04-08-2023, 11:37 AM
(04-08-2023, 10:35 AM)Go Cards Wrote: Let's just take out the criminal charges and look at his production
If you take out the games he missed he played 17 games including the playoffs
Mixon rushed for less than 50 yards in 8 of these games, nearly half he failed to reach 50 yards
Mixon rushed for 27 yards or less in 6 of these games. Let that sink in, over a third of the games he did not rush for over 27 yards
Mixon rushed for 65 yards or less in 12 of those games. 12 out of 17
Mixon had only 2 games where he broke the 100 yard barrier rushing, so less than 12% of his games played he achieved this goal
Add to the equation that defenses were not stacking the box to stop the run, but were solely geared toward stopping the Bengals receivers.
Mixon scored 10 TD's on 317 touches
Perine scored 7 TD's.. on 155 touches
Boyd.. scored 5 TD's.. on 58 touches
He is just not earning his $12.7 million a year regardless of the thuggish publicity he brings to the table. That's not even factoring that he can't block his way out of a saturated paper sack.
Now do expect him to run much better in a contract year but high paid RB's need to produce year in and year out.
The staff is aware of all the stats. They watch it and analyze it more than all of us. There’s the head coach, the offensive coordinator, the running backs coach, and the OL coach to fully put it in perspective. He averaged 5.0 yards a game in 5 of them. Does he eat his wheaties only those games? How about his rank as the 7th best pass receiving back? Does he only like to catch the ball? The coaches know from the analytics whether he’s getting the support from the OL. It’s a simple analytic. They didn’t shop him ever. They didn’t try to keep Perine which had they expected Mixon to be gone all they had to do was give him a little more money and tell him he’d get a shot at #1. They didn’t.
The coaches were never moving on from Joe this season. They may now. And they may have started it drafting someone this year. But he was here for ‘23
Romo “ so impressed with Zac ...1 of the best in the NFL… they are just fundamentally sound. Taylor the best winning % in the Playoffs of current coaches. Joe Burrow” Zac is the best head coach in the NFL & that gives me a lot of confidence." Taylor led the Bengals to their first playoff win since 1990, ending the longest active drought in the four major North American sports, en and appeared in Super Bowl LVI, the first since 1988.
