Rob Gronkowski sent shockwaves around the NFL on Tuesday when he made the after a year away from football. Although the move shocked nearly everyone, it appears that multiple teams around the might have actually known that a Gronk return was in the works thanks to a hot tip from .According to NFL.com's Ian Rapoport, Brady was apparently telling teams during his free agency George Kittle T Shirts tour that if they signed him, there was a good chance they'd also be getting Gronk."As soon as Brady went to Tampa I started hearing rumors about this, ," Rapoport said during an interview on WEEI in Boston on Wednesday. "He told people during the proce s, teams in the proce s who were actually interested in offers that he wanted to bring Gronk with him."Talk about the ultimate package deal: BRADY AND GRONK.Now that conch tweet from Brady . Time to run it back ! @tombrady (@TomBrady) During an interview on Wednesday, Gronk was actually asked how he ultimately came to the decision to return to football, and apparently, the seeds for his return were planted after a conversation with Brady back in February. "We rarely talked about what his decision was going to be, but we did talk about, for one second, ," Gronk said. "I said, 'Hey, I'm kind of getting that fire underneath me again.' I said I'm definitely interested in the decision you make. I didn't put any pre sure on him, but I said If there's a right opportunity out there and you go somewhere and that opportunity is right -- Jerry Rice T Shirts even if you go back to the and I feel like the opportunity is right -- there's a po sible chance I would definitely love to reconnect, and that's where the conversation started a little bit. And he was all fired up and juiced up about it."The conversation happened before Brady became a free agent, which means the former Patriots quarterback went into free agency knowing that Gronk might be following him to his new team, so it makes a lot of sense that Brady would have used that as a selling point during his home-based free agency tour.Of all the Bryant Young Jersey teams going after Brady in free agency, Rapoport noted that the and both knew Gronk might return, but it's unclear who else Brady might have told. If the Chargers had added Brady, they would have had the best tight end duo in the NFL with Gronk and . Of course, even if Brady was adamant that Gronk was going to return, that might have scared off a team like the Chargers. To get Gronk, the team that signed Brady was going to have to pull off a trade with the Patriots, and there's no guarantee that Bill Belichick would have agreed to a trade that would keep Gronk in the AFC, so in the end, Joe Montana Hoodies Sweatshirts the Buccaneers might have been the only landing spot that made sense if Brady wanted to bring his favorite tight end with him.Now that Gronk's out of retirement, he definitely sounds excited about catching pa ses from the guy who's thrown him nearly every pa s that he's ever caught in his career."Playing ," Gronk said Wednesday. "To build a connection with a quarterback is special. You see it many times with many other players, they can switch teams and they might not have the same chemistry they as they had with their old quarterback . We have a great chemistry out there and every time we get together, it's just like the old days. It doesn't matter if we take a month off or six months apart, we just go out there and we're throwing the ball like it's a normal practice." During their nine years together in New England Gronk caught 78 touchdown pa ses from Brady and now they'll be looking to add to that total in Tampa Bay San Francisco 49Ers Pet Gear . Gronk has been to the postseason during every year of his NFL carer and if that streak is going to continue, he's going to have to help the Buccaneers end their 13-year playoff drought, which is the longest in the NFC and second-longest in the NFL.