Through the first four weeks of the season, we have seen Minnesota Vikings quarterbacks getting sacked at a near-historic rate. I found myself, like many, placing ownership of sacks this season on the carousel of offensive lineman. However, I decided that I did not want to go based off of assumptions or anecdotes. In order to provide informed analysis of the Minnesota Vikings protection issues, I am taking it upon myself to review every sack, frame by frame, to see where it is going wrong.
I will be honest, I am going to pace myself to get up to where we are now in the season, because it gets tough to break down film of the same type of negative play over and over. Below are what I saw from every sack in weeks one and two of the 2025 NFL regular season. I do this for the Daily Norseman fa