{"id":51655,"date":"2022-08-21T04:06:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T04:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dana-white-helped-broker-deal-for-tom-brady-to-play-for-las-vegas-raiders-in-2020-but-jon-gruden-nixed-deal-ufc-president-says\/"},"modified":"2022-08-21T04:06:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T04:06:37","slug":"dana-white-helped-broker-deal-for-tom-brady-to-play-for-las-vegas-raiders-in-2020-but-jon-gruden-nixed-deal-ufc-president-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dana-white-helped-broker-deal-for-tom-brady-to-play-for-las-vegas-raiders-in-2020-but-jon-gruden-nixed-deal-ufc-president-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White helped broker deal for Tom Brady to play for Las Vegas Raiders in 2020 but Jon Gruden nixed deal, UFC president says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>UFC president Dana White said he helped broker a deal for quarterback Tom Brady to play for the Las Vegas Raiders when Brady was a free agent quarterback in 2020, but then-Raiders coach Jon Gruden nullified the deal at the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>White was convinced to tell the story by Rob Gronkowski during the &#8220;UFC with the Gronks&#8221; broadcast on ESPN and ESPN+ for UFC 278 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I worked to put that deal together for Brady and Gronk to come to the Raiders,&#8221; White said.  &#8220;It was almost a done deal. And at the last minute, Gruden blew the deal up and said that he didn&#8217;t want him and all hell broke loose, man. It was crazy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And Brady was already looking at houses. It wasn&#8217;t said yet that Gronk was going to be coming. So Las Vegas would have had Brady and Gronk the year that the Bucs won the Super Bowl except Gruden blew the deal up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>White added that &#8220;there&#8217;s so much story that goes with this behind the scenes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gruden resigned from the Raiders in October 2021. ESPN Senior NFL Insider Adam Schefter reported in 2020 &#8212; when Brady was a free agent &#8212; that the Raiders planned to pursue Brady if he reached free agency.  He did, but ultimately signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, where he won the Super Bowl that season.<\/p>\n<p>White also said Gronkowski could have come to the Raiders.  Gronkowski, however, was under contract with the New England Patriots at the time.  The Patriots eventually traded Gronkowski to Tampa Bay that April.<\/p>\n<p>Gronkowski, who asked White the initial question, did say he was glad things worked out the way they did.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m glad it did not go through,&#8221; Gronkowski said on the show.  &#8220;It all worked out for the best, man. I&#8217;m glad we went to Tampa, man. It just worked out. I love that place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Messages sent to Brady&#8217;s agent, Don Yee, as well as representatives from the Raiders were not immediately returned Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Buccaneers are now in their third season with Brady as their quarterback &#8212; although he has not been in training camp this preseason.  Las Vegas continues to have Derek Carr as its quarterback &#8212; Carr completed 67.3% of his passes for 4,103 yards, 27 touchdowns and nine interceptions in 2020 and 68.4% of his passes for 4,804 yards, 23 touchdowns and 14 interceptions in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>White said he was not planning on telling that story until Gronkowski asked him about it.<\/p>\n<p><em>ESPN staff writer Paul Gutierrez contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC president Dana White said he helped broker a deal for quarterback Tom Brady to play for the Las Vegas Raiders when Brady was a free agent quarterback in 2020, but then-Raiders coach Jon Gruden nullified the deal at the last minute. White was convinced to tell the story by Rob Gronkowski during the &#8220;UFC &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dana-white-helped-broker-deal-for-tom-brady-to-play-for-las-vegas-raiders-in-2020-but-jon-gruden-nixed-deal-ufc-president-says\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dana White helped broker deal for Tom Brady to play for Las Vegas Raiders in 2020 but Jon Gruden nixed deal, UFC president says<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[5236,2534,46,423,4967,9998,1099],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52041,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ufc-president-dana-white-says-he-helped-broker-deal-for-tom-brady-rob-gronkowski-to-join-raiders-in-2020-but-jon-gruden-blew-it-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":51655,"position":0},"title":"UFC president Dana White says he helped broker deal for Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski to join Raiders in 2020, but Jon Gruden &#8216;blew it up&#8217;","date":"August 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"UFC president Dana White said he helped set up a deal for Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski to join the Las Vegas Raiders during the 2020 free agency period, but then-Raiders head coach Jon Gruden \"blew the deal up.\"White told the story during the \"UFC with the Gronks\" broadcast for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":52352,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ufcs-dana-white-says-tom-brady-rob-gronkowski-nearly-joined-raiders\/","url_meta":{"origin":51655,"position":1},"title":"UFC&#8217;s Dana White says Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski nearly joined Raiders","date":"August 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Comment on this storyCommentUFC President Dana White said Saturday that Tom Brady might have become the quarterback for the Las Vegas Raiders when he was a free agent in 2020 but that Jon Gruden, then the team's coach, put the kibosh on it at the last minute.That's the story told\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51687,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dana-white-claims-tom-brady-and-rob-gronkowski-to-raiders-was-almost-a-done-deal-in-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":51655,"position":2},"title":"Dana White claims Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski to Raiders was &#8220;almost a done deal&#8221; in 2020","date":"August 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Getty Images No, the Dolphins and the Buccaneers weren't the only teams tampering with Tom Brady in 2020. 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