11-21-2017, 11:41 PM
(11-21-2017, 11:19 PM)Shepdawg Wrote: I get that they have diminished Gio's role on the team. My question is why? When Jeremy Hill burst onto the scene, Gio still got his touches. Mixon has not shown anything compared to the early Jeremy Hill. Gio agruably has actually outperformed Mixon. I'm not understanding why they haven't taken a similar approach with Gio and Mixon as they did with Hill and Gio.
As for cutting him, if Gio doesn't get more touches, he'll likely want out of here anyway. There are too many teams that could and would use Gio for the 10-14 touches a game he is used to.
Your guess is as good as mine. I know Gio hasn't done anything special this year. He's averaged 1.5 YPC over his last 6 games. 3.5 on the year. That's not exactly begging for more carries. Love or hate Mixon, you have to admit he's proven every bit as capable a receiver as Gio, so that negates some of the need for Gio.
I'd like to see more Gio, personally...but if I'm being 100%, Gio isn't to help the run game. I can pretty much guarantee that. The problem is the line. We could hop in a time machine and grab a prime Barry Sanders. It wouldn't matter if he's running behind a messy glob of inept linemen. I'm not sure how many more RB's people need to see before they start realizing that RB isn't the problem.
(11-21-2017, 11:20 PM)THE PISTONS Wrote: Yeah after the Burfict extension something like $12 million. They could have gave Zeitler a $10 million contract before he hit free agency and had a couple million left.
They could have waived Jones and/or MJ to create more.
They could have signed John Sullivan at Center for what $1.5 million a year?
Line would be Smith/Zeitler/Sullivan/Boling/Fisher or Ced.
Or instead of Zeitler...giving Ronald Leary $8.5 million a year.
Plus Kirkpatrick has been pretty bad this year. They could have signed Zeitler instead and sat at exactly the cap space as now.
There were definitely ways to improve the team.
Unfortunately, the team's method of avoiding big guaranteed money makes it so they can't be creative even if they wanted to be.
In return for accepting less guaranteed money, the team offers to keep players for the full length of their contracts...even when they vastly under perform their cap figure. Jim O confirmed that this is how they do things.
So instead of cutting or restructuring to make more room to improve the roster, we're stuck with guys like an aging Leon Hall at $9 million, or Gio...or Michael Johnson.
It hurts us in so many ways. The Bengals are the only team who runs things this way. Are we to believe the team with 0 playoff wins in 27 years is the team that is smarter than everyone else?
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