Bill Belichick Axed Team Privileges Of Tom Brady’s Personal Guru Alex Guerrero

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To Tom Brady and his New England Patriot teammates, Alex Guerrero is a cheat code. Sports media talking heads like to refer to him as a “quack doctor,” while Julian Edelman once referred to him as Mr. Miyagi and Danny Amendola called him a “wizard.”

Most convincingly to the common man, a Men’s Journal journalist who was close to facing amputation after crushing his heel “like a soda can” in a climbing accident and sought out Guerrero’s unconventional practices, has become a believer. Despite strong pushback from his surgeon, Mike Chambers paid Guerrero $600 a week for three two hour workouts and ten weeks later climbed to the icy summit of New Hampshire’s Black Dike. At his 10-week doctor checkup, Chambers’ surgeon dropped his jaw in disbelief of his mobility, saying, “In my 25 years of practicing medicine, I have never seen someone recover from a calcaneus injury this quickly.”

Brady met Guerrero back in 2008 when he tore his ACL and after Guerrero worked him back in record time with alternative methods, the two became friends and business partners. Hell, the dude is the godfather to Brady’s youngest son. In 2013, Tom Brady and Alex Guerrero launched the TB12 Center, which effectively overshadowed the medical and training staff the Patriots already had in place.

Since then, Guerrero has become a mainstay on the Patriots sidelines, repping Patriots apparel. The 52-year-old has an office steps away from the Patriots locker room and flies on the team charter to road games. Despite being marred with accusations of endorsing shady supplements and being repeatedly investigated by the Federal Trade Commission which banned him from ever referring to himself as a doctor, Guerrero has embedded himself in the most no-nonsense franchise in professional sports. Not even unsupported claims that his supplement “Supreme Greens” could cure cancer and AIDS could restrict his access.

Until now.

According to a report from The Boston Globe, “Guerrero is now banned from boarding Patriots jets. His sideline access has been revoked. And he no longer is permitted to treat players other than Brady in his exclusive office at Gillette Stadium.”

Recently, there have been whispers that Guerrero and Belichick have been butting heads, and reports from 2015 suggest that the Patriots medical staff expressed dismay with Guerrero’s expanding role on the team. During a press conference in September, Belichick told reporters that Guerrero is “not on our staff. He works at TB12.”

Both Brady and Belichick have refused to acknowledge the divide during seperate interviews on WEEI on Monday. Instead, Brady shined praise on the guru who helped pen Brady’s $200 cookbook. “Alex has been a huge, huge reason why I’m still playing,” Brady said.

Even if there is bad blood between Belichick and Guerrero, it will likely be more of a media inflation than a reflection of choppy times in New England. Because if there’s one thing that Brady and Belichick can see eye-to-eye on, it’s winning. Lions don’t lose sleep over the opinion of sheep.

[h/t The Boston Globe]

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