As far as Gronkowski, Breer indicated the tight end’s desire for a new contract was the driving factor for most of his discontent. That’s really nothing new, but Breer seemed to confirm what a lot of people already speculated: Gronkowski’s odd press conference prior to a supercross event at Gillette Stadium, in some ways, was the impetus for the resolution. “This kind of came to a point where he sort of disengaged from the program and asked for a raise,” Breer said. ” … there was this bizarre press conference before that monster truck rally that Gronk had.
That sort of served as the ‘All right, we need to get him in here now and need a sit-down talk with him because this can’t keep going the way it’s going.’ “So Bill has Gronk in, and at that point, Bill had some discussions about trading him and Gronk sat down with Bill and all indications I got was that Gronk basically affirmed to Bill he wants to be a Patriot. That’s when they decided ‘OK, we’re gonna try to work out contract terms and go forward with this thing,” but there was a come to Jesus moment.” Gronkowski’s new deal still is “likely” to happen but isn’t imminent, according to a recent report.