On the Eighth Day, God Helped the Jacksonville Jaguars Sign Tim Tebow!

NFL fanatics, guess what? The NFL season is over already. Wait, this is September right? We still have a few months left. Well, apparently the Jacksonville Jaguars didn’t get the message, because they are already planning their off season.

The Jaguars’ owner Wayne Weaver apparently does not like his QB scene, because he is already planning on drafting Florida Gators QB Tim Tebow with his No. 1 pick. The Jags are now set to have a bad season according to Weaver.

At least, let’s hope they do. Because if they don’t, there is no way they will acquire Tebow in the draft. There are other teams that could use a great quarterback such as Kansas City, Houston, etc.

The Jaguars would have to lose at least 11-to-12 games, to even have a chance at a top pick.

Of course, people can see why Weaver would want a guy like Tebow. He is immensely popular, especially in the Florida area. His popularity will help the team get people in the seats.

Their attendance is terrible; toward, if not at the bottom of the league. Their team is not wonderful, but they have had good seasons in the past. Yet, their attendance records have never been the best in the league.

They do need a superstar like Tebow to come in and help. I can bet that the same stadium the Jags play in will be packed when the Gators come in there later on in the year. The reason why could be success.

See, the Jags have never been a Super Bowl contender year-after-year like the New England Patriots, Pittsburgh Steelers, Baltimore Ravens. Wonder why these three teams are toward the top in attendance? Success.

The Jags need that, which is also something Tebow can bring. He is a former Heisman Trophy winner, and could possibly win another one this year. Not to mention, he has won two National Titles at Florida, and once again, he could win another this year.

So, if things go to plan for Tebow, your looking at a two-time Heisman Trophy winner and three-time National Champion. Success? I think we can safely say Tebow has had that, even if he doesn’t win another Heisman or NC.

While Weaver didn’t come out and say, “Hey media, I want Tebow on my team in 2010,” his little conversation with the media pretty much said that, just with more words than needed:

“The game is such an important part of this community, and Tebow is such an iconic figure that people would legitimately think, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if he was a Jaguar,'” Weaver said. “I’d be silly to sit here and think that’s not going to be a huge thing.”

“Clearly there’s going to be a groundswell for Tebow, and we’ll have to make that evaluation, if we have a draft pick that’s going to be anywhere near him.”

Um…yeah, he should have just said, “We will draft Tebow.” It would have saved him more oxygen.

Tebow is a wonderful player, but wouldn’t you think it would be better for your team to not talk about the 2010 offseason at the beginning of the 2009 season?

Is it just me who thinks you should encourage the players you already have, then focus on the off-season, well, in the off-season? Maybe I’m a traditionalist and the times are changing.

I guess we will talk about 2014 in 2011, just to make sure we’re all ready. I guess the cool thing now is to talk about getting players to replace others, which discourage the ones already there. Because that is obviously the new way to run a successful NFL team.

Thank you Mr. Weaver.

The terrible economy may not be the cause of the low attendance, nor is it that you don’t have a superstar coach or QB, it’s the fact that the poor business and drafting skills have led your team into what could be financial ruin.

If you would have drafted better players before all of this, and have a coach in there who is a proven winner, then possibly you could have a wonderful team that could compete for the Super Bowl year in and out.

Tebow is not going to save your team. Success will change your team. So while Tebow has had success in college, I could tell you about hundreds who had success there that didn’t transition into the NFL.

Does anyone remember Ryan Leaf?

One QB will not turn your team around. While he may be able to take over a game in college, it will take time for him to do something like that at the pro level. Also, you have to have a good team around him to help him win.

Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, and other superstar QB’s have had good coaching and a good team around them. Brady didn’t have superstar receivers until just a few years ago, but he had a great coach and offensive line to help him out.

Manning had the same thing, just he had Marvin Harrison to help him most of his career. Then, he came along even better, but that is also due to good coaching and a good work ethic on top of having a good team around him.

Tebow can and will be successful in the NFL, but he won’t do it right away and by himself. The Jags need to build a good team around him, but will that happen? Not to sure, especially with the current team.

If they haven’t done it before, what makes you think they will do it now? What Weaver should be doing is analyzing why they haven’t had a successful team lately, and why they haven’t had wonderful drafting choices that have led them to a Super Bowl.

Sure, there have been great additions to the team through the draft like Maurice Jones-Drew, but the departure of Fred Taylor, which I find to be a mistake, will mean that Jones-Drew will have to do more, and that will get to him eventually.

Once the Jaguars had two of the hardest backs to stop, that teams needed to fear, now they have just one small running back that can be stopped on his own.

The receivers have not been wonderful, and why has there not been a better QB drafted before? Byron Leftwich has been gone for a while hasn’t he? And seriously, David Garrard is not going to be a franchise QB.

They do need Tebow, but as I said, until they get a better team, Tebow won’t be successful and attendance will still be down. The fans want a winning team, is that so hard to figure out, Mr. Weaver?

I know Tim Tebow can divide by zero, order a Big Mac at Burger King, and he he won the Tour de France on a unicycle to prove to Lance Armstrong it wasn’t a big deal. But, he won’t save your franchise Weaver, I’m just saying.

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Next Time Set Yourself on Fire Buffalo, Melt Tom Brady’s Ice Water Veins

Monday Night Football is back.

Well, technically MNF had already been back during the preseason, but seriously, who likes to watch the preseason? I personally want to watch the game when it counts. So, I marked my calendar for Sept. 14, 2009.

Now, one matchup I was dying to see was Buffalo vs New England.

Last year, I would mark this down as probably a Patriots’ win. I mean, the Bills didn’t look great last year. Trent Edwards was getting his feet under him, and while he was improving vastly, he was not as good as the Bills needed him to be.

Lee Evans is a great wideout, but he was really the only receiving option for the Bills. So, once Terrell Owens arrived, I was very happy. It gives the Bills two great receiving options along with the running game that could be great once Marshawn Lynch gets back from suspension.

I felt that New England was going to look great this year now that Tom Brady was back, but it looked as if Buffalo’s offense was killing a Patriots’ defense that’s missing a ton of playmakers.

Rodney Harrison, Teddy Bruschi, Richard Seymour, and Mike Vrabel all are gone from that Patriots’ once mighty defense. This is not great for the Patriots because every man I just mentioned controlled that defense. They were captains and leaders, and now none are there.

So even though the Pats have one of the best coaches of all-time in Bill Belichick, even he couldn’t get his defense back to the way it once was so quickly.

They also lost Jarrod Mayo, who was basically the guy taking Brusci’s spot. So, you have five men out from New England’s past defense that were there during the Super Bowl years. Mayo just arrived for one, but, he was still experienced, and someone the Pats needed to have on the field.

Brandon Mariweather is also a guy that needs to step up, and while he made a huge play toward the end of the game to help the Pats win, he didn’t do as well in coverage.

My hat is off to the Bills, because they played great. However, the Bills didn’t beat the Pats at the perfect time to do so. Everything I just mentioned was against the Pats, yet the Bills still lost.

They were ahead by two scores with just five minutes remaining and fell apart, while Tom Brady came on toward the end like usual.

I hope he can do that in the beginning of the game from now on, that way he won’t have to come back and save the Pats. He was off in the first half, and this team does not look like it did in the 2007-08 undefeated regular season.

This team looks like it can make the playoffs, but for now, there are other teams like the Baltimore Ravens, Pittsburgh Steelers, Indianapolis Colts, and others who could possibly get to the Super Bowl.

The team must play better on both sides of the ball because if they play the way they did last night against the teams I mentioned previously, they are going to lose.

We are so used to seeing this New England team run all over people when Brady is in the game. But he also had a great defense to rely on from the beginning of his career. Now that this defense is not as good as it once was, Brady has to step up even more than he has before.

While that seems like an easy thing for Brady to do, because lets face it, he has ice-water for veins. Nothing rattles him what so ever, and that showed last night in the comeback win over the Bills, he even needs help from the defense.

Now that the big time leaders of this time are gone from the defense, people such as Mayo, Burgess, Wilfork, and Meriweather are going to have to take over.

If they don’t, this team even with Tom Brady, has no shot at the Super Bowl. All of these other teams such as the Ravens and Steelers have a good defense and an equally good offense.

I am as big a fan of Tom Brady as anyone, but he has never had a team this vulnerable in his entire pro career. Right now, the offense needs to step up and get things going, which I can see happening as the season goes on.

But, the defense is the biggest question mark of all. This team may win its division, if they are lucky, but the Super Bowl looks more in doubt than ever before.

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The New England Patriots: The Best Offense in the NFL

It seems many people are quite upset when you bring up the New England Patriots. Is it because they are so good? You decide. But in any case, there is a lot of hatred toward this team, and for what?

I guess the Patriot haters realize how big of a threat New England really is.

I for one, am a fan of the Pats, but really more so, a fan of the entire NFL. But hey, I call it like I see it. Which is why I am here to say that the Patriots hands down, will have the most dangerous offense in the NFL this year.

This team will give opposing teams’ defenses nightmares, and who can blame them? Personally, I have never seen an offense like this in the NFL. Sure, we have seen great offenses in the past, such as the Dallas Cowboys in the 90’s, the 49ers in the 80’s, etc. But, none seem to stack up to what we are seeing in the Patriots this year.

The Pats have Tom Brady at QB, a guy who resembles Joe Montana from the 49ers. Then they have Randy Moss at wide-out, a man who resembles Jerry Rice. You also throw in Wes Welker along with Joey Galloway, and you have a receiving core that is almost impossible to stop.

Of course you see a guy like Fred Taylor in the backfield who has over 11,000 rushing yards in his career. He is a guy who can come out of the backfield and catch the ball along with running down the throat of any defense.

But it doesn’t stop there, he will share time with Sammy Morris who played really well last season.

Morris was a guy who was considered in Miami to never be a starting running back, he could do well enough to get the job done, but he was not the highlight real Miami wanted. Which was why he was not given as much playing time as he should have been.

He goes to New England and actually has blockers, and shocker, he does very well. Now, he was not the starter at the beginning of the season, but when Lawrence Maroney went down, someone had to step up.

Kevin Faulk was hurt too, so Morris stepped in. The Patriots already had the loss of Tom Brady, which meant they had a backup QB in there. The Pats figured that they could rely on the running game, but with their two best guys down, what would they do?

Morris stepped up and carried the Pats when they needed it the most. Morris ran over defenses, and then he still had enough juice to run around them at times. While he did not finish the season at the top of the NFL’s rushing yards list, that was never his goal.

His goal was to get the short yards; to get the first downs on third. Matt Cassel could only do so much, so Morris really had to step up and step up he did.

You also throw in the fact that Maroney is great when he is healthy too, and you have a running game that is hard to stop. With the addition of Taylor, that means you have three men in the rotation that can get the job done.

The Pats have never really been known for the running game during the Bill Belichick era. Even when Corey Dillon came in and had a Pro-Bowl season, it was the passing game that got the attention. Was it right? Probably not, but that’s just the way it goes.

Morris, Maroney, and Taylor will easily be X-factors this season. You also throw in the veteran Faulk, and you have a backfield that can stand up with any in the league.

Now, don’t think these men are going to be highlight-reel men, who will get the 60-yard runs every other game.

To me, that is not the role they have in New England. The passing game will always be the main focus, but it doesn’t have to be the only thing the Pats rely on anymore.

Brady and the passing game can be even better if the Pats have a dangerous running game that defenses have to keep an eye out for. The trick plays will be even tougher to defend because no defense will know who to target.

The Pats have three Pro-Bowl caliber wide-outs in Moss, Welker, and Galloway as I mentioned before. Most teams have one or two good cornerbacks. If you have three receivers out there at all times during the passing game, the Pats will get the upper hand 80-to-90 percent of the time.

Remember, Brady didn’t always have great receivers to throw to. When he became the starter in New England, Brady’s best option was Troy Brown.

Brady also had Branch to throw to, but again, he was not a big time wide-out. Branch really turned into a great receiver in his final year or so in New England. Despite all of that, Brady still managed to get it done.

The fact that Brady was successful, shows how good he really is, especially with having three different offensive coordinators in his career.

When Welker and Moss arrived, Brady finally had weapons to throw to. You add them along with Brady’s great ability and you get pure greatness, as we saw in the 2007-08 season.

With the new additions, it only adds to the great offense the Pats have.

I feel that we could even see offensive records go down this year. If Brady is anything like he was in the 2007-08 campaign, then we could easily see records flying.

To me, this offense is one of the best in NFL history on paper. If they actually live up to the potential, many will say that they are, indeed, the best offense the NFL has ever seen.

 

 

The Word “Overrated” And How To Actually Use It In Sports

I am so tired of seeing articles or blogs out about sports figures and how they are overrated, when they are totally not. I am of course talking about the people some say are overrated, not that there aren’t some out there.

I recently saw an article on Tom Brady and how he is overrated. The best argument the dude could come up with, was that Brady’s yard per competition over his career were just in the top 100 of all time.

I know, I know. I lost my respect for Brady after this too, but people needed to know that right? Of course not.

First off, the article was written by a Steelers fan who apparently hates the Patriots, especially their star player. The stupid argument was shot down by many who read it, so I am not bitter people agreed or anything.

As I said, his argument was weak. Brady is the epitome of a guy who lived up and surpassed his potential. He didn’t have any hype what so ever coming into the NFL. He was a sixth round pick and wasn’t even on the Madden video game the year the Patriots won their first Super Bowl with Bill Belichick.

He did bring up the whole SpyGate thing, which was really nothing big. All they did was have a camera on a coordinator who used signals for certain plays. It was nothing anyone else was smart enough to do except Belichick and it was not illegal at the time.

Belichick didn’t have any punishment handed down because there was nothing in the rule book that said he couldn’t do it.

In fact, NFL’s own cameras have shown coaches do signals on the sidelines during games. All the Pats or any other team would have to do is look at the play they did at the time, and see the NFL’s own footage to figure out what the play was.

So obviously SpyGate was not a big deal. Even after SpyGate was illegal, the Pats went out and had an undefeated regular season, only losing in the Super Bowl to the Giants.

Brady also threw for 50 touchdowns that year, surpassing Manning’s record. Again, Brady surpassed all expectations.

The YPC number the writer brought up was nothing to be putting down. All it means is that Brady threw shorter and accurate passes instead of long hail mary ones that were not always completed. 

There are many people who didn’t live up to the hype: I give you Ryan Leaf!

This man was one of the big names going into the NFL Draft. There was another man by the name of Peyton Manning who was also in the same draft. Don’t know if you have heard of him.

The Colts met with both Manning and Leaf. What Coach Mora said sold him on Manning instead of Leaf was his work ethic. He asked both what they would do once they were drafted to the Colts.

Leaf said he would get that signing bonus and go to Vegas with a bunch of friends. Manning said he would want to meet with the rest of the offense and start going over the system.

Mora saw that Manning was the better person in all of this and was focused on the team, not the money.

It was probably the best move the Colts ever made, as he could be the best QB they ever had. They have had a few great QBs, but Manning could surpass them by the end of his term there. I don’t see him leaving any time soon.

Leaf was overrated, and the Chargers got a guy who was self-absorbed.

The same thing happened a few years ago in the NFL Draft.

The Texans had the No. 1 Overall Pick. They chose a defensive end in Mario Williams, despite having Reggie Bush, Vince Young, and Matt Leinart all on the board. In fact, their second round pick, Demeco Ryans, actually won Defensive Rookie of the Year over his teammate. He led the league in tackles and has surpassed all expectations.

Williams did improve, and is one of the better DEs in the league today. Looking back on the pick, the Texans were pretty smart. Leinart, Young, and Bush haven’t lived up to expectations at all.

Leinart has done miserably, despite having two of the best wide-outs in the NFL today. Young has been going through mental issues, and Bush hasn’t been the feature back the Saints hoped he would be.

Technically, the Texans couldn’t have picked a better guy. Now their defense could be one of the best in the league. If they get that offense to a higher level, they could easily be a playoff team.

Williams was thought to be overrated his first season, then all of a sudden he got better and lived up to the hype.

There are many out there who are vastly overrated, but to call some who are not overrated just because you don’t like them or their team is stupid!

I am not a fan of the Buffalo Bills, but I am not going to say TO is overrated. In fact, TO is one of the better wide-outs in the league today.

If I were to say TO is overrated, many of you would bash me, and I wouldn’t blame you. In fact, you would have grounds to do so.

TO is a big drama king and is said to kill locker rooms. But still, he shows up on the field every single week.

It is the same with Chad Ocho Cinco, and many others out there.

The issue is that many writers out there are bashing a team because they don’t like them, or hate a certain player. If you are going to call out a team like the Pats, moreso its star player, at least have grounds to.

The biggest overrated team out there today is the Dallas Cowboys, and I most certainly have a point in saying so. Romo is a good regular season QB, then he goes out and stinks up the post season. The team is overrated because they have the players in place to be great, yet they suck when it counts most.

Do I hate the Cowboys? No. In fact, I like them, yet they are overrated because they can never seem to live up to their expectations.

However, the Patriots have lived up to theirs. Sure, they had an almost undefeated in the 2007-08 season. But they have three Super Bowls in this decade, and four Super Bowl appearances along with that.

To say they are overrated and the Cowboys are not is absolute nonsense.

Don’t think I am some homer who is saying this to defend the Pats. I live in Alabama, there are no NFL teams here. The nearest ones are the Falcons and Titans, which have not been the best of teams this decade.

I call it like I see it, and people need to take off their tinted glasses. If you’re a fan of the Steelers, take off your yellow and black to see things clear for once. Same with you Oakland, Titans, Miami, and Cowboys fans.

You can be a fan of your team without bashing their rivals for being overrated when they are surely not half the time. In fact, I have seen people call Super Bowl Champions from the previous years overrated that season just because they were a rival team.

If that isn’t stupid, I don’t know what is. I’m just saying.

Why the UFL Will Actually Make the NFL Better!

I have uncovered something amazing, something apparently no one has caught on to yet. That is simply this, the UFL will actually make the NFL better.

Does anyone remember the XFL? Well, the brainchild of WWE owner Vince McMahon only lasted one-and-a-half seasons, but it made a massive impact on the NFL, yet we don’t even realize it.

We remember the cheerleaders in the hot tubs and things like that from the XFL, but people forget they had a few thing entertainment-wise that could easily transition to the NFL.

Before the XFL, coaches and players were not miced up at all. They may have some type of mic on the sidelines because of the interviewers and cameras, but nothing more than that.

The XFL miced up players, coaches, and had huddles miced up to a tee. We never saw this kind of coverage on TV, which was something a lot of the football fans liked. Also, they had camera angles never before seen in a football game.

What they did was make the overall game coverage better, and it was far superior to the NFL’s coverage. While the best football was indeed in the NFL, and the marketing was far better there too. People don’t realize that the entire game coverage for the NFL massively improved after the XFL.

While the entire league turned out to be a big bust, they added so much to the game, and for that we have to thank them. Without Vince McMahon making this league, we may still have poor game coverage.

 

Now, what will the UFL actually contribute?

People forget that when the XFL was around, the NFL had NFL Europe. This was the place where the NFL sent players they were not sure about, yet thought they had talent they could use.

People such as Kurt Warner and Adam Vinatieri came from there, and I personally think both will be NFL Hall of Famers.

So realistically, the XFL was around only to rival the NFL, which was not smart for business.

The UFL can actually be the place where NFL players who don’t get their chance to shine can go. It is also the place where NFL rejects can go to show the NFL what they missed out on.

If the player shines, they can be signed by an NFL team the very next year or even sign in the middle of the year considering the UFL’s schedule ends in the middle of the NFL’s season.

People like JP Losman have already made their way to the UFL, mainly because he is not getting his chance to shine in the NFL for his former team, the Buffalo Bills.

Who can blame him?

If a team will offer him a starting job, why stay on a team where you are sure to be the backup?

Now we have the possibility of seeing Michael Vick in the UFL this season considering most NFL teams are not likely to take a chance on him this year. If a team were to sign him, he probably woudn’t start and would probably only come into the game from time to time, if at all.

If he were to go to the UFL, he would probably start right away. This does not mean he would play very well, but it would be better than playing on some practice squad in the NFL and never being able to show he is as good as he was two years ago.

It is also possible Plaxico Burress would sign with them when he gets out of jail, too, so the UFL to me is the proving ground for football players who wouldn’t get their chance in the NFL or their second chance that the NFL won’t give them without proof of how good they are.

The NFL needs to know what they are missing, and if a league is willing to come out and show them, then why not?

What they are doing is helping the NFL, no player will turn them down if they come calling for a nice contract and sure starting job. It is more money and more exposure, so it is obvious a player would go.

So the UFL will keep getting players in, and they will be sort of like NFL Europe was in a sense that NFL teams can scout talent from there and pick out the best people, especially ones they need for their team.

Say a key player gets hurt in the middle of the season, well, because UFL’s season ends in the middle of the NFL season, it would be perfect for a team to go and grab a person they need to plug into their team.

If that player does well, then they would get a nice contract from that team. Or they would go to another team that could use them in the NFL. If none of that happens, they can always go back to the UFL. So it is a win-win for the players.

The UFL will help out the NFL a lot, and I feel we need to keep them around to do so. Now, what they should do is play in the spring. It wouldn’t force them to compete with the NFL games, which means higher ratings.

Also, people who love football would like to see it more. If a league is on TV, they will watch. So to me, the UFL should not be a rival to the NFL, more so another league that goes out and plays and does not have to worry about beating the juggernaut NFL head to head.

It is sort of like pro-wrestling.

While pro-wrestling is not a sport, more-so sports entertainment, they get it.

See, there are three wrestling promotions on TV today in the WWE, TNA, and ROH. The reason why all are still around and are not dying to the big boys of the WWE is because they are on TV on different nights or times, therefore they are not really competing with each other.

While the UFL would seem to be smart to go on TV different nights during the fall, it wouldn’t work for them because most TV Networks have fall lineups. The best nights would be on a Saturday or Sunday.

But if football is already being played, it would be impossible to compete well with the other football games. Which is why they would be better of coming on during the Spring when there is no football on TV and they have clear slots to work with on TV for most nights usually.

They would not compete and lose ratings and money then, therefore keeping them around. Both can coexist and help each other if they don’t try to compete head to head.

However, no league can compete with this one.

Sorry NFL and UFL, you have no chance with this new league coming in.

Michael Vick Released: It’s Time to Play Wheel…Of..Teams!

Just moments ago, the Atlanta Falcons released their three-time Pro Bowl quarterback. While it was rumored he would start a team in jail to come to the NFL called the Longest Yard Wannabes, Roger Goodell has since shot it down. We can only dream, people.

But seriously, Vick was released by the Falcons today, which means they will get nothing for him in a trade of any kind if teams want him. Fact is, Vick can not be relied on right now, which makes sense of course.

I mean, think people, you can work out every day, but until you get on the football field, you don’t know if you’re going to suck!

Vick was one of the best athletes in the NFL before he was caught for illegal dog fighting. He has done everything right since, which is a good thing. The problem is that teams would not take a chance on Vick in a trade.

And you have to think that teams were just being realistic here. What if he does not turn out to be the Vick of old? Even after he is around for a few seasons, the trade would be dumb for them in the end.

If this were a few years ago, Vick would be picked up fast. But now, teams are timid.

No one expects Vick to start for any NFL team right now, especially because he has not been on a football field in a while.

But what he can do now is go and work out for teams and they can see if they want him. They can also get him for a small price too. I would probably plan on seeing a team give him a one year deal.

It would not be a great idea, because you can’t expect him to be the Vick of old in one season, but that should come expected.

Vick was also not the best QB in the NFL before he left either. He was mainly winning games with his legs, not his arm. Many compared him to a running back who could throw a little.

He does not have a big or accurate arm, so that limb is not going to help you in crunch time So is he going to be a great franchise QB? Not too sure.

The Falcons kept him in that spot because of the fact that he could change games with his legs, but since he could throw pretty well, they didn’t change his position.

While it is not accurate in any way, he can get it to a wide-out, which is good. He does not have a big arm as I said before, but he can throw the football a good 40 yards from what I have seen from him in the past.

While 40 yards may seem like a lot to many of you, it is not the best arm in the NFL, sorry to say. If this was high school, then that would be a great thing to see, but not the NFL.

However, because he can change a game, he is valuable.

The question is, what team would take a chance on Vick?

You have to throw teams out that make no sense like the Pats, Colts, Falcons, Dolphins, Seahawks, Saints, Steelers, Redskins, Chargers, or Titans.

All of those teams have a set QB, and probably would not take Vick even at another position.

It looks as if Vick will not be a QB in the NFL, but there are a few teams that need one, such as the Vikings, Texans, and 49ers.

The Vikings are desperate for another QB, so much so that they are trying to bring Bret Favre out of retirement. The Texans have a guy Vick knows very well in Schaub, who is not the QB the Texans expected him to be.

The 49ers have former No. 1 overall pick Alex Smith, who has been nothing but a disappointment since arriving. I said it when he came in, he was great in college, but because he played in Utah he did not see the kind of competition others did.

While many have come out of conferences that were not great and did well int he NFL such as Big Ben and Chad Pennington, Smith was not one of those people. The fact that he was taken so high in the draft was baffling to me.

Sure, he had all the tools on the field from what you could see in the play of his team in that conference, and he did well in the draft process. But the fact is, he was not the best NFL QB.

Vick was not the best either, but he had his legs, something Smith was said to have but never showed.

So obviously he could be used there.

Oakland could possibly use him too. Al Davis loves speed, so he would probably take a chance on him. But of course he would play another position, considering Davis likes Russell so much, and they also have Jeff Garcia.

I could really see him as a wide-out there— they do need one.

Actually, I would think Vick would play wide-out just about anywhere. There is probably no way he would play QB right away when he gets to a team that will take him. He may have to work for that.

I think if Vick wants to get on the field faster, he may want to consider a position change to wide receiver. He can he taken by just about anyone then.

Vick has bills to pay, so obviously he wants to work for any team that will take him. He could care less who it is, I’m sure.

If the NFL won’t take him this year, he may go up to Canada, which could work. People would get to see him up there playing, and they could make a decision on whether to pick him up or not.

Right now, no one knows how he will do, so it makes sense they are a bit timid. I think maybe one team will take a chance, who that is may be up in the air, though.

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