Former New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski is now analyzing the game of football as a member of the media while the future Pro Football Hall of Famer recently added his two cents to quite the touchy subject.
With Cleveland Browns pass rusher Myles Garrett now set to miss the rest of the 2019 campaign due to a suspension for hitting Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph over the head with his own helmet, Gronkowski believes that he can actually relate to Garrett.
“I’ve never seen something like this and it’s just not made for the game of football. It was ugly,” Gronkowski said on Sunday, via FOX Sports. “You got to look at all the circumstances. I’ve had a similar situation happen to me like this before. I kind of would call it like a blackout, you just blackout on the field. It was when I was playing the Buffalo Bills and it was vs. Tre’Davious White. I got held three times in the play, I was getting held throughout the whole season.
“That frustration finally came to me right there on the spot. He made the interception on the play, I got held about three times on that same play and I just got up and I was frustrated. Like, I just blacked out and I was furious. I was running after him like the play was still going on and I went down and the second I went down, the second I brought the elbow right to his neck, head area I said, ‘Oh no. What am I doing? This isn’t me.’ The follow-through went through, it happened. But I knew right at that second, it wasn’t me.”
The now infamous incident originally occurred this past Thursday as the Browns defeated the rival Steelers 21-7 in Cleveland.
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