Ouch
Out of 123 guards/centers who played the majority of their team's snaps last year, Dakota Dozier had the worst pass blocking grade, Garrett Bradbury had the second-worst pass blocking grade and Mason Cole had the 7th-worst pass blocking grade
— Nick Olson (@NickOlsonNFL) March 30, 2021
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Lol....all you can do is laugh.
The Vikings have to get this offensive line figured out. I don't care if that means giving Tice a coaching job as a consultant.
@"Vikergirl" said: https://twitter.com/NickOlsonNFL/status/1377035507046158337?s=19So Mason Cole is an improvement. Wow! We're headed in the right direction.
@"Vikergirl" said: https://twitter.com/NickOlsonNFL/status/1377035507046158337?s=19This is just hard to read. The will downplay PFF. I hope midway in the season they are not going to use the excuse that the OL players on the team are not good enough.
To be fair, that's using Cole's grade at center. At guard, where he will play for the Vikings, his pff pass blocking grade was in the 80s...among the highest. Bradbury is a very good run blocker, but there's no two ways around it; he has to improve his pass blocking. I think he does in year 3, especially if they improve his surround. Dozier won't make the team.
@"Vikergirl" said: https://twitter.com/NickOlsonNFL/status/1377035507046158337?s=19...but, hey, the o-line discussion regarding Cousins was just "excuses"...
@"MaroonBells" said: To be fair, that's using Cole's grade at center. At guard, where he will play for the Vikings, his pff pass blocking grade was in the 80s...among the highest. Bradbury is a very good run blocker, but there's no two ways around it; he has to improve his pass blocking. I think he does in year 3, especially if they improve his surround. Dozier won't make the team.
I dont think so either....As much fun as it is to howl at the moon over signing him, it would be a bad sign if he did.
Or maybe kudos to major improvement?
Nah.
We just have to be patient and see what happens in the draft. If the season started today we’d be screwed.
Maybe when somebody was sorting the excel sheet by pass blocking grade they accidentally sorted by lowest?
I think Zimmer said we needed a Dozer at guard and Rick thought he said Dozier.
@"MaroonBells" said: To be fair, that's using Cole's grade at center. At guard, where he will play for the Vikings, his pff pass blocking grade was in the 80s...among the highest. Bradbury is a very good run blocker, but there's no two ways around it; he has to improve his pass blocking. I think he does in year 3, especially if they improve his surround. Dozier won't make the team.
That is the question, does he automatically improve if the players on both sides are gushing wounds?
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