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00:00You ever been hung up on in an interview, Keefe?

00:01Uh, no, I don't think so.

00:04I know you have.

00:05Danny Amendola hung up on me.

00:06I was there for that.

00:07Uh, let's see.

00:08Let's not get that streak going.

00:09Nope.

00:10Hunter Henry, Patriots tight end.

00:11Joining us here on Jones and Keefe, it's Patriots Monday.

00:14It's brought to you by Shaw's and Star Market.

00:16Perfecting the art of fresh.

00:17Hunter Henry, how we doing this week?

00:18Doing good, guys.

00:19Now, you ever hung up on any interviews?

00:22You're not.

00:23That's not you.

00:24No.

00:25You're not doing that.

00:26Hung up on interviews?

00:27Yeah.

00:28I don't think so.

00:30Good.

00:31Don't start now.

00:32There was a media member in New York who cut it very, very short.

00:36He was not enjoying the line of questioning.

00:39How was the bye week?

00:40What'd you do on the bye week, Hunter?

00:41Uh, just spent some time with the family.

00:44My wife.

00:45It's my birthday this weekend, so just spent some time with family.

00:50Happy birthday.

00:51Did you, uh, anything extra for that?

00:53Big cake?

00:54Anything like that?

00:55Uh, yeah.

00:56My wife did it right.

00:57My wife did it right.

00:58Uh, but just kept it private, not anything too crazy.

01:02All right.

01:03Now, I'm curious.

01:04Is it worse to have the first bye week of the year, like in week four or five, or is

01:10it worse to have it at the end of the year like you guys did this year?

01:13Probably worse to have, uh, the first one.

01:16Yeah.

01:17The first one?

01:18Yeah, yeah.

01:19Okay.

01:20You know, I read over the weekend, you guys were the only team, there were a bunch of

01:21teams on bye this week.

01:22You were the only team in the NFL to have a practice this week.

01:25Maybe you got to yell at Gerard about that.

01:26You guys were the only ones who actually had a practice this week.

01:28Uh, yeah.

01:29Uh, it is what it is.

01:30So, um, you know, uh, Mayo, you know, wanted us to practice and continue to try to improve

01:39and get better.

01:40Um, you know, he, he makes those decisions and we got to go out there and continue to

01:43get better.

01:44How much, uh, football did you watch over the bye week?

01:47College and NFL?

01:48Uh, I watched a little bit, not, I wouldn't say a crazy amount, but definitely watched

01:52some.

01:53You know, we were just asking, uh, Christian Gonzalez about this, but the college football

01:57playoff for the first year, going to 12 teams, you got four with a bye conference winners

02:02and the rest of it fills out.

02:03Do you like that?

02:04Just as a fan, the, the 12 team playoff, I think it's added some drama for sure.

02:09Um, and also like, I just felt like in college, it just made, um, you know, I feel like in

02:15college, if you lost one game, it was like the end of the end of the year, sometimes

02:19for some of those top teams.

02:21So it definitely added some drama.

02:24I've appreciated it a little bit more in college.

02:26Um, just that sense of it that like, you can, you know, maybe get in with three, three losses

02:32now and, um, you know, two losses, you can still get in.

02:35So I think that definitely added some kind of drama to things.

02:39Staying in college.

02:40We're talking to Patriots tight end Hunter Henry, uh, Bill Belichick came out last week

02:44has interviewed, uh, with the university of North Carolina.

02:47Could you see him coaching in college?

02:51Um, I think it will be definitely a different, uh, role for him for sure.

02:54Um, but you know, I, you know, Bill's obviously a tremendous coach, have so much respect for

02:59him.

03:00Um, and so I think he could get it done wherever he, wherever he, you know, his feet are wherever

03:05he's coaches.

03:06You know, the college landscape has changed so much with NIL and I know there was always

03:11jokes about college players getting paid or whatever, but now they for sure are getting

03:15paid.

03:16Can you, what would that be like?

03:18If you, if you put yourself back in that situation, whether it was you or some of your teammates

03:22in college, you know, 18, 19, 21 years old, making a couple million bucks, like how would

03:28you be able to wrap your mind around that?

03:30Hey, I probably would have been pretty crazy 18, 18, uh, 19 year old.

03:36Me would have been, that would have been wild, especially living in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

03:40Um, you know, a million dollars goes a long, a long way, uh, place like that.

03:44So, uh, yeah, it would have been pretty wild.

03:47Uh, me and my brother is like, we talk about that a lot.

03:49Okay.

03:50If a million goes a long way, how about 15 years, 765 million?

03:55That's what Juan Soto got from the Mets.

03:58How do you feel about major league baseball contracts compared to contracts in the NFL?

04:02The disparity there?

04:03Uh, yeah, it was pretty wild.

04:06Uh, congrats to him for sure.

04:10Um, you know, I'm always happy to see someone get a big contract.

04:13Um, they, yeah, pretty wild.

04:16But it was, uh, definitely something interesting to see, uh, happy for him.

04:22You know, what are the challenges for the final four weeks of the season, making sure

04:26all the guys are still, you know, a hundred percent locked in after you've been eliminated

04:30from the playoffs, but obviously have to finish the season as strong as he can.

04:33Oh yeah.

04:34I mean, there's, why would you not be locked in, man?

04:37We get to play, um, a child's game for Kings Ransom.

04:41So, I mean, this is, uh, this is what, you know, this is an awesome sport.

04:46We've all played this since we were little, um, and we're getting to play in the NFL.

04:50We get to play four more games guaranteed, you know, you never know, um, when your last

04:55game will ever be.

04:56So, I think that's, you always got to take it game by game and, um, attack each week

05:00like that.

05:01Um, with that mindset, man, we get to play some good football teams on the stretch too

05:04to kind of challenge ourselves.

05:06Okay.

05:07He's Patriots tight end Hunter Henry, joins us every Patriots Monday here on Jones and

05:10Keefe.

05:11Hunter, we appreciate the time.

05:12We'll talk to you next week.

05:13All right.

05:14Thank you, Hunter.

05:15All right.

05:16Hunter Henry here on a Patriots Monday, uh, coming off the, uh, the birthday, the birthday

05:19boy there.

05:20Birthday boy.

05:21All right.

05:22Pretty good.

05:23Probably should have been on my radar.

05:24What?

05:25You're going to send him a gift or something?

05:26No, I just say it would have been something worth saying to him.

05:29It doesn't matter if you know what his birthday is.

05:31It would have been good to know going into the interview.

05:33He's uh, he's, he's 30 now.

05:35I should have had more.

05:36It's another thing that should have been a top of mind for me.

05:3930.

05:41Wife did it.

05:42Right.

05:43He said, what does that mean?

05:44I don't know.

05:45I was afraid to ask quite frankly.

05:46A lot of texts, by the way.

05:473793.

05:48Oh no, it's not.

05:49I have a couple of ideas.

05:50617-779-7937.

05:51A lot of texts.

05:52Did he, did he hang up on Gresham for, I didn't mean to ask about, did he hang up on Gresham

05:57for you?

05:58I don't know.

05:59Oh, I actually think he might've one time.

06:00Wow.

06:01So when I asked that, that was just off the rip because he, he sounded a touch defensive.

06:07Why did he hang up on those guys?

06:09I don't remember.

06:10Okay.

06:11All right.

06:12We'll try it.

06:13We'll try it.

06:14If any of the listeners remember, let us know.

06:15Multiple texts about that.

06:16And so he did sound a little.

06:17He was like, I don't mean, huh?

06:18Me?

06:19Never.

06:20Definitely not this time slot.

06:21Nope.

06:22Didn't happen last year.

06:23That wasn't you guys, was it?

06:24They don't know.

06:25He doesn't know.

06:26He has no idea.

06:27He's like, I probably, yeah, I hung up on you.

06:28What are you asking about?

06:29Interesting.

06:30Yeah.

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