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ORIGINAL: Bruce Johnson

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ORIGINAL: David F.

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

Vikings O-line graded out as the worst pass blocking line in football. I apologize. The Vikings defense ranked 30 out of 32 teams, not dead last. And the special teams were only a below average #21. Mea Culpa. Cousins, meanwhile was the #8 QB.

You can't seriously deny that despite putrid play (by any reasonable standard) of these units, that Cousins draws a disproportionate amount of the finger pointing and negative commentary.

100% cousins gets more blame than he should. He’s the QB after all. #8? On his jersey for sure.

Edit - vikes o line was ranked 28. Not last.

Edit again - 28 in pass. 26 overall

Despite not too shabby play from the tackles. That's I was saying the interior offensive line was the worst in NFL history.

Here's a video that I enjoyed watching. It was interesting because of the intensity of the crowd noise (something I really miss) and because our team had a number of stars and they all showed up big time.

Take the time to watch it. You won't be disappointed.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1013205819045424

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ORIGINAL: Jeff Jesser

Pretty funny discussion. Everyone is pinging for Watson. Past 3 years as a comparison:

Team Wins/Losses

Texans 25-23
Vikings 25-22-1

Playoff "success"

Texans 1-2
Vikings 1-1

Individual stats:

Watson

12840 85 28

Cousins

12166 91 29

They fired their entire staff, traded away, arguably a top LT and one of the top 10 WR's. We extended all of our guys but it's Cousins fault. Granted those stats don't account for running/escapability and age but the starting point in all discussions for Watson is, at least, 3 #1's and the Texans aren't listening. We pine to give SF a #1 and take back Jimmy G. Sounds about right....

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ORIGINAL: David F.

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ORIGINAL: Bruce Johnson

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ORIGINAL: David F.

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

Vikings O-line graded out as the worst pass blocking line in football. I apologize. The Vikings defense ranked 30 out of 32 teams, not dead last. And the special teams were only a below average #21. Mea Culpa. Cousins, meanwhile was the #8 QB.

You can't seriously deny that despite putrid play (by any reasonable standard) of these units, that Cousins draws a disproportionate amount of the finger pointing and negative commentary.

100% cousins gets more blame than he should. He’s the QB after all. #8? On his jersey for sure.

Edit - vikes o line was ranked 28. Not last.

Edit again - 28 in pass. 26 overall

Despite not too shabby play from the tackles. That's I was saying the interior offensive line was the worst in NFL history.

Here's a video that I enjoyed watching. It was interesting because of the intensity of the crowd noise (something I really miss) and because our team had a number of stars and they all showed up big time.

Take the time to watch it. You won't be disappointed.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1013205819045424

What a game! I was lucky to be there. So many moments. Vernon Davis destroyed us! Classic priefer special teams - blocked fg for a TD and then the first round draft pick returning kicks gets it back. When the vikes failed on the 4th and five about 10,000 people left the building. Haha! Suckers!

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ORIGINAL: Bruce Johnson

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ORIGINAL: David F.

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ORIGINAL: TJSweens

Vikings O-line graded out as the worst pass blocking line in football. I apologize. The Vikings defense ranked 30 out of 32 teams, not dead last. And the special teams were only a below average #21. Mea Culpa. Cousins, meanwhile was the #8 QB.

You can't seriously deny that despite putrid play (by any reasonable standard) of these units, that Cousins draws a disproportionate amount of the finger pointing and negative commentary.

100% cousins gets more blame than he should. He’s the QB after all. #8? On his jersey for sure.

Edit - vikes o line was ranked 28. Not last.

Edit again - 28 in pass. 26 overall

Despite not too shabby play from the tackles. That's I was saying the interior offensive line was the worst in NFL history.

Here's a video that I enjoyed watching. It was interesting because of the intensity of the crowd noise (something I really miss) and because our team had a number of stars and they all showed up big time.

Take the time to watch it. You won't be disappointed.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1013205819045424

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ORIGINAL: David F.

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ORIGINAL: Jeff Jesser

Pretty funny discussion. Everyone is pinging for Watson. Past 3 years as a comparison:

Team Wins/Losses

Texans 25-23
Vikings 25-22-1

Playoff "success"

Texans 1-2
Vikings 1-1

Individual stats:

Watson

12840 85 28

Cousins

12166 91 29

They fired their entire staff, traded away, arguably a top LT and one of the top 10 WR's. We extended all of our guys but it's Cousins fault. Granted those stats don't account for running/escapability and age but the starting point in all discussions for Watson is, at least, 3 #1's and the Texans aren't listening. We pine to give SF a #1 and take back Jimmy G. Sounds about right....

Running and escapability adds 1400 yards and 15 TDS.

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ORIGINAL: Jeff Jesser

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ORIGINAL: David F.

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ORIGINAL: Jeff Jesser

Pretty funny discussion. Everyone is pinging for Watson. Past 3 years as a comparison:

Team Wins/Losses

Texans 25-23
Vikings 25-22-1

Playoff "success"

Texans 1-2
Vikings 1-1

Individual stats:

Watson

12840 85 28

Cousins

12166 91 29

They fired their entire staff, traded away, arguably a top LT and one of the top 10 WR's. We extended all of our guys but it's Cousins fault. Granted those stats don't account for running/escapability and age but the starting point in all discussions for Watson is, at least, 3 #1's and the Texans aren't listening. We pine to give SF a #1 and take back Jimmy G. Sounds about right....

Running and escapability adds 1400 yards and 15 TDS.

And we're still only 1/2 game better than that, widely considered horribly ran, organization. No wonder we extended our brain trust!

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ORIGINAL: twinsfan

Vikes released Rudolph.

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ORIGINAL: Jeff Jesser

Just like the Washington Football Team. Fans must be going crazy on their possible back to back this year.

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ORIGINAL: twinsfan

Vikes released Rudolph.

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ORIGINAL: twinsfan

Vikes released Rudolph.

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ORIGINAL: Steve Lentz

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ORIGINAL: twinsfan

Vikes released Rudolph.

Read his Dear Minnesota letter in the Tribune.
Pure class as always!!!

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ORIGINAL: Mark Anderson

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ORIGINAL: Steve Lentz

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ORIGINAL: twinsfan

Vikes released Rudolph.

Read his Dear Minnesota letter in the Tribune.
Pure class as always!!!

Class move by Vikings too. Give Rudy a head start on Free Agency.

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ORIGINAL: David F.

Hell of a lot classier than they treated Antoine Winfield Sr that’s for sure

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ORIGINAL: David F.

https://m.startribune.com/wiederer-winfield-surprised-to-learn-of-his-release/197707181/?c=y&page=all&prepage=1#continue

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ORIGINAL: Mark Anderson

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ORIGINAL: David F.

Hell of a lot classier than they treated Antoine Winfield Sr that’s for sure

What happened? I must have missed something.

35 years old. Played here 9 years(two nice contracts). Asked him to take pay cut. Cut him. Tried to resign him for less.

Then, more or less, he retired after that.

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ORIGINAL: thebigo

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ORIGINAL: Mark Anderson

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ORIGINAL: David F.

Hell of a lot classier than they treated Antoine Winfield Sr that’s for sure

What happened? I must have missed something.

35 years old. Played here 9 years(two nice contracts). Asked him to take pay cut. Cut him. Tried to resign him for less.

Then, more or less, he retired after that.

As I recall, we were willing to pay Winfield around $3M to stay. He decided to sign with Seattle for damn near league minimum. Then they cut him in preseason.