Michael Vick with Eagles Analysis
On yesterday’s game by the halftime nobody really cared about the score on the game… Everybody was buzzing the same phrase: Michael Vick signed with the Philadelphia Eagle.
Suddenly, no one really cared much about the game against the New England Patriots. All that mattered to most Eagles fans was that Vick had joined their team.
Even though they already have five-time Pro Bowler Donovan McNabb as their starting quarterback, the Eagles gave Vick a one-year, $1.6 million contract with a one-year team option exceeding $5 million, a league source told NFL Network’s Jason La Canfora.
The Eagles will introduce Vick at a press conference scheduled for today at 11 A.M..
“I believe that as long as people go through the right process, he deserves a second chance,” Eagles coach Andy Reid said. “He has great people on his side; there isn’t a finer person than Tony Dungy (a former NFL coach who’s serving as Vick’s mentor). He is proving that he is on the right track.”
Michael Vick, the number one overall draft picked by the Atlanta Falcons in 2001, he was the highest-paid player in the NFL, but he has not played professional football since 2006 when his career came down in a dogfighting scandal. Vick was convicted in August 2007 of conspiracy and running a dogfighting operation, he was sentenced to a 23 months in federal prison, indefinitely suspended by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and later released by the Falcons.
But after Vick served his time and was released from home confinement July 20, Goodell conditionally lifted the quarterback’s suspension — allowing him to sign with a team. And this team was the Philadelphia Eagles.
“There won’t be a quarterback controversy,” Reid said after the Vick deal was announced. “We have to make sure he gets back in football shape. He comes into a good, stable unit here. Donovan and Michael are very close.”
