Gronk had already made enough money for life couple seasons ago. He could have retired back then and simply cashed in on his fame doing whatever he wanted to without being any worse for wear, and certainly much better off than breaking his body in the NFL.
Yes suggesting the guy who acted out all offseason and behaved like a ****ing clown until he got his incentives might be in it for the money and not the mystical "fame" and glory is silly. Obviously.
He will make more in this season as player in the NFL than he would do in many years in the entertainment business. Unless you live in a parallel universe where wrestling or cameos in movies pay a lot of money. Even endorsements can't compare to 6 months of playing football.
There's no way the Pats could have found a plug and play replacement for Gronk and what he stil brings to this offense.
What a bunch of garbage. BB was ready to deal Gronk to the Rams and Lions. That is all you need to know about the situation.
Anyone is replaceable once the value of dealing them is bigger than what they bring on the team relative to the money they make. People were calling BB stupid for doing that after Gronks 2017 season and, yet, with 99% of the season in the books BB ended up right about the moment to move on in terms of value.
Also don't give me any of this **** about how irreplaceable Gronk is. They made it work in 2016 when losing him was a much bigger hit than it would have been this year.
So the guy answers a direct question about retirement in an unclear way and he's a diva. Just like Brady was when he didn't attend OTA's right? Gtfoh
When someone who has talked about retirement for about a year now keeps talking about how much of a toll a season of football took on his body and in a pretty sober moment explained how his mind is telling him to stop abusing his body things are pretty obvious.
Finally stop putting words into peoples mouth because you have no point to make. Nobody called Gronk a diva over his health comments. He was called diva for behaving like jackass in the offseason.