Pro Football Focus delivered a jolt of perspective to the Minnesota Vikings longstanding offensive line conundrum this week. The eye-test has illuminated shortcomings about the Vikings offensive line for years, but PFF all but confirmed the riffraff.
Vikings team pass block grade and rank since 2014:
2014: 72.4 (23rd)
2015: 67.9 (28th)
2016: 64.7 (30th)
2017: 71.9 (17th)
2018: 63.6 (27th)
2019: 63.0 (27th)
2020: 55.5 (29th)— PFF MIN Vikings (@PFF_Vikings) January 14, 2021
If one sifts through all Minnesota’s statistical metrics since the hire of Mike Zimmer in 2014, no stat parameter is consistently underwater as is the pass-blocking, illustrated in the graphic above (with the possible exception of extra-point kicking).