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Guaranteed Human. From the Rams 31, shotgun snap to Brady, dropping back, lobs a throw. Fort Grancowski, left side, makes the catch. Over two defenders. Tumbling to the two. First and goal to go. I just told you they're going to bleed him. He's going to take, he's going to dump you, he's going to set you up. The Rams, they can't line up. Brady sees it, and it's a 29-yard strike to the big boy. His favorite tight end, the old world tight end. What a catch. All right. We have a big show coming up today. A lot to get to. Freddie Kitchens, Sean McDermott, Ian Rappaport,

but first we have to share the biggest news in the league right now. Rob Grinkowski is calling it a career. He did it on Instagram. It read like this. It all started at 20 years old on stage at the NFL draft when my dream came true.

And now here I am about to turn 30 in a few months with the decision I feel is the biggest of my life so far.

I will be retiring from the game of football today.

Nine seasons.

Greg Rosenthal, Chris Wessling, Mark Sessler, record after record, Super Bowl titles, an absolute hallfamer Rob Grinikowski. And it ends before he turns 30, Greg, as a Patriots fan. How are you feeling?

I'm selfish, but I love seeing him go out on top and i and i understand that

there's different ways to look at these kind of moments but gronk is such a singular dominant force

maybe the most dominant tight end of all time the the most dominant tight end I've ever seen.

And as a fan, I love that his last catch in his career won the Super Bowl.

It was such a gronk physical catch.

In the game before that, it was a vintage gronk performance bodying up some little

cornerbacks against the Chiefs

to go win an AFC championship game on the road.

And he's a guy, I didn't want to see his decline.

I didn't want to see more back injuries and him become more of a blocker.

I think it's cool because he's just in an upper tier great player to go out in that style.

It hurts the 2019 Patriots, but that's not the point.

Like, this is how I want to remember, Gronk.

I remember writing a couple of pieces, like, five years ago, one that he was pieced together by the football gods.

You needed, like, a cornerback's ball skills, a safety's athleticism, and a linebacker size and physicality to have any prayer of stopping him one-on-one.

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