{"id":16455,"date":"2018-04-03T08:06:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T12:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/?p=16455"},"modified":"2018-04-03T08:06:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T12:06:48","slug":"tuesday-patriots-notebook-4-3-bruschi-its-hard-to-be-a-player-under-coach-belichick-gronk-brightens-a-fans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2018\/04\/03\/tuesday-patriots-notebook-4-3-bruschi-its-hard-to-be-a-player-under-coach-belichick-gronk-brightens-a-fans-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Patriots Notebook 4\/3: Bruschi &#8220;It&#8217;s Hard to Be a Player Under Coach Belichick&#8221;, Gronk Brightens a Fan&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re on to Tuesday, and here&#8217;s a quick look at some of this morning&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gronk Makes a Moving Appearance &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>When you&#8217;re waiting for a heart and kidney transplant, it probably takes quite a bit to put a smile on your face.\u00a0 Thankfully, Rob Gronkowski managed to come up with yet another clutch play and pulled off such a feat on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots tight end surprised Massachusetts resident Lauren Meizo with a visit at Brigham and Women&#8217;s Hospital in Boston, bringing a huge smile to the face of the 27-year old who is reportedly awaiting a second heart transplant.<\/p>\n<p>According to NBC Boston, Meizo suffers from a rare form of muscular dystrophy and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/news\/local\/Woman-Waiting-for-Heart-Kidney-Transplant-Gets-Her-Wish-Meets-Rob-Gronkowski-478557533.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>is\u00a0 getting ready to undergo her second heart transplant in five years<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 She&#8217;s spent the last 85 days &#8220;living&#8221; at the Hospital, and Gronk&#8217;s visit definitely made her day.<\/p>\n<p>She posted an Instagram photo with the caption, &#8220;GRONK MADE MY WISH COME TRUE&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/laurenmeizo\/posts\/10155872941378005\" data-width=\"552\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block;\"><\/div>\n<p>Kudos to Gronkowski, who definitely brightened the day of someone who is obviously going through something incredibly scary.\u00a0 Best wishes to Meizo, as reports say there&#8217;s still no word on when a potential transplant will take place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patriots Expected to Get Calls For Gronkowski &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>It&#8217;s hard to say which offseason was more irritating.\u00a0 The one surrounding Tom Brady&#8217;s potential suspension during deflategate was maddening, but all the Gronkowski speculation is beginning to reach a ridiculous level.<\/p>\n<p>Albert Breer of SI.com piled on Monday with some news that isn&#8217;t much of a surprise, with Breer reporting that multiple\u00a0clubs are expected to test just how serious Bill Belichick may be about moving him as all of these reports seem to suggest.<\/p>\n<p>Breer reports that a couple teams in Orlando told him that they were planning on making offers to try and pry Gronkowski away.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last week, we mentioned this in the GamePlan (<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3cCCQbHsEU\">https:\/\/t.co\/3cCCQbHsEU<\/a>), and I&#39;d repeat it &#8212; my expectation is the Patriots will be getting trade calls on TE Rob Gronkowski. In fact, a couple teams told me in Orlando that they were planning on making them.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlbertBreer\/status\/980914878960545792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Belichick has said in the past that he&#8217;s always open to listening to offers regardless of the player, and he&#8217;s obviously no stranger to doing the unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the reported tension between the two, it seems unlikely that Belichick would move Gronkowski unless, of course, he becomes a malcontent or does anything that could disrupt the locker room.\u00a0 That hasn&#8217;t ever been the case throughout his entire career, so that seems unlikely at this point.\u00a0 The fact Gronkowski wants to go out there and play as long as Brady is here is also telling, with the veteran tight end essentially signaling that he wants to make another title run with the future Hall of Fame quarterback.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Gronk wants what both Belichick and Brady each want.\u00a0 That trait alone will likely be one that plays a big role in his future, and unless another team comes with a king&#8217;s ransom, it would be fairly shocking to see him get shipped off.<\/p>\n<p>But then again, get ready to read other stories over the next few months about why it could happen &#8211; because they&#8217;re probably coming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edelman Gets Inducted into the Hall&#8230;sort of<\/strong> &#8211; Julian Edelman has probably already secured a place in the Patriots Hall of Fame, but he recently got inducted into another Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>According to Patriots.com, the veteran receiver <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patriots.com\/news\/2018\/04\/02\/julian-edelman-inducted-hometown-hall-fame\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>was inducted into the Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in his hometown out in the Bay area, with the team&#8217;s official site pointing out that he&#8217;s joining a variety of others for this year&#8217;s class including Jeremy Lin of the Nets, local football coach Larry Owens, along with Olympians Caroline &#8220;KK&#8221; Clark, Jack Daniels and Archie Williams.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bg7zSgbBlty\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bg7zSgbBlty\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by Julian Edelman (@edelman11)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Edelman&#8217;s had a busy offseason spending time with former Patriot Danny Amendola and working out as he continues recovering from the season-ending knee injury he suffered last preseason.<\/p>\n<p>Edelman posted a video of him working out back on March 12th and the recovery appears to be going well as he looked pretty strong.\u00a0 The veteran receiver had his daughter on hand during called a &#8220;bring your daughter to work day&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BgPIJvwBeqo\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; 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We had just beaten Baltimore. It was me and Junior Seau,\u201d Bruschi said <a href=\"https:\/\/patriotswire.usatoday.com\/2018\/04\/02\/tedy-bruschi-tells-story-of-ruthless-bill-belichick-from-2007-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>via USA TODAY on ESPN on Monday<\/strong><\/a>. \u201cIt was 2007. \u2026 We\u2019ve won the game. Bill comes in. We\u2019re 12-0. \u2026 Bill comes in, \u2018Hey, Bruschi. Hey, Seau. How many years of experience in the NFL do you both have? 50? Look at this read.\u2019 And he rewinds the play over and over and over again. All we did was take a wrong step, a wrong step to our left, and the read was to our right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave we made that read a bunch of times? Yes, but we took a little false step this way and there we were on film going like this the entire way,\u201d Bruschi said, shifting back and forth in his chair to simulate what he looked like on film. \u201c[We were] getting called out in front of the entire team. 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