Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman joined Sports Illustrated on behalf of Bounty and discussed if Patrick Mahomes could catch Tom Brady.
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00:00 You know who I have right now. We have Super Bowl champions. We have Gronk, Julian Edelman. Guys,
00:05 how we feeling? We're feeling pretty good. I mean, we're feeling as good as we possibly
00:09 could feel in Vegas. We've been here for three nights now. It feels like I've been here for 12
00:14 days. But that's Vegas for you. You can't really sleep. So I've been just rolling around in bed.
00:19 And now I'm just here, man, and just getting the juices flowing with my wingman Julian right here.
00:24 All right. Let's talk about the big dog, Coach Belichick. Are you guys surprised that he hasn't
00:30 landed a job? What do you all think about that? Yeah, I'm very surprised. But it just shows me
00:37 that not everyone really wants to win in this league. People want to have comfort jobs. They
00:43 want to have cake jobs. They don't want to have any kind of uncomfortableness when someone comes
00:50 into a building, which you need to feel those feelings to win. Yeah. OK. Super Bowl, you guys
00:57 played in plenty. Give me, Julian, a Super Bowl routine that you had to do prior to the game.
01:05 You know, our team was really good at trying to do everything to keep your regular week routine
01:16 available at the Super Bowl. And I was a guy that like I did the sleep tank, the saltwater pods.
01:22 Yeah. And I would go in there like three times a week. And we'd always find in all the Super
01:26 Bowl cities, we'd find like a place that had them. So there'd be a designated time where you could go
01:31 and do that. And you just try to do everything like you did throughout the year. We got you
01:36 there. So I remember that was specific. It was like going to like on a field trip. You know what
01:41 I mean? You're at school, you're doing your things, but you had a little excitement because
01:45 you're away from school and you're with the fellows a lot more because you're having that
01:49 hotel life. So, you know, everything to try to keep that regular routine going. All right. So
01:55 I played seven years. I only went to the playoffs once, had one game. Aaron Rodgers took us home.
02:02 Do you going into a Super Bowl game? Is it does it feel like is it like every game you have the
02:09 jitters that you might not be able to sleep that night? You might not be able to eat. You can eat
02:13 during the AFC Championship game, but this game you can't like talk to me about that because I
02:16 don't know what it feels like. Man, that's a really good question, actually. But like what
02:22 Julian just said is that Coach Belichick had us prepare like, you know, it was, you know,
02:27 a typical game. Yeah. He kept us on the routine. You don't switch up what's working. Yeah. But
02:33 the nerves of the game, you know, when every whenever I stepped out on the field, no matter
02:37 what, if it was a preseason game, a regular season game, playoff game, I had the nerves going. My
02:41 heart's always beating fast. And what got me to settle them down is going out, you know, once the
02:46 first quarter starts and going out and actually playing the game. And after about four or five
02:50 plays, everything settles in. I start relaxing. The heartbeat slows down. You know, the game slows
02:55 down. The nerves are going away. And then you're just playing the game of football. That's what
02:59 the Super Bowl game is. It's another game of football. It's you prepared for it, just like
03:04 how you prepared for any regular season game. Just don't switch up your routine. You know,
03:08 do what you've been doing. Don't have 10 energy drinks. Have just the one.
03:11 Some billions of say, no, people don't realize is you have two weeks to prepare for this game.
03:19 Yeah. So, you know, you take you put your work in back in the home stadium at home that first week,
03:26 you have competitive practice and then you go over all these situations so much by the time it's game
03:32 time, you're like, I just want to play the game because, you know, by the time it's Friday today
03:38 going into the game, you've seen every situation in your head. You've seen the third downs,
03:43 the first and second down plan, the red area plan, the five two point plays that we put in just in
03:48 case we need it. You know, so you see it, you talk about it so much. You've been through the media,
03:54 all the distractions, and you just want to get out there and play and you feel the electricity
03:58 of the stadium. You feel that it's something bigger. Once that first ball is snapped,
04:05 you get out there, you run on the field, you get hit. It's just football.
04:09 You guys played with the greatest of all time, Tom Brady. Patrick Mahomes has done something
04:19 that pretty much only Tom Brady has done. Do you think with a win today, he can catch Brady
04:27 in that goal conversation? I know it's not done yet. He's only been in the league about six,
04:32 seven years, and obviously, you know, it's a journey. It's not a sprint.
04:34 But do you think Patrick Mahomes could catch Brady potentially?
04:40 I think Patrick Mahomes is the only quarterback that has the potential to catch Brady.
04:46 There's going to be so many variables and factors that play into it over the next, you know,
04:52 15 years. Does he want to play till he's 40 years old? Does he want to play till he's 45?
04:58 You don't know that. That's only up to him. And there's so many other things that have to go
05:02 right. How long is coach Andy Reid going to be the head coach for as well? I mean, that's a big
05:06 variable right there. How long is Travis Kelsey going to play with him as his number one weapon
05:11 throughout his whole tenure as a quarterback? So there's so much that goes into it. But if there's
05:15 one guy that can catch Tom Brady, it's Patrick Mahomes and there's no one else. But only time
05:20 will tell if that happens. And if you ask me, I don't I don't think that it's going to be
05:25 achievable because what Tom Brady did is just spectacular. Yes. Tom is a freak. Yes.
05:32 Yes. Gronk, talk about Travis Kelsey and what he's been doing, because before him, it was you.
05:38 So being able to, you know, take Jerry Rice's record, doing things that we didn't think anybody
05:46 could do, especially at that position, especially after you talk about Travis. Yes. Travis Kelsey
05:51 has put the, you know, tight end position, you know, on the map tremendously. I mean, it's been
05:56 on the map for now about a decade or so. I mean, compared to like the 1990s and early 2000s, there
06:01 was there was great tight ends. But, you know, Travis Kelsey has taken it to another level as
06:06 well. And what he's been doing at that position has just been spectacular. I mean, seven one thousand
06:11 yard seasons in a row. It's hard for a wide receiver to even do that. And then he almost had
06:16 his eighth in a row, but he decided to sit out the last game of the season, which was the right call.
06:19 I mean, you had the playoffs coming up. You need to rest in the position and the slot slotting of
06:24 the playoffs weren't going to change. So there was no reason to play. But also what he's been doing
06:28 in the playoffs, you know, his records, touchdowns, receptions, all that. It's just been spectacular.
06:33 It's been great to see a guy at his caliber just keep that tradition of the tight end,
06:37 you know, on the map. I mean, he's changing the position of how it's played and he just knows
06:42 how to get open all the time, man, which is just unbelievable. It's crazy. All right, guys,
06:47 before I get you out of here, who you got winning the game this week? Niners twenty four twenty one.
06:54 I'm going with the Niners thirty one twenty one. Hard to bet against Patrick Mahomes.
07:02 I've already lost a couple of times now that I'm a gambler because I'm out of the National Football
07:06 League. Yes. Let him know he's. But I'm going to tickle the devil again and try to do it. Oh,
07:12 tickle, tickle, tickle while we're tickling. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
07:21 Guys, talk to us about your partnership with bounty. All right. Well, I've been with bounty
07:25 for a little bit. Now they had a wingman concepts this year. So I recruited my wingman who's been
07:31 my wingman from the very beginning. So it just made sense. Gave Julian a call. Hey, man, there's
07:35 a bounty campaign going on. I need a wingman for it. And he goes, I'm all in. I've been your wingman
07:40 since you got, you know, to the New England Patriots as a rookie. So it just made sense.
07:43 And there's a saying a good old saying out there. And I'm from Buffalo. So there's good old saying
07:47 been around for a while. You know, you can't have football without wings, especially Buffalo
07:52 Wild Wings. And you can't have those wings without bounty. Yes. Perfect for a messy situation, which
08:00 we've had to wipe a lot for each other. Yeah. Wipe us clean with these paper towels,
08:06 bounty paper towels. Ladies and gentlemen, Gronk Julian Edelman. Appreciate you guys
08:11 for stopping by. Yes. Thank you. Good to see you.