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Do you know of any specific instances where you came across people getting certain things like you put in their contract that they can't do, like Chris Hogan can't play lacrosse?
I I don't. They don't. I didn't. No one talked about that stuff.
Yeah. Okay.
You know, like maybe JPP, no firecrackers.
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I do that to my daughter all the time. I I just start singing [ __ ] so she'll start listening, 'cause she, you know, she, you know, you just start singing to them and they listen.
That should be in the parents' book. Not none of this "count to three and sing, baby."
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Should we get into it? You want me to uh read our first one off here?
Read them off, Bubby.
This is from Brian Kit on YouTube. I'd love a segment on any quote "dangerous things players aren't allowed to do while under NFL contract, either in season or out of season, like ride a motorcycle." Well, they can specifically negotiate or they could specifically put in things like motorcycle if they know that person is a motorcycle driver, but they have one thing that covers everything. If you get hurt doing something other than football, you could lose your money.
If you get hurt, yeah.
Shout out Dustin Penner. So like skiing, parachuting, this, that, you know, playing basketball.
Pickup ball.
If you get hurt, technically they they don't have to pay you.
What about training? If it's like.
See, that's where the gray area is because you're trying to better yourself for the sport. 'Cause I I've hurt myself in training.
But they covered that.
Okay.
But if you're going to, you know what I mean? But it's it's kind of a gray area unless they specifically say it in certain things in certain people's contracts because remember Drew came on here and said he went skiing even though he wasn't supposed to.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
You know what I mean?
So like in theory you could be like, "Dude, skydiving is part of my training routine. If I can't scuba, if I can't scuba, what's all this about?"
Yeah. Right. Is that the whole point?
Okay, that's interesting. Do you know of any specific instances where you came across people getting certain things like uh put in their contract that they can't do? Like Chris Hogan can't play lacrosse.
I I don't. They don't. I didn't.
No one talked about that stuff.
Yeah. Okay.
You know, like maybe JPP, no firecrackers.
Fourth of July, the GM calls him up. "What are you doing over there, JP?" "What's on tap for today?" "Lit, man."
It's so I get so scared whenever I light the fireworks now.
Bro. Because of that.
Fireworks are dangerous, man.
And my dad used to say it all the time. "Blow your fingers right off."
Frank was right.
And they will.
Oh my god. Stick to the sparklers.
Sparklers. Safe for all. You want to get into the next one?
Next one. Sorry. I don't know the danger stuff.
I know. We love you.
You can't do anything if you get hurt. My business.
I'm not going to blow up anyone's spot, but the irony of this coming this episode.
Oh, yes.
Sorry. Oh my goodness. Um.
No, this is the Ted Carris episode.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh.
Oh, because we went on a dirt bike ride.
Yeah.
Oh gosh.
Forgot about that.
We didn't go on a dirt. It was like we're going on Super 73s.
It was a simulation. It was like a.
Travis Per back flips.
Yeah, right.
Boy, did he not know how to drive it.
Oh my goodness.
That's surprising to me.
Nothing like some good old peer pressure.
He lied too. Yeah. Drive dirt bikes.
You see, he treats me like an older brother or something or like.
You know.
He was very nervous about peer pressure coming here.
Yeah, I know.
I will not put in to Julian's peer pressure.
He folded like a lawn chair. Uh, next we have a YouTube comment question from Jelly 899. Do you get paid extra for appearing in the TV network's pregame hype videos like they have leading up to the Super Bowl or other big games?
What do you mean?
Like when you're like in uniform like holding a ball on like Sunday Night Football and you're like, "Oh, I'm looking cool."
No.
Does that happen before the game or does that happen at the beginning of the season?
That happens usually the week you're still at your home stadium. So NFL Super Bowl.
For the Super Bowl. Right when you get to the N the Super Bowl, you get there a week early.
You have like a day dedicated for certain guys.
To go do media obligations for the networks.
That's just like a green screen like in a room.
It's like a green screen. They'll bring in a group of guys. We do it pre-season.
For our team. Individual stadium stuff and like our what our team uses. And then you kind of do that same thing but for the network, whoever's hosting it and the NFL that week. So you do that before the week. You don't get paid extra. That's part of it. Now, what about for just like a regular like Sunday Night Football because they do some media stuff for that too.
Is that beginning of the year?
That's beginning of the year.
And like NBC will come in and shoot with some people.
No, you do like the our team I think our team's production will take.
Stuff for NBC. For NBC, for CBS, that's for Fox.
'Cause they know the schedule has the schedule.
That's your media day.
Yeah, 'cause you do it like four different for like you do it for like.
Different things.
That's cool.
Yeah, that's all pre.
I always like seeing that when there's a guy that like his his drip will be a little different than it would be like on field.
So, you can always tell who didn't go to those days because they have the same one from the year before. They just. You look at Brady. I think his was from like eight years ago. He had to finally do new ones when he went to Tampa. But.
What about the old like Monday Night Football where it's like you just like it's the cutout and you say your name, you say where you're from.
Rand University.
Yeah. So you do that that day.
You do that before the season. Before the season.
Oh wow. So you got to play in your joke high school like pretty early. You got to go early with it.
You say Kent State.
I I gave a couple. I said college. I never used them though. I didn't I never I never thought about it going into like I was thinking about the team we were playing. You know what I mean? Yeah. But like I never thought about it where uh I think I did College of San Monteo for one.
Kent State and then I just did like Redwood City. Then I just did one that said Tai K Mate.
I think it's like "fight till death" and like either Simone or.
So cool.
But it was like it was something we all used to say on our football teams back in the Bay. We would be like Mart. So like we would we made it kind of like a figure of speech.
Like you're part of Taik Mate.
That's tight.
And then was there anyone being like, "What the [ __ ] is that? Just say your goddamn school."
The guy behind.
Yeah, the guy behind.
Uh, can you just say Ken State [ __ ]?
No, you do Ken State last.
Yeah, you do the even the straight line one last. Ken State University.
Oh, you because you you know they're going to keep that. So but you you get off like five or six.
Get some phone like, "All right, cool. Slappy Julian Edelman, Redwood City. Julian, Redwood City, 49ers." It's like it's like the the guy in like picture day. The guy taking in school and he's like, "All right, like just get the one I can show your mom and like that you'll actually buy."
Did you get a haircut for picture day?
That's the thing. Sometimes you'd be fully off blast. No.
You just catch off going.
So you go up in the locker room, you or you go up in the uh the bathroom and everyone's getting all cleaned up and stuff for the [ __ ] stupid [ __ ] we got to do.
Oh [ __ ] it's picture day.
Yeah. So you see guys getting all cleaned up.
It's always funny when like a guy will be in there and they show like the full body one. He's like just wearing sneakers and his full jersey.
And you guys always like a lot of times you don't wear pads. It looks so goofy.
Yeah, it looks hilarious. We didn't wear pads and we love that 'cause it sucks putting those pads on without jerseys.
But it looks goofy.
It's hilarious.
Should we get to another here? That was a good question.
Which one? Let's do one more.
Okay. Um, this is a um this is a comment from a silent swag.
Also YouTube.
Also YouTube. Cool username. I have a potential question. This is practice related. In any sport, practice is perfect. Are there practices are practices different on-off season, early/late season? And what exactly is practiced? Certain plays, creating a play, the team player likes. When do you merge in quotes wide receivers with the QB and O line? I never played football. I'm just curious. Thank you.
So instead of doing that whole thing, that's a lot. Yes, practices are different between offseason and offseason, early season, late season. I like you want to dive into more on when are units, when does wide receiver go to offense go to full team, like what is the differentiation there, the different like periods for.
Well, it changes usually team to team, but it's all pretty much similar. Usually teams will stretch and get a dynamic warm-up as a team or first. Usually you have three hours on the grass.
Run us through the three hours on the grass as fast as you can.
Or two hours on the grass. There's some amount of hour. It's like two and a half hour. It's two and a half hours on the grass, but you can only have a certain amount of periods and a certain amount of practice time.
Okay.
So, what you do is you get to the grass early and you walk through. Offense and defense will be on different fields and we'll be walking through what we're doing that specific day. If it's Wednesday, it's usually early downs, first and second downs. So, we'll just say it's uh Wednesday. If it's Thursday, it's third downs and uh move the field and Friday's red area and and it's kind of a little bit of everything re like fast Friday. So, Wednesday, you get there, you walk through your first and second downs that you just installed in the three hours of meetings you had before. So they the coaches always say this in the front of the day, the the top of the day, they'll say, "Hey, let's bring the classroom to the drills, the drills to the seven on seven, the seven on seven to the team." And that's kind of how the practice goes. So you get in, you do your walk through, you walk through every kind of damn play you're probably going to do. So you're you're putting that in your head. It's giving you confidence. You're getting a mental walkthrough rep on a look that you're probably going to see in practice. You're you're cementing things into your brain through walkthrough and it's usually like, you know, the scout team on the other side or could be coaches on the other side because we're walking through, you know, and that's where the Ernie cards come in play where we're walking through all the plays before practice. The the scout team guy will go up to the scout team, put up the card and say, "Hey guys, this is it." And then the offense comes out. And then on the other field, the defense is doing the same thing but with defense emphasized. And then you come together and like the back five minutes of that special teams get to walk through. So that day could be kickoff, kickoff, return. So kickoff and kickoff, return will go over their installation of what they went through through their 30 to hour meeting that they had before practice and they walk through how they're going to do it. That could be a drill. That could be an emphasis on whatever the scheme is for that week. They'll do the exact plays that they're going to do in practice. Then we come together as a team. We we do a a dynamic warm-up stretch and then we get uh then you go to in after that you have like usually like uh a offense and defense will break up and the offense will do some kind of uh warm-up drill but that emphasizes that week's game plan. So, we would do like a no huddle, half speed, still warming up. Quarterbacks haven't warmed up yet, but still h but still getting stuff that we need to emphasize for that week. We do like a a walkth through or a NASCAR of all the plays. One group would do a play, the next group would do a play, and we'd go run and still warming up. You do the bags with Coach Ivans, then you do that, and then we go and the quarterbacks warm up in one part of the offensive field. The linemen go at the linemen usually scar and do what they do with like their punch techniques and warm them up. They usually always had the plates. They used to warm up a lot like like actually have to do crazy [ __ ] The the running backs would go with Ives and do their warm-ups. They would do more bags and stuff and the receivers we would do our cone drills, our warm up our cuts. Coach O'Shea, usually we would start with, you know, your a get off just a a receiver stance, get off catch ball. Uh, you know, and then we go into like, you know, a a top of a curl route, a box drill where you're emphasizing out cuts, you know, you run there's a a box boom, five yards, six yards apart. It's not a a a real straining drill, but it's an emphasis drill on how you're supposed to cut at the top of your routes. And at the end of that box, you'd be on the sideline. So you'd do a sideline tap. There'd be like some sort of maybe distraction drill if we were dropping balls or something. He'd work in anything that he felt we needed to practice on. Maybe we were having a lot of incuts that week. So we were doing incut emphasizes. We always work on that return route because that's a that's a kind of a tricky route that guys get fast on include like me. I would get fast on that route. And you know, there's a real coaching point where you stick that foot to the the quarterback so you really get that weight distribution. Like we would do the tops of those things to get us warm. And then we would after that that's like 10 15 minutes. So we've already been on the on the field for probably like 35 minutes. Then you get a 10-minute period with the quarterbacks and you go routes on air. Uh, you know, so you go through your game plan.
No defense or defense.
No defense. Defense is doing the same stuff but for defensive stuff on the other field.
Okay.
You know, so this is where all the skill guys kind of get together and there could be uh routes on air that week. Uh, because usually early down day, that's that's a Wednesday we're talking about. There could be some field like big comebacks off of big play actions or something like that. First and second down, like different routes that we're not always accustomed to running or it could be a game plan route. We'll we'll all have our spot and Tom would pick or X is over here, F's over here, Z's here, running backs here. We're all together. Tom would call the play. "All right, I got the X. Zero out." He'd call his play. You We'd run that and then the other quarterbacks could hit a different guy and and but Tom would pick the guy he'd want to throw to. You know what I because that that was the the throw he want. And we do a series of those. And then after that, we're warmed up. We had individual period. We had kind of a group period. Then then the special teams period would would uh come in and all the and then in between those practices, we may have had some kind of emphasis for receivers. There could have been a special screen footing or something. We'd go work with Chad and the quarterbacks the or the quarterback would go work with the linemen as well to do blitz pickup. They're working on blitz schemes and stuff. So, so there's always work within the work. So, we're not technically in on period because it's special teams, but we're still working things in between. And then after that, we come together. That's when it's one-on-one period. So, linemen are with the linemen. That's the first introductory to defense and offense. So, you're already like six six periods in. You've been getting the lather in fully lather.
You know, this is when you need to be up because we're going one-on-ones. You know, receivers, DBs, they're going one-on-one. Tackles, ends, guards, tackles, uh, linebackers are going one-on- ones with with the running backs. It's one-on-one period. You know what I mean? So, like, it's kind of like this usually is the kickstart to the day. How is it going to be? First one on one ones? You got to win because it sets the the the whole tempo of the the drill, you know, and it could set the tempo for the [ __ ] practice, you know, because that it's like it's a competitive period. They're the the DBs are trying to [ __ ] stuff you, you know, like it's like this is like that's how our practices were, you know, and then we do one-on- ones and then after one-on- ons there would be some before that thrown in there one of those periods there's like a a ball security drill. So talking about what do we practice? There'd be some kind of ball security drill we do. There could also be an open field tackle drill that would be incorporated in those first six periods. But after we get to those one-on- ons, we go to seven on sevens and then there's like in uh inline run with the offense and defensive linebackers or offense defensive line. They they do their own little seven on or nine on seven or whatever they do. And the skill groups would go do seven on seven. And that would be like scripted period. We'd already walked through that before practice, right? We've already kind of done those emphasis in the drills that we did that day, right? So, it's all emphasizing to get to the seven on seven. So, now we're executing as a team. We warmed up on our one-on- ones. We did all our warm-ups as a team. Now, it's seven on seven. So, then we go into that. We want to have a great period. No balls on the ground. We want to win the [ __ ] period because it carries over to the next [ __ ] period. And then after that, we may have one one maybe two two of those, but that's usually one period. And then we have like three teams. And then in between those, there's like special teams. Now, each period goes from like six to like seven minutes. So, and it's real efficient. So you're going from this stuff to that stuff to that stuff because we have only a certain amount of dedicated time that we can be on the field in our collective bargaining agreement. So when we get to those teams, it's like all right now we're going against there could be one team period or usually we're going against scout team on those on those periods. 11 on 11.
11 on 111. Team, scout team, defense is on one side, we're on the other. We're we're going against each other, right? So, there's usually like three teams. At the end of that, we would sometimes have like a competitive period would be ones on.
Oh, nice. Best on best, baby.
Yeah. And you know in on a Wednesday if we were doing shitty in the red area or we're doing shitty in like third down, you know, he you know, we would go and and coach would say [ __ ] all right, one's ones competitive period, third down. We we would go in and we practice third down early in the week just to get a head start on it when we know that the day is Thursday or Friday or we usually go over two-minute. Monday was a big or was a big two-minute. What what we like to run in two-minute at the end of practice. Also could help condition us. And after all the teams are done, we had special teams. There's probably like four or five special teams periods. We go and we would condition, do like the hill like six, seven times, five, six times depending on what time of the year it was and how much we really needed. And then you you come up as a team and that's that's practice. Then you after that you have 50 or 45 minutes uh to either get some food, get a little treatment and then we go or it could be 30 minutes and then you go right into watching practice. You watch the whole practice.
As a team or with position group.
Coach could have seven plays that he highlighted. Bellich we team meeting. He could have seven plays from that practice that he highlighted maybe in the, you know, the one-on-one, two one-on- ons, five, three one-on- on's he, uh, that he highlight and sit and go over on good example of what to do, bad example of what to do, coaching point that we talked about. Then he'd go into like uh, you know, seven on sevens, maybe a young guy did something good that he struggled on early. Bill would highlight, look at, good job on this. You worked hard this week. You know, even and and when guys got called on that stuff, that like made your life. Like those practices like if Bill highlighted you as a young guy, that made your life.
Oh man, I can't even.
You know what I mean? Then he he'd jump into like every once in a while you get a little f something fun in there. You know, maybe like one of the coaches got hit in the head on the sideline by the ball, you know, maybe like that. And and Bill would rewind it like 10 times. It look, "Hey, Ives, you got to keep your head on a swivel, huh? You know, getting hit in the head with a [ __ ] Man, when you're working that hard and the days are that long, you got to mix in the fun."
Yeah, it wasn't a lot of that, but there was those every once in a while.
I'm so glad we picked a quick question.
I had like 10 questions after that, too. That's awesome. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
We should do a whole post game on like a day in the life, like a single day, and we just do that again.
I'm so down. Um, but.
Juel, put a bon arrival to exit. What was the times looking like usually? You got there super early though.
I got there super early, but to be there 8 is a team meeting or 7:55 or 7:45 would start the day, right? So, we had to be there 7:45 till.
We would get out at 4:30.
Okay.
So, it's you know, that's what you you also had to get like a workout in. There's also stuff that wasn't mandatory to be there, but was kind of mandatory, but you would do on your own hours.
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