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22:43Rich Eisen:Rob Gronkowski is here, everybody, on the Rich Eisen Show, live in San Francisco, courtesy of FanDuel. It's great to see you, man. What does this trophy mean to you? Yeah, this is a Lombardi trophy, so watch out. I might dent it. I got four of these bad boys. It's the real thing, by the way. I mean, it has no engraving on it. It just says Vince Lombardi trophy. I know. Who's the winner of this game? Rich Eisen. Somebody, yeah. Let's engrave it. By the way, you're making me very nervous by flipping that around like you just did. That's fine. I dent it. I dent trophies. I mean, stay dented and go in the Patriots Hall of Fame.

23:19But let me tell you, I got four replicas as well just like this for all four of my Super Bowl wins, and I have a couple of them each. yeah and let me tell you meaning like i bought a couple i had to buy them they're like 1500 this guy was making them and they're the best souvenirs to have out of any souvenir possible people come in the house you're like yo is that the real trophy and like everyone picks it up holds it takes pictures with it and it's like the best trophy like the best thing that you can have hanging up in your office or in your home are these vince labardi trophies how many have you broken uh couple in my life two right yeah just one real one one real one the real that that was the one in fenway park right that's when i dented it so it didn't really break it i then dented it

24:00Rich Eisen:okay and it's julian there it is right there julian through the pitch i mean you know if he's gonna throw me a pitch like i'm gonna i'm gonna swing what's funny is i'm like i'm not gonna swing and hit with it because it's gonna ruin the trophy i'll just blunt it can't ruin the trophy I didn't even know it put it down. I gave the trophy back. Oh, Stacey James. Oh, man. How many times I made Stacey James almost faint and die in the sky. You're talking about the famed media relations executive. He's one of the best in the business. He's been there forever. Forever. I've almost made him faint like 18 times in my career.

24:35Still to this day. He's probably nervous watching you pick this trophy up, too. He's nervous for me just talking about him.

24:45Rich Eisen:So Edelman throws the pitch, and you're like, you know what, I'm going to bunt it. Yeah. I'm not going to, I go, oh, I should swing. And I go, no, that's going to ruin the trophy. I should just bunt it. And is the dented trophy on display in the Patriots Hall of Fame? It's on display in the Patriots Hall of Fame. It's even better, though, don't you think, in the long run? Wait, wait. It is. And I swear, Mr. KRAV, RKK's like, yo, like, everyone goes to the Hall of Fame to see that trophy. Yeah. Of all the other ones. Of all the other trophies. He goes, everyone wants to see the dent in that trophy.

25:13He's like, I had to keep it. I was like, I love it.

25:16Rich Eisen:It's got its own special story to it. That's what it's all about. Is there anyone in terms of winning it that's special to you the most? Yeah, definitely the first Super Bowl that I won versus Seattle. This is a Super Bowl rematch, I'm saying, of Super Bowl XLIX. But that Super Bowl was very special, near and dear to my heart, because it got me into the Super Bowl club. And it was also one of the best games of all times, one of the best football games to be played, one of the best Super Bowl games to be played from, you know, the beginning of the first quarter all the way to the end. And everyone contributed.

25:47I mean, Julian had the game-winning touchdown. Amendola, my boy, had a touchdown. Shane Vereen had like 10 catches out of the backfield, you know, for how many first downs. I had a nice touchdown on the fade route, you know, on K.J. Wright, you know, going into the first half. And then, obviously, what the defense did with the Malcolm Butler interception, it was a complete game overall. And it was my first time winning the Super Bowl. So you'll always remember that, and it'll always be special.

26:09Rich Eisen:Where were you watching it with it all? I mean, Brady being mic'd up, you know, over and over again. We see that in NFL films of when Butler made the interception. Where were you when that was all going down? I was sitting like this on the bench, you know, on the bench, and it was the fastest I've ever gotten up from sitting down in my life, no doubt about that. Right when he caught it, boom, I popped right up and just started celebrating, man. It was very emotional, and it was one of the most joyous moments of my career as well. You know, I was in the stands. It was the first NFL, first Super Bowl on NFL Network where I wasn't doing a postgame.

26:45Rich Eisen:So I went as a fan. Really? I mean, my whole, you know, in-laws, they're all from Massachusetts. They're all Patriot fans. My youngest son is now a diehard. He's going to be flipping out that we're talking on the show. He's just jacked up to come to watch the Super Bowl because he was like three years old in the stands. He didn't even remember that. But anytime he sees a Malcolm Butler play, I'm like, you were there. He's like, you know, for a while, he's like, get out of here. I don't remember it. But the reason why I'm bringing all this up is I've never in my entire life, going back to my sports center days, ever been at a sporting event where people who were crying were immediately cheering.

27:21Rich Eisen:And people who were cheering were immediately crying in the flip of one switch like that play. I've never seen anything like it in my entire time. Yeah, I bet so. I never actually really looked at it that way. And that's kind of what keeps these fans just keep coming back. The emotion that this game brings to them is incredible. And it can flip at any other time, like you said. And when it's in the bad way, you're coming back because you want it to happen to you in the good way as well. Right. And you probably just couldn't believe it, right? I mean, you were sitting there thinking this thing's over.

27:53Rich Eisen:You're not winning the Super Bowl, I'd imagine. No, I had some faith. You did? I had some faith. I mean, we stopped them on the play before. I mean, it's the least talked about play when Dante Hightower tackled Marshawn Lynch one-on-one before they threw the pass. I mean, they handed off the ball to play before, but Marshawn Lynch, Dante Hightower's an absolute beast. I mean, he's actually bigger size than Marshawn Lynch, probably stronger too, and Bismo's a savage, but Dante Hightower made the play of the game with that tackle, which forced him to throw the ball. Yep. You've been talking about that forever.

28:25I bring it up all the time. Yeah. And here's the other thing too, Gronk, that I point. Oh, they should have just gave it to him on the next play. They would have scored. Would they? Because Dante Hightower tackled him on the exact same play in the play before. With one shoulder, by the way. He was hurt in that game. Yeah, exactly. There we go. I mean, Dante Hightower, he's playoff Hightower. Yeah, beast. I mean, he comes through in the playoffs like I'd never seen before.

28:47Rich Eisen:28-3, what were you thinking? Because Hightower, by the way, had a big play in that game too, right? Playoff Hightower. Kind of flipped the script a little bit. We were dominating them, actually. I mean, it was 28-3, but, I mean, we were moving the ball. We just had plenty of mistakes that we made. And Coach Belichick at halftime was like, yo, we're doing what we need to do. We're not changing really anything. The thing is is that we just can't have the turnovers. We can't shoot ourselves in the foot. And then another big thing he said is we're better conditioned than this team. They're going to fold.

29:14They're going to collapse. He said that? Yeah, throughout the week. We're better conditioned. And he would always be saying it. We always ran these hills, man. Everyone hated it, but he always engraved in us. We're going to be the better conditioned team, and it's going to come down to it. And he knew we were too. and he even said it throughout the week and it showed we ran what 99 plus plays on offense including the overtime dude if you watch the last couple drives their defense was absolutely gassed and our offense was still going at full speed because we were a better conditioned team and coach always brought that up as well I mean he just knew the the the niches of what's going to happen in the game and what's going to play in our favor that was a little like a better detail than what our opponents are going to present against us.

29:58Could you imagine how many more Super Bowls you'd have

30:00Rich Eisen:if you had a Hall of Fame head coach? I know, man. Dude, I would probably have like eight Super Bowls if I actually had a real coach. Like someone that's in the Hall of Fame. That one, yeah. Yeah, like it would be a no-brainer then. Like, the guy is not even a Hall of Famer, Bill. I mean, terrible coach. Just think about it. That's just absolutely crazy, man. Man, just absolutely absurd that he's not in. I mean, what's this? This is setting the standards that there's going to be no head coaches ever that's going to be a first ballot. And there's one right now that is 100 % deserved to be. I mean, Sean McVay is kind of on his way.

30:38He's still so young. But Andy Reid. Yeah. Come on. Andy Reid is not a first ballot Hall of Fame. Look at his career. But guess what? He's not now because Coach Belichick isn't. Well, they might change the rules in terms of how to vote.

30:50Rich Eisen:Well, how to vote. You know, I don't know. You want to know who's a fourth ballot? Hall of Fame or no? Who's that? Tom Brady.

31:00He might not even make it. He's sweating it out now. He's sweating it out. That would be hilarious. I mean, it would be pretty hilarious. I mean, because then it would really ruin the Hall of Fame. Oh, yeah. It would ruin it if he's not.

31:14Rich Eisen:It's not going to happen. Are you worried? No. Don't be worried. About Tom? No, you. I mean... How many years have you been out now? I think I'm eligible next year. So maybe you and Belichick go in. What if you and Belichick go in together? Me, Belichick, and RKK at the same time. Dude. That would be pretty cool. That's entirely possible. I'm not against it at all. I mean, I can only control what I can control. I mean, I don't really talk about my situation. Because, you know, that's a very prestigious honor. And you don't want to get out of your lane. Yes. You know, you can't really control it.

31:51But if that did happen, I mean, I'm down for that. Here's what's going to happen.

31:55Rich Eisen:Because I'm able to talk about it. Because it's like Fight Club. You don't want to talk about that sort of stuff. Right. Because it's bad for him to say, I'm going to the Hall of Fame. Even though you were going. It's bad juju. I don't want to. We're moving the juju from it. Okay. So you're going to get in. And then Belichick gets in. All right. And let's just say that just that two alone happens. What ends up happening is during Bill's speech, your family will all be there, right? For you. Yeah. You get up and you start dancing around him like you did on the jazz stage. During his speech. You know what I mean?

32:25Rich Eisen:Like, how do you like me now? You know what I mean? Like, after all those years, who gets the last laugh? Right? There we go. Now we're talking game planning already. What do you think? Strategizing. That's what I'm trying to... Oh, I'm going to have to do something. Because your whole family is going to be there. Yeah, I'm going to have to do something. And no one can call to tell them to get off the stage. Yeah. That's right. We'll call Bill. Yeah. Bill, get off the stage.

32:50You know? Oh, we're going to have to play off each other. The possibilities are limitless. If he even gets in. At this point, you might as well put him in in, like, five more years. It might have been. No, it might have been the best thing for him not to get in. Not saying that because I'm saying, like, dude, like, with not having a good year at UNC, you know, like, everyone came to his defense now. And, like, he's got so much great pub from not getting in. Like, it could have possibly been a good thing. The bottom line.

33:21Rich Eisen:But he definitely deserved to be. When we're talking about it and you're like, well, you know, he's got 333 wins. And then you start in the middle of all that. You're like, why do we even have to say his numbers? It's just like you feel silly. You feel silly even saying it sort of thing. Yeah. What are you doing for FanDuel? What have we got here? Yeah. So I'm here with the FanDuel Super Bowl campaign. It's the last call for football. And the campaign's a celebration and a toast to what a wonderful regular season that it has been. and now it's a rallying cry to enjoy the final night of football, which is obviously the big game, the Super Bowl game, this Sunday.

33:58And we got legends in this campaign. We got Joe Montana, who's giving a speech in the campaign. We got Adam Vinatieri, the best kicker of all times, and myself. And we're just giving a toast to just an incredible season that it has been. And FanDuel, if you're going to make a bet, bet on the game responsibly. You know, play, you know, in your means and bet on FanDuel. OK.

34:22Rich Eisen:And the play of the year. What do you got for your player of the year? What do you think about that? Player of the year or play of the year? Play of the year. The one play that happened. I kind of have a game of the year. OK, what do you got? And it set the standards of how the season was going to go. And let me tell you, the NFL won this year. How many great games? Oh, it's amazing. Every single week. I know. The playoffs, every week one, just wild card, every game was unbelievable. The NFC Championship was great. I mean, the AFC Championship game was a mess, but it was still close. And that's what you want.

34:55Rich Eisen:Well, pretty much every Bears game from week 15 on was eye-popping play after another. Like, play of the year for me would be Caleb Williams. Just choose any of his throws, either to beat the Packers or the fourth and eight to keep Hope alive, down 11 in the second time against the Packers before the big one, you know, to Cole Komet, that was just a, made me curse, like just sitting on the couch. Just like more curse words were like, holy S, you know. It got the juice. What was the game? Oh, so the game was week one, Sunday night football. Buffalo Bills versus the Ravens. I mean, Ravens had the game sealed and the Buffalo pulls out the comeback.

35:30It set the standards of how the NFL season was going to go and it was going to be entertaining just like that game. What do you think about Super Bowl 60, Rob? What do you think? I'm going to go with the same score as Super Bowl XLIX and the same team winning. This guy. It just makes it easy. Makes it easy. 28-24.

35:47Rich Eisen:28-24. That sounds reasonable. By the way, it sounds like a totally reasonable score. By the way, that's a great way of just saying, you know, I'm just going to go with the same thing. It keeps it easy as well. Did you see McDonald was asked over and over again on Monday night, what's going to be your play if you're on the one-yard line? What play do you call? That's great. And he said, you know, just the best play possible. And he had fun with it until he just got it. It finally triggered him? Yeah. It triggers you. It's like, what's going on? That's why I'm just 28-24 because I get asked too much.

36:19It's just automatic now. I'm on the street. Who's going to win? Patriots 28-24. I don't even think about it. You love your Fox work? You like doing it? Yeah, it's great, man. Fun times with everybody? Yeah, it's fun times, man. And I got some great guys around me, man. I got Hall of Famers around me, not just on the football field, but in the media world as well. They're just so classy and they're just so good at their jobs. I learned so much from them. I mean, Strahan, he's not just unbelievable at being an analyst with football. He's one of the best in the game just overall in just whatever topic it is in the world.

36:50Then you've got Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Kurt Manifest. It's just a great group of guys to be around that I learned so much with.

36:55Rich Eisen:Strahan, what he's done post-playing career is as great as anybody's post-playing career ever. Probably the best post career, not like investing and making money in a business, like actual work work. He's probably had the best post career out of any football player. He's grinding. He's a grinder. And he's, yeah, I can't say enough about him. And you too. Thanks for coming here, man. Yeah. I appreciate it. So what do you do now? What does Gronk do for the rest of this day? Oh, so I get to go take a nap now. Okay. Got a little dinner tonight. What do we have on a nap from? What is a Gronk nap? What did it mean, 15 minutes, an hour?

37:31Rich Eisen:No, I need like an hour and a half today. No kidding. I didn't get too much last night. An hour and a half today, and then relax. That was the hardest part of my schedule for this whole week was the last six hours, you know, from 5 a.m. to now. And then I still got more radio roast off, you know, a couple parties to attend. But nothing. This was the biggest grind. I'm glad I got out of the way. I'm thrilled that we were your last stop. Last stop, best stop. Thank you, sir, for saying that. Hey, no other stop. gave you an idea of what happens if you and Belichick go into the Hall of Fame together.

38:03No, they didn't.

38:04Rich Eisen:You and the whole family. No one even brought up that situation either. They crash it. They just crash the whole damn thing. Yeah. We're crashing. Yeah, for sure. We are. Okay. We're partying. So Gronk is here, and he's gotten through it. He's going to take a nap, and the trophy is intact. It's good. All is good. The trophy's good. Hey, I'm still here. Uh-oh. Oh, no. I shouldn't have said anything. everybody again fam dual super bowl campaign last call for football check it out with rob gronkowski at rob gronkowski and at gronk on instagram great to see you man hey man thanks for you bet we're gonna be back uh with a little bit more from san francisco before charles woodson speaking of his fox teammate coming up charles the rich heisen show the podcast

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40:36Rich Eisen:Yeah, we got fans showing up here. Gronk is like a Pied Piper, huh? He shows up, and the fans show up. Or is it just getting closer to lunchtime and people are coming down from the offices here in this building? I don't know what it is. One of my favorite humans on planet Earth. And Frank said it earlier, too. He's exactly who you think he is and want him to be all the time. And it's not an act. It's just who he is. He's the happiest guy. And he's the biggest guy. And to see that as a combination, it just works. He's amazing. Yeah. I forget what Super Bowl it was. um but there was the one in miami so it was the chiefs 49ers first go around first go around right and so uh to make it back to our studio i had to leave the game early so i left the game right after um right after the first quarter was over and wound up watching the game on a the back of a of a, of a plane seat, you know, going, and, um, and the flight took off at like 11 o 'clock at night.

41:42Rich Eisen:It was, it was an overnight deal and I'm sitting there and I'm like wondering what time we're going to get in. And I'm in my head, right? Just like trying to think about, you know, how much sleep am I going to get or whatever. And, um, long story short, the person who sits next to me in the empty seat is Rob Gronkowski. Oh, my God. Right. And I'm like, why didn't you stay for the game? He goes, well, I have a shoot tomorrow in L.A. And at the time, my kids who are now, what, 17, 14, and 12 were at the time like 11, 9, and 7. Right. And all they were saying was in the Masked Singer, they thought the tall tiger or whatever had to be Rob Gronkowski.

42:32Rich Eisen:Yes. And here I am now sitting next to Rob Gronkowski on this plane back from the Super Bowl thinking to myself, he's got to shoot in Los Angeles tomorrow. Yeah, exactly. And my kids think that he is on the Masked Singer. He can't really say anything to me. But I looked at him and I'm like, are you going to sing? Is that what you're going to do? And he kind of gave me this look of like, I can't say, but I want to say, you know, and it was outstanding. And just, you know, watching the end of that Super Bowl play out in the fourth quarter on the backseat and watching, you know, with him. I'll never forget that either.

43:15Rich Eisen:Couldn't have been nicer. You know, everybody coming up to him. And, you know, flight attendants and the pilots were even, like, psyched. And everybody who was, you know, walking past, back into the other cabin, were just stopping to say hello to him, you know. He couldn't have been nicer to everybody. He's very welcome. You're right about that. And I'm like, which one of you guys are living your best life doing the Super Bowl shows? Because Gronk and Edelman coming by almost every year, right? and Emmett and Irv and Dion coming by almost every year. We're trying to get Michael Irvin, but he's doing his new Netflix pod when we're recording every day.

44:00Rich Eisen:But Dion and Emmett are back-to-back, our first-hour guests on Friday. As a matter of fact, we're coming on the air, and Dion's going to be sitting in the seat. We're starting the show with him on Friday. And that's why I can never sign that Cowboys release, man, because for as bad as things are going now, those memories, what that meant as a kid, that would be like releasing my entire childhood. Yes. So I didn't bring that piece of paper for you to sign your release of fandom. But I had to talk with a nice gentleman I met last night, and he kind of made me feel like maybe there is no hope, so I don't.

44:37Rich Eisen:Okay, very good. So another breaking news out of the NBA, Chris. that is it true anthony davis is now a washington wizard yeah anthony davis uh currently injured uh is by the way which year is it yeah okay he's going to the washington wizards rich uh for with the angelo russell yeah it's a bunch of people it's a massive almost team swap ad jayden hardy D 'Angelo Russell, Dante Exum going to Washington for Chris Middleton, A.J. Johnson, Malachi Branham, Marvin Bagley III, two first-round picks and three second-rounders, according to Choms. So you know where we're going with this. Yeah. I understand there's a bunch of players that went with Anthony Davis to Washington.

45:31Rich Eisen:A couple good ones. but the mavericks got more in this trade than they got for luca right yeah am i wrong five picks just that alone but you also gave up yeah but this three other players right well and why think about it this way they got the mavericks up to why would they basically say to the washington wizards we'll trade we'll trade most of the team for most of the team well i imagine the players are getting dumped right exactly so they basically trade luca for cooper flag two first round picks and three second rounders that seems like a pretty good trade well cooper i mean coop they didn't know they were getting cooper flag they didn't know a ping pong ball was going to bounce their way bouncing around here i think maybe they did according to him oh stop it talk about scripts so but that's essentially what the luca trade was now officially you can kind of know i know that but You can't sit here and say part of the Luka trade was them getting the most lucky ping pong ball bounce they could possibly get.

46:36I get it, but that's what happened. No, I get it.

46:37Rich Eisen:Well, which allows them to maybe make a trade like this. Right, right. But the bottom line is it already kind of was perhaps the worst trade maybe ever. But now that AD's gone, I think you kind of get that certified. Well, now that they've fired, you know, they've fired Nico Harrison and they fired, you know, that they got rid of Anthony Davis now. They're starting from scratch. And I'm wondering if Jason Kidd was, you know, didn't want to go coach the Knicks now. Unless he's just happy about this. I have no idea that he's now got to put together. The Mavericks are toast. Yeah. Essentially for this year.

47:16Rich Eisen:and the Washington Wizards have gotten Trey Young and Anthony Davis in the span of a few weeks. Yeah, but I mean... I hear you, but next year's draft is going to be in Washington, D.C., and I imagine the Wizards will be a much better team in the middle of the mix in April. They might even be hosting or playing in a playoff game. Well, they traded their first rounders, so... I understand that. I'm talking about the NFL draft is in Washington, D.C. It's all NFL to me, man. Charles Woodson's coming up with Octavia Spencer. The Ridge Eisen Show Podcast.

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