You feed Mixon and good things happen

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(12-30-2019, 10:26 AM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: This.

We had these same threads back when Jeremy Hill was the RB in 2015. After 2014 the plan for a lot of people was "give Hill the ball 30 times a game" so when Week 3 rolled around and he had 12 carries for 21 yards, people were like "you gotta give him 20+ carries before he gets going!"

Then they felt vindicated because the only time Hill got 20+ carries that year he ended up with 22 carries for 98 yards... against (you guessed it) the Browns. 

Turns out he was just Jeremy Hill. 


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Joe Mixon had under 2.0 YPC in 4 of his first 7 games. He was never going to get 20+ carries while producing that poorly.

Case and point, the only two games where Mixon got 20+ carries when he wasn't doing well was the Week 10 massacre vs the Ravens where the game ended so soon, and the Week 16 game vs the Dolphins where they didn't REALLY want to win, because a loss clinched the #1 pick.

I recall listening to nfl podcasts about that game where we kept running Mixon while the Ravens blew us out and the comment was that ZT was just trying to get the game over with and take the L.

Spot on about the Hill thing.  The idea of forcing your offense to center around something or someone who isn't producing seems like a bad idea reserved for coaches who refuse to adjust during a game.  Lord knows how we feel about that!

Well they're stopping the run, now what? Im all out of ideas so let's just keep running the ball.