Bengal team record will be broken this year

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(08-23-2019, 12:29 PM)grampahol Wrote: Being they've been running what amounts to Jr high school run plays it's tough to read too much into the run game at this point, but they've gotten near zero push from the Oline so far. That should probably change when the season begins, but tough telling right now. Why knows? Maybe they have a trap to spring come day 1 in Seattle.. 
Anderson looked great in pass plays..running the ball, not so much. They'll open some holes along the way somewhere. All hope is not lost yet....yet...yet...yet.......

I agree and we haven't even seen Mixon yet.

The thing about Mixon's running style and why he's so successful is that, when he's handed the ball, he's sometimes going full-speed at the line and his vision is so good that he sees even the smallest openings and changes direction to hit those holes, even if they weren't where the play was originally intended to go.  Or he hits the hole so fast that offensive linemen just need to engage the defensive linemen for a split second and don't even need to get a push.

Other times, he's handed the ball deep in the backfield and just standing still or moving forward slowly, and he lets the linemen rush upfield or waits for them to over-pursue, which allows him to cut back against the flow for a gain because then there's either no one to beat or one or two defenders in the open field to either make miss or outrun. 

(08-23-2019, 12:51 PM)NKURyan Wrote: Bengals struggled to run the ball last postseason too, then Mixon ended up leading the conference in rushing. It's still a concern, but we've gone down this path before, and they have been vanilla as hell in terms of the rushing plays they are calling.

That's what I was thinking above, and especially because now we have a new line coach and better coordinator!

(08-23-2019, 03:29 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Have to do what works. Mixon can still break a big one anytime so its all good as long as we are winning games.

His vision and explosion is unbelievable!