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2nd Team Getting Their First Start
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...is that we are much better situated to sustain losing him this year than last...
Last year, he was in the middle of one of the most prolific seasons ever by a Tight End and the offense was built around that season and that talent, so when he hurt his ankle it had a huge impact. I still say if Gronk was 100% in the SB, we beat the Giants going away. He would have been good for 1-2 TDs and 7-10 catches.
This season, however, because we have been forced to spend so much time without Gronk, we are better prepared to live life without him.
Additionally, since we know now that he is gone for the rest of the season, there is none of the contingency preparation to account for the possiblity that he could return, etc. He's gone, We know it. The coaching staff can prepare with the healthy players they have left.
Gronk is an amazing talent and I think he will end up being a Hall of Fame TE (hopefully spending his entire career in NE), but I am feeling much less anxiety about losing him THIS year than last.
(I still wish he would have had the common sense to not go diving after a ball out of bounds, but that's the way the kid plays - pedal to the metal, so you live with it, you die with it...)
Last year, he was in the middle of one of the most prolific seasons ever by a Tight End and the offense was built around that season and that talent, so when he hurt his ankle it had a huge impact. I still say if Gronk was 100% in the SB, we beat the Giants going away. He would have been good for 1-2 TDs and 7-10 catches.
This season, however, because we have been forced to spend so much time without Gronk, we are better prepared to live life without him.
Additionally, since we know now that he is gone for the rest of the season, there is none of the contingency preparation to account for the possiblity that he could return, etc. He's gone, We know it. The coaching staff can prepare with the healthy players they have left.
Gronk is an amazing talent and I think he will end up being a Hall of Fame TE (hopefully spending his entire career in NE), but I am feeling much less anxiety about losing him THIS year than last.
(I still wish he would have had the common sense to not go diving after a ball out of bounds, but that's the way the kid plays - pedal to the metal, so you live with it, you die with it...)
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