Rex Ryan is a defensive mastermind, but even the typically blustering Bills coach is out of answers regarding a solution to the Rob Gronkowski problem.
"He's hard to cover," Ryan said. "He's going to make catches. You just don't want him to go off on you for three touchdowns or whatever. He's as good of a tight end as there is in the league. He's pretty good.
"We're not going to ask one guy to cover him. Yeah, he'd have to look like King Kong."
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Well that got us to thinking, which are the five best movie characters to limit the unstoppable Patriots tight end? Here are our best guesses.
The Incredible Hulk
Ryan brought up King Kong, but Hulk is even better. He’s clearly got the size to jam Gronk at the line of scrimmage, and he has the hops to go up and get the ball once it’s in the air.
Plus, if Gronkowski decides to talk smack, he’ll only make Hulk angrier. The only problem might be convincing Hulk not to freelance and wreck the scheme.
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Spawn
Spawn was once an assassin when he counted himself among the living. Since then, he’s been transformed into a super soldier from hell with regenerative abilities, and chains that are a part of his body he can control at will. On those jump balls Gronk is so good at retrieving, Spawn might be able to shoot his chains out just a tad to keep him grounded without the refs noticing. Bill Belichick would complain about this bit of cheating, but will anyone really care?
Bane
We’re talking “The Dark Knight Rises” version. Tom Hardy may not be a big guy in real life, but his Bane character is portrayed as a sizable man with incredible strength. I mean he literally broke Batman.
Not only does Bane have the physical traits to match up with Gronk, he’s intellectually superior. This isn’t a knock on Gronkowski – I don’t know the man personally – but Bane designed a perfect plot months in advance to assume control of a major city and trap it’s entire law enforcement underground. He can devise a D that can handle Gronk.
Nightcrawler
Don’t sleep on this little guy just because he’s small. He won’t have to worry about Gronk overpowering him because he can just teleport to where the ball is at. There are many ways to skin a cat; everyone knows this, but fails to understand there are also many ways to slow down a Gronk.
Goro
This Mortal Kombat villain is perfect, because he has four arms. That’s two extra hands to jam him with, and a much smaller catch radius for Tom Brady to throw through. Plus he’s pretty damn big and scary.
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