So your contention is that this signing will facilitate the acquisition of more above average players at important positions, in a year with limited cap space. Got it.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but yes. If your takeaway is that there’s some festering player ill will toward McDermott because of the one quote this article managed to drag out, that is.
It very much reads to me as the one single even slightly controversial thing said over the course of an entire interview…and then making that the focus of your article.
I’m going to hope that’s a joke and that you don’t actually believe a dislike of Gronkowski is in any way analogous to helmet stickers opposing police brutality and institutional discrimination.
This shouldn’t be that complicated. It’s ok if you like him and it’s ok if you don’t.
The only virtue signaling I see here is from the moral arbiters who cannot seem to grasp that there can exist multiple points of view on the same football player.