Say what you want, Rob Gronkowski Not happy and won't attend start of Patriots' offseason program

Betallsports · Apr 15, 2018

Like quarterback Tom Brady, tight end Rob Gronkowski will not attend the start of New England's offseason program Monday, according to a source.

Gronkowski still is considering whether to play the upcoming 2018 season, and has had "good communication" with the Patriots, per the source.

Gronkowski has a $250,000 workout bonus in his contract for 2018, which is paid out based on attending a percentage of the voluntary workouts.

Brady also is not expected to attend the start of the offseason program; he has been on a business trip to Qatar. In other years, Brady has been a regular participant at the team's offseason program, but he will miss at least the beginning this year.

"We have the voluntary offseason program that starts on Monday," Patriots coach Bill Belichick said last week. "It will be heavily attended, but I know there are a couple players that I've talked to that have other commitments, but that's the way it always is. So, not really anything new there."

Information from ESPN's Mike Reiss was used in this report.

http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/...-start-new-england-patriots-offseason-program

metro · Apr 15, 2018

go to twitter and enter " belichik sandusky " in the search bar and you will learn all that you need to know right there

PoundFoolish · Apr 15, 2018

metro said:
go to twitter and enter " belichik sandusky " in the search bar and you will learn all that you need to know right there

enlighten those of us whom do not tweet

metro · Apr 15, 2018

pound .. long story short .. a young upstart belichik allegedly was a trusted advisor at sandusky/penn state linebacker camps..

money that he allegedly was paid for at sanduskys camp is allegedly in part money he used to buy his house ..

therefore by proxy he profited off of the terrible things that occurred at camps that he was allegedly a trusted "contributor" at ..

the Kraft Group allegedly "persuaded" pen state to keep belichiks role under wraps.. and the patriots were able to
stay out of the scandal ..

part of the alleged deal for penn states cooperation to the Krafts included a key member of belichiks staff being handed to
Penn State .. Bill O'Brien ended up being " the player to be named later" much to the dismay of Brady and several other key team members..

ultimately Brady acquiesced and gave in after voicing his dis-pleasure ..

i copied ian rappaport on a link to the THERX , when i pointed him towards this story .. he thanked everyone over here at theRX
for digging this up ( i didn't want to take credit so i told him it was senior members here that researched this)

metro · Apr 15, 2018

the above may or may not be accurate and is alleged

metro · Apr 15, 2018

ian rapp and others agreed to give therx a mention or acknoewedgement if they go forward .. they way it was explained to m e
off the record .. is that when they research this it goes down a dark road they are unwilling to go down ..

going against the Krafts just isn't worth it to Rap and Shefty and others