Vick named comeback player of the year
The Philadelphia Inquirer Blog - Eagles
Vick named comeback player of the year
Jeff McLane, Inquirer Staff Writer
DALLAS – Michael Vick has been named comeback player of the year by the Associated Press.
The official announcement will be made live on NFL Network at 8:30 ET. The Eagles quarterback will be there to accept his award.
Vick beat out such contenders as Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher, Vikings linebacker E.J. Henderson, Broncos receiver Brandon Lloyd and Seattle receiver Mike Williams. Urlacher and Henderson were coming back from injuries and Lloyd and Williams had breakout seasons.
Vick’s comeback came under different circumstances. The Eagles quarterback missed two seasons while he served a prison sentence for his role in a dogfighting operation. He returned in 2009, but played sparingly.
However, this past season when Kevin Kolb suffered a concussion in the opener, Vick jumped in as the backup and never lost the starting quarterback job. He put up career-high numbers in completion percentage (62.6), passing yards (3,018), passing touchdowns (21), and passer rating (100.3).
He also rushed for 676 yards and a career-high nine touchdowns in leading the Eagles to an NFC East title. He also finished runner-up to Patriots quarterback Tom Brady in most valuable player award voting.
Vick’s two-year contract is up in March, but the Eagles are committed to bringing him back for next season. Because of the expiring collective bargaining agreement, however, the team can’t extend his deal until there is an agreement. The league has said there will be a franchise tag that teams can start using around Feb. 11.
If the tag is available the Eagles will use it on Vick to retain his rights for at least next season, team sources have said. Vick has said that he would be fine with the franchise tag and that he would sign it.
Forum: Sound off on the Eagles- Jwatson could you be a little bit more original. You can hate on him all you want, but to try and belittle his good deeds because of his past is just ridiculous.
— MV7FanInGa 
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darryl616--
Hiding, not even a little bit. My name is Rob King from Doylestown, Pa (Pennridge Class of 97). Unlike you and Vick I don't need any mythical supernatural creature, nor any fantasy book, to know right and wrong. I have parents and teachers who taught me to not kill innocents or put felons up on a pedestal. Unlike you, they taught me morality and how to write a functional sentence.— KINGOFZED- what he did was wrong but he paid his price. if you dont like him, fine. but why come on here just to hate on a person that you dont like? get a life and worry about something else. its just football. hes no different from singers, actors or anybody else whom is an entertainer. you value them by how good they are in their respective profession. i guess you want him working and mickey d's huh? well, thats not your call. dont like, dont watch. but please live the real eagles fans alone and let us be. nobody cares about your opinions.
- Phil, someday there will be a Vick story where none of the lunatic fringe show up. Not sure what Vick has to do to make amends. Apparently the high and mighty aren't satisfied with the punishment laid on him by the judicial system. You can't change their position and I really don't care what they think but that pompous, superiority complex they all suffer from really ticks me off. Worse, they seemed determined to make sure everyone knows how superior they think they are to those of us that believe in the Christian, American way of forgiving those who have made a mistake. Best to just ignore the morons and maybe they'll just get tired and go away.
— tpizza - It's a shame your parents and teachers didn't teach you about forgiveness and atoning for one's past transgressions. No one disputes the crimes he committed were heinous. You seem unable to acknowledge what he has done since then. There hasn't been much reporting of the many days off he's spent helping youth avoid the troubles he brought on himself.
“He who is devoid of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hopefully, someday you will be able to learn to love.— Mabus - Years from now when I'm watching the Michael Vick story with my grands I'll be happy to say I was there!— Sonny57
- I can't wait to read Ashley Fox' negative spin on this one.
Congrats Vick...- Everybody cut the bull$%%$, suburban whites don't like Vick because most cannot and will never be able to accept a black man from the ghetto being able to succeed in life. Most of the blacks support Vick because he's black, and that he serves as someone who they could look up to in their individual lives. All of these other arguments about dog fighting and second chances are all garbage. Except life for what it is.— studiocity96
- It's "accept," studio.
I love the racial stereotyping you promote.
What great insight do you have about suburban whites?
How about poeople who think someone who committed the heinous acts theat Vick did would NEVER be accepted in civilized society except (proper usage) for the fact he can run like the wind and chuck a football 60 yards on the line?
If blacks as a class (and I am accepting your stereotype -- it is not mine) look up to this guy, then blacks have a problem. He may someday be someone worthy of admiration, and he appears to be turning his life around, but let's give him 5 more years in football and 10 years out of the game before we elevate him to "admired" status.
I'd like to think folks, white or black, accept that the guy is legally OK to earn his living as a pro athlete, while forming their own opinions on his character or lack thereof by his current and future behavior.
I hope the guy has turned it around, and it has nothing to do with his color.
I think he is fun to watch, and it has nothing to do with his color.
I think he has lived much of his life as an overprivleged thug, and it has nothing to do with his color.
I have no right, nor duty, to forgive him, and it has nothing to do with his color.
Whether I like him, hate him, or find him an interesting curiosity, is my right as a free man and has nothing to do with his color. - It was a typo bub. He had already used the word properly in the paragraph. And if you look next to the X on your keyboard...
And from below apparently you can accept the fact that your friends can't forgive because they weren't aggrieved but it's perfectly alright for them to eternally condemn while not aggrieved. Smacks of hypocrisy methinks.— tpizza - Kind of ironic that you're correcting studio's usage of a word with so many misspellings, typos & punctuation errors in your own post. — Mabus
- These guys will never get it Mabus. Apparently we have to tolerate and be bludgeoned by the hater's point of view while they look down their noses at the majority of the fans who accept that Vick made a mistake, paid for it and have moved on. Then they thrown the grammar police attitude on top of it...really supports their pompous position, no? I don't ever want to be that high and mighty. I'll just settle for brilliant :) — tpizza
