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Rob Grunkowski, four-time Super Bowl champ and contributor to Fox NFL Sunday,

is the ambassador for the T-Mobile Friday Night 5G Lights,

and it's a competition high school football nationwide celebration

of hometown pride T-Mobile is all involved.

Gronk will talk to us about that.

Good to see you, Rob.

What is the, what was the goal of veterans when you went to training camp?

Oh, the goal of veterans is to show the younger players the way, you know, be the leader

out there out on the football field and get that chemistry going within, you know, the

team, within the organization, and go out there and show everyone how it's done out on the football

field and try to find ways to get better because you can make big jumps from your rookie year

to your second year. But when you're a vet, you've got to find those little tiny details

that can make your game just a little bit better compared to when a rookie is going into a second year.

You see big improvement, but you just got to find those ways to stay in the league and be better so you can stick around.

Okay, but tell me what you didn't know your rookie year.

The playbook, I can tell you that.

That was number one.

Also, understanding defenses. You know,

you can go over defenses in meetings and understand what cloud coverage is, what cover two coverage is. But to truly understand a defense, you've got to get repetitions out on the football

field. You've got to be able to go against that type of speed because it's different from when you're in college. When you get to the NFL, man, it's like everything's going so fast. And I remember that my first time I stepped down on the football field. I was like, how am I going to deal with this? Everything's just racing in my mind. These linebackers are so fast. Usually I'm so much faster than everyone else.

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