Thursday, September 3, 2009

We Have A Ruling On Michael Vick

I mentioned earlier today how it was likely today that we would get a ruling on how long Vick would be suspended for the start of the season. And the answer is 2 games. Vick will sit out Week 1 @ Carolina and Week 2 vs. New Orleans before returning Week 3 in Philadelphia vs. Kansas City. And yes, that's a "vs." That game is in Philadelphia. Here's the report from NFL.com

Goodell met with Vick earlier today, a meeting that also included Eagles coach Andy Reid. Goodell said he also spoke at length with former NFL coach Tony Dungy, who has served as a mentor to Vick in recent months.

“Ultimately, it was my decision,” Goodell told members of the national media.

Asked by reporters Thursday why he decided on the third week of the regular season versus regular-season opener, Goodell responded: “I do not want him to be put in a position where he’s overwhlemed.”
I guess that seems fair. Both sides met and Vick apparently is understanding of Goddell's decision so all is fine on that front. The positives of this ruling is that it will allow McNabb sometime to get into a rhythm with the offense, the bad thing is is that this will be 2 weeks where the Eagles can't run the exact offense they originally had in mind when they got Vick. But they knew of these conditions and were probably expecting worse. I know I originally thought that we would wait until after the Eagles bye week and he would see his 1st action Week 5 versus Tampa Bay.

Right now, Kevin Harlan and Solomon Wilcots are feeling like the luckiest men in the NFL while the execs at CBS are probably cursing the fact that they release their announcer assignments for the 1st 3 weeks so early in advance. If CBS knew ahead of time that they would get the Vick game, surely they would have sent Nantz/Simms or Gumbel/Dierdorf there, wouldn't they?

2 comments:

  1. Yeah but the Chiefs will be lucky to get 3 wins....why would they send Nantz/Simms to a game that will end 45-0?

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  2. I guess that's a good point. But they seem to like sending them to the big names and big stories (see Sanchez, Mark; Brady, Tom; and Manning, Peyton) and not always the big games, and there probably won't be a bigger story Week 3 than the return of Michael Vick.

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