Reports: Tom Brady’s Trainer Banned from Team’s Plane and Sideline

A report published by the Boston Globe says that the New England Patriots took several team privileges away from Tom Brady’s trainer increasing speculation of a problem between the team’s head coach Bill Belichick and the trainer.

Brady’s trainer, Alex Guerrero, is Brady’s close friend and one of his business partners. He helped Brady launch his TB12 Center in which Brady and several New England players have been training and receiving treatment dating back to the beginning of 2013.

The report in the Boston Globe says Guerrero, who has an office of his own near the New England locker room at Gillette Stadium, is not permitted any longer to treat Patriots players besides Brady in his office. The report said he has also been banned from boarding the team’s jet and lost his access to the sideline during games.

Due to the new set of restrictions Guerrero has been faced with, several players on the Patriots continue to be treated by him, but only at the TB12 Center, which is located outside Gillette Stadium.

When asked this week about a possible problem between Belichick and Guerrero, Brady said he did not have a comment related to that other than saying that it has been well-documented his trainer has been a very big part of what he does, and he was fortunate to have Alex not just as a friend but involved with everything the two of us have been able to do.

Brady added that Guerrero is a big, big reason the Patriots star quarterback is still playing even though he is 40 years old.

The connection between Brady and Guerrero is well-known. The quarterback last November said that it was Guerrero who is credited with his recovery following a devastating knee injury in 2008 and for being helpful in him achieving peak “pliability” that has extended his playing career.

Two years ago, a report in the Boston Globe said the role of Guerrero with the Patriots caused friction amongst both the training and medical staff of New England and the trainer. The staff were concerned that the alternative treatments used by Guerrero clashed with the methods used by the team.

In turn, that led some of the medical and training staff members to speak to Belichick about their concerns. However, the report at that time in the Boston newspaper said Belichick told the team’s training staff that he could not do anything due to the special status Brady had on the team.

The CEO and chairman of the Patriots, Robert Kraft, in 2015, said that the role of Guerrero with the Patriots has had its challenges. However, Kraft said our head coach is accepting and we have a franchise leader who is pushing it.