The whole game I had confidence in the offense's ability to string together drives, I haven't had that feeling since Favre's 33 TD, NFC title game season. Ponder was making all the throws, one particular floater over the DB into Harvin right along the sideline for 15-20 yds in the first half sticks out in my mind. As always he threw on the run effectively.
Daaaaamn the Oline looked good, crazy how much your oline can improve with an anchor like Kalil. The two tackles and the center are legitimate forces on the Oline now, it's a good balance.
Ponder's rush TD was insane, he saw that hole and burst through it, reminded me of a Mike Vick run vs the Vikes from like 2002. 25 yards straight up the gut for a TD. Then his first TD toss a play action rollout to the weakside, a safety or linebacker was all over him but he somehow twist his hips to give himself an extra second to lob it up perfectly for Rudolph to run under.
Simpson coming back next week will only make the offense better, a deep threat is all they been missing. Now they have the gamebreaker gadget player who they use all over the place in Harvin, the glue hands gravitational force TE Rudolph (2 TDs yesterday, his second one was nutty), th deep threat Simpson, a solid and improving Oline, the workhorse superstar RB, its a good situation for Ponder to develop. So far so good too.
hate harbaugh's arrogance so i love to see him lose, whether its 23-20 in an nfc championship game ( ) or 24-13 in the middle of september. fcuk the 49ers, lets just all put them in the superbowl already? fck em.
1492 passing yards (213.1 yd per game, 6.6 yd per throw)
9/6 td/int
20 rushes for 92 yards (13.1 yd/game), 1 rushing td
3 fumbles
2 games below 115 passing yards, one game above 300 passing yards (352).
On pace for 3409.6 yds, 20 td's, 13 interceptions.
IMO Ponder is proving to be more of a game manager than an elite quarterback. I haven't seen all of the Vikings games (only seen about half) but from what I've seen, he really isn't able to consistently move the chains and make the plays necessary for him to be considered even an above average quarterback. 6 interceptions in the last 3 weeks also are not helping his cause.
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His stats took a noticeable dip without his deep threat Simpson being at 100%. Teams are picking up on the Vikes ground and pound checks down the field, which is clearly not working to his advantage.
Vikes are deferring to slot plays and I'm very hopeful that tomorrow night his stats will return to form with Simpson being healthier.
IMO Ponder is proving to be more of a game manager than an elite quarterback. I haven't seen all of the Vikings games (only seen about half) but from what I've seen, he really isn't able to consistently move the chains and make the plays necessary for him to be considered even an above average quarterback. 6 interceptions in the last 3 weeks also are not helping his cause.
Ponder is an adequate QB, not a guy that's going to take any team deep into the playoffs. But Minnesota has shown a propensity to stick with guys who are marginal, hoping they'll improve, and he probably has a better shot at accomplishing that than the others they've trotted out in recent years.
I've given up on him, what a waste of a 12 th overall pick. If you're gonna draft a grinder QB who may lack skill he better have killer instincts and fierce competitiveness Ponder is a goofy guy.
Re: The Christian Ponder thread
) or 24-13 in the middle of september. fcuk the 49ers, lets just all put them in the superbowl already? fck em.
