In the second quarter of the AFC Championship Game, Rob Gronkowski suffered a helmet-to-helmet hit from Jaguars safety Barry Church. The collision forced the Patriots tight end into the concussion protocol, but one of the NFL’s premier defensive backs took to Twitter to offer some context.
Richard Sherman, a Patriots nemesis in previous years, said that Church’s hit on Gronkowski was “the only way”:
The hit on Gronk is the only way Church could have done his job without just obliterating Gronks knee. If he would have just hit him low most ppl would calm him dirty.