UFC president Dana White appeared on ESPN’s UFC 278 with The Gronks special to chat with Rob Gronkowski and his family and ended up causing controversy when he claimed he helped orchestrate a move to bring Brady and Gronk to the Raiders ahead of the club’s first season in Las Vegas in 2020, but the deal was nixed at the last minute by then-Raiders coach Jon Gruden.
“I worked to put that deal together for Brady and Gronk to come to the Raiders,” White said. “And it was almost a done deal and, at the last minute, Gruden blew the deal up and said that he didn’t want ’em. All hell broke loose, man, it was crazy.”
One former Raider seems to have the answer as to why Gruden made that decision to keep Carr.
Lincoln Kennedy suggested that Gruden decided to stay with current quarterback Derek Carr is out of loyalty.
“Well, Jon Gruden is a little bit of a loyalist himself,” Kennedy told “The Zach Gelb Show” on CBS Sports Radio. “He was loyal to Derek Carr for all those years, believing in him for all the years that he had him.”
“Even when Derek Carr supposedly tore his groin in one of the games towards the end of the year (in 2020), (Marcus) Mariota went in there and played pretty well and almost beat the Chargers that game. Derek still got the start the next week when he was supposed to be out for at least 10 days or two weeks. Jon Gruden has always been somewhat of a quarterback loyalist, maybe to error, but it’s always been a part of him.”
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Appearing on The Shop in June, Brady fired a shot at an anonymous team that backed out of his free agency bidding to stick with another QB, leading to speculation that it might be 49ers QB Jimmy Garoppolo or former Dolphins QB Ryan Fitzpatrick.
It seems we have the truth now.
