Vick to Eagles Friday, August 14, 2009

Didn't watch the Steeler preseason game last night on ESPN. Instead, I was playing a game of Acquire. In the meantime, though, it was apparently announced that Michael Vick will play for the Eagles. I'm impressed that this was not leaked a couple days ago. There were, in fact, many speculating that there were no interested teams, and Vick was just waiting for a starting QB to get injured to have a chance.

In some corners of the internet, folks are speculating about Andy Reid's troubled sons, pointing out that he would be more likely to give someone a second chance. Not a bad point.

It makes sense from a football standpoint, way more than it does for the Steelers, since we just won the Super Bowl and don't need any distractions, and have Dennis Dixon if we want to do "wildcat" stuff.

Personally, I'm still wary about the NFL giving a guy a paycheck whose principal use of his paycheck in the past was to run a sophisticated yet illegal and cruel gambling ring for seven years. But from a non-business standpoint I have no problem forgiving him and I hope he succeeds.

My guess is the few mandatory weeks off will be helpful, as he will be extremely rusty at first, with some questioning whether he should have been signed at this time once he gets some practice in. But he'll come around. He's an incredible athlete.