I wonder if you guys consider Wiese to be dumb muscle because he makes it look so easy and so you are tricked into thinking it's power and nothing more.
In terms of his value, dumb muscle, genius or somewhere in the middle, it doesn't really matter.
The only thing that matters is the inescapably massive difference between when he is and isn't there. Do we agree on that?
So the question remains, is there a player in the pack, this season...whose absence was demonstrably felt as much as Wiese's. I can't think of one.
Also, if he is simply dumb muscle and nothing more, then you must clearly think that he is the most powerful 8 in the country. Obviously, right? Because if he's picked purely on being dumb muscle...then you would pick the strongest guy.
My feeling, and what is probably pretty obvious, is that muscle without brain means nothing. Why? Because it means you won't know how and when to apply your muscle to get the most benefit for the team. It'll mean you have no understanding of how to pick your battles and you'd be banging your head against a brick wall to the detriment of everyone but the opposition.
I'm very confident that the dumb muscle "tag" is entirely unjustified. I feel it's more down to "He looks like this and so he is that."
Perhaps he's supposedly dumb muscle because he doesn't offload. And that begs the question...is DDA dumb muscle because the last time he offloaded was in high school on his paper round?