Not everyone will find Rob Gronkowski’s weekend press conference comical.

During Saturday’s Monster Energy Supercross at Gillette Stadium, the fun-loving tight end, who has been decidedly vague about playing next season, doubled down on plans to steer clear of 1 Patriot Place as this year’s offseason program gets under way.

“I’ve got dirt-biking skills to work on,” Gronkowski said.

Gronkowski’s comments probably aren’t surprising, given the 28-year-old’s lighthearted nature. But he appears to be testing the Patriots, flaunting the fact he will not go to the team’s optional workouts, perhaps jockeying for a better contract, perhaps still not certain about retirement.

The front office surely heard him. As did the other Patriots, who took it as a two-time captain bragging about having other things to do, as ESPN posits.

It’s been an odd offseason for New England, whose biggest stars are both absent. Gronk and Tom Brady are expected to return for 2018, but they’re letting the drama play out.

Like Gronkowski, Brady, 40, skipped out on the Patriots’ first set of voluntary workouts, traveling thousands of miles from Foxborough, Mass., to Qatar for charity work. Reports have consistently indicated the two are frustrated with the culture of the Patriots; Pro Football Talk reported that Malcolm Butler’s Super Bowl benching also may be a factor, as Bill Belichick still hasn’t explained the mystery to his team.

All of this could be forgotten as long as Brady and Gronkowski return. But for Brady, the lines begin to blur beyond the forthcoming season.

“The idea that he’s going to play for four or five more seasons … I mean, this is just me, the guy who’s been around him for a while now. I just have a hard time envisioning that, to be candid,” Gotham Chopra, director of Facebook’s “Tom v. Time” docu-series, said on the “MMQB podcast with Peter King” last month.

“But we’ll see. I do think that these next few weeks and months are a critical time for him,” he added.