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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
For all the debates over what we're getting from Rice vs. JJSS - THIS is the biggest dropoff.
What we didn't replace is 2022 MVS. I think people forget how often he made big plays for us. And the plays he made were plays that led to points.
We got so focused on the plays that juuuuust missed that we lost track of the fact that hey - 20 of 'em hit. And when they hit, that's points on the board in some fashion.
MVS collapsing has really hurt us a lot. And like you, I just don't understand it. I mean I'll accept that he didn't get any better but damn, he shouldn't have gotten worse.
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But is it regression ? Or is it regression to the mean?
I’d argue it’s way more the latter. If Mvs saw regular snap counts all season he’d be back to his production in Green Bay. He and Toney were lightning in the bottle. They didn’t produce consistently and were very very sporadic. They just hit big at just the right times. But these guys have historically been lots of busts with a few big booms. We’re just missing the booms from these guys. A consistent target eater buys you a little patience to get through the slow periods on guys like this
It’s a combo of that on top of defenses taking what we want to do, kelce being a touch less effective, kelce and mahomes regressing because lots of other things are regressing.