Welcome to Games at Names.

I'm Julian Edelman, and we got a brand new compilation highlight reel.

Starting now now, Matt Patricia breaks down Malcolm Butler's Super Bowl winning interception.

Can you walk us through the Malcolm Butler Yeah situation, the interception in fourteen on the Super Bowl, that whole sequence of plays and what do you got on that?

Yeah.

So obviously you're talking about great games, and certainly the eleven Baltimore team and the why and all of it.

That's why I love that one, and obviously you so I thought that'd be a great one.

But you know these the fourteen game, the sixteen game, you know, the Super Bowl.

There's there's some crazy, crazy stuff that just happened in those games.

And the thing about the fourteen Super Bowl with Seattle.

So going back to around this time, really when I took over the defense eleven and ten, Bill would come to me every training camp and again in the Bible, I had all the calls and he'd be like, Hey, it's like we really every training game, Hey, when are we putting goal line three corner in?

And I'd be like, yeah, I'm like you we gotta get that in.

We gotta get that.

I'm like, we're never gonna run goal line three corner, like it's eleven personnel, Like I'm not doing it, like they're gonna throw, like it's just the whole thing.

So for years I was like, yeah, it's going like we never got it in.

So as soon as we win the championship game and I'm like I knew we were playing Seattle, I walked into the defensive staff from I go, you're not gonna believe I'm about to say, and they're like what, And I'm like, we got to put goal line three corner in And I'm like, what are you talking about.

I'm like, we're gonna need this call in this game.

I'm just telling you, like, we can't.

We can't go eleven personnel and not have as much mass on the field.

I'm like, we got to figure this out.

So I knew like that Monday and everyone was like, there's no way you're gonna call this, and I'm like, I'm just telling you we're gonna need this call, so start drawing it up.

Going through the car.

I think you need the call because I.

Knew that, knowing it's in it, we hadn't run it.

We hadn't run this goal to make you think you might need that call.

Just eleven personnel inside the three yard line trying to be able to stop Lynch the quarterback run game, the receivers that are on the field, if you were going to go sub defense on the two yard line, Like.

Just too much space, There's just too much space.

Like he's just he's too good.

Remember, like I played Lynch for a lot of years when he was at Buffalo, Like my happiest day when Buffalo sent him Seattle.

I was like, thank like send flowers to Buffalo, like you get him out it, cause this guy is unstoppable.

I'm like, that guy was so good, so good.

So we I just needed to have enough size to stop the line of scrimmage from moving, and I couldn't give up any space.

And I also knew that no one had seen it and it was going to be one of those calls where I was gonna make them panic, like they were gonna panic.

I wasn't sure what they're gonna do.

We knew, you know, that they would have a check, which they did.

We knew we'd kind of get him into that throw the Rubb route, so we get I draw it all up, I get it ready to go.

We go down.

I remember we practiced like three days before we leave, and then we go and I kind of told everybody, I'm like, look, we're gonna put this in as soon as we get down there.

But I wanted the week to really work through all the problems, like that's just kind of my problem solving.

I wasn't gonna give it to the guys and then change it.

So we get down to Arizona, and you know, I put it in and I kind of had the guys in the right spot that I thought.

We practiced it.

Now, we ran that pick route, we ran it like and of course, of course they're into the cards, but like we that was like one of those cards like we need to see this card, like this is this is voices.

We did, and the thing was everybody saw it like it wasn't the same guy every time seeing it.

We ran all the combinations.

So we get into the game, or we get we get to the end of the week of practice and I looked at it and I was like, I don't there's something here.

I don't really like I need to move, you know.

I switched, Jamie.

I switched him, I switched high.

I kind of moved somebody up and I kind of switched it.

After we practiced it like the last day, and we kind of just walked through it, and I was like, all right, because it was really about stopping then it was going to stop the run, and really the combination with it to that side was the snack m flat.

I didn't worry about the other side because we knew what that was.

So practice it changed at the last minute and I was like, okay, like it's ready, we're gonna I'm gonna need this.

And it's literally written, it's like three letters in the bottom right hand corner of the call sheet.

It's like the most tiniest call on the sheet.

So beginning of the game, we had talked about how tough this game was going to be.

The first play of the game is my favorite play of the game.

Like you watched the defensive guys because we knew their offensive line looked to clean clean the pile.

So as soon as Lunch got the ball, they were coming to take people out.

And I was like, look, we're going to taggle this due in the first play of the game.

I'm like, but as soon as he's down.

Everybody else, go find someone, Go find someone, and go knock their heads off because they're not doing that to us.

And to the point of like one of my favorite compliments of all time, and it was probably in the twelve eer was Chris Berman, who's great guy, great friend, came up to me and he goes, he said to me, he goes, you have the best tackling corners in the NFL.

And I was like, if.

Our corners tackled a high level, the whole team's gonna tackle a high level.

I just I took so much pride in that.

So that first player of the Super Bowl and fourteen we tackle Inch.

Everyone turns and looks and starts to take dudes out, and like Revis is like taking He's going to get like one of the biggest linemen, you know, the tackles they had.

That's coming.

So I'm like, okay, like we're on this right, Like we're we're coming.

So we get into the second half and you know, going into halftime, we were struggling with some coverage matches, right and they scored right before half.

I was I was hot.

It was hot.

This was bad.

There's a bad series of bad play.

So I am literally, you know, I'm I'm I'm like, we're changing, like I'm switching some guys up.

Malcolm is gonna come in the whole deal.

So get into the second half and they have it was kind of back and forth right like they were moving, we were moving.

It was like, you know, the defenses in the Super Bowl get worn out.

It's just what happens.

You know, if you can control it early, you have a chance.

But you know, if you're playing like those games are long, and if you're moving the ball or in the first half, the second half, you're worried about, you know, how well is the defense gonna hold up, It's gonna be, you know, be a shootout.

So both teams are moving the.

Ball and I was like, ah man, this is this is we got to get one stop in the red area, will be okay.

So it's a series going away from you know, like the last play the game is the left the series going to the right end zone and.

Third and two.

So I call I call call one of our one of the stackbacker left.

So the idea of the call was we're gonna walk up on the edge the defensive end who's now in Ninkovic.

He's gonna crash down hard and he's gonna take out Lynch, and then the backer's coming off for the quarterback.

So call stackbacker left.

Third and two.

Rob goes in and nails Lynch and we stop them on third and two.

So I was like, we just stopped him on a nickel defense really two yards giving the ball.

Lynch like that's pretty So I'm like.

Okay, that's gonna change what they're gonna that's gonna change what they're doing right now.

So we get the last drive they hit.

You know, they're coming down.

They hit the big play down the far sideline.

It's on the opposite side the rule.

Chain, you know.

Doron jumps over the pile, it falls, he catches it.

Now again, I'm sitting here twenty fourteen, seven years later in the same stadium in the Super Bowl where David Tyree, when I coached in college, who was a special team didn't catch anything in college, catches this thing right, and I'm like, holyf did that just happened again.

I was like, it was like I was on the scene.

We're talking about the scene where he tipped it and curse ended up doing it.

Malcolm Malcolm's great.

There's a great play that Malcolm makes on a third down earlier where he goes up and through the pocket and then rips the near hand and gets the ball out.

There's a big play in that game earlier to kind of get him off the field to get the ball back to the offense.

But so now they line up on him.

I click in the high.

I'm like, they're going to run it, man like.

And now I'm looking at High's got one arm.

I'm like, they're going to run it.

We were stuck in the defense and he makes it.

That's an unbelievable tackle.

Unbelievable tackle.

One of them gets him down.

So now the clock is moving, so I know the situation and so this, I mean, it's one of those moments where really like the like life slowed down for me.

I don't know exactly how long the seconds were, but for me, it felt like a half hour.

So I know the call I want to make.

I'm hearing eleven personnel going in the game, and I slide over next to Bill because I didn't I wasn't gonna put it out there and let them call time out.

I didn't want them to see no one had seen this and then so I slided it next to Bill and I was like, hey, I'm like, are you calling the timeout?

And he's staring.

He's just staring across the field and I'm like, Bill, I'm like, are you calling the time out?

And he's not saying anything to me, and I was like, hey, I go, I need to know because I'm not putting this out there.

Are you calling the time out?

And he's like, yeah, just make your call and I was like okay, so I click out.

I'm like, hey, go line three, corner, get it out.

Make sure we got Malcolm.

So like they're all I'm down with Bill.

Everyone's out down on the sideline, so flow at her flow.

He's like, he's like screaming because we had changed the coverages.

So like later, you know, I'm talking to Bill and I was like, what were you watching.

He's like, well, I was watching Pete.

He's like, and I'm watching their offense trying to figure out like they put the personnel?

Could they sub He's watching and then once we put goal line, he knew we subbed it so late they weren't gonna be able to change.

They were gonna go to the check.

So we were just waiting it out to see who could get it out there last.

And I was like, cause the HEMLIC communication shuts off, so they weren't gonna be able to check the play to Russ.

So we get goal lines, so they just see goal line.

We're sitting on goal line, so they goal line is going out well automatically to them, They're like, all right, well we're gonna throw it.

Well, I have like six thousand pounds of flesh like sitting there.

I have like Chandler Jones, Dante high Tower, Jamie Collins, Branch, Vince.

This is like a a eighteen wheeler out there, Like.

You know, I understand, like just give the ball to Lynch, but like we had just stopped him on Like these are like some of the best players in the NFL right there.

Yeah, So I was like.

They're gonna panic, They're gonna throw it.

I was worried about the snacks of them flat so that was built.

So I watched them build.

So I'm watching my end.

I'm watching the left side, and I'm like watching them buil they bring.

The receiver over.

You think you think that the rub was is all good.

I just we're good on the rub like, they're gonna go to the snack seven flat the guy to have a play to the other side.

They're gonna pick the linebacker.

So I'm like, so I'm on with high.

I got hey, make sure you don't get picked here.

I'm like, Lynch is going to you know, this is gonna be snacks him flat to your to your side.

So I'm watching the left side of the offensive, right side of the defense, and all snapped and I look and it snags of them flat and we get picked.

Chandler's peeling late because he had the peel call he had from the high tigh.

I'm like, give Chan the call.

So Chan's peeling late, but if it was good for I was like, this is gonna be a touchdown.

And I look and I'm like and then they picked the linebacker.

So I'm on the headset and I'm like, all right, here we go.

I'm like, all right, it's not the run.

I'm like, yeah, we're gonna get the snack seven flat.

I'm like, oh my god, they picked him.

And then everyone starts screaming there like no, he picked it, And I'm like, who picked what?

I didn't see the play.

I didn't even see the player on the other side.

I was so worried because the guy's opened and the flat so everyone's going crazy and I'm like what, I don't even know.

I'm like, what happened?

Obviously, the best part of the story is Browner.

I love Browner is the one who we're going in half.

He's like, Browner knew that personnel so good.

He's like, put me here, put them there, put them there right, So it'd be a good coach.

The best thing you can do is just listen to your best player, listening to your smart players.

So that was the matchups that we did.

But when they built the stack, you know, Browner looks at Malcolm and goes, listen, I'm gonna choke the shit out of him.

You just go.

And if you watch the play, Browner's he's literally got his hands around his neck.

Yeah, and he's and he's shu and then Malcolm just goes.

So I didn't see any of that.

I'm like, we got picked everyone, and everyone's like, no, he picked it.

I'm like, who.

I didn't even know we had the ball.

So that was like chaos is going on.

So now again I'm nervous because I'm looking at the clock.

I'm like, oh my god, I'm like where the balls like on the inch line here, like there's right.

So I'm like, they're gonna get the ball back, there's up.

I'm going through situational plays.

No one wants to listen to me because I'm like, what are we gonna do?

What are we putting out there?

Because I'm panicked, like we're gonna be back on the field and obviously, you know, we get the thing and the games and turn around and Revis is running at me and he jumps and I like catch him, like do you know he's so he's his little this is what he was so good, he was so strong, so he bent.

He cracks my back.

So the end of Super Bowl I cracked my back like in the celebration because he jumps up on me.

I didn't care, like who cares?

Who cares?

Right, it doesn't matter, you know.

Stevie b is running around me like like he like everybody's freaking out.

It was like amazing.

Malcolm still crying.

And it was like, yeah, it was like total chaos and my best my best play.

If you watch, if you watch the coaches copy of that tape, if you watch the end zone copy because again we had the extended end zone because we watched the celebration and all that stuff in the back of the end zone is the Seattle mascot.

It's my favorite thing in the whole world.

He's standing there and you can see him as as right before the snap.

You can see he's like you can just see like, you know, his face, his expression is the change you see.

Okay, back about hand this thing the lynch.

We're about to like score here we and they snapped the ball and you see him freeze and then the ball's picked and he just takes his hands and he puts his hand on the front of his beak and he stands there like and he doesn't move and you could just see him like, what the hell just happened.

It's the funniest ship ever.

I'm just telling you.

It's hysterical.

And he doesn't move like there's chaos going He doesn't move for like five minutes.

He's just standing there.

It's amazing.

But you know what's crazy, that's not the first time a coach has has pointed out a thing.

Oh, we watched the stands all the time because they watched so much film them so they sit there chatty l would come in there like.

Beer on.

This guy my.

Favorite every year.

I would watch every year there's a guy in Buffalo and every scoreboard he sits in the right corner of the stadium and it would be the middle of December.

He's got no shirt on, he's got a big beer belly, and he looks kind of like, you know, he's got long gray hair.

So I'm like, and he's every year he's there and I always check.

I'm like, he's still there and no shirt.

It's middle sense, you know.

Or the in New Orleans where the scoreboard there'd always be a crew that and Halloween would dress in costumes instead above the score so you just you just you look always but the mascot in the end zone of that thing.

It's really we had an extension.

It's one of the most amazing things.

But that was that play, how that was put together, the game, the halftime, the fact that it was like, I can't believe we're going to install this.

This is like six years he'd been asking.

I'm like, nope, here it does we need it?

We got it, We're gonna have it right now.

And put that in a week and have that thing go out wash.

That was crazy and honestly, that whole defensive year like give that like Vince wilf work and I sat down because you know, look he wanted to win again like he was, and he was unbelievable.

Man.

His leadership is guidance of like, hey, let's do this, like we you know, give the defensive guys a book we read, you know, Legacy the All Blacks, and we put all our words together and just kind of like all the way through the season, you know, the night before the Super Bowl, I kind of read it to the defense again and like, hey, this is what we said we're gonna do.

And you know, when you win the Super Bowl, yeah, I think that was the year.

I kind of told him, like the trophy, you know what it's like to hold the trophy, you know, and it's it's heavy at the top, and it was kind of like the thing the story, and I explained to him how you know when we won and you know four and being able to hold the trophy in what that's like and just all of that expression into and Vince leading the charge and then you know, we tell him like you win a super Bowl, you're bonded for life, Like you're bonded for life, Like it doesn't matter where you are when it is anybody on those teams call you are bonded for life.

I have a great picture of you.

I was actually looking at the other day.

It's you and Rob and Chan after the White House.

You guys are walking down the side of the bus.

It's just the three of you, and I just snapped it, you know, I mean, I think you got a lip her out to here and.

Like, you know, like the whole deal.

We've just been in the way and it's like it's the coolest shit ever, you know.

But that that play the time, it was just one of those moments in life where just time stop.

Yeah, I just like, here we go and we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna do this.

It's gonna be crazy.

It just hit me.

Two of the last couple plays, one on defense and one on offense, other than the when we were running out the clock where adjustments added after practices, after all our prep was done.

My my return route right that was we added that on Saturday night in the hotel goal line go on three corner three corner added after practice, like had to adjust it.

But that's that That shows you how smart are our coaches were to understand that we needed to put that in and how smart the players were to be able to execute it without a rep of practice.

That's right.

It's not us, it's you guys.

It's having the head, you know, having knowing that you know we may need this and it comes down to it.

You know that happened a lot of times in my career.

How fast you guys process and put that stuff together, man, Like, it's just it's amazing.

I just you know, like, look, I'm just lucky to be there and kind of help and do whatever I can to give you guys a chance to go play and execute.

But watch you guys do that up close.

Man.

That is that is a treat that you know all have with me forever, thankfully.

Next up, Julian Edelman describes the hit he took from Cam Chancellor during Super Bowl forty nine.

Yeah, I remember that play.

Everyone talks about a concussion.

He got concussed on that play.

Remember they got hit by Cam Chancellor.

That explains everything.

Joe's can you walk us through that play?

Yeah, I mean on the punt return before that, I took a hip shot, so I returned the punt.

We went into no huddle right away because we knew there was what seven minutes left, and you know, we kind of boosted the urgency.

We needed some kind of spark on offense.

A lot of times you can get in no huddle it you know, it gets the offense going, you can move the ball, keeps one defense on the field, you can get some plays called.

So we went into no huddle and then it was this third and four team and I'm already fucking.

My hip is tugging because I took a hit pointer on the punter turn, so in between plays it would be tugging, and then your adrenaline kicks in right before play was you know, ten f stalk.

I think it was triple Lugh triple in which you know you got the the incut the under.

We were flooding the zone and I had the deep end on the back side, and you have a quarterback clock in your head when you're running routes, especially if you're running a deep route over the middle.

You know usually that balls hit to you on the numbers on an incut, you know, because you have it's middle of the field.

Closed, meaning there's a middlefield safety, and that anytime you get past that, he gets involved and that's when big hits come.

So I'm running the route and I get to the top of the route, I'm I'm I'm still running, and I'm still running.

And so Tom, he had to do something, gets into the pocket, steps up and it's late my head, so you know you're about to take a fucking hit.

So he zips it across the middle.

I'm probably halfway in between the field, so you know there's a there's there's a shark lurkin.

That's that middlefield safety.

So you better dig in, you better prepare for the hit.

And that's why I brought it into the body and I clinched right before I hit it, and Cam hit me, and it like hit me hard, and I didn't know if I was down.

I was good.

I braced myself for the hit.

So a lot of people think I was knocked out that play because of how I tried to get up at the end, you know, but that's when the adrenaline kicked.

My hip pulled.

I tried to get up and my hip pulled.

If anyone who's had a hit pointer you had hit pointers Ah.

When you get that hit, Pointer, it singes on you and it pulls all those muscles in your hip.

So like when the adrenaline's down, that thing just starts singing on me and I'm like, oh, and everyone thinks I can't get up because I'm staggered because of the hit, which it was a fucking hit and I felt the hit.

Don't get me wrong, Cam chancers a fucking dog, but it was because of my hip and there was no concussion.

So everyone out there, oh the concussion wrong?

No, dude, take a little tea spoon of cement, go up, You pick up your goddamn self.

Yeah.

Toughness, toughness, Rob.

What's funny about that play is when we were doing your documentary, we tried to license that footage for that k it's a big play to get into the NFL.

There was no penalty called.

There's nothing.

There was no fine allowing legal play in the eyes of the NFL.

We tried to license that footage for the documentary.

They go, no shot, that doesn't represent the NFL, so it was never in the movie.

No flag though, no fine.

Wild It didn't need a flag.

It didn't need a fine.

Let me use it, Let me use it.

Let me give you the money.

I'll put in the.

Movie Football, they said it didn't represent the NFL.

That was a heck of a play by you.

You remember that by Cam Chancellor like that, and to make that catch and the hold on to it, you know how hard that is.

And I remember him grunting too.

He grunted when when we when we hit.

You know, sometimes you hear somebody, ever hear something.

Guy, He's like, I was like, I was like, I remember, I was like.

Now.

Michael Bennett talks with Julian about the fight that broke out at the end of the Super.

Bowl after math was really interesting because I think that was one of those turning points.

I think if we win that game, we probably would probably end up going to three Super Bowls back to back, right.

I think that following year is very difficult because it was like it took the whole season to kind of like finally get together as one unit because everybody's pointy fingers of whose father it was.

But my my head, it was like it's everybody's faulted you lose.

Honestly, this it's just like a really unique play where it's like comes down to it, but you know, we gave up points on defense, the offense didn't score enough for it.

We didn't do this just like everybody plays a role in it.

Yeah, I mean it's a team sports ultimate team sport.

Eleven men have to do their job for five seconds and if one guy messes up, it could be a colossal fuck up.

I'm choking Gronk on this one.

So how what what can we talk about this?

How?

How did this go?

I don't know.

I just just like, man, fuck they want you know what I'm saying, Like, let's fight.

You know what I'm saying, Let's just fight, Like who wouldn't fight?

You know what I'm saying, Like as well, at this point, what's gonna happen?

It's just it's that theory that you don't know if you like winning more than you hate.

Yeah, it's just like, man, like all that have to be here.

Yeah, and also played really good this game, and I was just like I was just like wanting to like, yeah, but it all turns.

Out is it is what it is?

Now?

Immediately after that game in locker room was here like.

It was shocked.

Why did we not run it?

Yeah?

I think that was what everybody was thinking.

Was that was that everyone's mind?

Yeah, I think he still thinks.

I think that's when.

He would probably never say that, but I did.

I bet in his head a little bit there, Like he wonders if what happened if you just ran the ball?

Right, I think, yeah, Well.

You guys can't speak.

They're down four, so it was third down?

Was its third down?

Second?

I believe second down.

They had three downs at the two.

I went through it to fourth down and we was all, yeah, so most likely could did two quarterback sneaks?

Yeah?

That sorry that I'm thankful that they ran.

Yeah, Legacy the Mount Rushworths defenders after that one.

I think they still and you still got Earl Thomas.

Earl Thumpins probably goes down as one of the best safeties.

I think it will take them a little bit too, you know, everything that kind of happened at the end will be shaky.

But I think he still is a Hall of Famer.

I think Sharon for short Sherman has done a great job and retirement and career, all the things he's done is in football.

Bobby for sure, like kJ is really good, Clifford rate Cam was great, Like there's a lot of great defenders on that team.

It's just the whole defense is the legion a boom, the whole the whole defense is on the wall.

The whole defense is on the wall.

I take a great defense to win it does I think, where do we go with the best defensive history?

Yeah?

Where does this go in the best?

Some people say?

Some people say number one and number two depends what you.

Ask compete with?

What eighty five Bears?

Eighty five Bears are the Ravens.

Ravens two thousand Ravens.

Yeah, that's that's.

Statistically we were kind of the best.

We look at statistic wise.

How which statistics show that.

Scoring, running, passing, turn you know what I'm saying?

Like, Yeah, So thanks for listening.

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