Who Gets This Week's Game Ball For The Minnesota Vikings?

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In all serious, though: good play calling on letting Ponder air it out on his first start.

Like you said, his numbers weren’t eye popping, but what I noticed was that he made the clutch throws, like on third down and in the red zone. I really like that, because as we all as Viking fans know, if there’s anything we’ve needed throughout franchise history, it’s someone who comes up big in key situations

performance in this particular game.

Having a QB that can convert clutch 3d down passes and starts the game by throwing a deep pass for almost (should have been?) a long touchdown makes the opposing D a little less sure what is going to develop, hence contributes to the success AP had I feel….

Can’t take away what AP did of course, just that the balance (run/pass threat) was returned somewhat in this game through Ponder, allowing us to lead/stay close throughout. Ponder showed me tremendous potential, no fear to throw down-field, scrambling ability, and best of all, heart/drive.

The rest of the season we are going to be able to give our younger/new guys some time playing to see where/who we focus our likely high picks in the draft….We all know we have glaring needs, but getting the current younger players time may bring out some stars, and we do not waste draft picks for unneeded players/positions…

I give Ponder the game ball, with a close second for both AP and JA….The spark we saw has been missing, and Ponder has brought this to the team once again…The swagger is back, with reason, albeit measured at this point (let’s use the rest of the year to develop the younger guys, get a W or three/more, and prepare for the future)…SKOL!

but the pocket was collapsing in a quick way in the second half as well. Things I picked up about him. He didn’t check down as often as I thought he would. Most of his passes were at least 10 yards, and he was very intelligent with his runs (except for diving head first YE GODS MAN!) I think if we can work a better check down system for him so he has a release valve if need be he’ll do better this week against Carolina. Problems with him, he made some scary throws and I thought we were lucky to come out of that game with only two int’s, his long balls were um, pretty darn high… In the end that’s going to get him picked and receivers clobbered. Lastly, to me at least he stared down a couple of his receivers, I know Frazier stated it’s nice that he makes up his mind and throws the ball, but just because he’s picked his target doesn’t mean he should be staring at him and telling the entire defense who to guard db’s like Woodson are going to eat him up if he keeps doing it.

AD was amazing some of the runs he pulled off Sunday were purely phenomenal, and if you counted all the side to side running he ended up doing I’m sure he would clear 200 yards.

Oh and we need to clone Allen.

We needed a receiver to step up and he did … so I give him the Game Ball

Was a toss-up between Ponder and A.D., but I went with Adrian (175 yds is nothing to sneeze at) and pulled him into the lead by one vote.

AP and Jared Allen were awesome, but the thing is that is to be expected. We can’t give them the game ball EVERY week, can we? (Well, we could.) Ponder on the other hand exceeded expectations, so I’m going that route. Jenkins could have been a close second because he also stepped up in a big way, but Ponder at the end of the day did juuuust a little more.

I think you have to go with AP…he was an animal and kept Ponder in situations where he could minimize mistakes. If there were a lot of 3rd and 15s or 3rd and 10s it would have allowed the Packers to pin their ears back even more and force errors. AP all the way in my book.