Former NFL star Rob Gronkowski didn’t hold back about the concerns he had about the Dallas Cowboys.
Coming off a blowout loss to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, Gronkowski questioned the Cowboys’ fortitude during the “FOX Overtime” show after the loss.
“When you’re a team and you can’t go on the road and win a big game in a hostile environment with weather that isn’t on, you know, on your side, isn’t in your favor, it means you’re not mentally tough and the Dallas Cowboys are not a mentally tough football team,” Gronkowski said, according to Fox News. “That being said it has been shown last year in the playoff. It has been shown the year before in the playoffs.”
The Cowboys are a team that has chronically fallen short of expectations and been a punching bag for football pundits across the various networks, but Sunday was the first time Gronk had really gone after a team.
Sunday’s loss wasn’t pretty for the Cowboys, who mustered up just 195 total offensive yards and just 10 points.
Dallas had won five straight before the lopsided loss, but in Gronkowski’s mind it highlighted a problem that the Cowboys have had when it’s come to showing up for big games.
“It has been shown this year twice now because they got absolutely blown out versus a good team in San Francisco when they went on the road,” he said. “And now they got absolutely blown apart versus the Buffalo Bills in Buffalo with a crazy atmosphere.”
On Monday, Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons took exception to the media criticism of his team following the defeat.
While it’s unclear if he had heard Gronk’s comments, he called the piling on by former players in the media “almost sick.”
“What I don’t understand is everyone just waits for the Cowboys to lose,” Parsons’ said on his podcast. “I saw multiple analysts, people who are fake analysts who somehow got jobs on TV, saying, ‘there goes your boy.’ It’s almost to the point where it’s almost sick.
“Like some of these people are mentally sick that they’re waiting… Former players are waiting for other current players to fail so that way they have something to talk about.”
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