Monday, July 20, 2009

Where and When Will Michael Vick Play?

Yes another Michael Vick piece on TSF. We’ll keep churning them out until what’s done is done. Hypocrisy aside regarding America’s hatred of dog fighting, let’s have a discussion on potential Vick destinations? Oh another thing, Michael Vick shouldn’t have to coon for anybody just to get reinstated.

Free from home confinement today, the mercurial one is now available to sign with any team that wants him. He’s paid his due to society folks. Isn’t that what America is all about? There should be none of this he needs to be contrite and humble himself before the world. He lost the richest contract in NFL history…at the time he signed it…his reputation is smeared and he’s unemployed. It’s time for America to move on. He knows he was in the wrong and paid for it dearly.

His sentence is done.

He wants to play in the NFL…not the CFL or the UFL. Unfortunately, Mike might have to play in some sort of gimmick Wildcat offense to “prove” to everyone he’s still an NFL athlete.

Here’s the think, you can’t tell me there’s 60 quarterbacks in the league better than him. There’s just no way.

There’s definitely not one in San Francisco. Not a one. I personally feel this is the best spot for Mike. He needs a iron fist coach who will make sure the media attention will not tear him or the team he signs with apart.

Coach Mike ain’t gonna take any stuff either way. There are rumblings Mike could land with the Patriots and run the Wildcat there. While this might be an amazing idea (because of the prospect of throwing to Moss obviously), Michael Vick is a quarterback.

Give him his shot.

This is all contingent on a meeting with Roger Goodell. Some say he’s not meeting with Mike until August…well into training camp…and even then might not decide to lift the indefinite suspension.

The NFL will be under all kinds of PETA scrutiny and there surely will be picketing outside of each and every stadium Mike plays in. There will be boos and chants and posters not cool for TV consumption and jokes and whatever else unattractive to the league that will go down. How will Mike deal with it and how will the league support one of its own? Mike will put fans in the seats because fans surely will just come out for the spectacle of it all. He’s on probation for three years and under a three years state suspended sentence for dog fighting. Is Goodell waiting to see how the public responds before reinstatement? Should he be the judge and jury in all of this? Is this all about employee privilege?

Seattle? The Rams? Dolphins even with Pat White now there? Why is Oakland being mentioned? They have a young quarterback, but you never know with Al Davis. I’d take him in Philly to back up Donovan.

Where will he land?

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