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From the draft to free agents to trades, AC/DC-loving Bucs general manager Jason Licht pushed so many buttons right to build this team in the past few months, it looks like a full career resume for some NFL suits.

Grant Gordon of NFL.com thinks the trade for future Hall of Fame tight end, foot-rubbing, car-littering Rob Gronkowkski, and luring him out of retirement, may be the most overlooked.

How can that be, overlooking a future Hall of Famer?

Well, Gronk took a little longer than expected to get in the flow. And on a roster bolstered by park-violating, home-invading, NFLPA-ignoring, down-forgetting quarterback Tom Brady, Antonio Brown and Leonard Fournette and two immediate rookie studs in Tristan Wirfs and Antoine Winfield, Gronk has flown under the radar a little.

Gordon believes Gronk demonstrated Monday that he and Brady still have that sixth sense to trust each other, and that will pay off big time in bigger games.

And it paid off Monday night as well.

We’ve likely had the question answered already as to just how prolific Rob Gronkowski can be in his second life with the Buccaneers.

A toll has no doubt been taken on his body over a Hall of Fame career. But he’s still reliable in the clutch and after such a storied run together, he and Brady clearly have a trust within each other that has extended into another state and conference. It played out after a frustrating first half when Gronkowski hadn’t even drawn a target. Gronk caught all four of his targets for 41 yards, his second catch a 16-yard gain and three plays later, Brady found Gronk in the end zone to finally find paydirt. It was a tipped ball that Gronkowski tracked and hauled in, a sigh of relief as much as a highlight, rescuing an offense from the doldrums and bestowing the Bucs with their first lead of the night. The lumbering Gronk has now tallied TDs in three straight games for the first time since Weeks 6-8 in 2016, per NFL Research. When Brady and the Bucs need him, Gronk can still come up big.

As much as fans are focusing on Winfield, and justifiably so, Gronk’s impact in the second half to kick-start the Bucs offense was huge.

There is no doubt in Joe’s mind the Brady and Gronk connection and rapport, their unseen and unspoken bond, will come up big as the Bucs enter the second half of the season and hopefully march to meaningful January games.