Why tight ends are "The Blood and Guts" of the NFL with author Ty Dunne

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🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Phil Perry is joined by Tyler Dunne, author of the new book, “The Blood and Guts: How Tight Ends Save Football” to discuss the importance of the position and its changing role in the sport today. Ty also shares his favorite stories about Patriots legends Rob Gronkowski and Ben Coates, which he learned while interviewing them for the book. 2:05- Ty Dunne explains why Rob Gronkowski’s emergence was exactly what the NFL needed in 2010 8:28- Ty shares his favorite story about Gronk growing up and how Bill Belichick allowed the tight end’s personality to flourish while with the Patriots 18:25- Ty explains what made Ben Coates the most important tight end of the 1990s 22:00- Why hasn’t the Patriots’ new tight end pairing of Hunter Henry and Jonnu Smith worked out? Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5qSdQj3tr7o Ty's Book: http://a.co/d/4IXfU9r

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0:00.0	What's up everybody?
0:15.5	Welcome into the next Pats podcast.
0:17.1	I'm Phil Perry.
0:17.6	You have a very special edition of NextPats for you this week because we're bringing on our buddy Ty Dunn, who is, in my opinion, one of the best when it comes to covering the sport, reporting, writing. He's been at Bleacher Report. He's been at the Buffalo News. He's been at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He has been across the country covering this great game for a long, long time now.
0:38.1	But he has his first book that is coming out, October 18th.
0:41.8	It's called The Blood and Guts, How Tight Ends, Save Football.
0:46.1	You're going to want to get your hands on this, specifically if you are a Patriots fan,
0:49.7	because there are two Patriots that are detailed in this thing with their own chapters.
0:55.3	Ben Coates, if you're of a certain age, that gets you fired up because I know it gets me
1:01.2	fired up. I'm in my mid-30s. I grew up watching Ben Coates. He was. My favorite player,
1:06.1	Drew Bledsoe was right there close second. Okay. Love Drew Bledsoe back then.
1:11.0	But Ben Coates was really the guy who got me geeked because he was just so fast, so powerful,
1:16.8	so dynamic, caught everything and just this behemoth of a man who looked like the varsity
1:23.5	starter playing against eighth graders at times.
1:26.8	He was that special, but also Rob
1:28.4	Grankowski, of course. And you're going to hear from Ty that chapter that he reported out on
1:33.4	Rob Grancowski sounds like it was one of his favorites, if not his favorite. And you can understand
1:39.5	why. The stories are phenomenal. And as I tell him in our interview here, there are a lot of
1:44.1	stories in there. As somebody who covered him in our interview here, there are a lot of stories in there.
1:45.2	As somebody who covered essentially the entirety of Rob Grankowski's career in New England that even I didn't know.
1:51.7	So you're really going to love this thing.
1:53.3	Let's get to our conversation with Ty Dunn and all things tight ends right now.
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