As he contemplates retirement to either become a wrestler or an action movie hero, Rob Gronkowski appears to be contemplating more than that.
OK, that's great. So, are you coming back to catch to touchdown passes from Tom Brady or not?
Not quite as easy to translate as Gronk's famous "pay cut" tweet from spring 2016, is it?
The tweet doesn't shed much light on it and whether the retirement talk is for real or a "contract ploy", the Gronk question looms over the Patriots' offseason as much as the Malcolm Butler mystery. It's actually more impactful since Butler's days in Foxboro are over. Are Gronk's?
As NBC Sports Boston Patriots Insider Tom E. Curran put it this week:
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They can’t just sit with their hands folded in their laps and wait until Gronk gets around to deciding. They need to know is he in or is he out? Or if he’s completely ambivalent, at which point, would trading him be a horrific idea?
"...your destiny will be not just be reached, it will just be starting." Hmmm.
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