WEBVTT - Hour 1 - Adam Shefter (04-22-20) 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:03.480 You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:09.320 Sports Radio. Well he's back Rob Gronkowski, ending his one 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:14.200 year retirement, rejoining Tom Brady now with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:17.759 We didn't get a lot of time to react to this, 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:21.880 just the possibility of hey, hearing Gronk might be coming back. 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:25.440 You know that, Adam Schefter, he was a buzz kill 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.800 yesterday because all of a sudden, Dannets were talking with 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:31.240 amongst one another, and all of a sudden was like, 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:33.640 there's this group text and we go, hey, you're hearing Gronk. 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.680 And then hey, Chefty just reported he's passed his physical 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:38.760 He's going to Tampa Bay. I'm like, wait a minute, 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:41.640 how was that a done deal? But Gronk would seem 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.120 like an out look. Am I surprised? And did I 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.400 think he was coming back? No? I did not. I 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:50.160 thought that he was happy working at the WWE. He's 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:53.280 a very smart and he's a good businessman. I think 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.360 Gronk's good at playing dumb, but he's a smart guy. 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:00.240 WWE has some business opportunities. And I thought he was 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.520 just starting to get healthier. He had lost weight, started 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:05.640 to feel a little bit better and We know what 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:08.319 the game did to him, all the surgeries there, and 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:10.880 he's a Hall of Famer, And that's why I thought it. 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.280 As much as he'd loved to come back, as much 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:15.720 as he'd loved to play with Brady at another place 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:18.280 and have fun, I just didn't think he would do it. 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.600 He joins a talented group of receivers. You got Mike Evans, 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:23.640 you got Chris Godden. When you got two tight ends 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:27.280 right now, Brad and Howard, I don't know if you're 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.880 going to keep both of those guys because I look 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:32.160 at Gronk. He's not going to be your typical tight 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.120 end here. He's not going to be her every down 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.400 tight end. He's going to be the guy who can 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.440 come in and you got guys who are going to 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:41.640 be able to stretch the field. Gronk works over the 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:45.200 middle in the red zone. You got that security blanket 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:48.400 for Tom. He knows what Brady does. Brady knows what 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.000 Gronk does. He's not going to be the same Gronk 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.720 that we saw a few years ago, but still at 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:57.560 that position. He sort of plays that position where I 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.320 post you up. You know, if you play basketball and 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.360 you have the guy who can just take up space 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.280 inside and you can't move him. That's what Gronk can do. 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:06.760 He can go over the middle of the field. He 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:08.880 can take up space. Is he going to have yards 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.440 after the catch? Probably not. But you start to look 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.240 at what Tampa is doing, and of course I'm all 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.760 in on my Buccaneers. I don't think this changes it 0:02:18.840 --> 0:02:21.960 should change their Super Bowl odds, but it did. They 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.960 went from six best odds to fourth best odds in 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:30.680 the NFL. I didn't agree with that. I think Gronk 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:34.359 helps them. I don't know how much, and I'm cautiously 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:37.640 optimistic of what Gronk is able to do. We do 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.799 know about the injuries. We know he's been limited. He 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:44.200 hasn't played sixteen games in a season since twenty eleven. 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:48.280 Single digit games played twice in the last six years. 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:53.160 He's thirty one in May. I like it. Maybe it's 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:56.239 one of those where he doesn't give you that much 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.200 on the field, but I do think there's entertainment. I 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.200 do think there is a levity that he can add 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:06.640 and Brady likes him being around. You know. Adam Schefter 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:11.160 on his podcast had Gronk on recently, and this is September. 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:13.600 You know, everybody kept thinking if Tom calls, hey, if 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:18.040 Tom calls, well, Tom eventually called. It just wasn't with 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.320 the Patriots, which we'll get into in a moment. But 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.640 here's a little bit of that podcast with Adam Schefter 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.239 and Tom calls you in December. It says, Rob, come 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.920 on post stretch run playoffs, don't have to come back 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.400 that much. You're feeling good. Your toes are better from 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:38.200 the CBD, your body feels better, weight weights better. What 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:40.800 do you see when Tom calls you, h I want 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.279 to have I'm wanna be doing his treatments, getting his piebility. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.640 If he comes over and rubs some CBD man economy, 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.720 I'll feel twice as good that and then I'll be 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:56.080 ready to go. Yeah. I mean it'd be hard. It'd 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:58.120 be hard to turn down your friend and quarterback and 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:01.480 he calls you late in the season. I might have 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:10.160 to try some of that CBD. What's a stranger laugh 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:15.560 Mike Tyson or Rob Gronkowski. But Gronk is back. It's 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.560 good for all of us. But you start to look 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:19.040 at this, and I know we'd like to look at 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.520 the optics here. Gronk wanted to come back and play 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.320 with Brady, but not play in New England. If Tom 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.000 is still in New England. I don't think Rob Gronkowski 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.200 is coming back to play football. I think Gronk wants 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.800 to have a good time. I do think when he 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:35.839 gets on the practice field, and you could talk to 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.600 former teammates, they'll tell you when Gronk was in practice, 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:42.080 he wasn't a goofball. He was serious in what he 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.599 was doing. He was a serious football player off the field. 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:47.839 He had fun. Remember when we were worried about Gronk 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.320 because he was doing like keg stands and some stuff. 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.880 We're like, oh man, and then you got Aaron Hernandez 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:55.120 were like none, I'll take the keg stands. I'm good 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.880 with that. He can be goofy all he wants. But 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.960 Gronk coming back, I am cautious optimistic that it can work. 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:04.839 But you already have a couple of good tight ends. 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.400 Maybe Oj Howard can come back and give you the 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:11.440 production he had two years ago. Cameron brad is a 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.680 probably the guy that they want to keep because that 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:17.080 is more in line with what Brady wants with his 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.960 tight end. O J. Howard I think has a higher ceiling, 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.840 but fell off dramatically this past year. All right, eight 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.240 seven seven three d P show email address DP at 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.560 dan Patrick dot com, Twitter handle a DP show. A 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.599 couple of poll questions here, let me run down the 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:34.000 guest list. The aforementioned Adam Schefter will join us from 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:35.840 the Mother's Ship. That'll be coming up a little bit. 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.440 We'll talk to Nick Saban coming up in the final 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.400 hour of the program. If you'd like to watch, you 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.680 can YouTube dot com Slashdan Patrick Show, and of course 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.920 are great radio affiliates around the country. If I told 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.600 you back in August, these are the things that are 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:57.000 going to happen. Now, just understand even if I said, hey, 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:01.200 these are things that could happen in August. Andrew Luck's 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:05.200 going to retire, Antonio Brown's gonna be out of football completely, 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.359 Philip Rivers going to the Colts. Teddy Bridgewater is going 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:12.119 to be the Panthers starting quarterback. Joe Burrows going number 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.039 one in the draft. Now this is prior to last season. Oh, 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.799 by the way, Lamar Jackson's going to be the NFL MVP. 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.920 Luke Keikley is going to retire. Tom Brady's gonna be 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:26.839 a Tampa Bay buccaneer. So is Rob Gronkowski. All of 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:33.360 those things have happened since last August. That crazy if 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.520 I said three of these sound kind of far fetched. Wait, 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:38.880 so Cam Newton's not going to be in Carolina like 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:43.000 Philip Rivers, but the Colts. So Joe Burrow, who had 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:47.240 a substandard or an average junior season, is gonna be Wait, 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.640 he's gonna be the number one, not ta Lamar Jackson's 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:54.279 gonna be the MVP. Wait, Lamar Jackson's gonna be the 0:06:54.360 --> 0:07:00.520 MVP over Patrick Mahomes. Wait, Luke Keikles retiring, Tom Brady 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.560 is leaving, like and then you throw in Andrew Luck. Oh, 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.280 by the way, all of those things have happened since 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:10.000 last August, Yampole, This is why the NFL dominates. I mean, 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:12.400 the NBA's got some pretty good storylines of super teams, 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.440 but look at this out and there's a lot of 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.480 bad stuff here too. You don't want Andrew Luck going away. 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:18.720 You know, you wish Antonio Brown would write his ship. 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:24.200 But from a drama coverage standpoint, there's three sixty five. Yeah, 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:25.840 and then I started to look at this with uh, 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:30.000 you know, the Patriots and having fun, and I know 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.600 that we people are going to be rooting for the 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.880 Buccaneers to do well, as if to say, hey, take 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:40.400 that Bill Belichick. You know, is the Patriot way starting 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.320 to crumble a little bit? Are we seeing behind the 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.040 curtain there? Tom doesn't want to stay there. It's not fun. 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.480 I mean, those guys still have some Super Bowl rings 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.800 to look at. I'm gonna guess that the Packers didn't 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:55.360 have fun with Vince Lombardi and you got something for nothing. 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:57.600 You got it. You got a fourth round pick for 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:02.559 Rob Grunkowski because Rob wasn't coming back. Salary cap wise, 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.920 you wouldn't have been able to come and having come back, 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:10.560 and you got a fourth round pick. I think both 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:14.920 teams did well here. I think the Patriots getting something 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:18.200 for nothing. Now we look at and go, wait, they 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:20.640 weren't going to get Gronk back. So you have to 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:23.640 understand that Gronk wasn't going to play for New England. 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.120 Gronk was going to play with his allegiance. His loyalty 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.960 is Tom Brady, not the Patriots. It's always been that way. 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:37.439 Patriots got something for nothing. The Buccaneers got a security 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:41.600 blanket for Tom Brady and of course, the sports media 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:46.040 got content for the next couple of days. No who 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.640 had the better day yesterday, the Buccaneers, the Patriots or 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.880 us in the sports media, and we get to use 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:53.680 this for a little while and then bring it back 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.120 when the season starts as well. And then we get 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.240 to see Gronk in the uniform and how he looks 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:02.079 in a Buccaneer uniform. He throws his first past to Gronk. 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.600 Gronk in Tampa. What could go wrong there? You gotta 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:09.720 put him up in Jeter's house, right, so Tom, you know, 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:11.960 it's such a big house, although it's not that big 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.640 because Tom had to go to the park to throw, 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.640 but you could have that where Tom needs to get away, 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.280 but he can't go out socially, so he just goes 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:23.280 through the other end of the house and then Gronk's there. 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.400 Gronk sets up like you know, disco ball dance floor, 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.679 got beer on tap, and then Tom can go into 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:33.079 another world by staying in the same house with Derek Jeter. 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.640 All right, well, come up with a poll question, McLevin. 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:39.240 What are you sitting on today? Okay, now that they 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.120 have Gronk, are the Bucks the favorite in the NFC. Now, 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.440 I understand you were early and you don't want everyone 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:47.560 on this bandwagon. But if we put that pull up, 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.520 I think a lot of people are picking the Bucks now. 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.079 I want them to be a little more under the 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:56.080 radar here. I don't want everybody this is this. I 0:09:56.160 --> 0:10:00.960 go back to the Cleveland Browns. Everybody hyped him, got nervous, 0:10:01.280 --> 0:10:03.679 and I was like, when PAULI said, well, are they 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.280 more likely to go far in the playoffs or not 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.599 make the playoffs? They said, not make the playoffs. I 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:09.559 just didn't like the mix. I didn't like the coach. 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.800 I didn't like the whole situation where that Odell Beckham 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.160 is there and is he running the offense? You do 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.480 have Bruce Arians and Tom Brady, So I start at 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:21.760 the top with people that I trust. With Cleveland with 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.680 Freddie Kitchens and Baker Mayfield in his second year, I 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:29.480 just didn't trust that Brady and Arians. I trust the 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:31.880 Saints are still team. They're not even the best team 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.160 in their own division. In my opinion, the Saints are 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.640 still the team to beat as far as the Super 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:42.160 Bowl contender. Yeah, I guess now, if they win eleven games, 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.280 you get to host a playoff game. You know, he 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.840 got a chance to do some damage there. But I 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.200 would say the Saints are probably the team to beat, 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:53.440 certainly in that division. And then you have, you know, 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:54.960 the Niners are going to be good to get by 0:10:54.960 --> 0:11:00.600 the way. Absolutely stunned. John Lynch, the GM the Niners 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.640 comes out and says, yeah, we had some interest in 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:10.840 Tom Brady. The conversation, who does that benefit? John was 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:13.480 in the media. He knows how this works. Are you 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:17.520 trying to get Jimmy Garoppolo to play better? I don't 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:21.120 know if this gets Jimmy Garoppolo to play better, but 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:25.400 if that's the logic, Okay, I just was. I was 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.080 shocked that John would say this. And you know, give 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:32.520 credit to Rich Eisen who asked John Lynch on his show, Hey, 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:35.840 you know, do you have any interest in Tom Brady? Yeah, 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.400 we had conversations. That's why I kept saying until I 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:43.840 hear somebody say, that's crazy. We're not interested in Tom Brady. 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:48.760 We got Jimmy Garoppolo. Well, maybe that's why we didn't 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:52.720 hear Kyle Shanahan say we're not interested in Brady because 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:57.199 they were. They were, but don't admit it. But Garoppolo 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.920 has to know that. Okay, if I'm gonna get replaced, 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.880 I get replaced by Tom Brady, all right. Now, at 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.800 least he knows that situation. He knows, you know, Tom, 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:10.600 He's been there before. It would be kind of strange. 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.720 Though for Garppolo it's like, Oh, you gotta be kidding me. 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.760 I get traded. Now he's going to come in and 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.200 take my job. But yeah, I saw that. I went. 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.920 You gotta be kidding me. Why would you admit that? Crazy? Absolutely? 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.840 What other poll questions do you have? Mclovin, Okay, you 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.320 mentioned it earlier. Would you rather play for a coach 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.839 you hated and won the Super Bowl? Or play for 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:31.920 a coach you liked and get to the playoffs and 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:36.120 risk it? The Balochick question? And maybe I don't know 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:41.160 is Nick Saban qualified for that or his players like him? Well, 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.079 you don't hear those players because those players aren't interviewed 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:48.720 at Alabama, and I think there is a great respect 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:52.760 for them, but it feels like they pick their words 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:56.920 very carefully when they talk about Nick Saban. He'll join 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:00.960 us later today, But I'm guessing, you know, it's just 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.800 different in college because you have to you're there for 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.360 at least three years, whereas as a free agent, you 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:10.560 don't have to go play for Bill Belichick. Now you 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.160 can say you don't have to go to Alabama, but 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.360 if you want to win a national title. I don't 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.839 know if the players feel the same about Saban. Does 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.000 he take the joy out of the game. I don't know, 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:22.720 but he is a Belichick disciple, so maybe he does. 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.520 He coaches the joy out of it. I would rather 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.680 play for somebody. I'd rather play for Belichick, Ben. I 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.320 would Bruce Arians if you said you're going to have fun, 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.839 but you're probably not going to win a championship, or 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.920 you got a great chance of winning a championship, I'd 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:39.760 like to This is the greatest coach of all time. 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:43.960 I don't know if John Wooden made the game fun 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:47.400 for UCLA, but he was the greatest coach we'd ever 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.600 seen in college basketball. There are coaches who do make 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:55.800 it fun, but maybe Bill or Bill Parcels wasn't fun 0:13:55.840 --> 0:14:01.520 to play for. He was tough, but he one I'd 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:08.520 rather win and be so quote unquote miserable than to 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.320 not be great at what I do. It feels like 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.920 Belichick is going to buy winning take away some of 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.960 that misery. You know, it's even worse when you're playing 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.480 for a coach who isn't going to win a Super 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:24.040 Bowl and you hate playing for then that would be hell. 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.800 But for the most part, I would want to play 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:31.200 for Belichick. I'd want to know what that feeling is like. Now. 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:32.760 I may get really tired. I couldn't put up with 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.640 twenty years of that. But that's why we're in the 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.440 position we're in. Brady's in Tampa and Gronk followed him 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:42.280 because neither wanted to play in that environment anymore. Ted 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:44.600 and Tampa joins us, and then we'll take a break. 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:48.560 Adam Schefter will join us. Yeah, hey, Dan, a great show. 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:53.200 The key to what's going on here in Tampa. Yeah, 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.960 we got the Brady Grons coming after right after his physical. 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:02.040 The problem is check let's have an NFL Central efficiency 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.160 rating for the offensive line. They've been in the bottom 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:08.240 six and the league for the last five years, and 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.960 their left tackle has had the last rating of all 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.440 left tackles in the league for the last four years. Well, 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.600 I know they're going to do something, Ted, they are. 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.360 I mean, it would be silly to bring in Brady 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.520 and then not have a good offensive line because we 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:25.720 know that he has no ability to extend to play 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.600 they're going to take That'd be the first question I'm asked. 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:31.160 If I'm if I'm Brady, and I say to Bruce Arians, 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:34.080 what are we gonna do with the offensive line? That'd 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.200 be a first question. What are we going to do? 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:39.080 Can you trade oj Howard? Can you get a draft pick? 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:42.720 Can you get an offensive lineman in return? That's what 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:45.440 I'm sure they're exploring here. But there's no way that 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.640 that offensive line is going to be the same offensive line. Now, 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:52.320 Brady will make that offensive line better. You hope that 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:55.760 that offensive line makes Brady better as well. But yeah, 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:59.479 that will certainly be addressed. It better because my Buccaneers 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.760 are going to the super Bowl. Yeah, Paul Dan. Your Patriots, though, 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:04.800 have a lot of draft capital. They got a first 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.480 round pick, they have three three's, a four, five, and 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:11.360 four sixth round draft picks. A lot of people think 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:12.840 they're going to try to jump up a little bit 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:17.320 package some stuff. A lot of rumors. All right, This 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.600 program brought you by Legal Zoom. 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We played a clip of 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:03.560 Adam I believe back in September when he talked to 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:06.800 Gronk about that possibility of coming back, and Adam joins 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.119 us on the program. Adam, when did you start to 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:12.520 get win that Gronk was indeed ready to come back. Well, 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:14.560 the funny thing is, I will tell you this, Dan, 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:18.200 about a month ago, Jeff passing, our baseball insider, if 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:21.080 I could say this texting me that he was told 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:23.720 Gronk is coming back, and I made some calls and 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.040 it was kind of pooh pooed at the time. But 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:28.400 also got word that there are a lot of players 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.359 that were contacting Tampa that wanted to come play for Tom. 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.680 It was not just him, And again it was the 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:36.520 kind of thing that was just out there now. The 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:40.600 speed at which it developed yesterday surprised me. I don't 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.200 know why. Maybe it's draft week, it shouldn't have, but 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:45.520 it just seemed like it was an idea a month 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.600 ago that may or may not go somewhere, and then 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:52.800 obviously it took off an exploded yesterday. If Brady is 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:56.720 still in New England, is Gronk out of retirement. I 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.840 don't believe he is. No. I think that this will 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:05.200 is a situation where if Tom left there wherever he went, 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.439 Gronk would have gone. If Tom would have gone to 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.719 Los Angeles to put for the Chargers, I believe we 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:12.920 might be having this conversation today about Gronk playing for 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.359 the Chargers. If Tom had gone to San Francisco to 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:17.120 play for the forty nine Ers, I think Gronk might 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:19.640 be playing with George Kittle there in the Bay Area 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:23.160 wherever he was going to go. I think Gronk had 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:25.440 it in his mind that he'd be interested in following 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:30.640 and you need no further evidence of that than going 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:36.800 back two years ago to the draft of twenty eighteen. 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:40.520 Right before that draft, the Patriots reached an agreement with 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:44.199 the Lions to trade Gronk to Detroit, and they were 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:46.639 going to trade Gronk and a second round pick and 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:49.040 get back a second and a first round pick, which 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:53.600 would have given the Patriots three first round picks in 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.760 twenty eighteen. And Gronk, when he found out he was 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:59.280 going said I'm going to retire. I'm not going to Detroit. 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:02.880 Don't want to anywhere else but with Tom and so 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:07.080 I think there's the evidence of the loyalty. And it 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:09.840 was going to be Tampa Bay in this particular case, 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:11.840 or it was going to be nothing, which is why 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:14.720 then I think New England really was stuck. New England 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:17.320 doesn't get stuck off in But in this particular case, 0:20:17.359 --> 0:20:19.880 Gronk had a ten million dollars salary. They only got 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:21.800 a million dollars against the cap. If he says I'm 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:24.359 coming back, they got to carry that salary, clear the 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.080 space and make room for him. And they weren't prepared 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:28.520 to do that when he didn't want to do that 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:30.840 could have made life hard for them, and so they 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:32.879 took a player that wasn't going to play for them 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:35.920 and turned it basically into a fourth round pick. Did 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:40.760 the Patriots have a good day yesterday? Well, I don't 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:42.280 think it was a bad day. I think it was 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:46.000 business as usual for them. I think that they again 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:49.520 traded Gronk in a seven for four, So to me, 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:51.040 that's about as good as they could do in that 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:53.760 particular case. Now, I guess you're asking that because there's 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:56.520 some people saying, oh boy, Tom's gone, Gronk's gone. People 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:00.320 want to leave that kind of thing. Yeah, I mean 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:03.600 it is where you think they care there? They don't care. 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:07.640 They're going on. They got the draft tomorrow. They got 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:11.840 twelve picks. They're tied with the Vikings and the Jaguars 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.920 for the second most picks of the draft. They're looking ahead, 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:17.280 they're not looking back to and they're onto the draft. 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:21.480 Do you think that Belichick cared? Does he care about 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:24.480 this story other than they got a fourth round pick? 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:26.760