Rob Gronkowski joked about Tom Brady’s NFL complaints: ‘It was already flag soccer for you’

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Brady questioned the present physicality within the NFL, asking if “soccer goes to flag soccer over a time period.”

Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski earlier than Tremendous Bowl LIII tan Grossfeld /Globe Employees

Rob Gronkowski’s response to Tom Brady’s feedback: After Tom Brady just lately posited that the NFL is changing into a much less bodily league with too many penalties, former teammate Rob Gronkowski couldn’t resist making the apparent joke.

Brady, talking in an episode of his “Let’s Go!” podcast, sarcastically joked, “Possibly soccer goes to flag soccer over a time period.”

“That is soccer. This isn’t contact soccer,” he added. “That is actual soccer, and I feel the physicality — which individuals actually get pleasure from — I definitely loved. I like the bodily component of the game. I don’t assume we must always ever lose that. There are such a lot of folks that need it much less and fewer bodily, it’s extra like flag soccer, which goes to be within the Olympics in 2028.”

Gronkowski, who performed alongside Brady and gained Tremendous Bowls with the legendary quarterback with each the Patriots and Buccaneers, famous that there’s a stage of hypocrisy in a quarterback complaining about any lack of physicality within the NFL.

“You’re a quarterback. I imply, it was already flag soccer for you, brother,” Gronkowski humorously mentioned of Brady throughout the “Up & Adams Show.” “A few of these requires you your final 12 months, they barely touched you.”

“All the principles go in your favor, Tom.”

Gronkowski, conversely, confronted a way more bodily problem in his NFL profession as a decent finish. Nonetheless, regardless of the heavy toll it took on him, the four-time Tremendous Bowl champion largely agrees with Brady’s general take.

“The NFL is simply getting too comfortable now,” Gronkowski mentioned, noting his opposition to a newly proposed rule that might outlaw the hip-drop sort out. “I feel it ought to nonetheless be allowed. You actually don’t see it and in case you’re in that place, you bought to do what you bought to do to take somebody down.”

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