Gronk is coming out of retirement still having 1 year left on his current contract. He told NE that he wants to play with Brady so they traded him and a 7th round pick to TB for a 4th round pick in this years draft.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001110390/article/patriots-to-trade-rob-gronkowski-to-buccaneers

(04-21-2020, 05:47 PM)cinci4life Wrote: Gronk is coming out of retirement still having 1 year left on his current contract. He told NE that he wants to play with Brady so they traded him and a 7th round pick to TB for a 4th round pick in this years draft.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001110390/article/patriots-to-trade-rob-gronkowski-to-buccaneers

Good deal for the Bucs.

Hasn't played in over a year. Was utterly spent when he last did play. Is he just gonna play ten percent of the snaps? Not play until the playoffs?

This is an idea that sounds good but the chances of it being the slam dunk the tv windbags are portraying it as are probably pretty slim. Bodies that are broken down to the point his is do heal...right up until they start getting hit again.

I guess something had to be done. It had been a whole hour since Brady's name was mentioned on tv.

Gronk's a shadow of who he was in his glory days. At least the two of them can realize together how good they had it and how nothing else will ever compare.

Bruce Arians is no Bill Belichick.

We should try and trade for OJ Howard...

Gronk has played more recently than AJ Green. That’s not saying much.

QB: Tom Brady
WR1: Mike Evans
WR2: Chris Godwin
TE1: Rob Gronkowski
TE2: OJ Howard
TE3: Cameron Brate

That's.... gross.

(04-21-2020, 09:50 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: QB: Tom Brady
WR1: Mike Evans
WR2: Chris Godwin
TE1: Rob Gronkowski
TE2: OJ Howard
TE3: Cameron Brate

That's.... gross.

Or, it could turn out like when OJ Simpson went to SF, or when Carl Pickens went to the Titans..  Out to pasture...

When he starts playing, he will remember why he wanted to retire.

Yes, the hurts heal in a year. But what doesn't heal is the long term effects of all those hits that never go away. And this is a guy who has been battered.

I poured concrete for 35 years. Murder on the body. The last five or six years, I had enough guys to do the job that I didn't have to. But for a couple years, I kept going out there and doing it because it was so ingrained in me.

So finally, I listened to the people around me and gave it up.

A year goes by and I get all healed and I'm feeling pretty damn good. I decide to work for a couple days. It was the second day that convinced me. I was done. And I've never been hit with a car like Gronk has a thousand times. On a different scale, this is what is inevitable. Aside from RBs, who gets hit with bad intent more than a TE?

This is what will happen to Gronk. He's just been crashed into or crashed into people too many times. He'll won't lose any skills. But he will feel old.

Maybe they load manage him and save him for the playoffs. But what if they have to fight for a playoff spot?

I'm sure it will be more fun out from under the thumb of Bill and be in a new place with his buddy Tom. But will the fun outweigh the pain?

I don't get why the Bucs would want Gronk when they have OJ Howard + Cameron Brate on the roster. Plus Gronk wasn't as effective (still pretty good) as he was in his prime the last time he played.

(04-22-2020, 03:27 PM)J24 Wrote: I don't get why the Bucs would want Gronk when they have OJ Howard + Cameron Brate on the roster.  Plus Gronk wasn't as effective (still pretty good) as he was in his prime the last time he played.

You don't get why they would want Brady to have one of his go to guys, and arguably the greatest tight end of all time?

What I want to know is how bad is OJ Howard that he wasn't involved in the deal?  They already had him involved in other potential trades earlier in the offseason, so I doubt he is staying put.  But NE would rather say "just give us a 4th for Gronk and a 7th" instead of wanting him in the deal?

(04-23-2020, 10:47 AM)jfkbengals Wrote: You don't get why they would want Brady to have one of his go to guys, and arguably the greatest tight end of all time?

What I want to know is how bad is OJ Howard that he wasn't involved in the deal?  They already had him involved in other potential trades earlier in the offseason, so I doubt he is staying put.  But NE would rather say "just give us a 4th for Gronk and a 7th" instead of wanting him in the deal?

Gronk isn't the same Gronk as he was earlier in his career. Dudes Back is messed up and he hasn't played in a year. So yeah I don't get it when they already have two good TEs on the Roster.

Isnt he washed up?