Tom Brady made no demands for a Tampa reunion with longtime pal Rob Gronkowski, Ed Werder of ESPN.com tweets. However, the QB did “mention” to head coach Bruce Arians and GM Jason Licht that Gronk would love to play for the Buccaneers. 
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The speculation over Gronk’s potential return to football has raged ever since his retirement in March of 2019. Once Brady left the Patriots for the Bucs in March of this year, everyone connected the dots, speculating that Gronk could force a move to Florida. This week, the deal went down. Gronkowski will be traded to the Bucs, along with a seventh-round pick. In exchange, the Patriots will receive a fourth-round pick in this weekend’s draft, a compensatory pick at No. 139 overall.
To date, Gronkowski has registered 521 receptions, 7,861 yards, and 79 touchdowns over the course of his legendary career. The majority of those throws, of course, came from Brady. Together, they’ve racked up multiple Super Bowl rings while securing their status as future first ballot Hall of Famers.
Gronk, the one-man fiesta, will look to silence any on-field doubts after a down 2018. In his last NFL season, he appeared in 13 games, catching 47 passes for 682 yards and three touchdowns. Still, with incredible offensive skills plus blocking ability, he’s one of the best (if not the best) tight ends of all-time.
“Tom Brady Didn’t Demand Gronk”
He just strongly implied his desire to play with him again.
You beat me to it! My first thought was, “I suppose you can define ‘demand’ in a variety of ways…”
It’s pretty darn funny. Good thing being skilled in the art of subtlety isn’t a pre-requisite for getting yourself inducted into Canton.
lots of wasted words by these supposed “experts” today
Anyone who believes this load of garbage I got a bridge in Brooklyn I’d love to sell them.
No deal, it leads to the Nets
Good point.
He’s going to need to rebuild his body. That combined with the layoff means he could look like a different player when he returns.
Who cares unless you’re a Bucs fan.
There weren’t any Bucs fans until last month
Yes there are. Just because they don’t show up they’re not fans? Should be a fun and at least interesting season.
Got it… Bucs fans are band wagoners.
Well played!
When is the media going to talking more important things like the color of TB’s underwear or what hat he’s wearing?
Except trading a 4th for a dude that has a 10m cap hit reeks of desperation. 10M would paralyze the Patriots flexibility if he just unretired and stayed on the books, forcing them to cut him and sign with TB for no pick compensation.
Uh huh and John Jonah Jameson has never demanded pictures of Spiderman either.
Classic kiss and make up move. They brought in Gronk after telling Brady no about AB.
Tom is getting old but is he really at an age where kissing Licht would make his heart skip a beat? He got the free tax status he wanted so anything else he gets now he’ll consider gravy.
Sure he didn’t. And Grizzly Adams had a beard.
Adam Schefter re-iterated my point today on NFL Live. The Pats had ZERO leverage b/c of their cap situation and “got something for nothing” – direct quote.
I mean… that’s some crappy GM-ing.