Stefon Diggs currently has 88 catches without a single drop.
That is the most catches without a drop in a single season that Pro Football Focus has ever recorded.
THIELEN: I broke three bones in my back on this play. ...I might've come out for the next play, but I played the rest of the game.
JAWS: ...You broke three bones, and played next week?
THIELEN: Yeah, they weren't bones that were important.
Aaron Rodgers' Go-To Receivers Since the Start of 2018:
1. Davante Adams - 115 receptions
2. Throwing the ball out of play - 61 throwaways
3. Jimmy Graham - 58 receptions
4. Marquez Valdes-Scantling - 42 receptions
5. Randall Cobb - 38 receptions
Duke Shelley finishes the regular season with the third-best coverage grade among all CBs, behind only Sauce Gardner and Patrick Surtain.
Shelley did not allow a touchdown all season and recorded 10 pass breakups — 4th-most in the NFL — despite starting just five games.
Lowest career drop rates among all receivers:
10. Zach Ertz: 4.88%
9. Kyle Rudolph: 4.81%
8. Adam Thielen: 4.43%
7. Antonio Brown: 4.31%
6. Cole Beasley: 4.02%
5. Jordan Reed: 3.98%
3t. Larry Fitzgerald: 3.61%
3t. Stefon Diggs: 3.61%
2. Nuk Hopkins: 3.51%
1. Mike Thomas: 2.76%
I don't know if the Vikings will fire Mike Zimmer.
All I know is if they do, he will immediately be hired by some downtrodden franchise & within the next couple years will win the Super Bowl while the Vikings continue to languish in mediocity.
I know it in my deep heart's core.
The absolute STONES of Kwesi to trade down from 34 with the best player available at a premium position of need still on the board, fleecing a divisional rival in the proess, then trading back up 8 picks later to take that same player. Masterclass.
After trading Diggs and losing half their starters on defense, it really looked like the Vikings were staring down something of a rebuild in 2020.
That changed with this draft. The Vikings nailed it—pick after pick of high impact, high value, high character, high upside players.
This year Eric Kendricks...
• Broke PFF's record for most single-season pass breakups by a LB
• Has allowed the lowest completion % of any LB
• Has the 5th-most run stops by any player
• Ranks 3rd in pass rush productivity among LBs
• Is the highest-graded LB in football
Something about Harrison Smith — the grizzled vet who actually made the interception — cooly walking off the field in the background while the rest of the team celebrates wildly is so funny to me
The Vikings currently have the most drops of any team in the NFL.
Stefon Diggs and Adam Thielen, who account for 54% of the team's targets, only have one drop between them.
When Kirk Cousins scored the go-ahead touchdown to cap off the 20-point comeback last week, if you listen close, you can hear him say to himself under his breath, "You like that? You like that?"
Offensive tackles with at least 300 pass blocking snaps this year and zero sacks allowed:
• Tyron Smith
• Terron Armstead
• Brian O'Neill
That's the whole list.
The Chiefs earned a 42.2 team pass blocking grade in the Super Bowl per PFF, their lowest since Week 14 of 2010
For comparison the Vikings earned a team pass block grade below 42 three times just in the last year.
Why aren't more people talking about Christian Darrisaw?
He's the second-highest-graded tackle in football (behind only Trent Williams) and his film has more non-stop jam-packed violence than a Quentin Tarantino flick
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' Points Allowed Per Game Ranking Over the Last Decade:
2011: 31st
2012: 15th
2013: 32nd
2014: 11th <--- Mike Zimmer arrives
2015: 5th
2016: 6th
2017: 1st
2018: 9th
2019: 6th
Brian O'Neill has now gone over 1,000 consecutive pass blocking snaps without giving up a sack, per PFF.
That doesn't just break PFF's record for longest sackless streak to start a career—it breaks PFF's record for longest sackless streak by any OT, at any point in their career.
The
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currently lead the NFL in sacks.
No team has invested fewer 1st or 2nd rounders on their D-line in the past 10 years. And yet Danielle Hunter (3rd rounder), Everson Griffen (4th rounder) & Stephen Weatherly (7th rounder) make up one of the best DE trios in the NFL.
It's so funny that the Vikings lose a close week 1 game and you think "if they can just not turn the ball over 3 times they could be pretty good!" and then they go and turn the ball over *four* times
> Sam Darnold won't start this year
> Sam Darnold will get benched by the bye
> Sam Darnold won't keep this up (YOU ARE HERE)
> Sam Darnold won't win MVP
> Sam Darnold won't win Super Bowl MVP
> Sam Darnold won't win Pennsylvania
> I won't name all my kids Samuel/Samantha Darnold
Pat Shurmur's first TD in 2017: Hurry up offense, trips right, play action boot, RG pulls, flood concept, Diggs wide open for the TD
Kevin Stefanski's first TD in 2018: Hurry up offense, trips right, play action boot, RG pulls, flood concept, Diggs wide open for the TD