12-12-2023, 01:59 PM
(12-12-2023, 01:27 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Vinyl it's one of those things in football like is nearly always the case with whatever issue, there's many peels on this onion. Am I saying Mixon has always, on every play, not given max effort? NO
I'm just saying for whatever reasons? He, as the saying goes, has "taken plays off". There have been plays where he doesn't take what's given, he's looking for the homerun. There's many plays when he seems to go down very easily.
Has it been because he's pissed JB keeps changing out of runs on RPO's ? I dunno Has it been because he knows the gameplan doesn't involve running much ? I dunno Has it been because he's been dinged up ? I dunno Has he been pissed at Oline for him getting killed by 3 defenders meeting him in the backfield ? I dunno
But it just sure seems he's running much harder here latley
I think this is a bad take. Mixon has never shown anything but a great team attitude. I have watched every snap this year and do not feel like he was taking any plays off. I also think we focus a little too much on the Pittsburgh game as far as comparing our run game from before to now. Mixon avg 4.4 ypc after the 1st 2 games he avg over 5 ypc against the 49ers. Obviously he has had some inconsistency of poor production games. Oddly enough alot of his poor production games are our wins so curious if there is a correlation as a far as how he's used at the end of game perhaps.
