Garrett Bradbury Opens Up on Missed Games

Bradbury decided to put his time away from the facility to good use, watching his games back from this season to see where he could improve.

What he saw, Bradbury said, was a guy playing shy and not necessarily up to his full potential.

“Personally, I felt like watching the tape, I was playing to not mess up, playing a little timid,” Bradbury said. “Whereas in the moment, I felt like I was just playing good, good enough, etc.

“But the last two games, I feel like I’ve taken a different mindset to it. I mean it gives you a new perspective, and I think that’s good for everyone. And I think it motivated me more,” Bradbury added. “You can go one of two ways with it — you can be mad, bitter and all that or you can just say, ‘You know what, it’s on me.’ Look at the film and say, ‘What could I have done differently?’ I always want to put it on myself, so that way, I can change it. So I feel like taking the right steps and doing that right now.”

In the seven games before he missed time, Bradbury’s best grade from analytics website Pro Football Focus was 70.8, with five of his games registering at 60.0 or below.

But in his past two games, PFF has graded Bradbury at 77.5 and 77.4, respectively. In fact, those two recent grades are the third and fourth-best marks of his entire 41-game career.

Bradbury seems to have taken on the mentality Vikings Head Coach Mike Zimmer revealed last week that he wanted his offensive line to adopt.

“I told them it’s not good enough to stalemate,” Zimmer said. “You get in there, you block a guy, you stalemate them. That’s not good enough, we have to drive some guys off the ball.”