{"id":6114,"date":"2013-10-20T10:15:29","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T14:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=6114"},"modified":"2013-10-20T12:14:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T16:14:17","slug":"rob-gronkowski-game-time-decision-in-week-7-vs-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/10\/20\/rob-gronkowski-game-time-decision-in-week-7-vs-jets\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Gronkowski active, making 2013 debut Week 7 vs Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6116\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6116\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6116\" alt=\"Getty Images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/gronk.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/gronk.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/gronk-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/gronk-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>New England Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski will be making his 2013 season debut in the Patriots Week 7 game against the New York Jets.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots had listed Gronkowski as a game-time decision despite the fact that he had already received medical clearance from his team of doctors, but when the teams inactive list came out &#8211; Gronk&#8217;s name was not listed.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s possible Gronk will be on a snap count, but via ESPN&#8217;s Josina Anderson, a Patriots source &#8220;totally would not be surprised if he blows up today.&#8221; Gronk returns, at worst, as an immediate top-five option.<\/p>\n<p>Inactive for the Patriots are WR Danny Amendola, CB Aqib Talib, KR\/RB Leon Washington, DT Tommy Kelly, CB Tavon Wilson, OG Chris Barker and WR Josh Boyce.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriot&#8217;s are 5-1 this season, but haven&#8217;t been\u00a0resembled the offensive power of seasons past.<\/p>\n<p>Brady will certainly use Gronk&#8217;s help as his completion percentage (56.9) is in danger of finishing on the wrong side of 60 percent for the first time in his career as a starter, and he is on pace for 21 touchdown passes, which would be his lowest total in a full season since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Brady is on target for 3,947 passing yards, which is a serious downturn after averaging more than 5,000 yards in the past two seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New England Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski will be making his 2013 season debut in the Patriots Week 7 game against the New York Jets. The Patriots had listed Gronkowski as a game-time decision despite the fact that he had already received medical clearance from his team of doctors, but when the teams inactive list came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[],"coauthors":[28],"class_list":["post-6114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6114"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}