Why is the running game (or lack thereof) not a hot topic?

[Joelist]

(09-20-2022, 05:53 PM)KillerGoose Wrote: I am not sure, specifically, what are you referring to but Mixon is a big back. He's 230 pounds, and Perine is 240. There are big backs on the roster, but they aren't very good at breaking tackles. 

Big backs play big. Mixon doesn't. They are like battering rams that plow through tackles - a la Bettis for example. 

[reuben.ahmed]

(09-20-2022, 02:13 PM)Au165 Wrote: Joe Mixon is not really above average at making people miss or breaking tackles. There is nothing really that you look at him and say he does at an elite level which is kind of fascinating. Add is in dysfunction in pass protection and it's why I was highly against paying him. At the very least though he has been healthier than a lot of the other backs from that class that signed their next big contracts.

Statistically, he's below average. Almost the worst right now (46th/49).