Michael Vick-Can He Cope With Failing to be a Starter?
September 26th, 2009
After getting out of prison this summer, Michael Vick expected to be a starting NFL quarterback again. Call that crazy, call it vane, call it wishful thinking, call it egomania or psychosis or whatever you like, but it sure didn’t happen.
It would appear that even after two years in prison, the reality that he is NOT a starter might finally be sinking into Michael Vick’s head.
Failing to be a starter, even after getting his hopes up after McNabb’s injury, might end up being something that Michael Vick has difficulty dealing with and felons and substance abuse recoveries are typically most at risk when they set unrealistic goals and then see those goals slip away from them.
Michael Vick is not known for dealing with wild success and later much more average success well. You might say his inability to cope was his downfall.
After achieving what many of us consider to be a coup to even get BACK in the NFL, the fears of those of us that felt he should not return may now be approaching something closer to reality. Our fear was not that he might play again, but that he might not be able to cope and then resort to illegal outlets for stress.
Michael Vick now finds himself in the position of potentially having to remain humble and contrite in the face of being cast aside as a second or third fiddle for special situations, situations that in the preseason were lack luster, unexciting, and seemed to disrupt the Eagles offense more than it disrupted its opponents defense.
For those of us that would like to see Michael Vick out of the NFL, not out of spite, but out of the very likely potential for new damage that Michael Vick has the ability to reap, the next few weeks could prove to be the most difficult for Michael Vick. To be honest, the last thing in the world I personally want to do is come on here in a week, a month or a year and say I told you so, we told you so, Michael Vick has not changed, the NFL was foolish to bring him back in, and plain ignorant to bring him in so soon.
In the interest of warding off Michael Vick creating yet another tragedy, whether it be in dog fights, drug use, or some other outlet for violence, I hope he gets support and help now because he has not exhibited the ability in the past to cope with stress, good or bad.
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As I have blogged many times, I believe it is shameful that Michael Vick was reinstated to the NFL. What are they thinking? He is a dangerous man who does not know how (and I highly doubt that prison taught him) to cope with stress in a positive way. Like it or not, as an NFL player, you accept the fact that you become a role model and good behavior should be expected. Setting good examples should be required. I think all who sponsor the NFL should be boycotted also. So pathetic.
Can he cope?LMAO Listen, there is nothing to insure us he isn’t already screwing up. he moved back to Surry County where he knows they will enable him. God only knows what will happen. He wants everyone to kiss his azz and nobody is going to.
Keeping Vick’s ego under control will be a huge problem for the Eagles since it’s obvious he regards the team as a stepping stone to a return to being a starting QB elsewhere.
Since he was released from prison, his egomania has continued unabated with his falsely claiming to be the originator of the Wildcat formation and pronouncing that he will help Philadelphia win a Super Bowl, something he never did with the Falcons.
What Vick probably will do is play well enough to cause a QB controversy with Eagles fans who have never warmed to McNabb and he will blow the team apart just the way Terrell Owens did in 2004-2005.
All the talk about his working with the community and his being counseled by strong mentors (coach Andy Reid has enough problems at home) has turned out to be largely that…TALK
Reinforcing Vick’s belief that he can get away with anything as long as he helps a team win games is bad enough. What will happen when he blows his “second chance” could be far worse
hmmmm cope with not being a starter or back to jail? seems like a question even mike vick knows the answer to.
Today is Sept 27, 2009. So lets look at the reality of where things stand today;
Vick will start today as the QB for Philly.
He’s making over a million dollars
Yes he wasted some dogs to feed his wicked power.
Today, no one really gives a f*uck about that.
The vast majority of men who will watch todays game
won’t give a d*mn about the dogs that were slaughtered.
So at the end of the day, When Vick is in the locker room pulling is jock strap down, what do you think he’ll be thinking about, how sorry he is for getting caught being cruel to a few animals, or the fact that his power is being fed and all you haters can KISS HIS RUTHLESS AROGANT A**.
Dick, Your malevolence matches your eloquence, regardless we thank you for supporting the campaign to sack Michael Vick and other violent felons from the NFL. Its ironic that even though you seem to espouse support for Michael Vick, you still harbor doubts and backhandedly rally against Michael Vick by leaving your comment here.
~Peace
That’s exactly the problem, thanks to all the enablers from Roger Goodell and Tony Dungy to the Humane Society, Michael Vick won’t be thinking about the “few animals” he was caught being cruel to, he’ll be thinking about how despite his horrific deeds, he is being paid $1.625 million to be a backup.
And the thing that will upset him is not that he tortured and killed those dogs but that he is no longer the highest paid player in the NFL and that he isn’t the starter and that he has nobody to blame except himself.
Vick my have been upset at first because of what he lost, but lets be real. how long do you really think that lasted. We wasn’t even out of jail and people were planning his come back. He even said that when he suggested that he would be a starter again.
And do you really think that Vick won’t be a starter again. Be real !! So long as he performs well on the field he will return to the top and there won’t be anything that this or any other group can do about it.
It’s the fall and then the rise again that will make him stronger and harder. And from from Roger Goodell, the Humane Society, to the people on this blog Vick will just sit back and take pleasure in feeling your tongues on his ass.
lol so you think a psychotic egomaniac will be able to rise again now that he has been exposed as a psychotic egomaniac?
Personally, I think that is about as crazy as michael vick is, but even if I’m wrong, its all the more reason why are efforts will attract more support for a boycott of all things related to Michael Vick, The Eagles, while they have him, and the NFL.
You may be able to re-fool some of the people some of the time, but most of us aren’t that stupid.
When you think about it the campaign shouldn’t be called Sack Vick. No, the campaign should be called LICK VICK’s SACK. Trust me, I harbor no doubts about neither mine or any of the others millions who support Vick and all that he has done. You need only to see the actions that have already been taken to prove the support that has and is today being given to Vick. No, in the end I did these post to rub sh*t in your faces in your own back yard. Your weakness only feeds more power to the wicked.
I don’t mind arguing with people about Michael Vick but your comments are disgusting, typical of those who support him
Pure power over weakness. You just proved my point!
lol, Dick, you are really kind of a fool aren’t you. You are supporting a person that himself wasn’t even smart enough not to fowl his own back yard, and coming here and attempting to despoil ours.
But what you fail to realize is that you are actually helping people that want to see Vick removed from the NFL.
Your comments are not spoiling anything here, only empowering the community and you are even helping us attract more visitors to our site from different walks of life.
Play the fool if you like. We do ban members whose comments utilize fowl language (you have been worned, one more transgression and you are out).
Like George W Bush helped push more people in the middle go and vote for Democrats, your words and rhetoric or lack there of will help drive more support away from Michael Vick and other violent felons in the NFL.
I would agree that the name of our site needs to change (and will) we’re just not ready to make the change from a development perspective yet.
You think people like Michael Vick are powerful? He defines weakness, admitting to being so easily led that peer pressure could drive him to commit acts that are unethical and wrong
Great point Max, along a similar line of reasoning anyone that is so weak and insecure that they tie a dog up to a tree and beat it to get their rocks off, or throw a dog into a swimming pool and electrocute and drown it, is definitely not exerting power of weakness (that’s one of the nuttiest terms I’ve read in the comments of this blog in years).
He was exerting stupidity, weakness, insecurity, fear, cowardice and a lot of other things, but nothing that is an admirable quality by any stretch of the imagination.
In Vick’s final season in Atlanta, his team was 7-9 and he was the NFL’s 20th ranked quarterback, good thing for him the league didn’t punish underachievers the same way he did
I understand he was an average QB but why state the team’s record? Vick had no control over the play of his defense and offensive line. It was evident how crucial Vick was to the team’s success the year he left when they were one of the worst teams in the league.
Given what he did off the field, I wouldn’t really care if he was Dan Marino, Joe Montana and Johnny Unitas combined.
But there are a few people here who talk about his “returning to the top” and he was never there. The Falcons were going down hill in his last two seasons with his inability to read defenses, his lack of skill as a pocket passer and his many character issue. That’s the same direction he’ll take the Eagles if they’re not smart enough to get rid of him, he’s not even the third best QB on the team. Today he had two incomplete passes, seven yards running and said he played “fairly well”
tom, I’d suggest that he screwed the team that year by sucking away his huge salary, making it more difficult for them to get a replacement for their ’star’ quarterback that thought killing dogs was more important than living up to his football agreement.
The Falcons’ problems could just as easily be attributed to being left in the lurch as it could by an apples to oranges comparison of the team with vick and without.
Michael Vick achieved some rather odd stats the last two years compared to other quarterbacks in the league whom Michael Vick seems to feel or of his own caliber. For example over the last 2 years Michael Vick didn’t even play. He was a non-starter due to his own actions. He threw for zero touch downs, zero completions, zero yards for two years straight, he didn’t make any great plays, didn’t win any games, didn’t even hold the ball for a punt.
Now that doesn’t get factored into his stats, its just a big fat asterisk.
The guy has been rapidly spiraling down into loserville for years, he just covered it up and pulled the wool over a lot of eyes up until the point where he was caught red handed.
I was glad to see that Vick had no impact on the game yesterday. Those who cry for a second chance for Vick must have forgotten that his particpation in animal abuse, torture and death went on for years. Everyday was a second chance and he continued to participate and financial back dog fighting. Vick has a long history of bad acts and behaviors. It is ashame that the NFL and football fans allow him to get away with his evil crime. He may have paid his dues to the justice system but he hasn’t paid his dues for the terrible acts he commited.
You are so right, Vick did not serve a single day for animal cruelty, only for racketeering, and has been given more second, third and fourth chances than anyone other than a celebrity would ever have been granted.
Those who cry for “a second chance” for Vick couldn’t care less about the lives he destroyed, only about whether he can still play football. If he can’t, they will turn on him just the way he turned on the dogs which didn’t perform up to his standards.
Too bad one of his team mates at the game didn’t chew his lips off like his dogs had done to them in thier “game”
chew his lips off? thats sick
jacque
we do not condone any sentiments of violence against Michael Vick even when those sentiments of violence echo the violence that Michael Vick brought against other animals or people.
I realize that the pit bull that had its lips chewed off (an unfortunate and common occurrence in pit bull fight rings like Michael Vick’s and others) has been talked about quite a bit recently in the news following a raid that freed a dog that suffered from this experience.
The casual use of this topic in the news, does often times make us more likely to drop casual references of the terms here in conversations. The issue is that we do not want Michael Vick nor anyone else to suffer any physical harm.
There are far too many disturbed people in the world like Michael Vick himself, that could be set in motion with psycho ideas and we do not want to influence that in any way here.
Well all the above, be as it may, I still think he is dark, evil soul and should not be allowed to flourish in society
I couldn’t agree more. But you can see why this site has censor some things we dearly wish on Vick. These Vick fans want to take our free speech. Look at what happened at the Lincoln stadium.
http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/eagles/20090930_Fan_says_anti-Vick_shirt_was_barred.html
i heard Mr. Vick got a new sponsorship with Nike. Not good news for your Boycott camp.
I would expect nothing less from a company which has been found to use child and forced labor in Third World Countries.
Nike had about 30,000 pairs of Michael Vick training shoes in storage which were to be launched in 2007 which I suppose overrides their statement that “cruelty to animals is unhumane and abhorrent” which they made when they dropped Vick in July of that year.
I wonder what the text for his Nike ads will consist of….”shoes so fast you can get away from the police” or “shoes that clean up nicely after a day of bloodshed”
Nike once used the song “Instant Karma” in its ads, and they should make it their company theme song because sooner or later, this decision will come back to bite them
lol yeah, turns out his agent was just full of crap apparently, or Nike signed, didn’t like the reaction and pulled the plug on the deal in less than 12 hours.
That was a real coup by Michael Vick
I’d say that the boycott is working just fine.
well fyi the boycott never worked in the first place….
Your opinion is noted tom.
I think as we have many times, we’ll just have to agree to disagree on that one.
I won’t be buying Nike
Join me in sending a shoebox full of dog poop to Nike in appreciation for signing Vick.
Corporate Mailing Address
Nike USA Inc.
Consumer Services
One Boweman Drive
Beaverton, OR 97005-6453
http://smackmyvickup.com/
Well, it looks like a Nike agreement may only be in Vick’s mind as Nike appears to deny it:
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=ap-vick-nike&prov=ap&type=lgns
Of course it doesn’t say a lot about Nike that they would even encourage a dog killer to wear their product but at least they’re not willing to pay for it yet!
I wonder if this is a trial balloon to see what kind of response the company gets from re-activating its relationship with Vick.
The form message they are sending says “Thank you for your email. Nike does not have a contractual relationship with Michael Vick. We have agreed to supply product to Michael Vick as we do a number of athletes who are not under contract with Nike.
Thank you again for your feedback.”
As I replied in a subsequent email, “As you well know after losing more than a million dollars when he was convicted and you scrapped his training shoe, Mr. Vick is not ‘like other athletes’.
“I find it incredible that Michael Principe would announce ‘He has a new deal with Nike that we’re all very pleased with’ if indeed all you are doing is giving him some gear.”
Meanwhile, a fan who wore a shirt saying “Losers Fight Pitbulls” on the front and “You Don’t Desrve a Second Chance” was not allowed into the stadium until she turned the shirt inside out. The founders of our nation who met in Philadelphia and gave us freedom of speech must be rolling over in their graves over that one