BlindWillyMcHurt
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- May 31, 2004
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The same guy with the same skills has been better pretty much everywhere else. I'm not saying he's necessarily going to be *good*, but I feel like anyone in that situation has a good chance of a rebound unless you can see very specific reasons why not. I can see a few - maybe terminal age decline has set in; maybe he's just super in the wrong system; maybe the awkward jigsaw gets him, as his best hope is a reprise of Johnson-Pettersson but there's too many righties for that - but its maybes.
I dunno, man. Like I said... I won't automatically discount almost any possibility. But JJ hasn't been good in a while. This isn't really a recent falloff. It started years back. It's why the signing was so polarizing from the start. Columbus is right there. It's hard not to notice the guy your team keeps clowning every single matchup. I would get giddy when CBJ deployed JJ against one of the top lines. Or hell... even the third line, at times.
For pro athletes, not really. Maybe 2-3 business days tops. Usually it's even quicker.
Ah. Well hopefully that's the case. Because this sure looks like it's coming down to the wire.