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Originally Posted by LetsGambool
Throwing money at Gronk was completely fine. Bitching about it is 100% hindsight bias, and might still be wrong given how absolutely awesome the guy is when he plays. You have to take risks somewhere, this was a good calculated risk.
Pats are clearly below Seattle/Denver in Super Bowl equity, but are comfortably in the next tier if they hold on and get a bye week. Id call that a contender.
Just glad we arent playing those fearsome Jets this week though amirite?
My opinion now is that they locked him up a year too early ... and got punchdrunk and did it with Hernandez. The story has yet to play out for Gronk, but he was under a 4-year contract and they tried to pay to capitalize on his massive early career production, a move I championed at the time, on record. But they also could have taken an extra year to evaluate his style of play and injury history, and proceed a bit more cautiously. And now it's biting them in the ass. You're right, a lot of hindsight view but they dished that contract out faster than anyone in the BB era. It was atypical of the way this organization has operated in recent times. They gambled harder than they usually do, twice. There was no technical need to pay him at the time, no matter how awesome he was.
Gronk is probably getting PUP'd again next year. We may have to dip back into the TE pool in this upcoming draft because it's such an essential component of the NE offensive system, and that's absolutely shocking given the strength we had there just 2 seasons ago. When things go this badly so quickly you have to evaluate your original assumptions.
Last edited by Salva135; 12-10-2013 at 01:07 AM.