{"id":65177,"date":"2025-07-14T15:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65177\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T15:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:20:09","slug":"rob-gronkowskis-gf-camille-kostek-calls-nfl-fantasy-football-stupid-after-unnecessary-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/65177\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Gronkowski\u2019s GF Camille Kostek Calls NFL Fantasy Football \u2018Stupid\u2019 After Unnecessary Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"

A muggy August afternoon in Foxborough set the stage for Rob Gronkowski\u2019s<\/strong> first plot twist of 2016. One sudden pull on a deep route against the Bears<\/strong><\/a>, and he limped away clutching his hamstring. An injury so \u201cminor,\u201d the Patriots<\/strong><\/a> claimed, it would barely matter. But by week 3, when Gronk finally lined up, the stats told the truth. Zero catches. Fourteen snaps. Week 4 wasn\u2019t much kinder. One lonely catch for eleven yards, and a thousand fantasy football owners screaming at their screens.<\/p>\n

\u201cMan, I know, I can\u2019t even go to the grocery store without getting yelled at,\u201d he\u2019d later say, half-joking. \u201cThen why did you draft me then, baby?\u201d The slow return stung worse than the hamstring itself. Social feeds turned into complaint forums, each post lamenting wasted draft picks and shattered projections. Gronk shrugged off the noise. \u201cIt\u2019s real football\u2026 If we get the \u2018W\u2019 and I have no catches, I\u2019m satisfied, man.\u201d<\/p>\n

But to the thousands who had anchored their rosters to his name, those first weeks felt like betrayal wrapped in a Patriots jersey. Fast forward, and even though Gronk has hung up his cleats (twice), his long-time girlfriend, Camille Kostek<\/strong>, still hates fantasy football when asked how sports fans affect her. \u201cI should say when sports fans would talk S**t about Rob,\u201d\u00a0she told almost a couple of weeks ago on Let\u2019s Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think that I think the hardest part for me was this stupid thing called fantasy football, where people would like lose money, and they\u2019d be like get mad at him when he was injured, and I was like, \u2018these are real people.\u2019 And they\u2019d be like, \u2018Screw you. I lost all this money.’\u201d Being one of the toughest and reliable tight ends and a key part of the Patriots\u2019 dynasty, Rob Gronkowski has had his fair share of injuries throughout his career.<\/p>\n

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Take his 2016 season, for instance. Gronk was returning for his seventh season of his career with the Patriots. That, too, after recording a couple of 1,000+ yards seasons in 2014 and 2015. No wonder the fantasy football owners drafted the former Patriots\u2019 tight end ahead of the 2016 season. Gronk was reportedly averaging double-digit fantasy points per game (12.2) and was drafted in the first or second round in most leagues.<\/p>\n

But the season wasn\u2019t all glitter and touchdown. Neither for Gronk nor for the fantasy football owners. There was an unexpected variable at play. The hamstring injury interrupted his 2016 season, limiting him to just 8 games and 540 yards. And let\u2019s be real\u2014when Gronk was healthy, he was the most dominant tight end in football at his position.<\/p>\n

Back in the 2015 season, despite missing some time, Gronk put up 72 receptions for 1,176 yards and racked up 11 receiving touchdowns. Meanwhile, the other TEs, like Jordan Reed, piled up 85 receptions for 1,125 yards and 4 scores. Clearly, Gronk was the best TE when healthy. But the moment that hamstring gave out, everything shifted. Every scenario, every expectation\u2014gone.<\/p>\n

At positions like wide receivers and running backs, one has dozens of players who can put up big numbers. But the tight end? Well, there are usually just 1-3 guys per season who consistently score like stars. Rob Gronkowski was one of them in the 2016 season. The guy could have averaged 12\u201315 fantasy points per game. But because of the tight end scarcity, the fantasy football owners didn\u2019t have many fallback options. Thus the hate. No wonder Camille Kostek called fantasy football \u201cstupid.\u201d The silver lining? Gronk never paid any attention to outside noises. He didn\u2019t just block out the outside noise himself\u2014he showed Camille how to do it too.<\/p>\n

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Rob Gronkowski\u2019s premium advice to Camille Kostek<\/p>\n

Plenty admire Camille Kostek, but many have also criticized her<\/a> throughout her modeling career. From industry pressures and claims of overexposure to the constant spotlight of her long-term relationship with Rob Gronkowski, Camille has repeatedly found herself under scrutiny. Take her role as a swimsuit model for Sports Illustrated.<\/p>\n

In a conversation on Let\u2019s Be Honest with Kristin Cavallari, the 33-year-old opened up about the criticism she faced after appearing in the magazine.\u00a0\u201cBut did you know that when you become a bikini model, that makes people feel like they have access to your bikini body to tell you how you should and shouldn\u2019t be,\u201d Camille revealed.\u00a0The Patriots\u2019 legend\u2019s girlfriend<\/a> admitted that public criticism nearly robbed her of the joy she once felt about modeling.<\/p>\n

Kostek revealed that she\u2019d always been confident. But when strangers started picking her apart, she began scrutinizing herself in the mirror in ways she never had before. But then she told this to Rob, and somehow everything changed. She gained her confidence. She started shrugging off the public hate. \u201cI\u2019d be really upset about it with Rob,\u201d\u00a0she added.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd he said, \u2018Camille, if I ever allowed what everyone has to say about me and my personality, about my character, about my injuries, about my career, I literally wouldn\u2019t be able to get up out of bed.\u2019 Like, he was like, \u2018You cannot allow any of that to have access to your aura. Like, you literally need to get up and shake it off and like go out.’\u201d Gronk advised her when he was still playing for the Patriots. Probably at the age of 24-25.<\/p>\n

Ever since, Camille has followed his advice. She now believes that no matter what people say, it\u2019s ultimately up to you to decide whether you\u2019ll let it bring you down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A muggy August afternoon in Foxborough set the stage for Rob Gronkowski\u2019s first plot twist of 2016. One…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":65178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[46392,46367,46393,46366,26353,931,46376,239,5350,46375,46374,46390,46372,46385,185,435,3953,2451,1638,2576,46391,1020,1318,46371,13821,9780,2362,1412,46373,3334,46382,1317,1315,1316,46368,635,16361,46365,46378,46387,6546,17519,2991,2990,46388,46389,1618,46369,5855,46370,46383,196,46380,62,3931,6133,14982,46379,46384,448,46381,2949,6225,67,132,46377,68,46386,3930,1615,636,3940,3943,3937,3935,3944],"class_list":{"0":"post-65177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-_radar_spirited20221107_0573-jpg","9":"tag-46367","10":"tag-20221107_zaa_s197_460-jpg","11":"tag-46366","12":"tag-alice","13":"tag-and","14":"tag-apfel","15":"tag-apple","16":"tag-at","17":"tag-attend","18":"tag-attenders","19":"tag-beruhmt","20":"tag-camille","21":"tag-carpet","22":"tag-celebrities","23":"tag-celebrity","24":"tag-center","25":"tag-city","26":"tag-der","27":"tag-event","28":"tag-famous","29":"tag-film","30":"tag-football","31":"tag-gronkowski","32":"tag-hall","33":"tag-halle","34":"tag-im","35":"tag-in","36":"tag-kostek","37":"tag-lincoln","38":"tag-mitten","39":"tag-ncaa","40":"tag-ncaa-football","41":"tag-ncaafootball","42":"tag-neuen","43":"tag-new","44":"tag-november","45":"tag-novembers","46":"tag-original","47":"tag-persoenlichkeit","48":"tag-personality","49":"tag-premiere","50":"tag-press","51":"tag-presse","52":"tag-promi","53":"tag-prominenz","54":"tag-quer","55":"tag-rauben","56":"tag-red","57":"tag-rob","58":"tag-roter","59":"tag-s","60":"tag-spirited","61":"tag-sports","62":"tag-staaten","63":"tag-stadt","64":"tag-states","65":"tag-temperamentvoll","66":"tag-teppich","67":"tag-the","68":"tag-tully","69":"tag-und","70":"tag-united","71":"tag-united-states","72":"tag-unitedstates","73":"tag-ursprungliche","74":"tag-us","75":"tag-veranstaltung","76":"tag-vereinigte","77":"tag-x0x","78":"tag-york","79":"tag-zagency","80":"tag-zselect","81":"tag-zuma","82":"tag-zumapress-com","83":"tag-zwire"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}