Vick signs 2 year deal with The Eagles

[USO-ORLANDO]

 

[USO-ORLANDO]

What you think Mcnabb is thinking!!

[YoFuggedaboutit]

Vick, McNabb and Bryant Westbrook in the same backfield.... now that's scary.

[USO-ORLANDO]

http://blogs.nfl.com/2009/08/13/eagles-vick-agree-to-two-year-contract/

[Pats2006]

Good for him

[Fau Teixeira]

couldn't have happened to a classier city!

[Tenshot13]

What you think Mcnabb is thinking!!

He was probably the reason Vick went there...aren't they cousins?

[Phishfan]

^^^ Never heard that one before. I don't think they are related.

Philly seems like a good city for Vick. Now that this is out of the way let's see how he plays.

[YoFuggedaboutit]

^^^ Never heard that one before. I don't think they are related.

Philly seems like a good city for Vick. Now that this is out of the way let's see how he plays.

Vick and former college QB turned NFL WR Ronald Curry are cousins. 

This is a strange signing to say the least.  Philly's already got their starting QB and top backup set.  So where is Vick gonna play?

[Phishfan]

Vick and former college QB turned NFL WR Ronald Curry are cousins. 

Wrong again. The only famous cousin Vick has that I know of is Aaron Brooks.

[Phishfan]

I just watched the press conference. Dungy is very believable. I'm not sure about Reid as much. Vick I think is just trying to say the right things that keep him out of any more trouble.

[Tenshot13]

Wrong again. The only famous cousin Vick has that I know of is Aaron Brooks.

Yeah, you're right...it was Aaron Brooks.

[Sunstroke]

Two things that make me scratch my head about this signing...

1) The Philadelphia Eagles didn't even give Michael Vick a workout before signing him. Coach Reid hasn't actually seen Vick throw a pass in 2 years.

2) I keep hearing the talking heads say that Vick is an excellent QB. Hello? He wasn't even an excellent QB two years ago when he was playing regularly. Who thinks that his QB skills improved in prison? Maybe his scrambling got better from avoiding the Sisters in the laundry, but passing skills? No chance.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Vick will never start for an NFL team again, and his contributions while with the Iggles will consist of a few gadget plays and returns only, before he eventually gets released.

[Dave Gray]

2) I keep hearing the talking heads say that Vick is an excellent QB. Hello? He wasn't even an excellent QB two years ago when he was playing regularly.

WORD!

I heard some sports anchor say the other day that Vick was a top 5 player IN THE LEAGUE just three years ago.  I damn near fell out of my chair.  The way I remember it, Vick was a good athlete, but was never a particular good NFL QB, in terms of passing.  His accomplishments were largely due to scrambling.

[fyo]

As a passing quarterback, Vick was always awful. It's difficult to gauge his overall value to an offense, though, since he ran for some serious yardage. You can't just look at that raw yardage and "add it" to his passing (even using advanced stats like footballoutsiders' DYAR - where Vick, btw, ranked 43rd out of 46 in passing in '06 and moves to 31st or so if you add his rushing DYAR). How much of that is simply taking away running back yards? (and thus overall detrimental to the team, since it exposes the QB to unnecessary injury risk).

The other thing to consider is that Vick was notoriously lazy. He reportedly never made an effort to work on route timing or anything more than what he was absolutely forced to do by his coaches. If this mentality has changed (huge if), he might improve - although not having thrown a pass in an NFL game for 2 years makes his starting point significantly lower.