Ponder inactive, Webb to start

[indianation65]

Webb has been practicing and throwing footballs to receivers all year long. He's the backup for cryin' out loud. He can do it! What's with the doubt? Besides, the "team" has been improving, winning and gaining confidence. Anything can happen!

Addendum: I'm sure the Vikes have been getting some cold workouts in as well as the packers. The body can learn to acclimate quickly, especially in a week's time.

...wisdom

[billingsviking]

[Yoda Voice] So certain are you [/Yoda Voice]

Hope I'm wrong master Yoda

[The Breeze]

I doubt it. Personally, I don't like Ponder, but I think he has earned this start.

Yeah... I feel bad for him and the franchise, as this would have been a defining game IMO.

[billingsviking]

[Yoda Voice] So certain are you [/Yoda Voice]

Hope I'm wrong master Yoda

[chicagopurple]

if we win this will either be a QB MIRACLE..and touch off a QB controversy

OR

AP will once again strap the whole friggin team on his back and carry us like no one else can.....

[justinkendle]

let go JOE WEBB WOOT WOOT!

[jackal]

Webb makes Tarvaris Jackson looked well prepared QB

[Just Me]

Webb makes Tarvaris Jackson looked well prepared QB

I hate to agree with that but I think you are right

[Just Me]

Hope I'm wrong master Yoda

[Yoda Voice] Feeling foolish, now I am [/Yoda Voice]

[Laserman]

Pretty funny now in the 4rth quarter seeing these Webb fans

[DarthBrooks]

He was 11 for 30, with 180 yards. 36% passes completed with 6 yards per pass. One TD, one INT, with some of those yards coming in garbage time.

It would have been difficult for ANY QB to come into that situation. He was inaccurate early on but picked up later. Stuff like that, sailing balls over people's heads, takes doing a couple of times to get right and if his first start had been week four who knows but that he would have been a very good QB by now.

Tough game.

[Lash Man]

He was 11 for 30, with 180 yards. 36% passes completed with 6 yards per pass. One TD, one INT, with some of those yards coming in garbage time.

It would have been difficult for ANY QB to come into that situation. He was inaccurate early on but picked up later. Stuff like that, sailing balls over people's heads, takes doing a couple of times to get right and if his first start had been week four who knows but that he would have been a very good QB by now.

Tough game.

The guy is a great athlete but he will never be a NFL QB he just cant throw , any high school QB could throw most of those passes and now we know what the coaches have known all along , that is the reason we drafted Ponder when we did .

[BGM]

Webb was 3-11 for 6 yards in the first half. That's Spergon Wynn-esque.

[John_Viveiros]

Webb's Stat line:
11-30 for 180 yards and 1 TD and 1 INT for a 54.9 QB rating
Some other random (?) player's stat line in Lambeau this season:
12-25 for 119 yards and 1 TD and 2 INT's for a 41.9 QB rating (*in better weather conditions, *without playoff pressure, *with a gameplan actually designed for his strengths, *with a very successful running game to take off the pressure).

Sorry, but I just don't see the absolute certainty you guys all have in saying that this game dooms Joe Webb's ability to be a QB. Yes, it looked bad. But even playing this bad he still outgained the yardage total of the other guy who shall remain nameless in fully half of his 16 games. And against a tough opponent on the road, without the benefit of 21 prior starts.

Yes. There was some garbage time stat padding. But Ponder couldn't even do that early in the season. Hence, three games with under 100 yards passing.

For me, the most damning thing about Webb is that Frazier (who I like as a coach and trust a lot) has decided that Ponder is better at this point, or at least not worse enough to put his job on the line fighting against Spielman's designated QB.

[justinkendle]

Joe Webb's days as a Viking is probably coming towards an end due to his performance tonight. I love the guy and I was rooting my #### off for him for the past two years but I personally think Spielman and Fraizer are going to move on. Sucks when things dont go your way .