08-24-2023, 12:09 AM
(08-23-2023, 11:51 PM)reuben.ahmed Wrote: Why do we think Mixon is a #1 back? I wonder how he'd do as a backup. He's average. Even fi we think the run game is not an "integral" part of this offense, those 3rd and 1s and 3rd and 2s and 4th and 1s that we're passing on are ridiculous. With a better than average run game Burrow already has a ring. Mahomes let his run game win the superbowl and Brady put up some trash stats in some of his SB wins. Living and dying in the air is not going to be good enough IMO, it's just getting us close. It's a shame our team is so talented and have a below average run game.
The reason our run game has been below average is because our offensive line has been below average. Mixon is not Barry Sanders but he's certainly not a scrub and it wouldn't have mattered what RB we put back there behind the Olines we've had the last couple playoff runs.
We saw what happened to Mahomes when his Oline was decimated in 2021. He destroyed the Eagles defense in the air last year so you can't say the run game won them that superbowl.
Burrow has has numerous chances to win games in the playoffs and failed. Most of that, like for any QB, comes down to the Oline giving any sort of protection which ours has continually failed to do so far.
