Because of halfway house overcrowding ,Vick will be released May 21. Anybody hear about whether he will be offered a contract somewhere.? The commish says he will review for possible NFL punishment as soon as he gets out. But he will be ready for next season.
Could he still be a QB? He can run and is shifty . But any team that signs him will get a shitstorm of bad press. I can think of no way he can explain it away as a youthful unthinking error. He will get a special kind of hate. But ,if you think he can help your team do you do it?
I think ESPN bribed the judge to release Vick. ESPN figures they’ll be done with Alex Rodriguez story by May and they need something else to talk about. It is too early for the Brett Favre talk, so this will give ESPN something to cover 24 hours a day.
Seriously, I can’t imagine any NFL team taking a chance on him. The QB is usually the face of a team. Vick had enough talent before he went to the dogs to perhaps make a position change. But, after two years out of the NFL, it will take a lot to get him back in football shape.
I honestly hope no one takes him. Sure, he had talent, but as dalej42 said, the QB is the face of the team, and no one wants to look like a bunch of dog haters (cause dogs are cute).
Could he play a new position? I think it’s possible, but again, I think the bastard should be thrown to the wolves and black listed from the sport (at least as a professional) as punishment.
I can understand that most, if not all, teams would want to avoid the firestorm ignited by signing Vick as QB but I’m sure there’s a team out there just waiting for the right moment to sign him and walk the hot coals with him in the upcoming season. What more can be said about his situation? What’s done is done, he did his time, now he wants to get back to making a living playing football (as QB I’m sure). Teams would be hard pressed to say that he couldn’t come back to old playing form very early in the season.
Oakland and Dallas have histories that suggest they’d face the firestorm, although only Oakland is really looking for a QB. That said, a lot of teams would probably throw the dice and risk the PR fight to get a talented runner like Vick. I’m just not sure he’s the starting QB material.
What stadium PA system could pass up "Who let the Dogs Out"if he came in.
I’m no big fan of Vick or his “running quarterback” style, but the law is the law: he did the crime, he did (a certain amount of) the time, that’s it. If the rules allow it he should be permitted to play and no special exceptions should be made for or against him.
If Vick were a “can’t miss” superstar, I have no doubt somebody would shower him with money in a big hurry, reasoning that boos would quickly turn to cheers the second he scored his first touchdown.
But Vick is FAR from a sure thing. It’s not at all clear that he’d help an team win (the Falcons were better without him), nor does it go without saying that he’d “put butts in seats.”
He IS, of course a phenomenal athlete, when healthy and in shape. So somebody will try to sign him cheap. He’ll get a lot of lowball offers from teams that know how good he COULD be, but want to able to wash their hands of him at a moment’s notice.