“Now since we don't have Old Faithful, we have depend on everyone to do their part in moving the chains.”

Yes. Nice hoops analogy and I’ve seen it in hockey, too. A team’s key player goes down, everyone is like “oh crap, we gotta get buy-in from everyone“. Wayne Gretzky lost a lot of time one year and Jarri Curry stepped up large. Happened.

It FORCES everyone to man up.