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The GM Shuffle

Gronk Joins the Buccaneers, Players on the Trading Block, Biggest Draft Mistakes, Boomer for President... of HIPAA

The GM Shuffle

DraftKings

Fantasy Sports, Football, Sports

4.42.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Rob Gronkowski is coming out of retirement to join Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but don’t expect him to be the game-changing offensive player he was for the New England Patriots. Of the four mistakes an organization can make when evaluating talent, “impatience” might be the worst one. There are several players across the league that are officially on the trading block and Mike responds to Boomer Esiason’s latest criticism. The GM Shuffle will be back on Friday, April 24th to recap the first round of Thursday NFL draft! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On the Eave of the NFL draft we get some monster news. We'll talk about

0:07.0

Gronck in just a second, but also some players who could be traded with a

0:10.6

draft taking place starting tomorrow.

0:12.9

In addition to that, we'll also respond to Boomer Asaison's criticism of Mike and the GM shuffle.

0:17.3

Plus, that Homeland review you've been waiting for.

0:19.6

But first and foremost, Mike, Gronk, are you kidding me?

0:22.3

Out of retirement and now reunited with

0:24.4

Tom Brady. It's straight out of a movie, Best Friends Back Together or something like

0:28.3

that. Bottom line is this, the Patriots studying Grunk and a seventh-round pick to

0:32.0

the Bucks and return to England gets a fourth round pick from Tampa.

0:35.6

We'll get into what Grunk has left the tank, what this means to the team.

0:38.9

But first and foremost, for all those saying, wait, I thought Grunk was retired how does this work well the two teams

0:44.7

did a work out the trade because the tight end had one year remaining on his

0:47.9

contract when he called it quits fall in the 2018 season since he didn't play in 2019 that meant the Patriots still

0:54.7

had him under contract for one more year and one reason the patch were

0:58.4

open the deal is this Grunk didn't want to play with them he wants to play with

1:02.0

Brady they only a 2.1 million in salary cap space. That's a big issue.

1:05.8

Gron coming out of retirement, $12 million cap it. So that's my first question to you is this. People going, hang on a second.

1:11.2

He's one of the greatest tightins ever and that's all you

1:13.5

could get for him but really it makes sense for New England's perspective

1:16.3

because what else were you gonna get for him? I mean it was like picking up loose

1:19.5

change I mean seriously that he was not going to play for them and I don't think that this is not

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