Alright b/c you're referring to his overall performance this season. I'll address it in that manner.
Alright going into the season, the season prior to this one really shook my faith in regards to MVS. Nevertheless I choose not to abandon him and pretend like he was a lost cause. But my expectation for him was very low. This season he got around nearly 700 yards and had 6 TDs. Not amazing, but definitely around where I expected him to be, maybe have double amount of TDs perhaps.
If you ever expected him to have 12 touchdowns then you had too high of expectations.
However, upon realizing he's simply a deep threat and nothing more as the seasons went my expectations lowered as it was clear he wasn't a number 2, let alone 3.
Again, you say he's not even a #3, yet he's arguably the #2 wide receiver option on this team. Kind of tough to square that peg.
As for the game against Indy, I feel everyone was a bit too ******* him personally. We do forget that he was the one that made that clutch catch that got us down field, and had Rodgers not focused his attention to Adams and looked at Tonyan, we would be praising the dude as a hero. Then he made that costly fumble, which I find the fumble done by Sheppard to be more unforgiveable. Hell people were so pissed at him b/c of that one mistake people in our fandom (Packer Nation) were sending him death threats!
I never engaged in the death threats and thought that portion of the criticism was disgusting. Anyone that participated in that trash need to re-evaluate what's most important in their life and not take a game so seriously.
That being said, Darrius Shepard got cut because of his mistakes. The fact that we have him and MVS in the same sentence is a little concerning to me.
Ultimately I feel MVS is easily the butt monkey of the group. When he plays well he never gets his just due because the expectation for him is so high when it shouldn't be. But when he plays bad we harp on him. When he has a decent day like today, people STILL harp on the bad rather than acknowledge that he had a decent day by reasonable standards.
That's my thoughts.
I give MVS plenty of due. Many may not, but I certainly do. His catch early on in this game was phenomenal. But the drop on the second encounter was seriously as elementary as it gets. An absolute bunny. No distraction, no hands to break the pass up, no one cutting his path off, nothing. He had a solid couple of steps on his defender, Rodgers placed the ball in the bread basket, and he flat dropped it.
I'm never going to expect 100% conversion rate, but point blank balls have to be caught.
All and all, he's dropped a lot of very easy balls this year that have killed drives. Balls like tonight kill momentum. And fumbles like in the Indy game kill games. And that's the type of thing that can more than easily help to bite a team in the *** in the playoffs.
