Reid has the opportunity to prepare Vick for a full offseason. Rob Carr/Getty Images
In quenching a thirst for football knowledge, you often comb through various websites, finding different stories. Some are more interesting than others. Some of them stick with you and some of them don’t. One thing that seems to stick is that just about everything written concerning Michael Vick seems to be hyperbole.
Hyperbole in the sense that Vick seems to be viewed almost exclusively as historically great or historically bad. He is either supremely gifted and revolutionary, or he is overrated and lucky. There is just no way he can be both and really he can’t be deemed either one. At least not yet.
This thought was spurred by a Philly.com mention of an anonymous quote from Pro Football Weekly:
“Jim Mora (Sr.) had it right. Michael Vick is a coach killer. The Eagles made a mistake signing him long-term. I can tell you right now — he was a machine the first half of 2010, and the...
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