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Thursday, March 28, 2024

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A.D.’s Crown Of The Week Goes To Joe

With only looking at the title of this post, you may be thinking this week’s Crown goes out to number 1 overall pick Joe Burrow for getting his first career win this week. Apologies to any Bengals fans who thought last week’s tie was win, but it’s, well, not. This week’s real crown winner is Joe Mixon or as he is formally known on social media “JoeMainMixon”.

For a man of very few words, Bill Belichick had some VERY high praise for Main man Mixon after a Patriots game vs the Bengals last year. Keep in mind this was an Andy Dalton-led Bengals team. Before the world graced their eyes on this Joe(Burrow)-to-Joe(Mixon) connection.

For a Coach of very few words to compliment a player like that makes you realize Joe Mixon is different. In fact, Bill Belichick said far less in his Subway commercial than he did about Joe Mixon as a player.

Joe Mixon proved validity to Belichick’s words on Sunday. Joe went absolutely OFF, and had his best statistical game ever, recording 151 rushing yards and 2 tuddy’s while adding 30 yards and another tuddy in the passing game.

You may be asking, what could possibly make this stat line crazier? Maybe the fact that Mixon spent 3 hours in the hospital the day before. Mixon said that he “slept wrong” and felt like something was “squeezing.” Perhaps Mixon should sleep wrong every weekend because he was able to squeeze out nearly 200 all-purpose yards.

You could say it was a sigh of relief for Bengals fans, because Mixon had yet to find the end zone in 2020 prior to Sunday’s game against the Jaguars. Not to mention the fact that Mixon just signed a 4 year contract extension before the start of the season.

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It’s hard to believe that this is just Joe’s 4th year in the league. It could have something to do with his former quarterback Andy Dalton leading the first three teams. I feel like Joe aged in NFL dog years during his time with Andy. Maybe all Joe needed was another Joe on the team to give him that spark that he needed. The icing on the cake for Mixon: he helped his rookie quarterback get his first NFL win.

A.D.

A.D. is a Steelers season ticket holder and remembers when Wiz Khalifa was good. He hails from Pitt(sburgh), and has swam in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

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