Bengals Winning Formula on Offense this Year

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(12-23-2021, 12:26 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: ^^^ All I see is that we're 7-3 when we rush for 100+ yards and 1-4-1 when we throw 40+ times. Yeah yeah, correlation vs causation.. but I think there's a liiiittle something to it.

People act like running the ball don't matter. If so, why we pay Mixon? No one is saying we need to run 40 times every week and forget Joe Burrow.

Just that balance is important. People seemed to agree with that after we chucked it around 40 times per game last year and went nowhere (even just looking at the offense alone).

Balance, in itself, has no correlation. There has to be effective running--as you pointed out in the beginning of your post--for the run game to be causitive. Unless, of course, the QB throws it 40 times for 400 yds and 4 TDs. The running game can average 1.2ypc and the QB can throw 15 times for 98 yards and if the defense shuts the opponent out, the other stuff doesn't matter. 

For this specific Bengals team, the defense (1st and foremost) + Sir-kicks-a-lot + an at times balling Burrow and/or an effective running game has been the thing that has lead to so many more wins. It has nothing to do with running the ball 25 times and passing the ball 25 times. 

So, anyway, check this out. 

In wins this year, Mixon had ypc averages of: 4.38, 5.00, 4.19, 5.22, 4.92, 4.10, 5.89, 3.41
In losses this year, Mixon had ypc averages of: 3.45, 3.30, 2.36, 4.92, 2.84, 3.22
See a trend there? One outlier in each instance and consistency in all the others.