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NorthernLights88
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I'll admit upfront that while he seems like a good guy, I've never been a fan of the Ponder pick from the start. I think we can all agree, that even at the time, the Ponder selection at #12 overall in 2011 was a big reach and a panic move by the Vikings, who were surprised when all of the top QBs of that draft (at the time) were off the board by their pick. They were determined to come away from that draft with Favre's replacement while McNabb filled in for a few games.
After about a season and half worth of starts, Ponder hasn't shown much improvement. He showed some flashes early in 2012, but then regressed with several terrible performances at QB before showing up to play decent game manager style football for the final 4 games of the regular season last year. Unfortunately, we didn't get to see him play in the playoffs game vs the Packers due to injury. He looked bad this preseason, and looked terrible against Detroit aside from a couple of runs from him and being bailed out by Simpson and Jennings on some tough catches.
Anyone remember how hard a lot of people were on Tarvaris Jackson back in the Chile days? Jackson started 1 season finale game vs the Packers a rookie, then 1 season as a stater, followed by 2 bad losses in his 3rd year before they benched him for the Gus Bus. Then after a dissapointing one and done home playoff loss to Philly under TJax, they traded for Rosefals and brought in Brett Favre on a rescue mission. TJax didn't see the field again until Favre got destroyed in 2010, and surprise surprise, TJax, while a seemily hard working guy, still sucked.
I had to say it, but this whole Ponder situation feels like TJax 2.0 to me. Even after showing very little after a decent amount of starts and still being pretty bad, there's a handful of people not ready to give up on the guy, insisting that he needs more time. I have to ask though, how much time did guys like Andrew Luck and RG3 have? Yet they are still miles above anything Ponder has ever done. I say give him 1 more start. If he doesn't play at least semi decently, it's time to sit him and give someone else a shot before it gets too late in the season. He needs to start playing at least sort of like the 12 overall pick he was selected as to warrent them continuing to start him. That said, I know they almost definitely won't bench him until the season is already pretty much over.
After about a season and half worth of starts, Ponder hasn't shown much improvement. He showed some flashes early in 2012, but then regressed with several terrible performances at QB before showing up to play decent game manager style football for the final 4 games of the regular season last year. Unfortunately, we didn't get to see him play in the playoffs game vs the Packers due to injury. He looked bad this preseason, and looked terrible against Detroit aside from a couple of runs from him and being bailed out by Simpson and Jennings on some tough catches.
Anyone remember how hard a lot of people were on Tarvaris Jackson back in the Chile days? Jackson started 1 season finale game vs the Packers a rookie, then 1 season as a stater, followed by 2 bad losses in his 3rd year before they benched him for the Gus Bus. Then after a dissapointing one and done home playoff loss to Philly under TJax, they traded for Rosefals and brought in Brett Favre on a rescue mission. TJax didn't see the field again until Favre got destroyed in 2010, and surprise surprise, TJax, while a seemily hard working guy, still sucked.
I had to say it, but this whole Ponder situation feels like TJax 2.0 to me. Even after showing very little after a decent amount of starts and still being pretty bad, there's a handful of people not ready to give up on the guy, insisting that he needs more time. I have to ask though, how much time did guys like Andrew Luck and RG3 have? Yet they are still miles above anything Ponder has ever done. I say give him 1 more start. If he doesn't play at least semi decently, it's time to sit him and give someone else a shot before it gets too late in the season. He needs to start playing at least sort of like the 12 overall pick he was selected as to warrent them continuing to start him. That said, I know they almost definitely won't bench him until the season is already pretty much over.