It’s amazing to see the amount of criticism directed at Christian Ponder from fans and the media alike. The 25-year-old, who last season became the second-youngest starting quarterback in Vikings history to take the team to the playoffs (behind Daunte Culpepper), already has people calling for him to be replaced following the season-opening 34-24 loss at Detroit last week. But the Florida State product said that if he is going to have success, he cannot do anything other than ignore the newspapers and what people outside the team have to say about his play. “I don’t read it, so I’m focused on my job and that’s to keep getting better and improve as a football team and lead this team to some wins and hopefully the playoffs,†Ponder said. “I don’t know what’s being said, and I couldn’t care less.†He said after watching the film from Week 1 that he saw improvement over his play from last year. “There were a lot of good things [in the Detroit] game,†Ponder said. “The turnovers were unfortunate, obviously things that are easily correctable — things that I don’t think I made bad decisions, it’s just things were unfortunate. “ Source: Star Tribune
