Went back and looked at his stats for the last 4 games and more importantly at the stats of the guys he would be playing on in a negating role. Ouch! IF he was playing that role he was very ineffective. Sinclair, Clark, Zorko, McKercher all got off the chain. Parker and Adams did a good job on Neale but nothing to do with JJ.The elephant in the room, if I may...
What has James Jordon brought to the team over the last month?
If he's had negating roles on players, they haven't been effective. We've been getting killed by flankers and wingmen every week. If he hasn't had negating roles, he's not really offered enough beyond them.
Getting 15 touches a game in that time, which isn't bad, but he hasn't felt particularly damaging and if anything, I feel like he's fumbly and panicked of late.
He's probably earned some good faith but geez he'd want to lift.
To my eye his play still generally looks fairly neat (don't quite agree with you there) but he does seem to have fallen away since the GWS game, as have a few of his mates.