The 2011 and 2012 teams would have both won the Super Bowl with a healthy Gronk (2011 in spite of Eli completing all but 10 of his passes). 2013? Not so sure. After Talib sprained his vagina, we were outgunned and there was really nothing to speak of at WR outside of Edelman. Also Wendell getting his **** pushed in by Knighton didn't help matters either.
Re: 2011, Gronk should've been like Willis Reed in 1970. Brady's first pass of the game, instead of throwing deep to OchoStinko, should've gone to Gronk even if only for a few yards. The vaGiants would've had to account for him, the team & the fans would've been pumped & jacked, and the Pats win the SB even with a hobbled Gronk.
Re: 2012, they definitely beat the Murderers in Foxborough with Gronk. The SB? Who knows. SF did win in Foxborough that season without Gronk. Damn the quack medical staff (and Skippy too, for sending Gronk on a long sideline pattern on his first play in the POs, a route that almost guaranteed that he would land on his elbow in an awkward manner).
Re: 2013, all that you said about what happened in Denver is true; but had the Pats taken care of business in Miami, then the AFCCG is in Foxborough in the nasty weather, and I don't know if the Donkey-faces, even with all of their aforementioned advantages, could win under those conditions.
Moot point regardless, because nobody was beating Seattle in the SB.