If team wants to replace him, timing is wrong Brad Biggs
Remember this time last summer when the discussion was if a team would sign Michael Vick when the quarterback was reinstated and if so what team would be willing to take the PR hit?
Fast forward and now the debate seems to be whether or not Vick will make it to training camp in a few weeks with the Philadelphia Eagles. Yes, that is the same team that swore up and down after last season that Donovan McNabb would be the starting quarterback this coming season. So much for that.
There seems to be mounting debate on whether or not the Eagles would like to dump Vick before he causes them some serious buyers remorse. The organization has steadfastly backed Vick since his ill-plotted 30th birthday bash in Virginia Beach, Va., the one where Quanis Phillips, his co-defendant in a federal dogfighting trial, was shot.
But what other choice do the Eagles have right now? After trading away McNabb, Vick is the only experienced quarterback on the roster behind starter Kevin Kolb and ahead of Northwestern rookie Mike Kafka. They can’t exactly dump Vick right now because there simply aren’t many attractive options on the street. Now, maybe the Eagles wish they had beaten the Baltimore Ravens to Marc Bulger.
A quiet offseason for Vick – one without All White parties – would have allowed him to go to training camp as quietly as someone with his notoriety could. The focus would have been on the beginning of the Kolb era. Now, Kolb is taking over for McNabb and the focus is going to be on Vick once again.
Probation officials have restricted Vick’s movement and for him it’s too bad that didn’t happen sooner. Maybe then the birthday party never would have happened. At the minimum, Vick is guilty of terrible judgment. It’s possible, too, he’s lost the faith of the Eagles organization. The debate will continue until training camp opens and Vick either is or isn’t there with bird wings on the side of his helmet.
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You get what you pay for. The Iggles went into this eyes wide open. They had their QB of the future and he should have been the only backup.
Instead they bought into the PR nonsense of Dungy & Dungy.
Snake, All White is what Vick called his parties. You know, dress up in all white? Brad's not making that up.
Here's the part of the story that just don't get - why would a QB w/o many friends left period call attention to the fact that he's having his 30th B-Day party - granted he's a "fresh" 30 vs a guy like Bulger who's been rocked for a number of years now, still it's just damned hard to warm up to a guy like Vick, beyond the stupidity of being vulnerable at this type of a gathering - as in Phillips obviously isn't a dangerous person for Vick to be around to begin with - why highlight that what puts you onto the field - your mercurial athletic gifts, are now turning 30...not sure what this guys cranium processes during the decision making event - must look like something out of the Simpsons...Bart on rif...
Is that you Snake? I thought your were dead? Escape from NY--awesome movie.
Why don't they get it over with and cut Vick. I have lost respect fro the Eagles for signing him in the first place.
Bring back Jeff Garcia (three times' a charm)!
The high schoolers might be getting a little tough for Brett.
Perhaps next year the Pee Wee's can run some patterns for him.
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Jul 12, 2010
01:48 PM
"A quiet offseason for Vick – one without All White parties –"
What the hell kinda Freudian slip is that? .... capitalized even.