{"id":6330,"date":"2013-10-28T14:10:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T18:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=6330"},"modified":"2013-10-28T14:10:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T18:10:18","slug":"vikings-coach-declines-to-name-quarterback-at-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/10\/28\/vikings-coach-declines-to-name-quarterback-at-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikings coach declines to name quarterback at press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6331\" alt=\"Freeman-Ponder\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/Freeman-Ponder.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/Freeman-Ponder.jpg 640w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/Freeman-Ponder-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2013\/10\/Freeman-Ponder-50x28.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota Vikings (1-6) have started three different quarterbacks this season. Who will start next week for the Vikings is anyone&#8217;s guess after head coach Leslie Frazier declined to name a starter during a Monday press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Frazier did indicate that Matt Cassel was not being considered for the Week 9 start.<\/p>\n<p>In Sunday nights game against Green Bay the Vikings welcomed Christian Ponder back. \u00a0Ponder was 14-of-21 for 145 yards in a 44-31 loss.<\/p>\n<p>Ponder&#8217;s start came because Week 7 starter Josh Freeman was out with a concussion. Freeman played poorly during his lone start with the Vikings, which came shortly after his release from Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Vikings (1-6) have started three different quarterbacks this season. Who will start next week for the Vikings is anyone&#8217;s guess after head coach Leslie Frazier declined to name a starter during a Monday press conference. Frazier did indicate that Matt Cassel was not being considered for the Week 9 start. In Sunday nights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[414,392,152],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-6330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-christian-ponder","9":"tag-josh-freeman","10":"tag-minnesota-vikings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6330"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}