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Originally Posted by Direckshun
The difference is how they play.
Right now, Rice is making the most of his opportunities, but they're largely schemed. He's not blasting people with elite route running.
JuJu could run very good routes, and was larger. That allowed him to reel in five catches in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl to help us win it all.
Rice doesn't have that gear. The gears he does have right now are very promising, but that's not who he is -- yet.
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This is working backwards from a conclusion you'd already reached.
This idea that JJSS wasn't 'schemed' into space is just nutty. Of course he was - why else do you think his depth of target was about 5 yards? They were absolutely scheming him into short areas and finding room for him.
You think Rice can't do that stuff? You think JJSS was out there 'blasting people with elite route running'? Of course he wasn't. Moreover, I've provided a half dozen examples already this season of Rice running a route in a way that CREATES the space and does so exactly when it needs to be there.
And JJSS was slightly larger but he damn sure wasn't any more physical than Rice is. Nor did he have a larger catch radius. You hand-waive Rice's production and simultaneously laud JJSS for his 5 targets in the SB, almost all of which came on a single drive when he was clearly targeted as part of a coordinated effort to attack a weakness the Philly defense had demonstrated. That's being schemed open, hoss.
JJSS, especially the lame version of him in the SB, was not better at ANYTHING than Rice presently is. It's just more excuse-making for 15.