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Needless to say, Los Angeles Chargers running back Melvin Gordon is something of a touchy subject among Chargers fans. You can more or less divide the fanbase into two distinct groups – the group that believes he’s “elite”, and the group that believes he’s a below average NFL running back. Sure, there are some camped out somewhere in between, but for the most part, fans either love him or hate him.
What I’ve found is most of the fans who love Melvin defend him in the most general of terms, suggesting he’s “talented” and possesses “elite traits”, without really providing much in the way of objective analysis to support that position. Meanwhile, those who don’t care for him will point to his lack of vision, lack of decisiveness, and other shortcomings in his game to support their position.
Opinions of Melvin are so split that I thought it would be interesting to run something of a scouting exercise on Twitter, and that exercise looked like this:
Let’s examine the results of this scouting exercise. We’ll star
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What I’ve found is most of the fans who love Melvin defend him in the most general of terms, suggesting he’s “talented” and possesses “elite traits”, without really providing much in the way of objective analysis to support that position. Meanwhile, those who don’t care for him will point to his lack of vision, lack of decisiveness, and other shortcomings in his game to support their position.
Opinions of Melvin are so split that I thought it would be interesting to run something of a scouting exercise on Twitter, and that exercise looked like this:
Let’s examine the results of this scouting exercise. We’ll star
More...