{"id":16585,"date":"2018-04-09T07:36:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T11:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/?p=16585"},"modified":"2018-04-09T07:36:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T11:36:26","slug":"monday-patriots-notebook-4-9-some-light-shed-on-gronk-friction-with-belichick-brady-edelman-already-hard-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patsfans.com\/patriots\/blog\/2018\/04\/09\/monday-patriots-notebook-4-9-some-light-shed-on-gronk-friction-with-belichick-brady-edelman-already-hard-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Patriots Notebook 4\/9: Some Light Shed on Gronk Friction With Belichick, Brady & Edelman Already Hard at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Monday and the start of the work week, but here’s a quick rundown of today’s top stories as we get back into it.<\/p>\n

Belichick Called Gronk Out In Front of Team Last Season –<\/strong> Reading a lot of the reports this offseason about Rob Gronkowski’s frustrations with the team haven’t provided much insight, but it looks like there’s one report that corroborates some of what we’ve\u00a0 heard\u00a0in regards to the reported friction between the\u00a0tight end and head coach Bill Belichick.<\/p>\n

According to the Boston Herald, there was an instance early last season where Belichick reportedly chastized Gronkowski in front of the team for being a TB12 client<\/strong><\/a>, which backs up the report by Seth Wickersham that ran during the season about there being tension among players other than Tom Brady working out with Alex Guerrero outside of the team’s own strength and conditioning staff.<\/p>\n

There have been several reports about there being frustrations among the “planet players”, with Gronkowski and Brady being among those who aren’t pleased with the current environment.\u00a0 We saw Gronkowski’s post to Danny Amendola following his decision to sign with the Dolphins this offseason, which included the phrases, “Be FREE” and “Be HAPPY”, while not really understanding the reasoning behind it.\u00a0 He’s also said that he’ll be back as long as Brady is here, which also raised an eyebrow among those who were trying to figure out what could have been going on behind the scenes that caused it to get to this point.<\/p>\n

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