Film Room: Can Ed Ingram Be the Minnesota Vikings Long-Term Solution at Right Guard?

week 1 starter? he looks good..i can’t help but feel bad for wyatt davis looks to me that the new regime #1 concern was guard the 2 free agent additions plus ingram. either reed or davis probably will be moved to center and either would be an upgrade. haven’t seen much of davis in the pros but bradbury is way to undersized and probably will be a reserve for his last season here.

@Arnold Janikowski I don’t think Bradbury will give up his spot too easily. He made a jump late last season that many Vikes fans were too tired or biased to see.
Just consider that Reed was significantly worse in his first 3 seasons than Bradbury was, but he turned it around and we’re happy to see him start. Assuming Bradbury follows the same progression shouldn’t we be happy to see him start too?

@Rob E right you are sir. i think no matter what i think its gonna be a huge upgrade from the last couple of years just have a new body in at RG which will help bradbury he def has mental side down , its just facing big body DL like akiem hicks that he just gets overpowered if their not doing pulling on sweeps. its not like he’s tj clemmings out there lol those were a couple rough years they leaned on him.

@Arnold Janikowski I definitely agree that Bradbury had some ugly reps in his first 2 seasons. We forget though that he had a terrible O Line coach in Dennison, and he basically missed that key development in year 2 because of the Covid truncated pre-season.
All I know is that I watched him at every snap vs the Steelers, & then the Packers at Lambeau and he did not lose a rep. He held up fine against Heyward, Clark & Gary. He did give ground on few occasions but there is not a C in the league that doesn’t on occasions.
It is definitely a prove it year for Bradbury, but I just think some Vikes fans have given up on him too early and really stopped watching anything that doesn’t fit their current opinion.

@Arnold Janikowski Ingram is also in a unique position that he played both guard positions so if someone goes down we have adequate backups regardless of who’s out

This is his last year and hopefully doesn’t start

I think you will be very disappointed. Kwesi and OConnell have set Bradbury up for a prove it year, and he elevated his play a lot after being benched last season. I think Bradbury will surprise a few doubters this year.

How is his double team gonna stop the guy from diving backward and making a tackle (without holding)?

I don’t care give me pass protection 🎉

I agree. Everything I have seen him do is top quality or easily correctable.

You dont say

@Filip K. you forgot to add the face to it 😂

Reed at center

@Seal Train never played center neither has ingram or Wyatt Davis, parham was on the board when they picked as well 🤦

@Ryan Snow Why move on from Dalvin? He’s one of the best backs in the league. By that logic we should be getting ready to move on from JJ??
I thought the idea of the draft was to find quality players, especially difference makers and then keep them.
As for Mattison, I don’t think he will be a loss because he simply isn’t a difference maker. In fact I don’t see him lasting beyond the pre-season. I think Chandler will overtake him, literally & figuratively in training camp. Chandler is much faster, has better vision, can run routes and is likely better in every regard than Mattison, and I’d suggest he is probably earmarked to succeed Cook in 2024 or 2025.

@Ryan Snow dalvin good, we need move on from Mattison, he too slow, also only average 3.7 ypc and it was our best offensive year. Kene and chandler can develop to be better backs then Mattison

@SirRuan why not just draft a f*cking center instead of another guard?

@Rob E because in the modern NFL paying a RB that kind of money along with a QB is unsustainable and a poor use of cap.

@Ryan Snow Dalvin’s money isn’t excessive and moving on next year would make even less sense from a cap point of view because his dead cap hit is still significant.
Every team’s cap structure is different and for every “overpay” we might have we also have an underpay that other teams don’t have – for example at WR – where JJ & AT only cost a third of Adams or Hill alone, so that cap argument isn’t strong enough.

The obvious time to move on from Cook from a cap and dead cap point of view would be 2024 or 2025, which is likely to coincide with both his decline and the development of Chandler and Kene. That seems much more in line with the planned transition that Kwesi endorses.

There’s a reason teams aren’t signing Tretter and why the Browns replaced him with a 5th round back up.
I agree about Vederian Lowe – he is another big strong unit that shone in the East West Shrine game. He should end up being a quality back up for Darrisaw and ONeill.

Ed Ingram is legit (very good pass blocker & ok run blocker). He frustrated DT especially Packers 1st rounder DT Devonte Wyatt at the Senior Bowl week.