The relationship between Rob Gronkowski and Bill Belichick does not appear to be all that strong these days, and it seems like that has everything to do with the star tight end choosing to follow Tom Brady’s training methods over the team’s.
Karen Guregian of the Boston Herald reported over the weekend that Belichick chastised Gronkowski in front of his teammates at one point for working with Alex Guerrero and subscribing to the so-called TB12 method. Patriots reporter Tom E. Curran shed some more light on the exchange, and he was told that Belichick was attributing Gronk’s slow start in training camp to the fact that he was training at the TB12 Sports Therapy Center.
Source told me that, During camp, when Gronk was performing poorly, he was called out in front of team for being ineffective. Change in regimen was derisively referred to as the reason. This was big part of Gronk's irritation that lasted all year. https://t.co/xl9YzZqmf2
— Tom E. Curran (@tomecurran) April 9, 2018
As Curran notes, Gronkowski missed just one game in 2017 due to injury and had an All-Pro season. Given how much time he had missed in past seasons, it’s difficult to argue that he made the wrong choice by working with Guerrero.
Gronkowski still has not said whether he plans to play in 2018, and Curran previously reported that he contemplated retiring during training camp when he was at odds with the team over his rehabilitation. A lot of the Gronk drama ties into the issues between Belichick and Brady, and we have heard very little to this point to make us think that tension has been alleviated.
