jboston19
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Very nice. Gronk is clearly the GOAT TE and deserves to be paid like it... however his injury history is a bit factor. Tying his pay to his health is extremely smart. No one will mind paying him big bucks if he's on the field enough to earn it.
Finally, we can put the "Gronk's dad is keeping his kid off the field!!!" crap to rest. His dad won't be keeping him off the field if t costs him millions of dollars.
Good for Gronk, I'm happy for the guy, but I'm not really sure what motivated the Pats to make that deal. They had him signed already to a better deal, after all. It only makes sense to me if the restructure allows the Pats to save money over what they were previously paying him if he keeps missing lots of snaps. I haven't seen any indication that that's the case, though.
But **** it, this is one of those cases where I'm fine with it in any case. If it isn't giving the Pats additional coverage against Gronk missing time, then I'll just assume there was more going on behind the scenes that we're not aware of. He's certainly worth every penny that he could potentially earn if he plays enough snaps to reach the incentives, so it's hard to complain much on that front. If this will help keep him in New England long term and keep him in a positive frame of mind, then I'm all for it. If it keeps the locker room in a good place, with everyone seeing that the Pats reward their own, then all the better. There are lots of ways to blow cap money in the offseason, and on the whole I think "rewarding Gronk in advance against the possibility that he fully returns to form" is a hard one to argue with.
Hogan, Amendola, Edelman, Cooks, and Gronk. This offense is going to be freaking ridiculous.
Hogan, Amendola, Edelman, Cooks, and Gronk. This offense is going to be freaking ridiculous.
I really hope we don't hear more out of the Butler camp after this.