Rob Gronkowski Reacts To Scathing New York Daily News Story

Manish Mehta from the New York Daily News did not meet words of praise after his story about Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski.

The New York Daily News story came after the reports about Gronkowski’s low numbers. The tight end was able to catch 29 passes for 448 yards and a lone touchdown. This was enough for Mehta to day that the Gronk game is over. Here is what Mehta wrote about the Patriots tight end:

“If you love football, you want to remember Rob Gronkowski the way that he should be remembered: Strong, powerful and leaping tall buildings in a single bound.

“You want to see him crush poor saps unlucky enough to be assigned to tackle him in the open field. You want to see him chugging – and spiking – beers on a parade float. You want to witness his God-awful dance moves as he tries to pry a smile out of Lord Vader on the sideline.

“Alas, that Gronk is gone, replaced by this prideful, wobbly 6-6, 268-pound dude plodding along like some tip-calculator-carrying resident of Del Boca Vista. His body is 29 going on 92. Watching him run around on the few fall Sundays that he’s actually available is cringe-worthy stuff.”

But, Gronk did not pay much attention to that. “No. Heard there was some like crazy weekend though at my house. It gets crazy,” Gronk said on Friday.

When reporters asked if there is any added motivation, he said, “It is what it is. We’ve got a big game Sunday, that’s all that matters. I’ve got to get ready, got to get prepared and just focus on Sunday.”

The tight end is rule questionable for Sunday’s game against the Jets. But, he is ready to play.

“Yeah, I feel good. I’m ready to go. Sunday afternoon in New York, it’s going to be a hostile environment. It always is. They’re a good team. They play hard. I mean, I can’t recall a game where I would say they haven’t played hard in my nine years playing them. So it’ll be a good one. It’ll be a tough one, but it’ll be a good one again.”