{"id":22654,"date":"2013-10-23T15:37:30","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T20:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22654"},"modified":"2014-05-09T14:18:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T19:18:40","slug":"josh-freeman-has-a-concussion-christian-ponder-likely-to-start-against-green-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/10\/23\/josh-freeman-has-a-concussion-christian-ponder-likely-to-start-against-green-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Freeman has a concussion &#8211; Christian Ponder likely to start against Green Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Viking_Head.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Viking_Head\" width=\"80\" height=\"81\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10672\" \/>Can this season get any more convoluted? This afternoon, it was announced that Josh Freeman is suffering from concussion symptoms from Monday night&#8217;s game and probably won&#8217;t be able to play against the Packers on Sunday night. If he can&#8217;t go, Christian Ponder will be back at quarterback for the Vikings.<\/p>\n<p>Reactions have been unkind:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>oh okay, sure, freeman just SUDDENLY has a concussion <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23riiiiiiiiiight&amp;src=hash\">#riiiiiiiiiight<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Viking Age (@TheVikingAge) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheVikingAge\/statuses\/393052160692211712\">October 23, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Frazier not optimistic Freeman will be ready on a short week. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Vikings&amp;src=hash\">#Vikings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; VikingUpdate.com (@VikingUpdate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VikingUpdate\/statuses\/393052277826535424\">October 23, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>did they check him for a concussion before the game?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Viking Age (@TheVikingAge) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheVikingAge\/statuses\/393052517489074176\">October 23, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Josh Freeman Has A Concussion, Ponder Will Probably Start Against Green Bay <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23FranchiseOfSadness&amp;src=hash\">#FranchiseOfSadness<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Vikings&amp;src=hash\">#Vikings<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23WTF&amp;src=hash\">#WTF<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/FVXXD3FFBE\">http:\/\/t.co\/FVXXD3FFBE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Daily Norseman (@DailyNorseman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyNorseman\/statuses\/393062730162135040\">October 23, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>The conversation piece: If Ponder lights it up a la 2012 finale, when does Freeman&#39;s concussion get better? Or does it? (see: Kolb)<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew Krammer (@Andrew_Krammer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Andrew_Krammer\/statuses\/393097470722334721\">October 23, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>Freeman conspiracies run both ways: RS forced LF to start Josh OR LF stuck it to RS. Because no group can be that collectively incompetent.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Arif Hasan (@ArifHasanDN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArifHasanDN\/statuses\/393110086224056320\">October 23, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can this season get any more convoluted? This afternoon, it was announced that Josh Freeman is suffering from concussion symptoms from Monday night&#8217;s game and probably won&#8217;t be able to play against the Packers on Sunday night. If he can&#8217;t go, Christian Ponder will be back at quarterback for the Vikings. Reactions have been unkind: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[717,935,126,179],"class_list":["post-22654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-christianponder","tag-joshfreeman","tag-minnesotavikings","tag-nfl"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5To","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22654"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22660,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22654\/revisions\/22660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}