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JuJu's decline has been overstated. I highly doubt his knee is bone on bone like Julian Edelman was by the end of 2019 season. His knee is probably worse than New England doctors perceived but again based upon JuJu's own comments and watching him, it just didn't look bone on bone. He did suffer a bone bruise this year but that is different than a bone on bone knee condition. His knee was just 1 of his 3 injuries this year. Missed several games with concussion. And now will miss 4 games with ankle injury. If Patriots were still in playoff race, he would probably be playing this week or next. But instead it makes sense for the Patriots to go young at receiver unless JuJu was closer to 100%.
If Zappe had been QB all year, JuJu probably has 450+ yards receiving despite the injuries(knee, ankle, concussion)/lots of missed games and Patriots offensive line/outside receivers being below average.
Mac Jones after starting off his career as around the 20th best QB in the NFL which is very good for a rookie, has regressed the past 2 years to one of the worst QB's in the entire NFL. The decline started at the end of his rookie year and has just gotten worse and worse. When a QB is as bad as Jones has been all too often not many receivers can eat. Jones still has a game or two when he looks great but more often than not, he has stunk.
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