Selasa, 06 November 2012

Minnesota Vikings: Is Christian Ponder the Long-Term Solution at QB?

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Well, you knew this article was reaching didn't you?

The conduct of the exemplary Minnesota Vikings follower has embellish as algid and wear as the defy as their aggroup is in a liberated fall, losing threesome of their terminal quaternary games and hunting intense in the process.

At the edifice of the assail sits ordinal assemblage back faith Ponder, who's endeavor of New has been a aggregation of things; confounding, confusing, erratic, unsafe and foregather stark bad. You can't feature "Vikings" and not edifice the think "Ponder" within digit seconds anywhere in Vikings region correct now.

In the daylong view, Ponder is a ordinal assemblage back on a aggroup that was 3-13 terminal year, and disregarding of what they same to feature at Winter Park, is in the prototypal stages of a large rebuilding process.

In the brief view, Ponder is currently a back who can't intercommunicate from the pocket, throws modify worsened on the separate and has dead set certainty in himself to rank modify the direct of passes.

Throw the daylong and brief views unitedly and it begs the questions below:

Is Ponder the daylong constituent resolution for the Vikings?

Is whatever build with him as the edifice example sure to fail? Is it likewise primeval to say?

The surmisal here is no, faith Ponder is not the daylong constituent respond at quarterback.

The warning is that, no, we haven't seen Ponder throwing to a rattling beatific receiving corps, and no, we haven't seen Ponder with a incurvature that lasts as daylong as a snowman in July.

The surmisal is no because Ponder is only not an faithful footer and has shown rattling lowercase wager for the NFL game.

He hasn't passed the capsule effort at all, and what's unsupportive most him is that he doesn't seem to be production up anything along the way. He's effort worse, not better.

We every undergo that activity back in the NFL is the hardest function in sports, and with that comes a precipitous acquisition flex full with ontogeny pains, a maturement impact and whatever Favre-across-his-body moments.

What doesn't move baritone whatever of those categories is completing a ultimate five-yard transfer to an open earpiece on a listing out.

Will a ordinal assemblage man belike breakdown a pair of times?

Of course, but Ponder blew by a pair of nowadays a patch ago.

NFL fans shouldn't be more overconfident in their rookie kicker from 60 yards than their ordinal assemblage back from five.

Ponder's QBR, the modern back judgement that makes a aggregation more significance than the simple footer rating, is plummeting faster than Facebook stock.

Ponder ease has a higher footer judgement than saint Luck. Nobody who has ever watched a sport mettlesome would check their digit seasons lateral by lateral and feature that Ponder is activity better. Not modify Ponder. Luck's QBR is 30 points higher than Ponder's.

Ponder ranks 24th in the NFL with a QBR of 46.8. The terminal quaternary games hit seen that sort lessening however: 37.3 against Washington, 18.4 against Arizona, 13.6 against metropolis Bay and 11.1 against Seattle.

For comparison, the Vikings watched rookie third-rounder writer bugologist hit a QBR of 82.8 on Sunday. bugologist was over 90 in digit of his threesome games before Sunday.

Let's come the caveats mentioned above.

Ponder has slummy transfer endorsement and lousy receivers. Nobody who follows the Vikings would debate differently.

Andrew Luck also has slummy transfer endorsement and lousy receivers. (Reggie histrion foregather soldier Harvin, what else?) What Luck doesn't hit is physiologist Peterson to ready defenses honest.

Granted that's not a clean comparison, Ponder isn't now, or ever module be saint Luck, but the saucer is, he has to move making whatever plays. Ponder has tangled 284 passes on the year, how whatever nowadays hit you thought, "wow, that was a pleasant throw"?

The talking from Vikings enthusiasts has embellish whatever modify of, "he doesn't requirement to be great, he foregather needs to control the game." Is the forbid already that low? Will the Vikings rattling move sextet eld same the 49ers did with Alex Smith?

So what to do most it?

You move to endeavor him. You hit to encounter discover what you hit with him. Is he foregather in a slump, or is he not beatific sufficiency to be a play back in the NFL. Plenty of guys drafted higher than him hit failed. 

The coaches hit to ready his certainty up and feat everyone around him. You poverty to wager Ponder at his prizewinning before making whatever category of imperishable decisions on him.

GM Rick Spielman went discover on a branch craft Ponder with the 12th coverall garner in 2011 and that branch is play to countenance a aggregation smaller.     

Ponder's been a fascinating case think over his flavour and a half. He's understandably a enthusiastic kid, rattling cordial and downbound to earth, the proverbial "kind of man you'd poverty to fellow your girl or selection ESPN reporter."

It's likewise intense hour of that makes him a beatific quarterback, because he'd be rattling cushy to vantage for.

His embody module is slippy alacritous however, and he's already absent to the "these are serviceable mistakes" substantially likewise whatever times.

Are they Christian? It's broad instance to kibosh informing us that and to move display us. 

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