In April, I was at the University of Arizona at pool parties.

I also you can look at it on YouTube.

I'm dancing with the basketball players on a ledge at the pool, just absolutely going, ham pounding corps lights left and right, probably about twenty five of these bad boys.

I was twenty one years old.

I was still supposed to be in college.

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Well cheers to the Chillis caller of the week, Gronk Jeules.

Two gun dudes is the best quick question for you.

It's mini camp season right now.

You both you both had different paths the NFL Gronk second round, Jewels seventh round.

Can you explain what your first off season was like from you know that April when you when you get on the team, all the way up to like the first game of the season, like you see all these OTAs and this and this.

And rookies and this.

Can you just give some more details and some explanation on what that whole process is like?

Thank you?

All right, Well, I'll go first here at Jeules.

This is a great question because I was kind of in a different situation here.

The lockout occurred after my rookie year, so I never had an off season, and he asked specifically, I'm pretty sure your first off season was like, So that's why I'm going into my first off season because I never had a typical NFL off season because I was off for six months straight because of a lockout, and I loved every moment of it, you know, I can tell you that.

And in April I was at the University of Arizona at pool parties.

I also you can look at it on YouTube.

I'm dancing with the basketball players on a ledge at the pool, just absolutely going ham pounding corps lights left and right, probably about twenty five of these bad boys.

I was twenty one years old.

I was still supposed to be in college.

So it was the best time of my life.

And the lockout couldn't have happened at a better moment in my life as well, because I didn't have to go and train, because I got the train in the morning wherever I was, and then I would just party all day.

And I was twenty one years old, typical college to then going hand.

I was also visiting my friends.

One of my friends, Tico, he went to the Universe, not the university.

He went to Miami, Ohio.

Great college town, great place to party, especially when you're that age as well.

Wait, did you have your signing bonus though?

Yeah, I had my signing bonus.

Oh, so you had money.

I had money already, so I had about a million in the bank rolling around going to college is still getting tables for four hundred dollars, and I felt like I was a multi multi billionaire just rolling in with a million dollars and getting tables for four hundred bucks and buying all these college students bottles, and uh, how did I train?

I would wake up after a couple of nights and just go run a couple hundreds, you know, catch some footballs from my friends that drank with me the whole night before h and then literally showed up and dominated every single day where Coach Balichick gave me a parking spot in the front row because I had the best training camp of all time.

And that's how it happened because of the lockout, and I had videos of me partying everywhere.

You're year.

This was after yeah, after my rookie year.

Yeah, it was like a slow key, like people knew about my skills like at that time, like those type of skills.

Vastly different than mine.

What was your vastly different?

What was your first off season?

Like first off season?

Still stressed?

You know, are we talking rookie off season or we're going into our.

Rookie year, going into your second year or is it going into our second year?

First off season?

So my first off season is after your first year of.

Playing, well, I'll go my rookie year, all right, rookie year off season, you get drafted, you go to rookie mini camp, so it's just the rookies.

They put you through these camp installs, so they give you kind of the day to day life of what it's going to be, like a little taste of it in your rookie camp.

That's like a three day camp.

For me, it was like very stressful and very hard.

Uh.

You know, I'm a seventh round draft pick.

I'm in a part of the country I've never been or never even heard of.

I didn't know what I didn't know where New England really was.

I didn't pay attention to my sociology, social studies class, geography, geography, whatever.

So I'm a studies I'm a geography guy.

Yeah, like map, my map skills.

I like my geography skills.

I didn't know where New England.

I kind of knew where it was, but it's up here.

You have so many of this, these things going through your hand, your head.

As a kid, am I going to be around?

How's this going?

I was learning a new position.

You got to learn your formations, you got to learn.

What was your favorite position you learned?

I like the Z position.

Oh, sorry, I get back to what you're really talking about.

Oh, the aff oh the app position.

Wow.

So you know, it's very stressful time for these kids that come into a new area.

They're learning at a very.

Rapid rate, you know, because you want to learn as much as you can and get all the reps you can before the vets come, because once the vets come, you don't get any reps and then becomes super mental.

So then you know the one or two reps that you do have, you have to not fuck up the formation, not fuck up the snap count, nowhere to go.

Know the personnel group, know your assignment, know what the other defense is doing, know your adjustments, and do it all properly so you get another opportunity.

You know.

So this is a tough time for a lot of guys, and it should be a tough time because they're digesting a lot and they're learning a lot, which is completely different than your second season where you have that all in you know, your brain already a little bit, so it becomes a little easier.

But your rookie years, it's a tough year if you're trying to go in and learn and make the team, you know what I mean.

So next, that was a great call.

That was a great call.

That was that was a great question.

We had different scenarios.

Well, you did the same time I did.

The rookie year it's all the same but different.

I did the same thing, even even going into my first.

Year question number one, what's Rob and Jules perfect meal from KDP sixty four ninety four?

All right, KDB, KDP sixty four ninety four.

Great numbers you got in there.

They're just a little off.

Oh, I know, six for nine.

That's why it's six four nine four six four nine four.

Saw the sixty nine is for you and the other six in the sixty nine is back for you.

I see what that person.

It's a different numbers.

That is a good one right there.

That that's creative KDP sixty four nine four.

But my perfect meal to me, it was my mom's chicken sou flee, but now it has been taken over by another meal by my mom.

I love when she cooks on the grill.

And there's this sauce that's only in Buffalo.

It's called Chovetta's sauce, and it's like a vinegourette sauce and it just has a couple of spices in it as well, very healthy for you, and you put it on chicken and then it's called Chavetta's chicken.

So my mom has a Chavetta sauce at her house.

And also she gets her unbelievable steaks that she gets from Costco.

She gets these ribbies and these tomahawks and stuff from Costco.

Unbelievable steaks.

They're very you know, Kirkland brand, very underring.

It's not actually underrated.

If you know about Kirkland brand, it's it's the best one of the bruns out there, it really is.

And she cooks on the grail, and then she has twice baked potatoes, and then she also grills the asparagus.

And that's the perfect meal in my eyes, with a side of blue cheese from Buffalo to dip your Chavetta's chicken and your steak into.

Wow, that's a good meal.

I was gonna say French dip, but that that was really good.

I like a good French dip.

It always a good friend tip.

Let's get on to another one favorite dunking on the bills moment for you, Rob from Pigeon Man, all right.

My favorite dunking on the Bill's moment.

I would say I.

Have like a couple favorite of Robs dunking on all right.

I remember when he was younger, you just scored touchdowns anytime we play there.

My favorite, Yes, but what was I think you did it?

Like?

You did it like a a running jump spike there.

Yes, yes, yeah, where you like hot double hopping, Like I get a little momentum with a skipping and then I hop and then I spike it.

And that's how you get the most power behind the gronk spike.

You gotta get that momentum built up.

And that's what I was doing in Buffalo because I was playing in my hometown and I was excited.

I wanted the ground spike that could possibly do.

But my favorite dunking on the Bills moment.

Man, Like, there's so many great moments that we had going against the Bills.

It wasn't like any time we like never really knocked him out of the playoffs or anything.

They just were.

Never you know, a team to be, you know, almost making the playoffs, so that we never knocked him out, never knocking out They weren't like they are now.

So like I would say, my one handed touchdown catch versus that was a sick one.

That was a sick one.

It was in the corner of the end zone at Gillette Stadium.

I was one on one with their All Pro safety.

Who was it at the time?

Player No, not Poyer.

The other one, uh hi yeahs h one of Michael High one of the best cover safeties all Pro at the time.

He was covering me.

But I'm uncoverable because of just my size.

I'm not saying because of how great I am.

I'm saying because I can use my size to my advantage.

And then I have the athleticism at my size to be able to move around so and get the ball over a smaller defender.

So Tom placed it where only I could make the play.

I stuck my hand out, turned around a little bit, grabbed it one hand, kept my two feet and bounced hippy toe into the end zone and made it one unbelievable one hand catch at Gillette Stadium.

That was a good one.

It was like an alley oop basically.

That was my alley oop dunk on the Buffalo Bills.

I had a couple two touchdown games against the Bills on the road there.

Thirteen one was kind of cool.

It was like my little breakout, a little two piece.

That was probably one of my favorite movies.

Also, the one when we clinched before you got there.

In two thousand and nine or something, or were you there in twenty ten when we clinched and we got snowed in?

Yes?

Oh, no, I was there.

That was twenty ten.

That was two.

Thousand and eleven ten, Yeah, two thousand times my rookie year.

Yes, and we got got snow right at the game, a snowstorm came so we couldn't fly barbecue.

Yes, you guys went there in Rochester.

I actually stayed back and I caught a ride up in the morning to meet you guys to fly out, because obviously my family's there in Buffalo, so I stayed back with my family, and I actually missed that trip.

And I heard so much about that trip when you just went to the dinosaur barbecue.

But that was a good game.

That was Let's get into another one.

We got a couple more here.

Here we go.

If both of you are gamers, what games are you currently playing?

From m J See, I'm not really a gamer right now, but when I was in college, it was Halo.

Halo was just to me one of the best games to ever, you know, come about my life.

Oh another one as well, because I gamed a little bit going you know, that was college life was Halo going into the NFL.

I played Zombies.

Yeah, Zombie Zombies was on.

Call of duty, and I used to run home right after team meetings, right after you know that you practice ends at like two thirty, and then you go in the meetings at three thirty to four thirty to watch film and then we would be cut from the stadium at four thirty.

I literally used to run home so I can get on the couch with Nasty Nate Doug, you know Nasty nas, and we would put on Zombies and we would play Zombies from four thirty five the moment I got home because I hustled home here, don't hopefully Josh McDaniels isn't listening right now.

I would run out of our meetings, play zombies from four thirty five to like literally ten thirty at night, and then go to bed.

And then do it again the next day.

Yeah, that's the NFL life.

Yeah, I got to like level thirty eight.

That's a I wasn't a Zombies guy.

I play.

I liked the war zones and stuff, and I was in the Fortnite for a little Right now, it's just FC twenty six Football Club twenty six, the new FIFA that's the only one I'm playing.

That's the only one I'm playing.

How does taking a sick day in the NFL?

Work?

From the kid with like five d's.

The kid is this kid Rid?

This has to be a kid Rid, because the Rid always.

Wanted a sick day.

He just wanted to chill out, hall, get some rest, do his thing on the couch.

I don't think I've ever had a sick day.

Yes, So how do sick days work in the NFL?

I mean, you really truly have to be sick in order to be.

Sent Actually I got, well, the COVID, I got COVID.

Yes, well I got COVID was totally different.

That's not really a sick day.

That's called COVID days.

Like if you had COVID, you were sent home for a week.

That was a whole different protocol sick days.

Like he told you in the trainer's room, like say here, here's some fluids and you have to sit there by yourself.

Like that was like I just remember doing that once when I was really sick.

Yeah, And like they would send you home if like you truly have like the sweat, so they would only send you home.

Is like they take your temperature and you truly just show right on the spot that your temperature.

You know, you're you're you have a fever, right, Yeah, they'd send you home.

They would send you home.

Then your hands down and.

Then they'd have a trainer come check on you or something like that.

You're they take care of you.

But only if you're like truly, truly, truly sick, Like you can't just have like a little cold.

They're never gonna send sniffles.

It's not just like I'm going.

To go in Noah running nose.

Yeah, like literally, you gotta be dying, dying, pood poisoning.

I got I food poisoning.

Once they sent me home.

It was bad, you know.

I kind of had to like you had to kind of prove it, you know, Like I had like food poisoning, and I would like one in and I was like, yo.

Jim, look at the toilet.

I puked.

I would show him.

I'd be like, yo, I'm throwing up while taking a diarrhea and I feel like, watch you shit.

I would say, come here, come watch me, just to prove it, and he'd.

Be like, oh, I believe you.

I believe I'm not.

I'll be like no, come freaking watch me diarrhea and throw up at the same time.

Jim like, I'm sick.

Like, that's the only way you got sick days in the NFL.

That's the only way.

Yeah.

So that to answer your question, that was it.

Yeah, we got one more.

I like this question.

This guy's asking me about my puzzling skills.

So I like, so, Rob, you recently on your Instagram story were showing off an elaborate five hundred piece puzzle.

That you had completed.

Yes, I did, thank you very much.

And by the way, I only showed off one of the five hundred piece puzzles I completed.

I actually completed two your piece of puzzles, and that equals a thousand pieces.

Whoa, that's a lot of pieces, jewels, that's a piece.

A lot of pieces.

I can tell you that.

Have you ever glued together a completed puzzle and then framed it?

I never glued together complete a puzzle.

But there are like these cases now, like it's like, what is it like models?

No?

You three dimensional?

No?

Like you clear?

It's like clear, it's like puzzle holders.

Oh oh, puzzle case hoolders.

Yeah, and you frame them so you don't together you don't glue it together.

It was just a beach house.

One of the puzzles was, and the other one I was an ice cream stand.

And I'm becoming so good at puzzles.

Back in the day, a five hundred piece puzzle like this would have taken me about, you know, probably fifteen to twenty hours to do.

And now I'm knocking out these puzzles, five hundred piece puzzles.

I sat there, I did it for five and a half hours, and I woke up and I did it for another hour and a half.

So I knocked it out in a total of seven hours.

So once you get on a stroll, Once you get on a roll, I mean you just boom, you start knocking it out.

What are you thinking about when you're doing these puzzles?

You're just thinking about finding the next piece and getting it done and fitting them together.

Because every piece you fit together, you feel accomplished, you feel.

Satisfied in its rewarding.

So five hundred pieces you feel satisfied four hundred and ninety nine times, not five hundred times.

Why Joe, just because the first piece isn't done, You can't.

There's always gonna be one piece that doesn't connect out of five hundred very beginning, four hundred and ninety nine connections you get.

This is not five hundred.

No, there's five.

Hundred pieces, but you only get four hundred ninety nine matches like pieces together.

Hey, this question, this questions were drown.

You know, I'm an offensive coordinator at a high school level.

And I'm thinking a lot recently.

I got a big tight end, very athletic like you.

What does team have to do for me to get it open as.

Much as you did in the play action game.

You slip through.

He's got a decent quarterback.

I want to know what I can do to get him open.

Well, the biggest thing coach is to get him to grind in the blocking game to make them a great blocker.

That's what I'm talking about.

Jew And I love that harmonica.

You got to bring it every single time we podcast.

It just enlightens my mode.

It just brightens my mind when I hear that's music to my ears.

So keep doing that whenever.

Oh there we go, baby, I'm just tingling right now from my head to my toes.

Baby, And that's what I'm talking about.

I feel like I can dance all night long.

And just tippy tap all over the place.

Hit it one more time, Jules, Oh, coach, that's the sound that you want to hear when your tight end releases and it's a play action out of the backfield and cut boom.

The quarterback just jumps it right off to your tight end.

So get him the block.

Get him in the blocking game, so every single time that it's a play action, the linebackers are scared of him and step up, you know, to to you know, to stop that run and then kaboom.

He has to have a good feel about where to get open on the play action as well.

It's gonna be different every single time in the play action game.

I'm where to go to because it all depends on how hard the linebackers step up to the line of scrimmage when that play action is going down, and make sure your quarterback is selling it to in the backfield with the running back and repetition after repetition, so he gets the feel of where he should be with the quarterback out there.

So make him a fierce blocker and then have him have that feel of where he should be on the field with linebackers stepping up to stop the run.

Say mister First, I wanted to say that me and mister Elman we share the same name.

We're both Julians.

I think that's super cool.

But the question I wanted to ask was, Jules, if you woke up and you were in Gronk's body and vice versa, what would be the first thing y'all would do?

I think playing pretty funny would come out of that, and I can't wait to hear what he'll say, thank you very much, free time bye.

First thing I would do, I go take a piss and be like, is this thing mine?

Sting?

Bolted on?

Things bolted?

Now you're looking for it.

You're be looking for it, buddy, You're like, what happened?

How do I pee?

You?

I can't find it.

I think I would go to a doorway and I would just like bend down a couple of times.

I just want to go feel the anxiety of hitting your head on a door.

Or I would just go do like a three sixty wind mill dunk.

There you go.

What would you do if you were in my little squirrel body?

Well, this is a great chill question, Joan, because we were just talking about our bodies and how to take care of them and what hurts us still and how to take care of and all that stuff.

But if I had your body, you know what I would do.

Every single day that you walk by me in the locker room with your shirt off.

What would I tell you that your boxer ripped?

So I would wake up?

I was looking the mirror, look.

Down, give myself a nice niw like, yeah, I'm finally boxer ripped, and I'd just start throwing some haymakers like I'm fighting someone in the ring, and then I walk away just like yeah boxing here I come.

Floyd May would have got nothing on me.

Boy.

Well, that's that's the fun.

That's a fun question.

Yeah that is That's a freaky Friday good question.

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