Chase Brown is coming...

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(10-23-2023, 05:26 PM)tms Wrote: I was never thrilled with the Brown pick and he's done nothing to change my mind. Granted, he's had virtually no opportunities. But I can hardly think of a drive where I thought, "We could really use Chase Brown here!" It's just one of those ideas that sounds better during the week than during the games.

Mixon gets a lot of flack but I'm happy with him. He's ball-secure, he falls forward and he's accountable. He doesn't turn the corner very much but I don't know what corner there is to be turned when your QB can't stand under center, and you're taking every snap out of the gun. Maybe most importantly, he's durable. We can dream about Chase Brown, fantasize about Evans' versatility or pine for Williams to emerge- and I'm guilty of all those things myself. But the reality is that we have no functional depth at that position. If Mixon goes down for any length of time we are screwed imo. But if he doesn't I do think we'll be okay.

The Bengals have zero outside run game at the moment and depend on swing passes to the flat. One major way they do this is with a 2 back set with Mixon and Chase. Ja'Marr either orbit motions or runs a swing pass at the snap which either moves the linebacker for the Mixon inside zone or Duo or they throw the flat route to Chase. Against the Seahawks they showed the 3rd read off that design the play action deep shot the problem is their best play action receiver was playing running back and running the swing pass in the backfield.

Chase Brown or Chris Evans should be running those flat routes in most of those situations.