Why Mike Vick is a tool...

Vick needs to have More fired, for us to win, he shouldn't save his job, Mora should have thought about his job when he was joking about Washington is Ty hiring?

Schaub didn't look so good yesterday did he, I think he's an average QB and should be traded while people think he's the second coming of Joey M.

The Falocns, need one of four coaches, Cowher not going to happen, Ken W., Cam C. or my favorite Norm C.

The whole team quit yesterday not just Vick.

I used to defend Vick all the time. I don't anymore. He has shown this year he is a punk and a bad teammate. Great athlete, but a jerk.

I believe part of the problem was they (Mora and staff ) were trying to make Vick into something he was not. They tried to make him a drop back passer rather than maxium his strength. Mora has been trying to get him to unlearn a mindset that carried him through the lower levels of the sport. "First receiver isn't open? Fine. Where's the second . . . ? Ah, screw it, I'm gone."
Make no mistake about his firing, it was about winning. If Atlanta were 12-4 he would still have a job.

Your right he would be great in a singlewing, I would love to see him in a spinner wing offense.

Vick has thrown his teammates (and especially his coaches) under the bus all year. Go back to some of his conferences and unless you are wearing some Michael Vick glasses you should be able to tell why he is such a tool.

And for goodness sakes, how many times will people step to the plate for this guy. Either every coach that has ever had him sucks and can't coach, or else he is the one with the problem. Personally, I don't think he cares to get better. His work ethic shows on the field. He never looks prepared and more importantly, he never looks improved. Blame it on coaching if you want, but that is not placing the blame where it should be.

OH...wait..almost forgot another reason this guy is a tool - 2 words- Ron Mexico

If my coach called plays and I can't aubidle, or do anything I'm a boy not a QB, I have falcons season tickets, heard every interview, I've heard him speak up for his wr's when they wouldn't catch a cold. No he's not a ra-ra leader, but when you don't support a coach, because all of his teammates gave Mora a vote of no support, what do you want him 2 do?

He should lead by example and keep his mouth shut.

Crumpler and others had already asked for Mora to be gone, just like Mora's father said he was a coach killer. When you lose your players support the deserve to say how they feel.

I'm sorry but the post comes across as "homerism". Objectively, here is what is wrong with Vick. He has been inconsistent through two different head coaches, been ineffective in two different style offenses, makes the same mistakes continually, does not take accountability for his part of the problem, and has routinely questioned the offense. As far as Schaub, he was a much better QB when he replaced Vick last year. Schaub finished his day 15-21 (over 70% completion) 175 yards, with a TD and INT against the Eagles. Vick can thrown 4 TDs one week and then turn around and throw two picks and complete less than 50% against Carolina.

Is Michael Vick talented? Yes. Is he a QB, no. He has a strong arm and is incredibly athletic but his accuracy dating back to college has never been above 60% and he has not shown the ability to consistently string together quality starts over time.

Check out this link for a little more detail from ESPN.
ATLANTA -- Time and again during their half-hour news conference Monday, Falcons owner Arthur Blank and president-general manager Rich McKay employed the mantra of every NFL executive who launches a search for a head coach.

Which is to say that they enunciated, as they did three years ago when they embarked on the process that culminated in the hiring of the now-deposed Jim Mora, a need to identify the best man for the entire franchise and not just for its highest-profile player.

Yeah, right, guys.

In their hearts, Blank and McKay know that Job 1 confronting them is to find someone who can fix quarterback Michael Vick on the field and in the locker room.

Michael Vick
Quarterback
Atlanta Falcons

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2006 SEASON STATISTICS
Att Comp Yds TD Int Rat
388 204 2171 20 13 75.7

To be fair, it's not like there's nothing else that matters in reversing the fortunes of a team that only two years ago lost in the NFC Championship Game in Philadelphia but Sunday couldn't summon enough gumption to beat the Eagles' third-stringers. A new coach must deal with an offensive line that can't pass protect and whose lack of size defies current NFL convention. He must deal with a bevy of former first-round wide receivers, none of whom can catch, in an offense that hasn't had a 50-catch wideout in three years. He must deal with a defense that lacks quickness and whose signature performer, end John Abraham, misses a month per season because of injuries. And he must deal with a team that purports to possess great leadership but lacks heart.

But mostly, the new coach must be someone who can conjure a way to harness the confounding genius of quarterback Michael Vick, a great athlete and an even greater enigma.

Vick may not be a coach killer, but it is notable that when he reports for his seventh NFL training camp in July, he'll be working with a third different permanent head coach. It's four coaches if you count the interim tenure of Wade Phillips in 2003. Such a turnover rate -- alarming even in a league where owners change coaches the way they change underwear -- isn't solely Vick's fault. But for a guy who has the ear of ownership and whom Blank has treated at times like a surrogate son, Vick hasn't done a lot to help create the kind of long-term stability the Atlanta owner covets.

It will be interesting, given the tepid support Vick offered for Mora in the waning days of the coach's stint here, to see how the coaching candidates the Falcons interview address that matter. So while candidates will line up for the opportunity to coach the Falcons, the number might be reduced by a few sage wannabes who will think twice about the potential for being the team's next Vick-tim. No player is bigger than the team. But we can't remember Blank's pushing any other player around in a wheelchair the way he did the injured Vick before the 2003 opener at Texas Stadium.

To this point, Blank has been an enabler of sorts for Vick. It seems the best thing he can do now for his quarterback and franchise is identify a coach who can help Vick reach his potential. That's not a small chore.

Vick is a guy whose unique talents force you to think outside the box. McKay on Monday termed him "a great player." That's a bit of hyperbole there because he is a great athlete who has yet to become a great player. He's a player who might require adjustments in a lot of areas to justify the investment Blank has made in him.

Arguably the more critical of those adjustments might be with Vick's psyche. Vick's athletic arrogance of which Mora once spoke so glowingly has become as much a negative as an asset. In Vick's mind, he has rarely lost a game. The scheme wasn't right, someone dropped a pass (actually, that's often the case) or something other than his own talents failed him.

Funny, but when Vick's statistics were relatively pedestrian, his apologists trumpeted his win-loss record. Now that he's just 15-16 as a starter the past two seasons, both of which ended with the Falcons' missing the playoffs, Vick and his defenders have taken to stressing his statistics. Their favorites: Vick threw a career-high 20 touchdown passes in 2006 and became the first quarterback in NFL history to rush for 1,000 yards in a season.

Want to examine those numbers closer? In his six NFL seasons, Vick has been healthy in four. In those four years, 47 quarterbacks threw 20 or more touchdown passes. It has become the equivalent of hitting 30 home runs, a much discussed but overblown stat. As for the 1,000 rushing yards, well, what did they net the Falcons, who aren't in the playoffs? In the seven games this season in which Vick led Atlanta in rushing, the Falcons were 0-7.

Obviously, there must be a different way to get the most from the league's most-hyped athlete. And it appears it will take a different kind of coach to do it.

Blank has demonstrated that he will spend whatever it takes to make his team competitive. The Falcons had the highest payroll in the NFL this season and second highest in league history. The team has had a top-five payroll in four of Blank's five seasons of stewardship. As one of the NFL's most conspicuous owners, Blank has demonstrated largess and patience. The former might not be wearing thin because Blank still has deep coffers, but the latter might be.

As a sportsman, Blank covets a Vince Lombardi Trophy, like all his NFL brethren. As a businessman, what he wants most is a new stadium, one with hundreds of luxury suites, guaranteed revenues and big profit margins. To win the hearts of the public in Atlanta and perhaps to secure funds for a new facility, the Falcons must be an annual playoff contender.

And the way to do that is to find a head coach who can handle the quarterback.
sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=pasquarelli_len&id=2717393

or this one


MORE WEIRDNESS FROM MICHAEL VICK

Michael Vick continues to prove that, in reality, he's a glorified tailback with a strong throwing arm and marginal accuracy.

A quarterback he isn't, in any sense of the word. First and foremost, quarterbacks are leaders. We've presented in the past evidence to support our belief that Vick isn't. Most recently, he was wearing a groove in his back after setting the single-season quarterback rushing record in a defeat that dealt a crushing blow to his team's playoff prospects.

In a Wednesday conference call with Philadelphia reporters, Vick provided even more proof to support the conclusion that he's not a leader by taking steps to insulate himself from any blame for the team's 7-8 record.

"I rushed for [over] 1,000 yards this year," Vick said. "I threw a career-high 19 touchdowns, still one game to go. I've accomplished a lot of things. I think I've played consistently week in and week out. I can't say what more I could've done. What I can say is that I feel good about what I've accomplished this season."

So what went wrong for the team this year?

"I don't know. I can't really say," said Vick. "That's for you guys to go watch the film and see what really went wrong. Stat-wise, everything looks good. It looks gravy. I think we had a good year, but at the same time something didn't go right. That's the question that needs to be answered.

"Anytime you have over 3,000 yards of total offense in a season as a player, I think you should be in the winning bracket in the wins and loss column. You should have way more wins than you have losses."

Another account of the conference call includes an admission from Vick that he recalls little about the Falcons last visit to Philly, for the 2004 NFC Championship Game, other than the fact that it was cold and that he "wished he had taken it more seriously."

He also said that one of his priorities for the New Year's Eve game in Philly is to ensure that the Falcons get back to Atlanta before midnight.

Nice. Hey, Falcons fans, you and the "real" media created this monster. Now that he's crapping all over the furniture, what are you gonna do about it?

www.profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm

If the players have an issue with Mora, then they need to sit down and talk to Mora about it. Not owner, not the GM, and not the media. Personally, I would've fired Mora for the comment he made in Washington- whether he was kidding or not. However, if a player has a problem with a coach, then he needs to talk to that coach. Running your mouth to anyone else is the cowards way out. I don't care if Blank asked the team what they thought, they all should've shut their mouths and addressed the problems with Mora and the coaching staff.

As everyone has reiterated, Vick in an athlete, but he hasn't allowed himself to become a QB. When I watch him play, he looks like he's playing school yard ball, if his first read isn't open, he'll run right into a DE trying to mae the play. He hasn't learned to read a defense because he thinks he'll win each game with his feet. Half of that's the coaching staff's fault and Half of it is his. If he wants to continue in this league, he'd better start spending buku time watching film and learning how to check down through a progression.

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Whoah- easy now, let's not get crazy..;-)

More trouble ahead for Ron Mexico..er Mike Vick?

sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/nfl/01/18/vick.falcons.ap/index.html?cnn=yes

And Ron Mexico got busted at the airport with a water bottle with a false compartment where he stashes his weed. So he has HERPES, he smokes weed, and he throws coaches and teammates under a bus, as well as flipping the bird to fans in Atlanta. Hmmmmmm sounds like he has some character issues (much like his delinquent brother).