Can't (totally) help being hyped up like he is, and I don't think he's as good as all that, but I still consider him a very very handy player. He has a huge presence on the field at times, and when he gets involved it sometimes looks like the opposition forgets how to tackle and opportunities can arise from his looking to keep the ball alive. It's almost like a Jason Smith situation, where he looks to be inexplicably gifted with all the time in the world.
Without his offloading, I'd probably not rate him as highly though. I haven't seen too many times when he's put his head down and charged into the opposition looking only to make ground, and his tackles are sometimes a bit of a myth. But he'll show a lot of enthusiasm and try and put himself everywhere in defense, and try to make things happen in attack, so he's a much more capable player than a lot of others around him.
