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McNabb to the Vikes ?


Jim Almquist

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If we're honest with ourselves, we have one QB who needs to try a different position. And the other may turn into a great QB someday, and he may not. We need to find that out, but unfortunately the next 2 weeks are not that time.

I would pencil in Ponder's first start for the Carolina game in late October. He needs to start getting some reps with first team and getting game ready.

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Lets toilet/tank the season sandbag and get Luck in the draft, why not, we are not close to winning a title. But of course we have Ponder and we have no clue yet what we have in him. McNabb is a bandaid on a gushing ruptured femoral artery wound. How'd the Lynx go from zero to hero, draft, how'd the Lions finally come alive, the draft. People said McNabb fake an injury what happens when AP goes down and it's the Gerhardt show with McNabb aerial assault, we may get that #1 after all lol, jk, vikes football is a frustration year after year. But I admit it's tough to get the right combination of talent where you need it when you need it.

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Lets toilet/tank the season sandbag and get Luck in the draft, why not, we are not close to winning a title. But of course we have Ponder and we have no clue yet what we have in him. McNabb is a bandaid on a gushing ruptured femoral artery wound. How'd the Lynx go from zero to hero, draft, how'd the Lions finally come alive, the draft. People said McNabb fake an injury what happens when AP goes down and it's the Gerhardt show with McNabb aerial assault, we may get that #1 after all lol, jk, vikes football is a frustration year after year. But I admit it's tough to get the right combination of talent where you need it when you need it.

yep you gotta hitch your wagon to good players in the draft... if you can't you're gonna be overpaying or getting past-their-prime players all the time through FA, and that is not a recipe for success

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Ponder will start the week out of the bye, gives him 2 weeks to work with the starters for some more timing.

McFlutterball will back him up and Joe could see some time at offensive skill positions.

I know we only have 1 win at this point, but look at all the other bad teams, we DO NOT want to be that bad.

Do you think Miami, Arizona or Jacksonville are not talking the same thing with alot less than what we have.

Why spend 2 year draft picks on star (or supposedly) quarterbacks 2 years on a row, when we don't know what we have!

Only quarterback we will look at next year will be someone that is told you will be an emergency situation player at best.

Remember one thing if you jave more than 1 quarterback, you have 0 starting quarterbacks!

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i disagree, if you have more than 1 quarterback, you have 1 starter and 1 backup. One would think Luck would start well before Ponder

If there is a can't miss player, you should take them, regardless of position. Lions took Fairley even though they had a great trio of DTs already. They took Calvin Johnson even though Millen had drafted WRs 3 times previously in the past couple years in the top 10.

You don't pass up elite talent because you had a pick in that position group recently. That is a losing mentality right there

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The best case scenario would be for ponder to go in and look like an absoute stud, but we somehow lose the rest of our games and get draft position #1. We then trade our draft position for someone else's entire draft and their first rounder next year. Rebuilding would not take very long then.

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The best case scenario would be for ponder to go in and look like an absoute stud, but we somehow lose the rest of our games and get draft position #1. We then trade our draft position for someone else's entire draft and their first rounder next year. Rebuilding would not take very long then.

This is how the Patriots franchise gets their talent. If they don't like the players in their draft spot, they trade out for more picks at a later time.

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McJunk is benched!

They need to cut him.

He is complete garbage!

Not saying its a bad idea, but that would make Webb our veteran QB, and we would still need to go out and find a 3rd string, to have 3 qb's on the team. Might as well let him hold the clip board since he is willing to.

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Says a lot about the coach who brought him here...

Well, I'm ribbing my Vikes friends. I still say it wasn't a bad idea. Were the Vikes going to light up the NFL this season with either McGroundball or Ponder? Not likely. So I totally see why they brought in McAwShucksGrin. Gives Ponder nearly half a season to learn the offense. Well, you guys ARE paying McClipboard a lot of money for standing around the rest of the season, but I still get the move.

Kinda of amazing the number of personalities McCletus has. gringrin

Now, for the (approximately) second half of the season.

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The decision to bench Donovan McNabb may have had to do with more than just his play on the field.

According to Michael Lombardi of NFL Network, McNabb doesn’t want to put in the time and shows up late for meetings and practice. On NFL Network’s NFL GameDay Morning, tardiness was mentioned as a reason that Vikings coach Leslie Frazer decided to bench McNabb for Christian Ponder.

PFT has asked the Vikings for a response to Lombardi’s report.

McNabb also apparently struggled to learn the Vikings’ offense, and that led to him needing a big wristband with the Vikings’ plays on it. Last year, McNabb reportedly refused to wear a wristband with the Redskins’ plays on it, angering coach Mike Shanahan.

Lombardi also reports that the Vikings’ veterans noticed McNabb’s lack of commitment, which is why most of the locker room agreed with Frazier’s decision to replace McNabb with Ponder. All in all, it sounds like there aren’t many people left in the NFL who view McNabb as someone who can lead a franchise. Now the Vikings will have to hope that Ponder can.

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