New Reports that Gronk will be ready for Season Opener!!!

[Kid~Brady]

Report Says Rob Gronkowski's Back Rehab Has Positive Buzz » Ex-Pats

Yesterday, on ESPN’s NFL Insiders program (via Rotoworld), Adam Schefter reported that “buzz seems to be building the positive way” and that Gronkowski could avoid the reserve/PUP list altogether.

 

[TruthSeeker]

Interesting ! I only want him to play if he's 100%. Maybe he makes the final 53, but would be inactive vs Buffalo and the Jets. Realistically, they should be able to beat BOTH teams without Gronk. BUT, if he's 100% ready, I'm drooling at the thought of Gronk, Sudfeld and Dobson in the redzone at the same time !

 

[PatsDeb]

Wow, this would be great if it comes true. Just please don't hurry him back so that he gets re-injured quickly!

 

[dales804]

Good "news." Always good to hear that after the offseason from hell.

 

[Archeryaddict12]

Gronk just can't force anything still. I figured he will be ready by the opener but I imagine not as many snaps as usual for the first game or 2.

 

[patsinthesnow]

Let him come back week 4. We can start off 3-0 without him. (@ Buf, NYJ, TB)

 

[BradyFTW!]

Very good news, but for people who have been playing close attention, it isn't nearly the shocker that the media will portray it to be. They took the worst-case scenario on Gronk's rehab schedule as reality from day one, which made them wrong from the outset. On top of that, they seem to be ignoring the fact that he's been ahead of schedule pretty much the whole way.

 

[TruthSeeker]

The football Gods owe us a full healthy season (including playoffs) from Gronk (and 1 or 2 more SB wins).

 

[Big-T]

Let him come back week 4. We can start off 3-0 without him IMO. (@ Buf, NYJ, TB)

Tampa could be a tough one, the secondary they've put together looks very good and they have a lot of big play potential on offense.

Gronk being ready for week one though - called it months back and it's great news. If he's good to go week 1 you start him.

 

[jimache]

If healthy play him week 1, no need to bubble rap his behind ... if not 100%, PUP ... no reason to risk aggravating his injuries

 

[blackglass3]

I'd rather they err on the side of caution, unlike last season where he was running around during the Miami game with one arm not moving.

We NEED him in December, January, and February. He'd be a luxury in September and October.

 

[Kontradiction]

Wow, this would be great if it comes true. Just please don't hurry him back so that he gets re-injured quickly!

Agreed. And before someone undoubtedly comes in and says something like, "bro! They wouldn't let him play unless he was 100% LOL WTF", please remember that he clearly wasn't ready to go last season and got re-injured. Please remember Patrick Chung and please remember Jerod Mayo in 2009. If he's not fully 100% healthy, we can afford to hold him out for the first quarter of the season since that part of the schedule is cake.

If he is fully 100% ready to go, well: :rocker:

 

[Sicilian]

Well, it says he could avoid the PUP list, but that doesn't mean he's ready for the season opener. It just means they project he'll be back early enough that wasting his first six weeks would be unnecessary.

Still, good news! I'd love to have him back for Tampa, mostly to knock off the game one rust before heading to Atlanta.

 

[TB12_laser designator]

Gronk starts season = Gronk is worn down by game 10 = Gronk is out injured, season over by game 15 = another postseason of missed opportunity with no Gronk.

And we will have deja vu all over again, no Gronk when we really need him. It would be idiotic not to err on the side of caution here and take time getting him back onto the field.

If they have learnt anything from the last two postseasons, surely it has got to be that we need a fit Gronk during the postseason. Let him miss the first 6 games, we don't need him then. But we do need him fit and healthy for the business end of the season.

 

[Big-T]

Gronk starts season = Gronk is worn down by game 10 = Gronk is out injured, season over by game 15 = another postseason of missed opportunity with no Gronk.

What is your thinking behind that?

His 2 injuries:
A safety fell on his ankle
Freak PAT injury (when does that ever happen?!)

And we will have deja vu all over again, no Gronk when we really need him. It would be idiotic not to err on the side of caution here and take time getting him back onto the field.

So because of 2 FREAK injuries, the Patriots should hold out the best TE in the league just in the off chance he gets injured? Hey, let's hold Brady out too...just in case!

we don't need him then.

You ALWAYS want your best players on the field, holding them back because of utter freak accidents is quite frankly a stupid idea.

 

[Archeryaddict12]

Gronk starts season = Gronk is worn down by game 10 = Gronk is out injured, season over by game 15 = another postseason of missed opportunity with no Gronk.

And we will have deja vu all over again, no Gronk when we really need him. It would be idiotic not to err on the side of caution here and take time getting him back onto the field.

If they have learnt anything from the last two postseasons, surely it has got to be that we need a fit Gronk during the postseason. Let him miss the first 6 games, we don't need him then. But we do need him fit and healthy for the business end of the season.

Why would he be worn down?? Plus you can't blame him for him getting his ankle rolled in the AFCCG and then breaking his arm on the FG attempt. The back surgery was preventative maintenance (jpp for NYG also had the surgery). And the second fracture was due to him landing awkwardly with a metal plate in his arm. Gronk and the pats needs good luck with injuries.

 

[Bruins29]

Gronk starts season = Gronk is worn down by game 10 = Gronk is out injured, season over by game 15 = another postseason of missed opportunity with no Gronk.

And we will have deja vu all over again, no Gronk when we really need him. It would be idiotic not to err on the side of caution here and take time getting him back onto the field.

If they have learnt anything from the last two postseasons, surely it has got to be that we need a fit Gronk during the postseason. Let him miss the first 6 games, we don't need him then. But we do need him fit and healthy for the business end of the season.

Erring on the side of caution has nothing to do with him missing the first 6 games of the season. Even if they did not want him to play until game 7 of the season they still should not PUP him. He would not be able to practice that whole time. Fit and healthy comes from game rhythm and conditioning. He is a human, not a robot you just switch on and get 100% consistent performance from.

Anybody who thinks Gronk not being able to practice until week 6 is good for his health and career dosent understand sports, athletes, or may not understand how PUP works. He comes back from that long on the shelf and it creates new potential problems.

What should happen is that he is on the roster so he can practice - finally. If he is cleared medically to play he should play. Its really simple. The professional doctors the Pats employ probably have a better idea what is best for the players then some guys on a forum with a somewhat limited grasp of the NFL rules and zero clue of his medical condition or future potential setbacks..

The ****ification of this country is so evident and in full swing. Everyone is such a baby now. "The Pats bullied us", "Bill Bellichek is mean," "no more celebrating in the endzone" "Someone has a boo boo and they should not play"

 

[Rob0729]

As someone who has always felt that he was never going to be on the regular season PUP, I still don't know this means he will be ready for week one. I always thought that even if he wasn't ready for week one, he would be on the actived before the start of the season and would start playing by early October. I don't know if this report changes my prediction.

It is great to hear, but I don't know if we will see Gronk before week 3.

 

[RodThePat]

Gronk starts season = Gronk is worn down by game 10 = Gronk is out injured, season over by game 15 = another postseason of missed opportunity with no Gronk.

And we will have deja vu all over again, no Gronk when we really need him. It would be idiotic not to err on the side of caution here and take time getting him back onto the field.

If they have learnt anything from the last two postseasons, surely it has got to be that we need a fit Gronk during the postseason. Let him miss the first 6 games, we don't need him then. But we do need him fit and healthy for the business end of the season.

The team has a full staff of doctors whose job it is to evaluate if a player is able to participate in a live game. If they deem Gronkowski fit to play, why would the coaching staff stash him away for 6 more weeks just to be sure?

No one is going to throw Gronk out there at the start of the season if he isn't ready. This isn't a playoff situation in which it might be valuable for you to suck it up and play the guy through a reasonably debilitating injury.

Some of the posts in this thread read like you believe the trainers and coaching staff in Foxborough are a bunch of morons.

 

[BradyFTW!]

Agreed. And before someone undoubtedly comes in and says something like, "bro! They wouldn't let him play unless he was 100% LOL WTF", please remember that he clearly wasn't ready to go last season and got re-injured. Please remember Patrick Chung and please remember Jerod Mayo in 2009. If he's not fully 100% healthy, we can afford to hold him out for the first quarter of the season since that part of the schedule is cake.

If he is fully 100% ready to go, well: :rocker:

Agreed, although I wouldn't really compare bringing Gronk back too early at the end of last season to this. At that point, I think the goal was just to have Gronk on the field and producing in whatever capacity he could for the playoffs. If he re-broke the arm, then he'd have a whole offseason to heal, and I think the Pats took that gamble figuring that the chances of things going doing the way they did were pretty slim. Despite how it worked out, I understand why they did what they did.

At the beginning of the season, though, the whole equation changes. It's no longer about getting whatever you can out of the guy for the next month - it's about having a healthy player on the field for as much of the season as possible, and especially for the playoffs. Purely because of that, I can't see how the Pats would be as cavalier with Gronk's health now as they were at the end of last season.