On a night that saw EJ Manuel seize the quarterback competition in Buffalo, the starting passer for the Minnesota Vikings was less productive. Christian Ponder acknowledged to reporters after the game that the Bills' defense did an effective job disguising looks and coming at the Vikings with midseason-level trickery in a 20-16 preseason win over Minnesota. "Just their whole defense was pretty exotic," Ponder said, per the Bills' official website. "They had some exotic personnel and different schemes, it was a little different and sometimes it was a little hard for us to identify. ... They're a very exotic defense, a very good defense. They had a lot of different looks." Ponder was sacked on the game's opening play, fumbled two drives later and struggled to move the ball against the Bills. Buffalo's defense generated a fair amount of skepticism from our gang of scribes on Wednesday's Around the League Podcast. Still, the Bills should be fun to watch under new coordinator Mike Pettine. Source: NFL.com
