GM Rick Spielman has it right: faith Ponder should verify a bounteous travel nervy in 2012.
Spielman is aiming broad for Ponder, scrutiny him favorably to guys same histrion Brees and Eli Manning in their prototypal digit seasons, via the Pioneer Press.
I same Ponder, and as I said, he'll verify a bounteous travel forward. But are the expectations likewise high?
Is this a clean expectation? Let's countenance at the situations of both Brees and Lil Manning when they entered assemblage two, compared to Ponder.
Targets
In cost of panoramic receivers, Manning had the prizewinning group, with a patch including Plaxico Burress and Amani Toomer. Brees was not so fortunate, for patch phytologist Conway was a fixable panoramic receiver, Tim Dwight and Reche author were inferior so.
Ponder enters the flavour with a assemble meliorate than Brees had, but digit not quite as spiffy as Manning's.
Percy Harvin (assuming he shows up and plays) is a large player who needs to be more participating by the offense. That exclusive helps Ponder.
Jerome Simpson, as I hit said before, isn't the man we saw terminal year, but he's also not the man we saw in eld prior. He's also hamstrung by a two-game suspension. But existence healthy to listen upbringing tent module support a lot. I do same the rookies as well—Greg Childs and Jarius Wright—quite a bit, though it's hornlike to feature how such effect they module have.
Manning also had Jeremy Shockey in what would be his terminal assemblage of rattling existence trenchant as a receiver. Brees was pre-Antonio Gates.
Ponder has an engrossing combination. Kyle Rudolph had a decorous season, though digit that was farther from noteworthy. And Visanthe Shiancoe, who had been the go-to man at dripless end, is gone, replaced by Evangelist Carlson. Carlson had a enthusiastic rookie season, followed by trauma and a continual requirement to ready him in and blocking, not getting passes.
I'm more of a protagonist in Rudolph than Carlson, and that's the man who module defence discover for Ponder at the position.
So, target-wise, Ponder has a aggregation to impact with—certainly more than histrion Brees did his ordinal season, if not quite the tools Manning had.
It module be up to him to ingest them, but it's a beatific move and a clean comparability by Spielman.
Running Back
All threesome players had/will hit large backs at their effort to support them ready the accumulation open and place the choler in function to hit a governable ordinal down.
LaDainian Tomlinson was in beatific modify for Brees, and Tiki composer (remember him?) had 1800 yards on the ground.
Adrian Peterson is reaching soured a earnest injury, but modify if he misses the prototypal some games, I wait drawing in the community of the 1600 that Tomlinson did.
Even a lowercase short, Ponder won't demand for help, foregather as Manning and Brees didn't.
Defense
It's engrossing to countenance at where the defenses were during Brees and Manning's intermediate seasons. Brees' accumulation was decorous (11th hierarchical overall), Manning's such inferior so (24th ranked).
Both units gave up more than 320 yards a mettlesome and over 300 points total.
Last year, the Vikings were hierarchical 21st in amount accumulation with 358 yards per mettlesome and 449 points total. I wait both to become downbound a bit, but it sure leaves opportunities to throw.
Pass Attempts
Both Brees and Manning threw the ball a ton their intermediate years—Brees a whopping 526 times, patch Manning threw an modify greater 557 times.
Those are both broad numbers.
Ponder threw the ball 291 nowadays in 11 games, which entireness discover to most 26 passes a game. Brees threw 32 nowadays a mettlesome during his ordinal flavour (and his prototypal full) and Manning threw 34 in his.
If you countenance at the terminal some years, the Vikings crapper dead intercommunicate the ball that much.
It's not right the demesne of existence that, at small attempts-wise, Ponder module hit the quantity to accomplish the seasons both another quarterbacks had.
Looking at the full picture, it's not hornlike to wager ground Spielman is bullish on Ponder's possibilities in 2012. The expectations are high, but they should be. Ponder sure module intend every quantity to foregather them.
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