It's funny how wrong often the Oilers media members are. Bootlickers who often get all 'pissy' or defensive when they get called out for being wrong. Always starts with the weasel Spector, then Matheson, then Gregor, and the list goes on from there including Escott.
Literally, Josh Brown was analytically one of the worst D man last season alone, and even the charts show that he's such a piss poor dman. But but but the media members say he's big and has grit! I personally don't care how big or how gritty he is when his stickhandling, passing, and defensive IQ is massively mediocre. He's never going to be the next Vinny Desharnais here.
Somebody on twitter basically said any time Brown's on the ice, opponents advanced stats offensively would rival McDavid. Oilers cannot afford to go on another slow start like last season either. Bury him in the AHL and only call him up when it's a game where there's potential facepunching involved.