Mine is more nuanced.
On the field I am skeptical he is the same player people want to believe he is. Barely playing football for 4 years makes you a worse football player. His production backs that up.
That said he doesn’t suck so he can be helpful. The problem I see is the better he is the more risky he is.
Off the field the risk just isn’t if he fails another test, although that’s a big one given his history.
The risk is additionally that he has shown a pattern of being unreliable. When he was finally cleared to play (2017?) a few days before his first game he checked himself into a facility reportedly because he was hiding for a paternity test. Think about that for a minute. That was last year.
This year he didn’t show up for camp because he couldn’t mentally handle football while being in a custody battle.
There is a strong argument that he chose weed over football, but there is an incontrovertible argument that he chose to not play football over normal every day events happening in his life.
My concern is that the better he is the more reliant the offense becomes on him. I am not a proponent of building (to an extent) your offense around someone who has a big chance of disappearing one day, and given his history that could well come for to the pressure of a big game.
If we go 15-1 instead of the typical 12-4 because Gordon is a beast and we set he scoring record and he has 1500 receiving yards then he flakes during the bye we are in worse shape than if we had passed and just gone 12-4.
However he is here so I hope he is a beast and I will pray he doesn’t abandon the team.
He's like Moss in his prime jogging out there and CB's are Ten yards off that's respect. Also he runs a lot of underneath routes and Slants. Gordon is a more gifted Route runner than Moss at this particular stage of their careers he's not so straight line-ish. No knock on the Great Moss of course.
