What NFL Life is Actually Like Pt. II
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🗓️ 16 November 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Julian Edelman goes behind the scenes on the life of an NFL player and reveals secrets you won't find anywhere else
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to games with names. I'm Julian Edelman, and we got a brand new compilation highlight reel starting now. |
| 0:09.1 | Now, Julian explains what NFL training camp is really like. |
| 0:13.4 | Okay, training camp questions. Pull back the curtain behind what life like is in training camp. |
| 0:18.7 | Now that's happening. I know it's probably a little bit different from when you played to now, but let's talk about it anyway. Do you remember your first training camp? Yeah. What was it like the first time, like, you walked in that building? It was like a beat for beat when you walked into the building for the first time. It's a mixed emotion. You're like, especially for a rookie, my situation, I was seventh round draft pick changing position. |
| 0:41.5 | Like, I was in a different, it's different for everyone. |
| 0:45.0 | But I could probably say it's similar for everyone that like, there's a, there's like a nervousness anxiety that's floating did i do enough work in the |
| 0:59.7 | offseason am i in good enough shape am i going to be able to make the team what's going |
| 1:06.6 | am i going to be able to fix the six things that I didn't do in mini camps the way I really |
| 1:13.0 | wanted to that they talked to me about like there's a lot of that going on in your head |
| 1:16.8 | and then for me as a first rookie camp we still had double days and I was anticipating that I was going to be on like a lot of stuff and I've never really |
| 1:30.7 | ran a lot in practice you know so like I was a quarterback you guys have to have the half the time |
| 1:38.4 | you're like playing like goal line game goalpost throws you know all special teams are working their nuts off or you're |
| 1:46.0 | doing like quarterback stuff but it was never like taxing so I was like nervous for that and then you |
| 1:52.2 | also had your conditioning test that you wanted to go in and I always wanted to go in and turn heads |
| 1:58.1 | so I wanted to show them how easy it was. |
| 2:01.1 | So you're anticipating that. |
| 2:03.2 | There's like a lot of, and then there's like, I remember there's a lot of logistics. |
| 2:07.8 | So many logistics. |
| 2:09.4 | Schedules and. |
| 2:10.4 | Well, you got to go over the whole rule book or like an abridged version meeting of the rules. |
| 2:15.5 | You go over every year when you get in, you take your physical, |
| 2:20.0 | you do your conditioning test, and there's a team meeting. I always, if you came back early, |
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