Why is Joe Mixon under appreciated?

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(12-11-2023, 10:51 PM)NUGDUKWE Wrote: I get it. Maybe this is where the disconnect is. People in support of Mixon are concerned about winning football and say 4 ypc is good for a back as concerned about winning football. The people saying 4 ypc isn't good enough are more concerned with how that stacks up to the rest of the league to determine if that is good. Which I'm not saying is wrong but and I've said we need to get more dynamic at RB in the near future. But when looked at thru the lense of winning football 4ypc is good. Look at this last game. We didn't run great our ypc at the end wasn't good of 3.5 ypc. But it was still a winning formula. I think it really hinges on that 4 ypc mark as Mixon was right there until the end and really only fell off running late. The only thing we were missing was Browns explosive runs if we would've had any of those we really would've blown it up.

That makes zero sense, though. How is being happy about 4 ypc some magical caring about winning metric and wanting to be over 4 ypc means you don't actually care about winning? That's just some no true scotsman nonsense. Next you'll tell me that Joe Burrow having a 59.8 QB Rating is good because they beat the Rams when he did that, so that's a winning formula and if you're concerned about winning football, then 59.8 QB Rating is good and if you want a higher QB Rating than that then you clearly just don't care about winning.

3.5ypc is only a winning football formula when you hold a team to just 14 points and have a QB with a 122.7 QB Rating, sure... but that's just because holding a team to 14 points and having a QB who does amazing is always a winning formula regardless of rushing. Browning was averaging 11.5 yards per ATTEMPT.

Top 10 Teams in YPC 2023:
Dolphins
Ravens
Cardinals
49ers
Lions
Commanders
Bears
Bills
Chiefs
Broncos
(7 winning teams)

Bottom 5 Teams in YPC 2023:
Raiders
Buccaneers
Jaguars
Texans
Saints
Chargers
Bengals
Giants
Vikings
Patriots
(4 winning teams)

So seriously, how can wanting to have a better YPC be considered not caring about winning? The Patriots are the only team in the bottom 10 with at least a 4.0ypc, and they're at exactly 4.0ypc.

Again, even if 4.0 was some magical number, Mixon has been below it in 3 of the last 4 years and each of the last 2. That's BAD.

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This all feels suspiciously like a thread awhile back on here where someone was swearing that 60% completion would ALWAYS be considered good and enough to consider a QB to be accurate, because it was considered good 20 years ago.

Just completely refused to accept that you'd be considered inaccurate in today's NFL. The times change, and what was good enough to win games back then, aren't now.