11-19-2023, 12:30 AM
(11-18-2023, 11:44 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: I mean, year 4 of Mixon (with Joe Burrow) looked an awful lot like year 1 of Mixon, and not terribly far off year 6 of Mixon.
So I think at this point, in his 7th year, we can comfortably say that the Mixon of 2018 was the anomalous outlier.
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You say he "figured it out" in 2019 after 8 games, but the reality was he just played the Browns twice, who had the 30th ranked rushing defense in both yards and yards per carry. Also had a good game against the Patriots in a game the Bengals lost by 21, which defenses will happily let you run if you're getting crushed because it keeps eating up clock and ends the game sooner. Prior to that, he averaged 3.5 yards per carry the first 12 games of the season, dead on his 2017 number and .1 below his 2018 number.
The 4.9ypc Mixon of 2018 was just a mirage that kept you expecting and hoping for more. His other 6 years all tell a pretty consistent truth.
I get the point of your pic, but everyone was saying we should have taken Dawand Jones in the first, but then Cleveland got him. He's spent most of his rookie year hurt, so it's tough to use your #1 on a OL that may turn into a bust.
Side note: In reviewing the Ravens game, Orlando Brown Jr, was getting owned by Oweh and Kyle Von Noy. He had no answer whatsoever for them. I thought OBJr was our answer to all our LT problems. He stunk up Baltimore.
