04-30-2023, 01:03 PM
(04-30-2023, 12:39 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: I’m not an expert and football coaching isn’t my expertise. It’s not yours either. I’ll let the staff decide that. They appear to have and I seriously doubt his popularity saved him. Bill Belichick called him the best back in the NFL a few years ago. The Carolina game and the Bills game showed he can still produce at a high level. Replacement level player? Can’t buy that. I can buy that he’s over paid. Now it appears that Dalvin Cook and Derrick Henry are too as their teams are trying to move them. It’s an evolving league for sure.
As far as the staff making an evaluation mistake they would have taken Bijan ( I know that for 1000%) They were seriously considering Gibbs. But they are likely moving on too eventually from a series of players like Tyler Boyd and Hilton and maybe Reader. It’s the business. But they were always expecting Mixon to be on the roster this coming season but no it wasn’t set in stone. This business is fluid.
Look, I don't want this to turn into some long drawn out argument over Mixon. We've done this many times over, you and I, going back to last season when you said Mixon was going to be an MVP candidate in 2022. You are a Sooner fan through-and-through and you're going to support the guy until the end. You constantly bring up the Carolina and Buffalo game while ignoring the myriad of games where he was terrible or nothing special. It fits your argument. The mountain of evidence we have suggests that Mixon is nothing more than a replacement level player. He gets you what you give him. Nothing more. If you disagree with that, then you're free to do so. For the Bengals sake, I hope your crimson-and-cream colored glasses end up being correct.
