Excited Vick says which team 'wouldn't even matter'
The Philadelphia Daily News - Eagletarian
Excited Vick says which team 'wouldn't even matter'
Daily News staff
Michael Vick did a lengthy interview with the Associated Press yesterday to promote the debut of his 10-part reality series on BET, "The Michael Vick Project." The first episode is scheduled to air Feb. 2.
Vick said the series will show that he is a changed man and his fall was "all my fault."
"It's still a work in progress each and every day and it's going to be that way the rest of my life," he told The AP.
As for his football future, Vick does not know where he will be playing next season. The Eagles have a $5 million option that would have to be picked up in early March. Regardless, Vick said he began working out Wednesday.
"I'm excited about everything," Vick said. "Whether I'm in Philly or Tampa Bay, it wouldn't even matter."
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Working for Jerry Jones can't be easy, and Wade Phillips had to know that going in.
Jones gave Phillips his somewhat tepid support yesterday, signing him to a 2-year extension through the 2011 season. It does not include an option year for 2012. Jones told reporters that the deal contains "no comfort zone" and "addresses the urgency" to win.
"I’m excited about being the coach here," Phillips said during a news conference. "It doesn’t matter if it’s one year or 10 years. With this team right now I feel very comfortable. I think we can go further, and I think we will go further."
So, freshly minted with a new contract, Phillips is still the lamest duck of the coaches in the NFC East. All coaches serve at the wishes of their owners, but here is te contract status of his division rivals:
* Andy Reid, Eagles: As we all know, Reid signed a 3-year extension during the season that goes through the 2013 season.
* Tom Coughlin, Giants: After winning the Super Bowl, Coughlin was given a 4-year extension through 2012.
* Mike Shanahan, Redskins: The new head coach and vice president of football operations in Washington got a 5-year, $35 million deal on Jan. 5. Shanahan and Reid join Bill Belichick as the only NFL head coaches who also have full control over personnel. Of course, working for Dan Snyder is probably as bad as working for Jones.
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The Cleveland Browns this week made a minor transaction whose symbolism might outweigh its value on the field.
On the same day that new GM Tom Heckert hired away two members of the Eagles' scouting department, the Browns made their first free-agent signing -- defensive back Chris Roberson.
Heckert is familiar with Roberson because Roberson spent the last four weeks of the season the Eagles' practice squad. Roberson, a former seventh-round pick of Jacksonville, would seem a likely candidate for the Browns' practice squad.
Be interesting to see who else with Eagles ties might end up in Cleveland as the offseason continues.
All those chumps with Vick jerseys gotta be feeling good rihgt now...he really, really likes us, he wants to play here...hahahahaha— Joe Funk- I love Philly. Jerry Jones wants to win and Lurie doesn't. Let's see. Who has won more lately? Lurie. "But Jerry has 3 Super Bowls." No, incorrect. Jimmy Johnson has 3 Super Bowls. Jerry Jones was just lucky enough to have hired him to build the team. I haven't seen any Jerry Jones "genius" in any other season since Jerry left. Well ok, one season, right before Barry Switzer destroyed the franchise. Jerry is a fraud.— MVKrum
Good luck vick. keep a clean nose and keep speaking out against animal abuse and GOD will keep blessing you. but if you mess up again, thats your a**. dont be stupid.- @dansdigs, Boo hoo he lost money when he went to jail. WTF? Why do people act like we should feel sorry for this ugly thug because he lost money by going to prison. Here's a newsflash, IF HE DIDN'T BREAK THE LAW, HE WOULD NOT HAVE GONE TO PRISON AND WOULD NOT HAVE LOST MONEY!!! @Blessed8251, go thump your bible.— tbtante
- You people are truly ignorant morons.He did confess to killing dogs himself JXNPHILLYFAN. He had to to get his plea agreement. However the time he served was feder running an terstate gambling operation. The COWARD...yes COWARD (the Ed Block Award is a joke)...pled guilty to the federal charges so that the state of VA would drop the animal cruelty charges. The COWARD...yes COWARD was afraid to face a dog loving jury in Virginia state court! He is scum and I pray for the day when he and his lame sham of a redemption tour picks up and leaves town. I wish him nothing but pain and suffering the rest of his miserable life...enough pain and suffering to match that of every animal he had a hand in killing!— mcaraffa
- Amen, mcaraffa.— stillaflyerfan
- I think Vick should stay. I had no idea he was that good— mkmholla
- Only in "Amerika" is right. Because in other countries, Vick would not even be in jail in the first place. I don't like the fact Vick has broken the law. I just don't like the law to begin with. Eseentially, someone goes to jail for dog fighting while some people who kill humans don't get convicted to goto jail. They are just dogs! not even your dogs!— penncrow19
- mcaraffa, if thats your logic, then how should you feel after all the cows, chicken, turkeys, pigs, etc... that you have eaten for food? Vick was using dogs that HE purchased, that HE raised and fed. If he wants to fight it, kill it, eat it, whats it to you? Why you get so worked up over someone else's dog? Its not like they are an endangered specie.— penncrow19
- Oh Penncrow19 spoken like the true ignorant people who defend him. Dogs are domesticated animals bred for companionship. Oh I know I used two big words in that last sentence, hope you are not confused. They are not bred as a food source or to be killed. Your defense of hisactions makes you as sick and twisted as he is. Oh and I forgot, what he did to his dogs IS AGAINST THE LAW YOU MORON! He didn't raise them and feed them like pets. He tied the female dogs to rape stands. He removed some dogs teeth so they couldn't defend themselves. Let's not forget the drowning, electrocuting and hanging...again AGAINST THE LAW YOU MORON!— mcaraffa
- Trade McNabb and keep Vick in case Kolb faulters or is injured this year.— misteripi
- I love dogs..... I just cant eat a whole one all by myself!!!!!!!! Lighten up mcaraffa, its not like he ran someone over while driving drunk and settling out of court. Its not like he attacked some young boys out there.. oh yeah, "rape" stands as you call them are actually quite common breeding tools with everything from championship dogs, to race horses. So with that being said, unless you are GOD, thou shalt not judge. Have a nice day.— greekeagle
- trainrdt, That was the dumbest post I've seen in here yet. The didn't hit the "lottery" for "killing dogs". He lost a huge fortune that he built by playing football because of his role in a large scale illegal gambling operation. To the government, the fact that dogs were killed, maimed and tortured, was a legal footnote. This was about money that was made illegally and none of which the government got a cut of. Get a clue genius.— Will54
- Oh, and McCaraffa, I don't care what they were bred for.....dogs are not people. PERIOD! And you wishing pain and suffering on another human being makes YOU more ignorant than anyone in here that your'e ranting about. The man committed a terrible crime and has paid a hell of a lot more than people who committed similar crimes. He was made an example of and fittingly so, but to wish pain or death on someone else makes you an even bigger "coward" than he ever was. Get some anger management pal.— Will54
- Earl J "cBecko, I also hate to admit it but Jerry Jones is a better personnel/final say guy than Banner and Lurie put together." Get a clue, here's a name for you about JJs football knowledge..... Roy Williams, 1st,3rd and 5th rounder + 9.5 million in 2010. Jerry Jones might know business but he's a rank amateur when it comes to personnel.
