Hey I'm with you. Ideally you don't want your TE manned up against a beast like Dav. If that's where Gronk is now then the staff should've never put him in that position. But Gronk has routinely gone man to man with DEs in the past. He did it last year against us. Stoned Cam a few times.
I'm not saying it was every play like a Tackle but the Pats and Bucs regularly trusted Gronk to take care of a DE mano a mano.