Jimmy Garoppolo made an appointment with Brady's controversial trainer — and then discovered he was locked out of the facilities

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January 5, 2018 3:02 PM

Jimmy Garoppolo sought help from Brady's controversial trainer's TB12 facilities after getting injured in 2016, only to find he was locked out of the building.

A bombshell report from ESPN's Seth Wickersham has detailed the mounting tensions among the most powerful figures in the New England Patriots organization.
One anecdote revealed that backup Jimmy Garoppolo was locked out of the TB12 training facility without explanation after setting up an appointment to work with Brady's health guru, Alex Guerrero.
This was not the first time that tensions between the Patriots organization and Geurrero had become an issue for the franchise.

The rift between Tom Brady and Bill Belichick may be even deeper than imagined.

ESPN's Seth Wickersham wrote a bombshell report detailing the power struggle taking place inside the Patriots organization, as Brady, Belichick, and Patriots owner Robert Kraft look to define their legacy in what's likely to be its final act.

The story not only showed a new dynamic usually only whispered about in discussions of the franchise, but also revealed what some might consider a surprising level of pettiness from Brady towards his former backup Jimmy Garoppolo.

Garoppolo got his first NFL snaps in a Patriots uniform while Brady was suspended to start the 2016 season over the "Deflategate" scandal. Garoppolo's stint as the starter ended when he went down with a shoulder injury, and as Wickersham tells it, sought out medical advice from Brady's TB12 facility, run by controversial trainer

Garoppolo did eventually receive treatment from TB12 weeks later, but by the sound of Wickersham's story, the issue was never fully resolved as to why he had been locked out in the first place.

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