Mixon wants to be a Bengal for life...

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(12-31-2019, 04:10 PM)Okeana Wrote: These stats mean absolutely nothing because he's been behind the worst offensive line in the NFL for 2 years straight.  If you want to do some legwork got back and look at offensive line grade of Peterson and gore's teams during those 4 years you're basing it off of.  

I don't need to do the legwork, because that is my exact point. If you have to excuse a RB's performance because their OL wasn't good, then they're not a RB worth paying. The only RBs worth paying are ones that can transcend the lack of talent around them. Mixon is not one of those players.

There's no OL that has ever been graded enough to "allow" a RB to go for over 2,000 yards at 6.0 YPC... but Adrian Peterson did it anyway, with CHRISTIAN PONDER as his QB, coming off an ACL and MLC tear in Week 16 the season before.

They're not the same caliber of player. Don't pay sub-prime RBs.

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Plus it doesn't matter who your OL is. If you have 693 carries and 0 of them are 20+ yard TDs, that is telling something about the RB, not the blockers. You just don't have the vision or top end speed to break it.