John Ross and Joe Mixon

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(08-12-2020, 09:22 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: This seems like a stretch at best.

7 of the 8 games they lost.
3 of the 8 games he was 50 yard or less.
2 of the 8 games he had less than 20 rushing yards.
1 of the 3 games he had over 130 rushing yards, they lost 13-34.
2 of the 3 games he had over 130 rushing yards, they played the Browns.

So it'd be more accurate to say that "When the Bengals play the Browns or lose by 3+ scores it was a good bet Mixon was going to have a good rushing day."

There's no Ross connection.

It probably made more difference than people think last year just due to the lack of team speed and deep play ability in our WR corps.  Look at the last four games as an example.  When you swap maybe the slowest WR in the entire league with the fastest, defenses have to change.  You simply can't load the box like you could before because if Ross gets behind the defense, it's a TD.  Most defenses have LB's that can run down Tate in the open field.  Now, if Boyd was more of a deep threat or Tate wasn't painfully slow, I don't think it makes a massive difference.