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Gronk is too physical of a receiver to not come back 100%.
If he is already practicing you'd assume he is close to that? I'm also not sure if he's been 100% all year.
I'm talking about gronk being healed of all his injuries. Getting Gronk's body fresh should be the number one priority.
The patriots don't need gronk for these two games.
I'm talking about gronk being healed of all his injuries. Getting Gronk's body fresh should be the number one priority.
The patriots don't need gronk for these two games. Gronk plays too physical to play with injuries and this is the perfect chance to get him 100%
When a bone breaks and it heals, the bone is typically stronger than it was before. Rest isn't important here. Getting back into football shape before the big dance is.
Gronk is a young guy and he's had a month now or around that. So you add the next 3 weeks and want a playoff game to be his 1st after that kind of a layoff?
Didn't gronk have injuries before breaking his arm? Gronk's could use the extra rest.
Yes he did but as some one already mentioned, he already had about a month to rest those injuries. If you save him until the playoffs, while he might be 100 % healed from those injuries like you want him to be, he might also come back rusty and out of 'football shape'. In my opinion that could be worse than having him only 80% healed from his other injuries. I'm not saying he should play the whole game against the Dolphins, but he should get enough snaps to knock off some of the rust for sure. And if the doctors clear him to play against the Jaguars, maybe he should get a few snaps against them too.
P.S. I know that players still work out while injured to remain in shape. But many NFL players have stated that being in shape is NOT the same as being in "football shape" and that only comes from playing in games.
Being off for a month didn't stop terell owens from having a great superbowl and i consider gronk to me more physically gifted than him.