How much of Reiff looking good is due to our interior being so so bad? How many more pressures and sacks would ha e given up if the interior had been able to hold out their man or pick up a blitz? Reilly has done a good job this year but there have been a handful of times where I'm locked on him and see his assignment just miss the sack because he was a step late.
Imo we need to look at every possible scenario to improve this line. If he is a go Sunday I would like to see what he can do at LG. ONeill, Reiff, Bradbury,Cleveland, Udoh. Then get Hinton in there and maybe Jones and slide Cleveland out to LT with ONeill and Reiff on the bench. Use this bitch like the preseason we didn't get.
Quote: @Vanguard83 said:
Cant we just “phone in” the L?
Geez, the more we talk about this, playing Sunday seems pointless - or dangerous. NFL should cancel some of these meaningless games, record them all as ties.
Kubes said it's Hill to start. If we pull Cousins, I'd like to see the young guys in there
I really don't think Reiff will give us any kind of deal on a restructure...again. He is coming off his best year and has a shot at one last big LT contract which is not happening here. I consider him to have played his last game as a Viking. Over the years he has been lambasted by Viking fans and I always thought he was above average with stretches of great play and then crappy but overall not a weakness on a horrible OL. It helps, even at LT, to have good Guard play next to you and he has horrendous help. Now he has Dozier next to him. If you put yourself in his shoes I would run from here.
Quote: @minny65 said:
I really don't think Reiff will give us any kind of deal on a restructure...again. He is coming off his best year and has a shot at one last big LT contract which is not happening here. I consider him to have played his last game as a Viking. Over the years he has been lambasted by Viking fans and I always thought he was above average with stretches of great play and then crappy but overall not a weakness on a horrible OL. It helps, even at LT, to have good Guard play next to you and he has horrendous help. Now he has Dozier next to him. If you put yourself in his shoes I would run from here.
Not sure how he's played his last game, considering he's under contract for 2021.
Sure, the Vikings can release him and get about $12M in cap relief, but they don't really need that unless they intend to make some sort of huge splash in free agency. That's always possible, but if they need money, there are a half dozen better places to look for it (Rudy, Harry, Barr), considering Reiff just had the best year of his career. Hell, they might EXTEND him. Add another couple years to the deal and lower his '21 cap number.
I don't understand the rest of your post. Despite restructuring to stay in Minnesota, knowing that Dozier is next to him, he's going to "run from here" despite being under contract and having his best year ever....because Dozier will be next to him next year, too? You really think Dozier will be back? He's not under contract and he certainly didn't earn an extension.
Quote: @"BarrNone55" said:
Kubes said it's Hill to start. If we pull Cousins, I'd like to see the young guys in there
Guessing it will be like last year, when we started the starters and the young guys play most of the game.
Quote: @MaroonBells said:
@"BarrNone55" said:
Kubes said it's Hill to start. If we pull Cousins, I'd like to see the young guys in there
Guessing it will be like last year, when we started the starters and the young guys play most of the game.
Boy that hasn't gotten old...
Quote: @MaroonBells said:
@ minny65 said:
I really don't think Reiff will give us any kind of deal on a restructure...again. He is coming off his best year and has a shot at one last big LT contract which is not happening here. I consider him to have played his last game as a Viking. Over the years he has been lambasted by Viking fans and I always thought he was above average with stretches of great play and then crappy but overall not a weakness on a horrible OL. It helps, even at LT, to have good Guard play next to you and he has horrendous help. Now he has Dozier next to him. If you put yourself in his shoes I would run from here.
Not sure how he's played his last game, considering he's under contract for 2021.
Sure, the Vikings can release him and get about $12M in cap relief, but they don't really need that unless they intend to make some sort of huge splash in free agency. That's always possible, but if they need money, there are a half dozen better places to look for it (Rudy, Harry, Barr), considering Reiff just had the best year of his career. Hell, they might EXTEND him. Add another couple years to the deal and lower his '21 cap number.
I don't understand the rest of your post. Despite restructuring to stay in Minnesota, knowing that Dozier is next to him, he's going to "run from here" despite being under contract and having his best year ever....because Dozier will be next to him next year, too? You really think Dozier will be back? He's not under contract and he certainly didn't earn an extension.
Maybe because Reiff knows he will never get any OG next to him who is better than Dozier if he stays with this team.
Ezra Cleveland won't start at left tackle for Vikings even if Riley Reiff outThat could be his future spot, but the rookie will stay at right guard even if Riley Reiff out.
When the Vikings took Ezra Cleveland in the second round of the draft in April, General Manager Rick Spielman said he saw Riley Reiff "holding down the fort" at left tackle until the Vikings saw what they had. But if Reiff misses his first snaps of the season on Sunday, the season finale against Detroit won't be the moment they take a look at Cleveland in Reiff's spot.
Offensive coordinator Gary Kubiak said Thursday that swing tackle Rashod Hill would start at left tackle against the Lions if Reiff, who's on the COVID-19 reserve list, isn't cleared to return. Cleveland has played eight games at right guard this year, and will stay there at Ford Field on Sunday.
"We just move on with what we've been doing," Kubiak said. "Rashod deserves a chance to come in and play. He's battled his tail off all year, done everything we've asked him to do, so Rashod will step in for Riley and we'll go from there."
The team will have a decision to make by the spring on Reiff, who took a $5 million pay cut instead of a release after the team traded for Yannick Ngakoue in August. Reiff is already set to earn a $1 million incentive for playing at least 86% of the Vikings' offensive snaps this season, and could earn another $1 million if he ends up playing at least 93.75% of their snaps. His restructured deal also includes a $5 million roster bonus if he's with the team on the third day of the 2021 league year, meaning the Vikings face a decision on the tackle no later than the first few days of free agency.
Reiff could return to Minnesota for the final year of his contract after a solid season, but that might depend on how amenable the 32-year-old is to another pay reduction.
It will also hinge on where the Vikings see Cleveland lining up in the future.
"I've been asked that a couple times and I know that'll be a question around the building a little bit," Kubiak said. "But I look at it this way — Ezra's a fine, young player. I think he's going to end up with about nine starts under his belt, which is very good. He's played really well for us. He's very athletic. I think Rick will sit down with Zim [coach Mike Zimmer] and we'll work through it and we'll decide what's best for the football team. But I think you've got a really good player and where he settles down, I think he's got a chance to settle down for a while. Been very pleased with Ezra, his work and the job [assistant offensive line coach] Phil [Rauscher] and [offensive line coach] Rick [Dennison] have done with him.
https://www.startribune.com/ezra-clevela...600005697/
Quote: @Jor-El said:
@ MaroonBells said:
@ minny65 said:
I really don't think Reiff will give us any kind of deal on a restructure...again. He is coming off his best year and has a shot at one last big LT contract which is not happening here. I consider him to have played his last game as a Viking. Over the years he has been lambasted by Viking fans and I always thought he was above average with stretches of great play and then crappy but overall not a weakness on a horrible OL. It helps, even at LT, to have good Guard play next to you and he has horrendous help. Now he has Dozier next to him. If you put yourself in his shoes I would run from here.
Not sure how he's played his last game, considering he's under contract for 2021.
Sure, the Vikings can release him and get about $12M in cap relief, but they don't really need that unless they intend to make some sort of huge splash in free agency. That's always possible, but if they need money, there are a half dozen better places to look for it (Rudy, Harry, Barr), considering Reiff just had the best year of his career. Hell, they might EXTEND him. Add another couple years to the deal and lower his '21 cap number.
I don't understand the rest of your post. Despite restructuring to stay in Minnesota, knowing that Dozier is next to him, he's going to "run from here" despite being under contract and having his best year ever....because Dozier will be next to him next year, too? You really think Dozier will be back? He's not under contract and he certainly didn't earn an extension.
Maybe because Reiff knows he will never get any OG next to him who is better than Dozier if he stays with this team.
I don't think he's that stupid, do you?
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