Bucs’ confirm they talked to Rob Gronkowski about unretiring for Super Bowl run with Tom Brady

Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles confirmed that retired tight end Rob Gronkowski recently reached out to the team about possibly returning for a playoff push.

Bowles told the Tampa Bay Times that nothing serious came of the call.

‘It was more of a conversation than anything else,’ Bowles said. ‘Usually, when you have to think about playing, you probably don’t want to play. When it’s just a discussion, I didn’t think much of it at the time.’

Todd Bowles confirmed that the team talked to Rob Gronkowski about coming back to play

Gronkowski has been taking numerous celebrity appearances throughout his retirnment 

The former all-pro tight end sent out a rare tweet stating that he was ‘kinda bored’

Gronkowski, 33, who retired for the second time in June, sparked social media interest Wednesday by tweeting three words: ‘I’m kinda bored.’

Before the tweet Gronkowski had seemed to be enjoying his life in retirement making appearances at many celebrity events. 

Under Gronkowski’s longtime quarterback Tom Brady, the Buccaneers (6-8) still lead the NFC South by one game heading into Sunday night’s road game against the Arizona Cardinals (4-10).

A four-time Super Bowl champion and five-time Pro Bowl selection, Gronkowski caught 621 passes for 9,286 yards and 92 touchdowns in 143 games for the New England Patriots (2010-18) and Bucs (2020-21). He sat out the 2019 season in his first retirement. 

In his last season Gronkowski won a Super Bowl trophy with Tom Brady and the Buccaneers

Gronk and Brady also won championships together in New England before playing in Tampa

All of that success came with Brady as his QB whether it was in New England or in Tampa. 

According to comments Gronkowski made to Kay Adams the Bucs may not be the only team hoping to lure him out of retirement.

While appearing on Fanduel’s ‘Up & Adams’ show Gronkowski said: ‘ I can tell you this. One of the teams that wanted me to come back. Sent me a picture of me in a uniform wearing no. 69.’

‘And told me that I could be number 69. This was two days ago. If I come back, I could be number 69. And check in eligible every play, where the official would have to go over the microphone every play and say, ’69 is eligible’ every single play.’

Gronkowski told Fanduel Tv that multiple teams have reached out to him about unretiring