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Right now, I have not talked to one person who believes Rob Grankowski will retire.

The expectation is he's back in a Patriot uniform in 2018.

So again, that's the tail end of the Ian Rappaport report.

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Here's Joe in the car.

What do you got, Joe?

Hey, listen, I'm not going to ask you guys how you're doing because you're all out of your

mind.

There's no way that crap is going to take Gronk side or Brady's side when it comes to trading gronk over Belichick. If he does that, he's putting himself in a position just like with Pardt Self. Remember I'm shopping for the groceries thing? Yeah, Joe, he already did it, though. Joe, he already did it with Garoppolo. Forget Garoppolo. That was about Brady. No, no, no, no, no, no.

The thing that you're talking about, he already interceded in a football matter with Garoppel. He already did that. Right, right. That had to do with Brady, and that's a one-time thing. Brady's not going to start choosing while you're not going to trade Edelman. You're not going to trade gronk. If he's doing that, Belichick's going to throw his hands up.

What's the stop Belichick's going to throw his hands up.

What's the stop Belichick from saying, okay, you can keep Brady here, make me get rid of Garapolo, and you know what? Brady, you throw a bad pass, a couple intersections, sit on the bench. I'm putting the next guy up. Remember what happened to Bletzo? Yes. probably had enough with gronk, and if Kraft does that,

siding with gronk and all these other guys over belichick,

Belichick, Belichick can blow his arms up. This isn't even worth it. I'm just telling you, it's the slippery slope. When the owner intercedes on one player, what about the next guy? Especially when that next guy is super important to the first guy. See, to me, that's the issue there. It's like, it's about, it's still about Brady. It's about craft taking care of Brady. It's less about gronk to me. If Brady wants gronk, then it's craft taking care of Brady. We're just, this is a supposed, we got a call on trading gronk, and I'm just telling you that they're not going to trade him, primarily because the owner's not going to. Even if the coach wanted to, he's not going to be

allowed to. But this isn't on the table because I don't think it's not a realistic possibility. He's either going to retire or come back here. That's what's going to happen. Grunk's got him right now. I mean, he's got him. They're invested in Brady. They had a 41-year-old quarterback. They get a slot receiver coming off of ACL who blew his knee out

and multiple ligament damage. Now what are they going to do? Take away the best red zone guy in the league? No shot. Gronks got him. Dan and Holliston. Hi, Dan. How you doing, guys? Quick question for you. It's kind of a two-parter. you guys talk about you know ACL and how you know

nobody really comes back there for quick question for you. It's kind of a two-parter. You guys talk about, you know, ACL and how, you know,

nobody really comes back their first year. But if you look at time again, look what happened to

Adrian Peterson when he tore his ACL. He came back that year and literally torched the NFL. And then the

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