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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
WR1, WR2, WR3-these are not terms that The Chiefs think in.
That's what you don't get.
Skill-sets. What they can do, what they do for the offense, what that forces for the defense, those are terms the team is thinking in. The chess match.
MVS is not a 'bottom end WR2', he's a guy with a specific skill-set that forces opposing defenses to defend the possibility that he'll streak right by whatever CB they put on him. So the defense must make decisions, on personnel, on coverage schemes.
It's a role, and an important one that affects everything the defense does, and allows the offense a numbers advantage and stresses the rules of coverage schemes. If MVS, in normal circumstances, has a huge game, it'll be because some defensive coordinator decided to just play him in straight up man and ran by the CB several times. Most usually won't risk giving the Chiefs the easy big play.
His worth isn't about his statistical production. It's about the part he plays within the offense, and what his presence means to the defense.
This is what I mean when I say that you like to post 'data' with no relation at all to context as if it's the be-all-end-all. Data is meaningless without context.
If you measure MVS by raw numbers only, you're missing half of the picture.
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Um, sometime around the middle of last season I specifically stated that MVS is a role player, specifically a vertical stretch role player who's primary responsibility was to force the S deeper, opening up the intermediate zones. I've been saying that for more than 7 months, defending MVS's role, when others were shitting on him last year. Maybe you could remember that.
But the question I just responded to was more general, as in 'how does he rank overall,' or words to that effect. And overall, his stats say he's a low second tier WR in the NFL, at best.
Regardless, his stats say he's a limited WR, or a role player, over his entire 5-year career. He's not an all-arounder, and when compared to all-around WRs, he falls to about 50-70th.
And btw, this statement: "If MVS, in normal circumstances, has a huge game, it'll be because some defensive coordinator decided to just play him in straight up man and ran by the CB several times. Most usually won't risk giving the Chiefs the easy big play."
That's 'speculation.' Because you can't know what was in a DC's mind for certain. You're making a guess. That's not context.