With Tom Brady set to retire from the NFL, finally for the ageless wonder, it leaves a question. What will Rob Gronkowski do? Nicknamed the Gronk at the age of 32, standing at 6’6″ & weighing in at 265, he’s just a monstrosity at the tight end position. Will Gronkowski retire? If so, it would be the second time as he came out of retirement and followed Tom Brady to Tampa Bay. This which we all know resulted in another Superbowl ring for the both of them. Does the Gronk have unfinished business on the gridiron? Would winning another Superbowl suited up for someone else, be something the Gronk would be interested in? Without Tom Brady, is that sac religious on the Gronk’s part? What about going home to play in front all your family and friends? Gronkowski hales from upper state New York and he grew up watching the Buffalo Bills. What a coincidence that the Bills are interested in bringing the tight end that haunted them all these years home. Could Gronk be that one extra piece to put this Buffalo Bills team over the hump into the Superbowl and beyond?

This is really not such a far-fetched idea. Last season, Rob Gronkowski was still very productive as he played 12 games catching 55 balls for 802 yards with six touchdown grabs. The Bills starting tight end last year, the young Dawson Knox in his 3rd season, at 25 years old has improved every season he played. Knox played in 15 games & caught 49 balls for 587 yards with 9 touchdown grabs. Not saying for the Bills to get rid of Dawson Knox. If the BIlls offense next season had both Knox and the Gronk on the field at the same time, imagine with the rest of the arsenal of weapons Josh Allen has it disposal. Bills had one of the best offenses in the league last season, so adding Gronk to the mix could make defenses shit their pants. Gronk alone is very hard to cover as he’s so big with great hands. Sometimes he takes on double teams. How many times did you see Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski play pitch and catch out there on like a Summer day, but in crunch time. Look at what Travis Kelce does for Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. These guys make problems for defenses. You can’t cover them with a linebacker in a one-on-one match-up. Gronk and Kelce win these match-ups all day long. Eventually these guys just demoralize the opposing defenses.

The old saying is, “keep your friends close and your enemies even closer.” In the War on Terror for the United States Military, soldiers had decks of playing cards with them with pictures of all the terrorists. Gronkowski would not be the ACE of Spades in the deck if the Bills Mafia had such a thing. That Bin Laden card would be Tom Brady himself. Gronkowski definitely would be in the deck as the Bills passed him up in the draft, as New England picked him. Bills settled for a defensive line man who was an bust that year. Gronkowski has destroyed his childhood team over his entire career playing 16 games against the Bills catching 74 balls for 1,132 yards while scoring 12 touchdowns. That is like having Bo Jackson in the first ever Tecmo Bowl video game for Nintendo at your disposal. Can Bills players welcome a guy like Rob Gronkowski to their locker room? Remember in 2017, Tre’Davious White’s interception off Tom Brady? Gronk went haywire and speared him in the back when he was on the ground. If the Bills players can let bygones be bygones, this signing could work. Remember when the Chicago Bulls traded for Dennis Rodman? Rodman when he was with the Pistons was not riding a tandem bike with Scottie Pippen, singing my buddy. That Rodman trade resulted in three more NBA championships for the Bulls.

My biggest concern is, is Rob Gronkowski on his last legs in his football life? The Gronk took on collision in a game versus the Rams that sidelined him for the rest of that game and for weeks after, early in the 2021 season. I like the idea of the Gronk slicing and dicing his former team, the New England Patriots, twice a year, especially wearing a Bills uniform. I like the playoff experience that Gronk could provide for this Bills team. Gronk’s playoff stats alone would make you smile like the Joker if he was on your team and healthy as he caught 98 balls for 1,389 yards with 15 touchdown grabs in 22 playoff games. Gronk’s regular season stats are so productive with all the games he has missed over his career catching 621 balls for 9,286 yards and 92 touchdowns. Could the Gronk get 8 more regular season grabs in one more season to walk off with 100 in that department? With Josh Allen as your quarterback, that is very possible. Buffalo has a nice roster intact right now for another run. You definitely want to see the Bills go after their own free agents and bring them back. After that, Bills need some players on the outside of the organization that can help them hurdle the Chiefs in the AFC. These free agents are like mercenaries. Gronk’s move to help Tampa Tom the last two years makes him one of the biggest mercenaries in the galaxy in many ways.