WHF is right; he's only playing well because those nasty people aren't calling him nasty names. Honestly, it's like a 1-Direction forum full of 12 year old girls on here some times.Or in the real world of using the word scapegoat in it's correct form and not just posting it for effect:
No one mentions it because it isn't the norm in his current form it's the exception and he's Earned some slack by playing better like everyone does.