Oline progress per Pff

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Offensive LineThe Vikings’ line allowed just seven pressures the entire game. Three of the five starters — Christian Darrisaw, Brian O'Neill and Oli Udoh— earned a pass-blocking grade of 64.5 or higher.
The first two, joined by Ezra Cleveland, all tracked pressure percentages of less than 2.0%, as well. Cousins had all the time in the world to throw today, and it showed.

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Oli had what 5 penalties today. He needs to clean that up.

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@kmillard said:
Oli had what 5 penalties today. He needs to clean that up.

I really believe he's still a work in progress. I love his upside and game for 2022. The whole year starting will benefit him greatly. 

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I think we have a left tackle...

https://twitter.com/NickOlsonNFL/status/...33538?s=20

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@MaroonBells said:
I think we have a left tackle...

https://twitter.com/NickOlsonNFL/status/...33538?s=20

Its so good to see. The kid is a load. He's strong and dense but can move. Love that anchor. He's got that natural size and weight that is so important, not a pumped up TE playing the position. He stones people at the point of contact. He'll only get better. 

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This is the play I can't stop watching. Cole added to the right side in the heavy package. Vikings get tremendous push from their three IOLs and then Dalvin does his thing. Oddly enough, the only lineman who misses his man is O'Neill.

This also shows why Dalvin is so much better than Mattison, who would probably get two or three here. 

https://twitter.com/LukeBraunNFL/status/...08002?s=20

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Darrisaw's big mistake. He was very impressive on the whole, but he lost his man here and nearly got Dalvin killed. But pause this when the wall forms. It lost 5, but if Darrisaw doesn't take his eyes of his man, this probably goes to the house. 

https://twitter.com/WillRagatz/status/14...13189?s=20

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@MaroonBells said:
I think we have a left tackle...

https://twitter.com/NickOlsonNFL/status/...33538?s=20

Anybody watching Darrisaw on the TD to win?  Chips on the DT to help Cleveland get control, switches off to the delayed outside rush.  Gave Cousins a nice lane and pocket to throw that dime to the corner

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@MaroonBells said:
This is the play I can't stop watching. Cole added to the right side in the heavy package. Vikings get tremendous push from their three IOLs and then Dalvin does his thing. Oddly enough, the only lineman who misses his man is O'Neill.

This also shows why Dalvin is so much than Mattison, who would probably get two or three here. 

https://twitter.com/LukeBraunNFL/status/...08002?s=20

Bradbury had a nice combo with Cleveland and then scraped to the LB.  Everyone did their job there (except ONeill, but the LB came up a different hole, so really hard to fault him.)

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Interestingly, this guy does a deep dive into Slater, Darrisaw and Sewell.

He didn't think Darrisaw was amazing, didn't bash him, he just noted that the Vikings did some things to help him out.  Cousins didn't drop deep, got rid of the ball quick and that made Darrisaw and the O-line look really good.  So the PFF ratings don't show that.  Darrisaw was beat outside a few times but Cousins had already thrown the ball.  

Darrisaw breakdown starts at 17:00 I think.
https://trenchwarfare.substack.com/p/wee...ished=true