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I think a lot of people don't really understand what the offense was in '22.
MVS's job, for the most part, was to keep the threat of the long ball in play. This, in turn, opened up all of the Kelce and Juju short to intermediate stuff. If they pulled safeties down to deal with that, then MVS would blow by most corners with his 4.3 speed.
So you can look at the number of receptions if you want to, but it's not really telling you the full story.
This offense isn't going to have a #1 WR pulling in 90-100 balls other than Kelce. It's not designed to.
It's designed to take different types of skillsets and deploy them in such a way as to take advantage of a defense's weak points. Most teams still sat in two deep and forced Mahomes to dink and dunk-and guess what? He did, and we won the Super Bowl.
And when we were down to Marcus Kemp playing meaningful snaps in the AFCCG, we saw MVS step up and run a full route tree and come up big time.
Doesn't mean he couldn't have at any other point; just means that nobody else could fly like that and keep the safeties deep so he was that guy.
You need a guy like that. And you need the shifty guys. And you need a big body or two to muscle through press man. You need the varied skill-sets if you're going to be diverse, and not a hero-ball offense.
We were getting diminishing returns with that. This is much better, because the snake has like 6 heads to bite you with.
MVS is an important cog. If you cut him, you have to replace him, which is counterproductive. 4.3 guys don't grow on trees.
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