After playing all 16 games for the Buccaneers last year, catching 45 passes for 623 yards and seven touchdowns, Gronk still didn’t look his best. This could be due in part to the fact that he had a full year off in 2019.
But now, after an entire offseason and OTAs, Gronkowski seems to be in the best shape of his life and that is scary for the rest of the NFL.
Gronk has been in superb form in the opening two games of the NFL season. He has caught 12 of his 13 targets for 129 yards and a league-high four touchdown receptions. The future Hall of Famer’s projected stats are ridiculous.
According to ESPN.com, Gronkowski is on track to have 96 receptions for 1,032 receiving yards and 32 touchdowns. Now it is hard to fathom whether Gronk will match these projected numbers, but he is off to an absolute flyer to start the year.
Gronkowski doesn’t watch or study film
One thing nearly all NFL players do is watch film. It all requires a lot of work, whether to see your performance, how opposing defenses/offenses like to play, and what schemes they run.
However, Gronkowski has stated that he doesn’t watch film in the lead-up to games. The Tampa tight end was a guest on ESPN2’s Monday Night Football’s Manning Cast and Gronk revealed that monitoring and studying film is not part of his game preparation.
Gronkowski revealed in his appearance on Manning Cast:
Gronkowski added that he relies on Tom Brady to help him understand defensive schemes:
While it seems unconventional for NFL players not to watch film as it is a big part of the job, not studying appears to work well for Rob Gronkowski.
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