11-07-2022, 12:01 AM
(11-06-2022, 09:26 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: You're letting the success today sway your opinion. When the backups came in, Mixon had 20 carries, Taylor had two carries and Perine had one carry. So, 23 carries in total. Over the first four weeks of the season, Cincinnati averaged 23.5 carries per game for the first four weeks, excluding QB scrambles. Hell, Mixon had 27 carries in week one. Cincinnati had the 11th most rushing attempts in the league through the first four weeks. They have been trying, it just didn't work.
What you guys get wrong is not the rushing attempts it's the formations from which the runs were called..most of the running plays were called from 11 personnel in which burrow line up from under center in which we ran 88% of the time..
That formation was hand tipping to the defense that coaches watched film extensively thinking it was something Mixon was doing to tip the defense..
I've been screaming all along to the top of my lungs that we needed more heavy formations to have the success we was seeking running the football, and today we finally got it;we went twelve, we i-formation,we even went 3 tight ends ..would love to see more diversity in the running game going forward very happy with the coaches today ?
