Antonio Gates was better than Travis Kelce and Rob Gronkowski

[Trojan 24]

"See how how attacks the ball in the air on that play Bob? He developed those skills playing basketball."


every game
lol

"See him box out, like he's going for a rebound "

 

[Controversy]

Who exactly is prime gronk and what is so great about him ? He had an insane 2011 season that he topped off with 17 touchdown passes.

If his prime was that one season then that's not much of a prime. Outside of touchdowns Gronk's "prime" is what Travis Kelce has averaged for the last 5 seasons...

Gronk coasted through reg seasons...his individual postseason success speaks for itself

In his prime, he was a 6th lineman in pass protection and run blocking

Matchup nightmare for defenses, no S, CB or LB can defend him one on one...too fast for LBs, too big for CBs and S

He was a receiving threat at all 3 levels

Idk how else to describe his impact, but Gronk is the GOAT TE and it's not close

 

[Controversy]

Sorry blocking is like playin defense on offense and in that aspect Gronk is elite 2 way, only thing comparable I’ve seen is Kittle

Gronk is the GOAT

Kittle is def a baby Gronk

 

[Controversy]

Gronk was so good, defenders decided the only way to defend him was to target his knees and ankles

 

[Remote]

Gronk was so good, defenders decided the only way to defend him was to target his knees and ankles

This is literally how you tackle every player on the field.

 

[klientel]

I don’t even like Gronk….infact I dislike his ass

but he’s the best TE ever and there isn’t any debate. He had a flawless game in his prime. He was literally unstoppable and it pissed me off watching it the entire time

 

[Street Knowledge]

Of course.
Algae Crumpler was great too

But people really don't focus on TE like that once they're gone.

Just look at Sharpe.

Once gronk retired we were already onto Waller and Kelce.

I used to eat with him on madden

 

[8WON6]

I hate Gronk but he probably the best. And i'm saying that after watching fukk us up in the SB. But yeah, I can admit dude prolly the best. Seen Gronk snatch Eric Berry's soul in the playoffs one year. I jumped off that Eric Berry wagon like it was nothing.

 

[Rekkapryde]

He was def better than Kelce

This. And that's no knock on Kelce.

But I'm def taking Gronk over all. Gronk my GOAT Tight End. Blocked and Received Extremely well.

 

[JarrodG]

Gronk a complete football player. Elite catcher, elite blocker, elite white boy meat head.

 

[Lord Beasley]

TG was better than gates....but gates aint better than gronk.

 

[Pressure]

Gronk a complete football player. Elite catcher, elite blocker, elite white boy meat head.

 

[Formerly known as...]

I'm picking Gronk

 

[BrehWyatt]

Gronk's the best the game has probably seen at the position.

 

[duckbutta]

Gronk might have been the most dominant ever but Kelce's consistency and longevity has to mean something when it's all said and done. Gates was a beast too though and was probably as good as both at his best.

How was he the most dominant ever? Again, outside of touchdowns Kelce does what gronk did in his best season, every season.

Gronk NEVER had a 100 catch season and Kelce is working on his 3rd

And for as great as his best season was Gronk got a bunch of 40 catches for 600 yards and 5 touchdown catches ? How is that dominant ?

Kelce aint never once ever caught less than 65 passes in a season. Gronk spent half his career not even catching that many passes.

Dude is the ultimate look the part athlete. It sure does look cool when Gronk catches it and runs over some safety and does his little cac dance and spikes the ball. That don't have anything to do with the fact that Kelce has played 2 less years than gronk and ALREADY has more catches than him and will likely eclipse him in yards this year.

Posters in here talking about the dominance of a player where there is a player who plays the same position as him putting up better numbers in less games

If you think gronk is dominant then you got to think Gates and Kelce are deity's.

Every time these Gronk threads come up no one calling gronk dominant ever talks about how many catches he had, or how many yards he had, or how many great seasons in a row he had. Me thinks its because if you were to actually do that it would be very easy to show tight ends who did it better for longer...

The hardest part of dominance is consistency. Anybody can have a great year or two or even three. You know why Kelce got 5 straight years of at least 80 catches and 1100 yards ? Cause he is that good. You know why Gronk don't have a stretch of 5 years like that ? Cause he's not good enough to.

I don't even know how you could fix your mouth to even say Gronk was better than Gates. The top 6 years of Gates career are almost as productive as Gronks whole career .

We do understand the number one priority of a tight end is to catch the football, get yards, and score right ? Blocking is great but there is a reason why pass catching tight ends go in the second round and blocking tight ends go in the 6th.

Comparing a dude who got over 900 catches to a dude who don't even have 600 ? This is embarrassing even for the coli