I had forgotten I wanted to comment on this, although it’s a little water under the bridge. IIRC, Vick only had one drive for a TD that game and the others were special teams and/or defense, with Favre throwing 2 picks. I don’t think Vick was anything special in that game. His stats were completely unimpressive, as always. The rest of the team won it and GB helped them.
He has yet to impress me against a decent defense. This is high heresy I know, but, he’s probably the single most overrated player in the NFL. :eek:
This suggests Atlanta with Vick, including playoffs, is 21-13-1, with a couple of the wins against SF, probably the worst team in recent memory. Meh. I imagine that record vs. teams with winning records isn’t above .500.
He threw (when he did throw; he never gets to his second read, which a decent high school QB learns to do) 14 TDs and 12 picks this year. Zero TDs and 1 pick (with another called back on a questionable penalty) in the NFC Championship. He only had 2 games of 200+ passing yards out of 18, which is dreadful in modern football.
Meanwhile you have McNabb and Culpepper throwing for over 30 TDs and nearly 10 picks each in the same year in the same conference, with less combined press than Vick (oh, and they’re both mobile too).
In the interest of strict accuracy, I’ll point out that the Falcons were actually 11-3 with Vick starting; he didn’t play the last two games of the season, which the Falcons lost.
I can’t argue that. Just be happy we hosted and you didn’t have thousands of us there at once. Jacksonville can deal with that now.
OK, so Atlanta was a somewhat more respectable 21-11-1 with Vick. Atlanta has a decent defense, and most of those games were against teams with losing records. Still not impressed; all of his individual passing stats put him in the bottom third of starting NFL QBs. I believe he’s also the most sacked QB in the league, which no one seems to subtract from the rushing stats. Sacks minus rushes this past Sunday he accounted for -7 yards on the ground.
Yet most of the national media has annointed him the Second Coming.
