05-21-2019, 05:58 PM
(05-21-2019, 05:31 PM)NKURyan Wrote: Considering how good Jeremy Hill was in 2014, fans were right to call for him to get the ball. He ended up not being up the challenge. Hindsight's great and all, but they were right to run the ball.
You can latch on to Todd Gurley breaking down last season if you want, I guess. He only had two games all season with 25+ carries last year, and only one the season before. It's not like they ran him into the ground near as much as you seem to think they did. Ezekiel Elliot had more than Gurley and he didn't break down at all. Hell, a 33 year old Adrian Peterson had more games with 25+ carries than Gurley did. Mixon's younger than Gurley and has less miles on the tires anyways considering he didn't play for a full year in college. I think he can handle it.
They can afford to ride Joe harder than they did last year - especially earlier in the season - because they don't there's not going to be any important games later on to worry about. It'd help Andy Dalton, it's help the receivers, and it would help a defense coming off a historically bad season. If you want to cut his carries down, do it in late November/early December when you've hopefully given yourself a reason too, but if the Bengals go into next season saying "well we need to limit Mixon's touches for when we need him in January" they're nuts.
Some great points, didn't know that Gurley only had two games all season with 25+ carries, but he was also very important in the passing game. So he wasn't just a runner out there. Good point about Gurley being used a lot more than Mixon was in college too. Guess we could keep feeding him the ball early but honestly i want to see Mixon more being targeted in the passing game.
He has such great hands and is such a talent after the catch, was a shame he didn't get used that much in this aspect last season.
