cry about it

[@bp8023]

I love how nobody wants to say Gronk is kinda dumb. Brady and Edelman both try to be polite about it.

[@heartolion89]

Gronk isn't dumb.

[@tim.noonan]

That’s only you that thinks that, for whatever ridiculous reason

[@heartolion89]

@@tim.noonan Belicheck....his wonderlic scores. Much greater indicators than your claim. 🙅‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@spaceexplorer6636]

Gronk is smarter, richer, extremely talented and a master at his craft, retired in his 30,s with enough cash to last a lifetime, what’s dumb about that dickwad. So who’s the dumb one now !

[@Kitty8791]

​@@heartolion89Gronk scored a 32 on the Wonderlic; the average for Tight Ends is 22. Brady only scored 33 (1 point better than Gronk); average for QB's is 24. Gronk's got 4 Super Bowl rings & Brady's got 7. By your reasoning, Fitzpatrick should be the best player of all time! He scored a 48 (out of 50 max) & went to Harvard, but only wound up a journeyman QB. Patrick Mahomes only scored a 24 & Travis Kelce scored a 22, yet they have 2 Super Bowl rings in 3 appearances.

[@dannyjohnson3307]

Gronk will always be better than you Travis

[@nnamdi602]

Well damn 😂

[@trizzi_-_247]

And Travis will always be better than you😂

[@dannyjohnson3307]

@@trizzi_-_247 keep wishing

[@RoccoKergo]

What’s your statline?

[@dannyjohnson3307]

@@RoccoKergo I may not be in the NFL, but on the sandlot I was pretty dominant.

[@modernNeanderthal800]

Go chiefs!

[@Lawsonkohl]

First

[@modernNeanderthal800]

Second!!!¡!!!!!

[@canadasugardaddysugardaddy1797]

You just know that Palpatine errr Bellichick got that warm fuzzy feeling inside when he saw his rookie tight end break that lions linebacker in half.