Is the disgraced yet talented quarterback better off going to this new NFL development league?
There are a lot of folks who think so.
SI’s NFL guru Peter King nearly a year ago had the new league commissioner, Michael Huyghue, quoted as saying it is “98%” that Vick will sign with one of the UFL teams.
Erin McLaughlin’s Bleacher Report post points to the fact that Vick will get a better financial deal and more options with NFL teams if he shines in the new league.
The new league?
The United Football League (UFL) is presently comprised of four teams playing in seven cities. The four teams selected for 2009 are Las Vegas, New York, Orlando and San Francisco. The additional cities where games may be played include Hartford, Los Angeles and Sacramento.
The new league has some marquee coaches with NFL experience including Ted Cottrell (New York), Jim Fassel (Las Vegas), Dennis Green(San Francisco) and Jim Haslett (Orlando).
Playing its regular season games on Thursday and Friday evenings in the fall, with the first regular season game kicking off in October and the Championship Game scheduled for Thanksgiving weekend, the UFL like earlier pro leagues such as the XFL and USFL, could always benefit from using marquee players from the NFL and Vick certainly fits the bill. He’d certainly create a buzz for an upstart league that is hungry for one.
Still the NFL has always had a dearth of talented quarterbacks to fill all the rosters and even the Patriots have been rumored to be interested in Vick who may sign a one year deal for “minimum wage”, prove himself (though I wonder how he’d do that as a backup to Tom Brady, unless there is something we don’t know about Brady’s recovery), and cash in later.
With Favre Fever temporarily subsiding in Minnesota, talks have turned to Vick the Viking. The Madison State Journal also reports that Green Bay http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/sports/packers/460972 has been looking into the southpaw QB.
Vick has thrown for 11,505 yards and 71 TDs with 52 interceptions and rushed for 3,859 yards and 21 TDs in his six-year NFL career, all with the Falcons.
Where do you think he’ll land?
How would Vick show his wares playing behind Brady?
Vick would tear up this puny UFL, but I dont know if the caliber of play would induce NFL executives to up the ante for him
Gotta believe Vick would do wonders as a Viking.
Vick in Green Bay? whoa
Vick is the bomb who can throw the bomb.
Vick will slice and dice any defense UFL or NFL. The man will soon be in his element once again.