UFC president Dana White said he helped shipper a game plan for quarterback Tom Brady to play for the Las Vegas Raiders when Brady was a free expert quarterback in 2020, but by then Raiders guide Jon Gruden refuted the plan almost all out of time.
White was convinced to retell the story by Rob Gronkowski during the “UFC with the Gronks” broadcast on ESPN and ESPN+ for UFC 278 on Saturday night.
I endeavored to gather that game plan for Brady and Gronk to come to the Raiders,” White said. “It was practically settled. Likewise, totally dry on time, Gruden detonated the game plan and said that he didn’t require him and the circumstance went crazy, man. It was crazy.
Moreover, Brady was by then looking at houses. It wasn’t said right now that Gronk would have been coming. So Las Vegas would have had Brady and Gronk the year that the Bucs won the Super Bowl except for Gruden detonated the plan.
White added “there’s such an overabundance of story that goes with this behind the scenes that.
Gruden left the Raiders in October 2021. ESPN Senior NFL Insider Adam Schefter nitty gritty in 2020 – – when Brady was a free subject matter expert – – that the Raiders needed to seek after Brady in case he showed up at free association. He did, by the day’s end supported with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where he won the Super Bowl that season.
White moreover said Gronkowski could have come to the Raiders. Gronkowski, in any case, was under concurrence with the New England Patriots by then. The Patriots over the long haul traded Gronkowski to Tampa Bay that April.
Gronkowski, who presented White the fundamental request, said he was cheerful things worked out how they did.
“I’m blissful it didn’t go through,” Gronkowski said on the show. “Everything ended up being something to be thankful for, man. I’m cheerful we went to Tampa, man. It just wound up working. I love that spot.”
Messages transported off Brady’s agent, Don Yee, as well as representatives from the Raiders were not speedily returned Saturday night.
The Buccaneers are right now in their third season with Brady as their quarterback – – despite the way that he has not been in educational course this preseason. Las Vegas continues to have Derek Carr as its quarterback – – Carr completed 67.3% of his passes for 4,103 yards, 27 scores and nine catch endeavors in 2020 and 68.4% of his passes for 4,804 yards, 23 scores and 14 catch endeavors in 2021.
White said he was not expecting to tell that story until Gronkowski got some data about it.