I don’t know about that. If I was a Carolina fan I would have a definite problem with Vick being called better than Delhomme despite the fact that Vick has been in jail for two years. Sure he played terrible against the Cards, but the rest of his year was pretty darn good throwing to Steve Smith.

Others I would have a problem with include:
-David Garrard is not worse than Vick. He is one year removed from one of the most efficient QB seasons in recent memory and won a playoff game against the Steelers two years ago.
-Aaron Rodgers is way out of Michael Vick’s league.
-I am not so sure that Quinn/Anderson is absolutely worse than Vick
-I also think that Matt Schaub (if he can stay healthy) and Pennington are certainly better than Vick at this point
-If Matt Cassel can come close to last year’s production, he is definitely better than Vick.

And really I could probably make the case for others on this list, but with Vick being out of football for two years, I just have a hard time believing he is better than almost any starting QB in the NFL. Also, this list doesn’t take into account that rookies like Sanchez and Stafford haven’t proven to be better than Vick (on the basis of not playing), but are certainly expected to be down the road. Even an under the radar guy like Jamarcus Russell, if he can continue the streak he was on at the end of last year, is probably a lot better than an out of football Michael Vick.

I hate the Giants and Eagles, but wouldn’t say Vick is “comparable” to those guys. Maybe he just wants to watch his hit counter fill up with Cowboys fans.

of course Flacco is going to win playoffs games just off that (or for that matter even getting to the playoffs).

I hope you aren’t referring to me as I am a Dallas fan… I just posted it out of disbelief.

and you’re right, he was not terrible as some insinuate. I think the biggest red flag is his time away from football in what would have been the prime of his career. It’s hard to believe he stayed in NFL shape during his sentence.

Right now the memories of his playing days are being blurred with the PR issues he will face and most people are forgetting how electrifying he was when he played. He lacked consistency and wasn’t the greatest passer but, again, he was entering the prime of his career.

which led many to use the “spy” method.

I’d bet Carp is rooting for Vick to return to the NFL.

It’s impossible to know much about his game from the outside, but I aways suspected that his success at running cause him to abandon his reads too early. His arm was more than adequate, but as long as he could run as well as he did, there was less incentive to hang in there, especially when his receivers were average or worse, and his line suspect at times (although some of that might have been his fault for being relatively unpredicatble).

The best thing they could have done for him is what teams have done with other talented runners like (Steve) Young, McNair and McNabb is force him to work out of the pocket until he fully developed at the NFL level and then integrate the run back into his game. It’s sort of a a longer-term view over the quick pay-off. Even if he never developed into Peyton Manning, he probably would have been an upper-half QB.

You make fair points, but when discussing his running ability you also must realize that it got him in trouble a lot too. He took far too many sacks in Atlanta as a result of him trying to stretch out a play and killed several Atlanta drives by thinking run-first rather than pass-first. I give Vick credit for winning a good amount of games while being Atlanta’s QB, but with two years out of the league, I would take any NFL starter right now over Vick.

Those dudes dropped 40 balls a year easy, if you include Crumpler.

I will spot you that Vick’s receivers did him no favors, but many in Atlanta are now wondering whether that was because his wideouts were bad or because they simply did not have any real confidence in Vick’s ability to get them the ball when coming out of their breaks. They wonder this because the year he left, guys like Roddy White and Michael Jenkins saw their numbers significantly improve while being thrown to by Chris Redman, a guy who had been out of football the year before. So we will never really know, but it is fishy to many in Atlanta that the Atlanta receivers suddenly remembered how to catch the year Vick was arrested.

they were a run ONLY team, lol

They lost all credibility with me. Better than Romo?! Are you F ing kidding me. Its so stupid it angers me.

A QB only runs when the $h&t hits the fan

I just don’t like kicking a man when he’s down. And I hat the way that the truth is skewed in a man’s absence.

It’s just like the opinion amongst Cowboy fans that T.O. sucks now that he’s not a Cowboy. Or how Tupac died and instantly became the greatest rapper of all time. Or Heath Ledger dies and he’s the greatest actor of all-time.

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I think it makes the brain grow dumber.

People want to attack Vick so badly for his crimes that they attack his on field performance. Most of the cases against Mike Vick the player are simply untrue. He was not that bad. He was not Vince Young.

Grow up everybody. Really. He’s not better than Romo. But I would have taken him over anybody else we had lining up under center since Aikman.