Bradbury returning

I like it. Keeps continuity and he played well for the most part, or at least compared to his previous 3 years.

Plus the contract is pretty damn reasonable too.

@"1VikesFan" said: https://twitter.com/allthingsmn/status/1635700560702603271?t=iDeAQpkgHN8bBYYc35jFcw&s=19

It's a 3-year deal for $15.75M, source said. https://t.co/wKykDtLzLx

— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) March 14, 2023

He's serviceable, but his inability to anchor against bigger nose guards and tackles won't ever change. 

as much as I wanted a new a new center. This is probably for the best given the salary. Its interesting that Kam doesn’t do longer deals. 3 years seems to be his max to date?

So he got paid, if he continues to improve great but some have a tendency to regress after getting a new contract.  Time for him to step up.

Smart. Continuity. And hopefully his arrow keeps trending up. Good deal for the Vikings, too, when you consider Pocic got 3 for 18 after one season of inflated value between two all pros. 

Isn’t this like half of his projected salary value? Nothing to see here… note: his declined 5th yr option was 13.25M

@"AGRforever" said: as much as I wanted a new a new center. This is probably for the best given the salary. Its interesting that Kam doesn’t do longer deals. 3 years seems to be his max to date?

He sucks, but he's not costing a lot, and given our cap, as good as we could have hoped for.

@"supafreak84" said: He's serviceable, but his inability to anchor against bigger nose guards and tackles won't ever change. 

lemme see if i get this straight....so our highest paid players biggest job is to throw the ball, his biggest hindrance to date has been his centers inability to stop people from hitting said ball thrower when ball thrower is attempting to throw said ball... so instead of eliminating the biggest hindrance to the previously mentioned highest paid players ability to perform his primary task,  the team is keeping the obstacle in place and thus limiting the ability of the highest paid player to perform to his paid level.

makes sense now that our big FA add to date has been a run blocking TE.

@"JimmyinSD" said: lemme see if i get this straight....so our highest paid players biggest job is to throw the ball, his biggest hindrance to date has been his centers inability to stop people from hitting said ball thrower when ball thrower is attempting to throw said ball... so instead of eliminating the biggest hindrance to the previously mentioned highest paid players ability to perform his primary task,  the team is keeping the obstacle in place and thus limiting the ability of the highest paid player to perform to his paid level.

makes sense now that our big FA add to date has been a run blocking TE.

damned if you do, damned if you don't.  Got a decent C that the team knows for cheap.  

@"greediron" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said: lemme see if i get this straight....so our highest paid players biggest job is to throw the ball, his biggest hindrance to date has been his centers inability to stop people from hitting said ball thrower when ball thrower is attempting to throw said ball... so instead of eliminating the biggest hindrance to the previously mentioned highest paid players ability to perform his primary task,  the team is keeping the obstacle in place and thus limiting the ability of the highest paid player to perform to his paid level.

makes sense now that our big FA add to date has been a run blocking TE.

Well we could have overpaid for another said hinderance past his prime, or drafted a new hinderance that has yet to be proven or we could go with the backup hinderances because they looked really good at hindering said player.

damned if you do, damned if you don't.  Got a decent C that the team knows for cheap.  

I mentioned in an earlier thread that maybe they could add 60 lbs to our new TE and put him at guard.  I was wrong, put 60 lbs on him and move him to center.

Garrett Bradberry, 1st round pick, the gift that keeps on giving.

Yawn . . . he will be viewed as a good pass blocker

as soon as we have a mobile QB who can escape the pocket 1 out of every 3 plays

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"greediron" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said: lemme see if i get this straight....so our highest paid players biggest job is to throw the ball, his biggest hindrance to date has been his centers inability to stop people from hitting said ball thrower when ball thrower is attempting to throw said ball... so instead of eliminating the biggest hindrance to the previously mentioned highest paid players ability to perform his primary task,  the team is keeping the obstacle in place and thus limiting the ability of the highest paid player to perform to his paid level.

makes sense now that our big FA add to date has been a run blocking TE.

Well we could have overpaid for another said hinderance past his prime, or drafted a new hinderance that has yet to be proven or we could go with the backup hinderances because they looked really good at hindering said player.

damned if you do, damned if you don't.  Got a decent C that the team knows for cheap.  

like I said,  makes sense when you look at why they signed another TE known for run blocking. GB is only a decent C if you look at his run blocking ability,  as a pass protector he is a liability and with an immobile 35 year old QB,  well shit get your popcorn ready,  this should be entertaining if nothing else... if you liked those old jacked up videos that is.

 we should start a pool on how much longer Kirks ironman streak continues.

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"greediron" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said: lemme see if i get this straight....so our highest paid players biggest job is to throw the ball, his biggest hindrance to date has been his centers inability to stop people from hitting said ball thrower when ball thrower is attempting to throw said ball... so instead of eliminating the biggest hindrance to the previously mentioned highest paid players ability to perform his primary task,  the team is keeping the obstacle in place and thus limiting the ability of the highest paid player to perform to his paid level.

makes sense now that our big FA add to date has been a run blocking TE.

Well we could have overpaid for another said hinderance past his prime, or drafted a new hinderance that has yet to be proven or we could go with the backup hinderances because they looked really good at hindering said player.

damned if you do, damned if you don't.  Got a decent C that the team knows for cheap.  

like I said,  makes sense when you look at why they signed another TE known for run blocking. GB is only a decent C if you look at his run blocking ability,  as a pass protector he is a liability and with an immobile 35 year old QB,  well shit get your popcorn ready,  this should be entertaining if nothing else... if you liked those old jacked up videos that is.

 we should start a pool on how much longer Kirks ironman streak continues.

We weren't at the bottom by a long shot.  We ended up in the bottom 10 in sacks allowed.  But IMO much of that was because we couldn't or wouldn't get a run game going.  We ended up being very one dimensional.  So improve the run game and our offense is rather unstoppable.  We were also the #7th ranked offense.  So despite being #8 in sacks allowed, our offense flourished.

Cousins was sacked 46 times which  tied him for 3rd most in the NFL.

@"MaroonBells" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"greediron" said:

@"JimmyinSD" said: lemme see if i get this straight....so our highest paid players biggest job is to throw the ball, his biggest hindrance to date has been his centers inability to stop people from hitting said ball thrower when ball thrower is attempting to throw said ball... so instead of eliminating the biggest hindrance to the previously mentioned highest paid players ability to perform his primary task,  the team is keeping the obstacle in place and thus limiting the ability of the highest paid player to perform to his paid level.

makes sense now that our big FA add to date has been a run blocking TE.

Well we could have overpaid for another said hinderance past his prime, or drafted a new hinderance that has yet to be proven or we could go with the backup hinderances because they looked really good at hindering said player.

damned if you do, damned if you don't.  Got a decent C that the team knows for cheap.  

like I said,  makes sense when you look at why they signed another TE known for run blocking. GB is only a decent C if you look at his run blocking ability,  as a pass protector he is a liability and with an immobile 35 year old QB,  well shit get your popcorn ready,  this should be entertaining if nothing else... if you liked those old jacked up videos that is.

 we should start a pool on how much longer Kirks ironman streak continues.

Who was your guy at center? Just curious. 

@"Mattyman" said:

We weren't at the bottom by a long shot.  We ended up in the bottom 10 in sacks allowed.  But IMO much of that was because we couldn't or wouldn't get a run game going.  We ended up being very one dimensional.  So improve the run game and our offense is rather unstoppable.  We were also the #7th ranked offense.  So despite being #8 in sacks allowed, our offense flourished.

https://www.nfl.com/stats/player-stats/category/passing/2022/REG/all/passingsacked/DESC

Cousins was sacked 46 times which  tied him for 3rd most in the NFL.