Joe Mixon

[BengalsRocker]

(02-05-2020, 06:18 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: The only conversation Mixon is in with the elite backs I named is the conversation that goes "Is Joe Mixon as good as these guys?"  "No."  conversation over. Lol

No matter what, Mixon is playing for $1.7m this year. Just because you want to spread out the cap hits to make it seem like you're proposing to pay him less, it doesn't change the fact you're proposing to give him $40m more for only 3 years more. That is paying $13.3m/yr. For a RB.


Except the equation isn't just Burrow + Mixon vs Dalton + Mixon.... it's actually Burrow + Overpaid Mixon vs Burrow + Mixon + *INSERT TOP TIER FA OL HERE*.

I'll take the same players plus the top tier FA OL, thank you.

Also worth of note, here's two RBs after 3 years:
RB A: 667 carries/2,757 yards(4.1 YPC)/29 TD
RB B: 693 carries/2,931 yards(4.2 YPC)/17 TD

RB A is Jeremy Hill, RB B is Joe Mixon. Nobody would have proposed giving Jeremy Hill 3yr/$40m extension after 3 years.


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If you really think Mixon is an elite RB, let him play his 4th year at $1.7m and prove it. You're already proposing paying him 3yr/$40m and making him the 4th highest paid RB in the league. What's the worst that could happen if he is somehow indeed the rare breed of RB that deserves paid in 2020? You have to offer him a few more million a year? That's a way better result than giving the guy $40m only to find out you paid Jeremy Hill 2.0 and you've already committed yourself to giving him a signing bonus and put dead cap restrictions on yourself if you need to cut him.

I get what you're saying but you don't put the Bengals factor into your equations.

Like yourself, I would wish for them to sign said top tier OL Free Agent but that's us.

Unless they do a complete 180 and change their practices or somehow one of those type FAs begs to play for them it ain't gonna happen.

I know it's absurd to think of dishing out that kind of cash for Mixon but damn it they suck at getting and retaining solid talent recently.

You can debate till the cows come home about if Mixon is elite talent but he did have moderate success with if not the worst but bottom 3 offensive line.

Who knows what he could have done with even a slighty better O-Line and a play caller who wasn't an overwhelmed asshat?

Anyway I have much respect for you and your well thought out posts yet I wonder if The Family's tendencies have escaped you on this one.

It sucks that natural rationale to make a splash signing on the O-Line or linebacker isn't what this team has been about.

They might've made some effort and failed but it pretty much has hindered the team because they've been flopping  draftwise as well.