He wants to be able to walk when he's ... you know the age... you know... especially you (pointing at woman). I can do the math if you want.

the guy is already a hofer and a 3x sb champ with 50+ million in the bank. That being said i'd sign a 3 year contract and play out the rest of tom brady's career then retire but its easy to talk about it not being him. Im sure his body is beat tf up

Gronk retires, Pats sign Maxx Williams nothing changes.

Best news Eric Berry has heard all day.

Gronk retiring will be one less weapon they have which will help. The reality though is that their offense doesn't run through him anymore and doesn't need him to be successful.

The end is near though. Brady will continue declining over the next couple years and that will be a much bigger problem for them than Gronk retiring.

I think he generally controlled Gronkowski in the past, but in this last game Gronkowski was his achilles heel.

You know, his other one.

yip

Berry did a great Bartee impression.

Gronk's easy to control for any DB. All you gotta do is grab and hold him. They never call it on him. It's pretty awesome, pretty much shaq rules. For other tight ends you had to be careful, especially the fast tight ends. Although sometimes they will call a hold against the DB, so it's risky but it's the right way to play him. Eric Berry definitely understood this.

For sure- every time someone predicted the demise of their team because they lost a superstar, somehow they found someone new to help row the boat.

Gronk apparently suffered through a strained achilles and a bulging disk this year, which made him look slow and he was clearly less effective in the passing game, though his blocking was still stellar.

By the end of the season, especially the SB, he was healthy, back to his jovial self, and pretty damn good in the SB in receiving as well as blocking. He's very smart with the money he has made and can definitely retire if he wants, to pick up acting or WWE or whatever the heck he wants to do with his life. He loves football, but it's hard to love football when you're hurt.

We'll have to wait and see.

I definitely think that if Gronk retires the Patriots will never win a single game again though. Yep. Definitely not. :rolleyes:

Let's face it -- the Patriots will trade for one, or sign one, or whatever, and/or reallocate the money to pick up a strong WR or whatever. The ONE thing the Patriots under Belichick do is ADAPT. If you can name the TEs that helped the Patriots win the SB in 2001, 2003 and 2004, then good on you, but I bet most here can't.

I'll tell you how this works here will reportedly retire but stay in shape. The Patriots will have a hiccup at the beginning of the season and he will come to the rescue. Because like isn't fair.

Belichick's main source of inspiration might not be Paul Brown, or his father, but rather Charles Darwin. Both in team building concepts as well as game-planning week to week, as well as in-game adjustments, the SINGLE thing BB and his teams do FAR better than anyone else is adapt.

https://excellentjourney.files.wordp...702-210224.jpg

:clap:

No it wasn't. You're blind as **** if you think Gronkowski's blocking was good this season. Watch that 1st Bills game on Monday Night Football and tell me if you thought Gronkowski looked right. He wasn't able to wham block 300 pound lineman anymore. He was losing blocks against edge defenders. He looked old and broken down even in blocking when he was hurting. He looked like the tight ends of this generation who couldn't block if their lives depended on it.

I mean just look at that Super Bowl on Sunday. Donta Hightower decleated Rams tight end Tyler Higbee who is supposed to be their "blocking tight end" lol!ROFL