“It’s not about me,” Gesicki said. “It’s not about me when I have one catch for 1 yard and we win and it is not about me when I go whatever the heck I went [against Minnesota]. It’s about whatever we can do to help this team win football games.” Smythe, Gesicki’s closest friend on the team, said that Gesicki — who is playing on a one-year, $10.8 million franchise tag and will be a free agent in March — “has handled himself really well. Obviously, a guy in his situation wants to produce statistically because of his situation in terms of years
on contract. “But at the same time he’s a guy that wants to win. I think it says a lot about him the way he’s handled the situation really putting the team first in a year it means a lot to him personally.”