Yes, Flacco hasn't been good this season but Ponder has looked several magnitudes worse. So much so that he was a healthy scratch earlier this season for Matt Cassel, and that was before the Vikings signed Josh Freeman. But Freeman, who looked, well, Ponder-esque in his debut against the Giants is still recovering from a concussion, and coach Leslie Frazier won't name a starter for Sunday's game versus the Cowboys until Friday at the earliest.
But Vikings center John Sullivan knows who he wants under center: Ponder.
“[Ponder] prepared really hard and he went out there and laid it all on the line,” Sullivan told the StarTribune.com. “You know, you see that last run that he made when things were getting out of reach [a 19-yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter against the Packers on Sunday] and he’s still out there fighting until the end. I mean, that’s not my decision. But I’d love to see him stay back there, of course.”
Ponder, the team's 2011 first-round pick, seems like a swell guy but he doesn't make the Vikings better. It's why the organization signed Freeman and will almost certainly look for its next franchise quarterback in the April draft.
