Danny Parkins
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He's unlike any tight end I've seen.
Better than Gronk?
I'm not better than Gronk.
Gronk was just a different breed of tight end.
He was just one of those big 6'6", 6'7", 270 pounds.
He's not running routes.
When I'm out there watching routes, when I get signed by the Patriots, I go, I'm excited to learn from Rob Gronkowski.
Let's see how he runs routes.
We got Martellus Bennett on that team, too.
Another freak athlete.
Gronk didn't run better routes than Marty.
Gronk didn't run better routes than me.
Gronk was just a playmaker.
I don't know what to say.
He was a playmaker.
Part of that had to do with the fact that he was such a good blocker.
They could put him on the front side of any run.
So now when you do these guard pulls, these flash fakes, linebackers suck up, they have to respect Gronk because he's such an elite blocker.
He gets in behind him.
And with Gronk, the one thing I never saw a player do...