Your Week Seven Minnesota Vikings Power Play Of The Week
There were plenty of big plays for Minnesota in their Week Seven match-up, including a couple of big runs by Adrian Peterson and two more sacks from Jared Allen. However, this week's Power Play of the Week, as you might imagine, was the Vikings' first play from scrimmage, and it was a play that put Christian Ponder into the Vikings' record books after his first pass as Minnesota's starting quarterback.
Yes, I thought this play should have been a 73-yard touchdown pass to Michael Jenkins, but the Vikings got into the end zone two plays later on a pass from Ponder to Visanthe Shiancoe, giving them an early 7-0 lead.
The 72-yard completion from Ponder to Jenkins puts #7 into the record books for the longest pass completion for a Vikings' rookie quarterback. Hopefully it's a record that he's going to hold for a while, because hopefully it will be a while before we have to worry about a rookie supplanting him as this team's starting quarterback.
But the sweet double move by Jenkins to spring him wide open and allow Christian Ponder to complete the longest pass for a Vikings' rookie quarterback bears some mentioning here, too. It was a great route by a guy that is turning into a pretty decent option for the Vikings, and this catch played a big part in him getting his first career 100-yard game in his eighth NFL season.
There's your Vikings' Power Play of the Week, ladies and gentlemen. Enjoy!
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There's still time left in the season
for Ponder to break his own record. Probably won’t as throwing a 70+ yard completion is incredibly difficult, especially at the NFL level, but it could happen.
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i have been critical of musgrave a lot of the time, but that was a heck of a playcall
on the very first play, he calls a designed roll-out….TO THE LEFT…and totally fooled the groin butt defense. and jenkins was wide open, waited on the ball, and almost made it to the end zone. musgrave caught the defense totally by surprise. kudos to musgrave. that made for a heck of a start to the game.
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