Excited Vick says which team 'wouldn't even matter'
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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.
There have been scores of others who have done similar or worse things to dogs who NEVER see a day of jail time. They pay a fine and by sundown is back home for in time for Hamburger Helper and biscuits. Your'e probably the type of idiot who you came on an accident scene and saw both a man and a dog bleeding to death and could only save one, you would save the dog and leave the man, who could be someone's dad, husband or son to die. It's nuts like you that make it so hard for the rest of us to take organizations like PETA seriously.— Will54- nuggett "Good Luck Michael.....Hope you stay on the right track....and Jerry Jones is committed to winning...I hate his arrogance BUT all he wants todo is win....Where as Jeff is happy with where we always end up....(one or two rounds inthe palyoffs and selling merchandise) ...and Joe jsut wants to count money and kisss up to Jeff and Andy is committed to convincing every one that he is a true football genius...and all three have failed winning the only thing that counts.....a Super Bowl for 11 years....."The Eagles under Jeffery Laurie, a story of complacency".... Just what has Jerry Jones Mr. "committed to winning" accomplished the last 11 years? One playoff win. I'll take Jeffery Laurie over a ego maniac Jones who keep hiring weak coaches that won't question him when he plays fantasy football in real life. Extra credit to Lurie and Reid for having to put up with all the idiotic hate from such football geniuses as yourself.
- it wasnt like he was going around the neighborhood kidnapping defenseless puppies— soliteryman
- greekeagle, what Stallworth did was stupid, but it was an accident, a one-time thing. He didn't set out to kill anybody that day. The guy he hit was running across a highway to catch a bus. It's quite possible and probable that Stallworth could have killed him if he was stone, cold sober. On top of that, the victim's family took the money and ran. What that savage thug did was over a period of nearly twenty years. It was habitual, deliberate, and he derived some degree of amusement from it. If you still think that isn't worse than killing someone in a car accident, you're an idiot.— tbtante
- Will54, can you read? Can you open your mind for one minute and comprehend what you read? THIS MONSTER DID NOT SERVE ONE DAY OF TIME FOR ANIMAL CRUELTY.— tbtante
- GREEKEAGLE I prefer the company of dogs to people like you and WILL54 I'm no coward. I'm the only one here using my real last name. As for wishing pain and suffering on another human being, well I didn't...I wished it on Michael Vick a sub-human savage. Perhaps you like most of his defenders can't read!— mcaraffa
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- Jerry Jones was committed to winning at all costs when he hired Chan Gailey? When he ran Parcells out of Dallas? When he signed both Pac Man Jones and serial team-wrecker T.O.? He got lucky when he signed Jimmie Johnson, but since the Cowboys have mainly stunk.— p-diddy
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