The Tampa Bay Bucs are fresh off one controversy surrounding Tom Brady receiving a playbook at a coach’s house and now they seem to have stumbled right into another one.
Newly signed Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski stated over the weekend during an appearance on Bud Light Seltzer’s “Drafterparty” that he actually had the playbook for the Bucs before we even knew he was coming back and that a trade would happen.
“I was in a Tampa Bay Buccaneers playbook four weeks ago, and I wasn’t even on the team,” Gronkowski said, according to Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio.
Gronkowski wasn’t a member of the Buccaneers on March 28th and that would’ve been exactly four weeks from this past Saturday when he made those comments. He was technically under contract with the Patriots and on the reserve/retired list.
He was eventually traded on April 21.
Florio noted that Gronk having the playbook isn’t illegal, but if the team provided it to him while he was under contract with another team might be another issue at hand.
