{"id":7212,"date":"2013-11-01T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/vikings-sticking-with-ponder-for-week-9\/"},"modified":"2013-11-01T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T14:23:00","slug":"vikings-sticking-with-ponder-for-week-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/vikings-sticking-with-ponder-for-week-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings sticking with Ponder for Week 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eden Prairie, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Minnesota Vikings head coach Leslie Frazier announced on Friday that Christian Ponder will start Week 9 against the Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>Ponder started in place of an injured and ineffective Josh Freeman in Week 8, completing 14-of-21 passes for 145 yards and added a rushing touchdown in a 44-31 loss to the Green Bay Packers.<\/p>\n<p>Ponder began the season as the starting QB for Minnesota, but after sustaining a rib injury in Week 3, he was replaced by Matt Cassel, who started two games before the club turned to Freeman.<\/p>\n<p>Freeman started Week 7&#8217;s loss to the New York Giants and was largely ineffective, completing just 20-of-53 passes for 190 yards with an interception. Later that week he was diagnosed with a concussion, re-opening the door for Ponder.<\/p>\n<p>For the season, Ponder has completed 60.3 percent of his passes for 836 yards with two touchdowns and five interceptions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eden Prairie, MN (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; Minnesota Vikings head coach Leslie Frazier announced on Friday that Christian Ponder will start Week 9 against the Dallas Cowboys. Ponder started in place of an injured and ineffective Josh Freeman in Week 8, completing 14-of-21 passes for 145 yards and added a rushing touchdown in a 44-31 loss to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[72,71,73],"class_list":["post-7212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-vikings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}