Media members - even newly-minted ones who actually played the game and endured the silly scrutiny on the way to Super Bowl greatness - can be a fickle bunch.
Meet Rob Gronkowski, who is making it clear he is a non-believer when it comes to the Dallas Cowboys ... once we get to playoff time and a certain postseason inevitability.
Gronk claims the Cowboys are "incapable'' of winning playoff games on the road.
Appearing on "Up & Adams" with Kay Adams, the former Patriots and Bucs Super Bowl-winning tight end offered his "hot takes'' based largely on what happened in Miami on Sunday, when the Cowboys' 22-20 last-second loss dropped this team's road record to 3-5.
"They had another chance to prove they could win on the road, and they proved everyone right - that they can't win on the road,'' he said. "They had another opportunity ... and they lost that game once again. ... No one really believes in them.''
There are a three issues worth noting here.
One, CowboysSI.com has been at the forefront of pushing the fact that it isn't just this year; 10-5 Dallas has won 15 straight at AT&T Stadium but is now, over the course of the last 18 games just 8-10.
So ... it's a problem. And maybe a deeply-ingrained one.
Two, In fairness to the Cowboys, Dak Prescott and the offense did put this team in position to win the Christmas Eve showdown with a late-game clutch TD drive. But then Miami made its own late-game scoring drive.
So maybe, on this day, Dallas was good but Miami was two points better?
And three - and this speaks to the fickle nature of the job Gronk now has as a media pundit: Last year's Cowboys were 5-6 on the road. And yet somehow, guess who Rob's preseason pick to win the Super Bowl was?
Yup. These same Cowboys, who are in many ways the same team most of us predicted back in the preseason that they would be.
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