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WHY?????? What could possibly come out of this? Apparently they had 3 million sitting around they needed to spend? He has worse stats than Ponder for cryin out loud and Ponder sucks. THey should cut both Ponder and Freeman, start Cassel and use MBT as the #2.

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I like it. He can't be worse than Cassel or Ponder. We aren't going anywhere with either of them. Freeman has a rocket arm and he's mobile. and he has weapons here in AP, Jennings, Patterson, and Rudolph.

It's a win no matter what for the Vikes at this point.

Either Freeman shows he's a good QB and we keep him or he bombs, we dump him and we get a high draft pick with the ability to grab a top QB prospect in next years draft and we lose Musgrave!! smile

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Josh Freeman's one-year contract with the Vikings is worth $3 million.

Christian Ponder has a base salary of $1.29 million and Matt Cassel is making $1.65 million for the full year. Freeman is getting $3 million for just 10 games. ProFootballTalk's Mike Florio speculates this is a sign the ex-Buc "will be given every chance to claim the job." Cassel was tentatively expected to start Week 6 with Ponder (ribs) hurting. The Vikings likely won't tip their hand until much later in the week, but it's hard to see Freeman getting familiar with the playbook in seven days.

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I dont hate the signing, but would have liked to see a second year option that are incentive laden based.

I do not like adding a potential wildcard to a locker room because there is definitely a reason he fell out of favor in TB and it probably wasnt solely because of performance. We dont need a cancer on the team, we just got rid of one this offseason.

IMO he is possibly a better long term solution than what we have, but this shouldnt change any draft/offseason plans of QB.

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I see zero downside to the signing, unless you happen to be Ziggy's accountant.

A competition between Castle and Freeman sounds better than drafting a guy and then waiting another 3 years to find out we have another bust.

I could go on about how I drink the Kool-Aid and how Freeman will be our guy for 6-7 years. Probably won't happen, but its not impossible.

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They could pretty much close their eyes and pick anyone of our defense players, none of them are doing anything there anyhow.

I am pretty sure Ponder is on the block right now, and if we dont find any takers, I would assume MBT will be the victim.

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Third string quarterbacks are dime a dozen. That is why we have two on our team. Cassel proved last week that he is a solid #2 guy. Came in when the starter went down and gave us enough to win. Probably not a bad thing being the 33rd, 34th, or 35th best QB in the league.

MBT is just another Ponder. MBT=strong arm and Ponder=smart guy. That is great, but they both will not be long term, producing starters. Lets all be realistic, we just watched a quarterback we hoped was going to be the guy, fail. We do not need Ponder 2.0. Guys like Andrew Luck are good quarterbacks who don't sit behind someone and one day "get it" to become great quarterbacks. MBT will be gone.

I now believe Spielman and Frasier when they said Ponder is our starter and Cassel is the back up. After this year Ponder will be cut and Cassel will still be our back up. Ponder will probably never touch the field again in purple because he proved he is not good enough to remain here as the starter. We just need a new starter. Freeman? Who knows!!!

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I dont hate the signing, but would have liked to see a second year option that are incentive laden based.

I do not like adding a potential wildcard to a locker room because there is definitely a reason he fell out of favor in TB and it probably wasnt solely because of performance. We dont need a cancer on the team, we just got rid of one this offseason.

IMO he is possibly a better long term solution than what we have, but this shouldnt change any draft/offseason plans of QB.

Why, just so that he can hold out before camp? Those kind of contracts never work out well for either party. These players will just hold out for a better contract, and the Vikes would take it in the shorts if that happened. I hope Freeman does well, earns a big contract, and we can move onto better times.

Not likely to happen, but if it doesn't, we can draft Teddy B. or Johnny Football and I'm just as happy. Either way, seems like a win/win to me!

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I will burn everything purple I own if the vikings draft that POS "Johnny Football". He is a little punk and will NOT be an NFL Franchise QB.

He is a Michael Vick wannabe, I think in the right system he will be good, until he gets injured.

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I like it. He can't be worse than Cassel or Ponder. We aren't going anywhere with either of them. Freeman has a rocket arm and he's mobile. and he has weapons here in AP, Jennings, Patterson, and Rudolph.

It's a win no matter what for the Vikes at this point.

Either Freeman shows he's a good QB and we keep him or he bombs, we dump him and we get a high draft pick with the ability to grab a top QB prospect in next years draft and we lose Musgrave!! smile

^^^^This^^^^

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Another desperation shot for the purple.

Another back-up QB on the roster, (that makes 4 in our line-up)

How about spending that $3 million on a LB or DB?

Give Matt the shot and let the season roll, we either succeed or fail and get a high draft pick.

Sounds like Ponder's injury might be worse than we have heard, not the injury itself, but the way the rib is now positioned after the injury, if he takes the wrong hit it could pierce a vital organ.

Even at that, you still have MBT and Webb.

Once you get to a 3rd stringer, the season could be over or you could catch lightning in a bottle, Hoyer (Cleveland), Glennon (TB).

Just saying.

Grass is looking greener to the east, jumping off the wagon.

GO PACK GO!

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