Blitz at your peril, Viking opponents....

See our OL has to be good enough where teams feel THEY HaVE to blitz to get pressure.  With a good OL, sky is the limit for this offense and team

which leads to a lot of those check down passes that he gets blasted for taking,  but a short completion against the blitz is better than a sack or incompletion.    I think he has been much better than many others would have been when handcuffed with what he had to deal with last year.

https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2019/failed-completions-2018

@"silverjoel" said: https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2019/failed-completions-2018

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"silverjoel" said: https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2019/failed-completions-2018

interesting, but I am betting if you look at all those that the majority have a common feature and that will be piss poor pass protection and play calling.

@"silverjoel" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"silverjoel" said: https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stat-analysis/2019/failed-completions-2018

interesting, but I am betting if you look at all those that the majority have a common feature and that will be piss poor pass protection and play calling.

I'm not going to get in to it to much.  However, it is very similar to his time in Washington with a top OL and McVay calling plays.  2016 was his best year and he was a little better than average.

My point is that completion percentage isn't a good indicator of good or bad.

Agreed - a difficult stat to boast about...

Some QBs you don't WANT to flush out of the pocket.

Can we please ditch this false narrative that Cousins played behind a good O-Line in Washington?

There are really good individual players on that Line to be sure. But someone was always hurt and usually more than one guy missed chunks of time every year he was there.

Or have you all forgotten that he took snaps from like 4 different Centers one year and had TJ Clemmings playing Tackle.

@"FSUVike" said: Can we please ditch this false narrative that Cousins played behind a good O-Line in Washington?

There are really good individual players on that Line to be sure. But someone was always hurt and usually more than one guy missed chunks of time every year he was there.

Or have you all forgotten that he took snaps from like 4 different Centers one year and had TJ Clemmings playing Tackle.

@"FSUVike" said: Can we please ditch this false narrative that Cousins played behind a good O-Line in Washington?

There are really good individual players on that Line to be sure. But someone was always hurt and usually more than one guy missed chunks of time every year he was there.

Or have you all forgotten that he took snaps from like 4 different Centers one year and had TJ Clemmings playing Tackle.

The same rankings some use to trash the Vikings OL say that the 2015-2016 Redskins lines were some of the better lines in the NFL.  

@"silverjoel" said:

@"FSUVike" said: Can we please ditch this false narrative that Cousins played behind a good O-Line in Washington?

There are really good individual players on that Line to be sure. But someone was always hurt and usually more than one guy missed chunks of time every year he was there.

Or have you all forgotten that he took snaps from like 4 different Centers one year and had TJ Clemmings playing Tackle.

Do you have some proof for this?  2017 was rocky.  2015 and 2016 were not. 

The same rankings some use to trash the Vikings OL say that the 2015-2016 Redskins lines were some of the better lines in the NFL.  

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"silverjoel" said:

@"FSUVike" said: Can we please ditch this false narrative that Cousins played behind a good O-Line in Washington?

There are really good individual players on that Line to be sure. But someone was always hurt and usually more than one guy missed chunks of time every year he was there.

Or have you all forgotten that he took snaps from like 4 different Centers one year and had TJ Clemmings playing Tackle.

Do you have some proof for this?  2017 was rocky.  2015 and 2016 were not. 

The same rankings some use to trash the Vikings OL say that the 2015-2016 Redskins lines were some of the better lines in the NFL.  

I think some of that is what measurements they use to rank the OL.  Is it sacks surrendered?  well a QB with a quick recognition and release can skew those stats.  yards gained in rushing, a good back can overcome OL deficiencies (AD),  I would need to know how they come up with their rankings before I could agree or disagree with the assessment,  but as having watched every snap of every game the Vikings have played for a long long time, (many of them multiple times) I can honestly say that our OL sucked and has so for quite a while and the redskins OL hasnt really impressed me the little I had seen them for what thats worth.

@"silverjoel" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"silverjoel" said:

@"FSUVike" said: Can we please ditch this false narrative that Cousins played behind a good O-Line in Washington?

There are really good individual players on that Line to be sure. But someone was always hurt and usually more than one guy missed chunks of time every year he was there.

Or have you all forgotten that he took snaps from like 4 different Centers one year and had TJ Clemmings playing Tackle.

Do you have some proof for this?  2017 was rocky.  2015 and 2016 were not. 

The same rankings some use to trash the Vikings OL say that the 2015-2016 Redskins lines were some of the better lines in the NFL.  

I think some of that is what measurements they use to rank the OL.  Is it sacks surrendered?  well a QB with a quick recognition and release can skew those stats.  yards gained in rushing, a good back can overcome OL deficiencies (AD),  I would need to know how they come up with their rankings before I could agree or disagree with the assessment,  but as having watched every snap of every game the Vikings have played for a long long time, (many of them multiple times) I can honestly say that our OL sucked and has so for quite a while and the redskins OL hasnt really impressed me the little I had seen them for what thats worth.

Of course some, if not all, of OL stats are dependent on QBs/RBs.  

However, for the 2016 Redskins OL, Cousins' time-to-throw (how long the QB holds the ball) was 32nd fastest at 2.81s.  The Redskins OL (if you want to blame it all on the OL) gave up 23 sacks (4th fewest in the NFL) with an adjusted sack rate of 3.9% (3rd best in the NFL) while also ranking 6th best in football outsiders OL rushing stats.

If someone doesn't consider that a damn good OL, I don't know what to say.