Tough Jam For Vick

When the pocket closes in on Michael Vick, when he seems to be trapped on a football field, it seems he never is. He finds a way out, sometimes all the way to the NFC Championship Game. He gives you a head fake or dips a shoulder, makes the kind of stop and start at full speed, as a quarterback, that only the greatest running backs could make. You are sure he is going to get hit, the way you were sure that Ali was going to get hit when he was a young man, back when Ali made everything look different in his sport the way Vick does now. Only then Vick doesn't get hit, and he is in the clear, again.