So I don't think Gronks coming back until Brady is the QB again. My theory is he/his family are concerned with either Jimmy or Spicy Brisket throwing the ball in a spot that will expose him to injury. Both Jimmy and Brisket seem to have a tendency to throw ball rather high where Brady is really good at putting the ball low and away. Given how worried his "team" seems to be about injuries I think there might be something here.
Thoughts?
Posted Sep 20, 2016, 3:29 PM UTC
I really don't think BB would allow something like this. My guess is they are taking it slow as to not re-aggravate the injury. Remember when they rushed him back from the broken arm?
If they believe they can play him, without worsening his hammy, they would. People on this sub sometimes really take the regular season games for granted. Of course a critical injury can absolutely ruin your Super Bowl odds, but winning in this league is hard, you need to put your best team, out there, every Sunday if you can.
Last year, in my opinion, two regular season games that we took for granted cost us the Super Bowl (Philly and Miami), win one of those and we would've had home-field throughout.
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Think you're off base. I mean for one there was this recent report that he's not even running routes in practice. I mean it's one thing to hold him out of games if they wanted to "save him" for Brady but for him to not even be really running routes in practice where there is a much much smaller chance of injury points to him just not being ready to go.
The Patriots are giving Gronk time to heal and with the addition of Bennett it seems the Patriots offense is not missing a beat.
It really just comes down to his health versus Belichick's opinion on if the game is winnable without him. If these games were MUST WIN, I bet he'd be out there.
I think they were seeing what happened week 1. With a win they had some breathing room and weren't forced to throw him out there at less than 100%. With their week 2 win, it's the same thing. No need to rush Gronk out until he is 100%. No conspiracy involved
Jesus Christ you're all retarded.
Gronk pulled up on a route in practice where he was not hit. A day later Howe said he was dealing with a bruise. Why would he be dealing with a bruise if he didn't get hit? He strained his hamstring, and torn muscles bruise.
There's no conspiracy going on with solidarity for Brady, or fear of injury, or contract disputes. He's just injured and working his way back to the field so he doesn't re-aggravate the injury.
You guys are all idiots.. It's obvious what's going on here.
Goodell kidnapped Gronk to make sure the Patriots lost. He told Bill he would only give him back if we went 0-4. Otherwise he would force Gronk to play for the Raiders. A punishment nobody deserves.
However Bill wasn't having any of that shit and Bill won our first 2 games just to spit in his face for everything he has done. Brady and Welker are working together to try to free Gronk before week 4 but it's not going well so far.
As for the "Gronk" at practice, that's an imposter. He can run in circles at practice wearing a helmet to hide his face but in a real game everybody would know it's not really Gronk because.. Well... Nobody can do what the real Gronk can do.
Within the next 2 weeks Brady will rescue the REAL Gronk and return to the Patriots to lead us to a Super Bowl win and ruin the plans of the evil Hitler... I mean Goodell.
Solved. You guys are welcome.
My god, you guys are all morons...
We recently had "Glenn" Gronkowski in for a trial. We also had Welker at the last game (as Fake Brady) and Kevin Faulk broke down the huddle after the win. Notice anything peculiar about this???
Glenn = Rob
FakeBrady = Welker
Faulk = Lil Dirty
Jimmy G = ???
WAKE UP, SHEEPLE! Between helmets and modern CGI, body doubles are being used all over the NFL to skirt the injury report system. Do you really think Jimmy G suddenly turned into an amazing QB??? It was BRADY. Fake Brady was there to throw us off the scent. Now that Brady is actually injured we have to have Jimmy G actually play (as Brissett, of course).
This is all part of BB's master plan to replace himself with Steve Belichick. This is how dynasties truly work. You think BB is the real Belichick? Nah, he's the FOURTH Belichick.
Pull the string and the whole thing unravels.
How did I not see it before?! My eyes have been opened.
I would pay thousands of dollars to see Goodell physically attempt to kidnap Gronk
While I think you are correct, why call people retarded? Are people not allowed to have their own theories and opinions? Downvote and/or comment and move on. Some people think differently then you.
Sometimes you need to call a stupid idea a stupid idea. Like this post.
I know what you're saying, but it's the name calling that is kinda childish. You can call out the idea without hurling insults.
For instance, I have you tagged as "Cool Dude" after our discussion a couple weeks ago about the Brady banner, because you brought good arguments to the table without insulting me. That is all I'm saying.
Obviously I don't mean OP or anyone else on the sub is literally handicapped. I'm just fed up with the conspiracy theories that Gronk is healthy enough to play, but would hold himself out of a game because he doesn't like his contract or is waiting for Brady to return or any other nonsense. If Gronk could play, he'd be playing, and that's a fact not an opinion.
Fair enough. I was probably being overly sensitive on OP's behalf, maybe because I personally dislike that word.
In any case, you're 100% correct. If he and the team felt like he was healthy enough to go, he'd be out there. The conspiracy theories are definitely getting ridiculous.
He's a football player. Football players play football.