03-07-2024, 02:20 PM
(03-07-2024, 07:49 AM)Go Cards Wrote: Not positive the O-lines run blocking is as bad as it appears and with a better back who trust them and accelerates into the holes it would be more apparent.
Mixon did this for about 2 games in midseason it seems and all looked fine. Too early before work for me to research the games now and am in the middle of fantasy baseball preparation for a few weeks anyhow. But most of the time Joe is too hesitant after receiving the ball which I believe hurts him per he is not a speed demon from a dead stop.
He needs to get going and get behind his pads to be fast and the punishing back some claim he is on a constant. Believe this is why he goes down so easily because he is just starting to get motoring upon contact and not up to full speed. Get going and a RB gets 2 to 3 extra yards per carry just from their forward momentum or breaks the tackle even.
Once in the secondary and Mix has his speed up to par he is a punishing back. But most RB's are at this juncture but too often he gets hit before this happens.
Mixon is good at ball security, receiving out of the backfield, and drawing attention of the law. Yet is merely average at the rest and horrible at blocking on a passing team. He just wants to leak out to fast and become a WR at these times it seems to me which causes him to whiff a lot.
Even if kept the Bengals need to draft another RB imo.
That is the thing with Mixon, he is also inconsistent in hitting holes which is the befuddling part about him. When he does hit holes with
urgency he has good games, but he just doesn't do it consistently. Chase Brown does, now we need to add a couple more RB's that do
and we should be golden. Even if we keep Mixon we need to add at least 1 RB in the Draft who gets up to speed consistently and hits
holes with urgency.
Breaking tackles needs to be a part of the new RB we bring in. All of Braelon Allen, Trey Benson and Jonathan Brooks do this well.
