Vick: It's painful right now
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Vick: It's painful right now
Jonathan Tamari
Mike Vick, walking a little more gingerly and slowly through the NovaCare Complex today, sounded unsure if he can play through broken ribs against the Giants Sunday.
He said he would take his injury "day by day."
Vick broke the ribs on the Eagles second offensive play Sunday when he was hammered by linebacker Daryl Washington. The Cardinals rushed four, but Washington was unblocked.
Vick completed a pass to Brent Celek but was slow to get up, but did not alert coaches to his discomfort. It's not clear when Vick spoke to team doctors, since neither coach Andy Reid nor Vick mentioned the injury in their post game press conferences.
"Maybe it was selfish to stay out there but it wasn’t affecting me. Just compounding hits started to tackle a toll on me. I’ve got to start to realize maybe I can’t do it all sometimes," Vick said.
He felt himself grimacing after several throws, he said.
"I just feel like I've been through worse. If it was a situation I had to come out I would have come out," Vick said.
Vick missed three games last year with cartilage damage in his ribs, but that injury was toward the top of his rib cage. This one is near the bottom on the left side.
Asked how the two injuries compare, Vick said, "It’s painful right now, it’s all I can say."
Vick has acheived a level of sacred cow status. Seems like nothing is his fault at this point. He threw two interceptions the past two weeks in/around the red zone that killed drives. But, no one mentions them. I think what we're seeing is what we saw after a few years of him in Atlanta- the league figured him out.— jabs69- Vy did save Jeff Fisher's job twice in Tennessee after starting 0-3 and 0-6 in releif of Kerry Collins running off 8 wins in a row....Give him a shot...we know what he can do and thats WIN! He has beaten the Giants twice in his career 2-0...How many wins does Kaftka have?— ronniegee
- If Vick got same protection Drew Brees gets, he would have same results. Not his fault he is a little guy....If he was 6'2 he would be competing with Brady as top guy in league.— mlwmlw
- Does it even matter? Kolb was their best option at QB & he went to Arizona for an athletic guy who can't cover or tackle. Vick sucks!! I have been on here saying it ever since he arrived on the scene. He is 3-11 over his last 14 starts!!! There is no around that. The Eagles used to always beat him & the Falcons with McNabb!!! This team is at worse 6-3 if McNabb is that starter this year. McNabb won't go and win you a game... But McNabb never gave them away either!!— FetchDixon
- TNEaglesFan: "Ashante" and "Nnamdie?" Really? Just when you think you've heard from the lowest-down, illiterate form of an Eagles fan, someone pops up and surprises you. Congratulations, I thought the players on the team were the most illiterate in the City, but you have them beat. RE: Vick: He was and always will be known as a china doll. He's tiny and is not a QB. Just someone who can really run and throw the ball down the field once in a while. My grandmother would be more accurate. Reid's halfway house for troubled black men has failed. And Lurie and Co.'s wallets are a lot lighter for it.— mel-b
- Let Vick sit... I mean the season is over... no point. lets not go 8-8 and remain in the sweepstakes for Andrew Luck. I mean the colts could catch us, giving us the #1 pick... hopefully andy reids not here so we dont blow the pick like the last 13 years. the guy is worthless.— Apollo Creed
- Maybe Vince Young can go 4-3 over the last 7 games & we can throw $100 million at him as well??— FetchDixon
- Momus, I couldn't agree with you more. The best game plan on the planet is worthless if the players aren't executing. Execution is the name of the game, and in the past two games now, this team, especially on offense, hasn't been executing. Only bright spot is "Shady" McCoy...when he gets the ball. Why on earth did he get so few touches yesterday?! Unbelieveable!— doug1834
- Talk radio says Indy Colts will take QB Andrew Luck in the draft thus leaving Peyton Manning to go to another team. Howard Mudd could lure Manning to Philly.— Kioto
- I wouldn't go out on that field with broken ribs and hope our miserable offensive line would hold! A couple more series of being pounded into the turf and Vick will have a puntured lung. Let the back ups take some hits for a while. Maybe they will learn to block better for a QB that stays still in the pocket. If they don't learn how to hold off a blitz soon we will run out of QB's— unbelieveable!
Comment removed.- No need to play Vick. They are playing for nothing this year. besides, the more loses, the faster Reid and Co. leave town.— SlinkTMP
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- That's a good idea why don't you go drown yourself and make everybody happy including Michael Vick, feel free to do anything to take yourself out of your misery u low life loser!! — charmaine
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