06-21-2023, 08:34 PM
(06-21-2023, 08:04 PM)Go Cards Wrote: Just not sure I've ever heard any coach say they did not like one of their starters publicly going into the season. It would be counterproductive upsetting a player you've got to count on I would think. So not really sure how much stock to put in those statements. Sounded more like he was talking about Perrine season though.
I'm not really saying Joe is a horrible runner, not saying he is great either, adequate is more like it. Now would call him good at receiving back out of the backfield though. What I am saying he is absolutely horrid at picking up the blitz, and the Bengals are a passing team plain and simple. Plus his off field trouble could become a distraction.
Not sold on his morality either. Also he just never lived up to what he was supposed to be and you can say it was because of the run blocking he has been given. Yet the pass blocking was just as bad (partly because of him) and Burrow figured out how to overcome this obstacle as all great players do.
It will be interesting to see who replaces Perine. They liked the fit. They are very cognizant of Mixon’s touches. Pulling Mixon on third and long really worked well as did third and short. Perine is a better short yardage runner and he’s strong as an ox. He’s probably the strongest back in the NFL. He manhandled Micah Parsons in the blitz in the Dallas game. They were a great tandem. But Mixon’s poor pass blocking wasn’t an issue when the board vilified the staff for him not being in there on third down in the last minutes of the Super Bowl. It was a tirade on here lol.
But Joe’s the guy and if you’ve watched Zac Taylor for 4 years and know who he is he was genuine in his Mixon comments to Wilcots. He had convincing mannerisms, excitement , and enthusiasm. Zac’s doesn’t have any coachspeak in that interview it’s blatantly obvious. If anybody says otherwise then they haven’t really followed him.
Romo “ so impressed with Zac ...1 of the best in the NFL… they are just fundamentally sound. Taylor the best winning % in the Playoffs of current coaches. Joe Burrow” Zac is the best head coach in the NFL & that gives me a lot of confidence." Taylor led the Bengals to their first playoff win since 1990, ending the longest active drought in the four major North American sports, en and appeared in Super Bowl LVI, the first since 1988.
