Running game/Joe Mixon, what's up?

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(10-03-2022, 03:55 PM)Au165 Wrote: I said a week or two ago, what does Joe Mixon do above average? Vision, speed, strength, ability to break tackles, catch, pass protect....does he do any singular one of those things at an elite level? Maybe the argument is he does a couple slightly above average but at the end of the day I just don't think he is a large improvement over any other back in the league.

With great blocking he could be a good back. In reality, analytics tell us that most running success is a function of blocking. What separates great backs from average ones is how they can create for themselves. Joe Mixon can't create for himself and so at this point we are limited by the blocking he, or any back we put out there, gets.

I remember back in like 2012 I was telling people Benjarvis Green Ellis was getting the yards he was blocked for and that was all and people were ok with that because he was averaging around 4.0 ypc. Running Backs can create on their own and we haven't seen that from Mixon this year he is getting what hes blocked for and that's about 2.5 ypc.

The running game has issues in all 3 areas right now Blocking, Scheme, and Running Back. And its not just the OL its the TE's too. Schematically issues are a big part of the poor run game.