The usual caveats apply: It's only the offseason, but the reviews in Minnesota this offseason have been pretty uniform: The quarterback play has been "spotty" in practice for the Vikings. "Watching Christian Ponder out there, the footwork didn't look great," Judd Zulgad of ESPN 1500.com said Wednesday. "The passes didn't look all that sharp. It's only June and Ponder is playing with new set of receivers. Things aren't going to be perfect, but the Vikings are counting on Ponder's stability in Bill Musgrave's offensive system to lead to major growth and they need major growth, that reportedly hasn't shown up yet in the offseason. "You know what's not there? Crispness," Zulgad said. "There's not a sharpness. At times you would expect things to look second nature to Ponder. ... That's not what we're seeing so far, but like I said, it's minicamp." Zulgad's comments caught my eye because they came on the same day ESPN's Adam Schefter wrote that "some believe" Matt Cassel is good enough to challenge for the starting job in Minnesota this year. It's Ponder's job, but Cassel is probably a better NFL player at this point. Source: NFL.com
Ponder wasn't that good at FSU. I don't know why everybody though he was going to be something special in the NFL
