the wildcat will be very effective this season for any team. its been around for just about a full season now and every team it seems has their own wrinkle of it in their playbooks now. Every team has a year of film on it and practice against it during the off season. there will be plays and stuff from it that will be successful, i just don’t think its going to revolutionize any sort of offensive schemes.

Vick wasn’t all that great when he was in the league in the first place. I don’t think someone like vick can help get to and win a super bowl. All the quarterbacks in recent memory have been pocket passers and that’s the kind of qb play that never goes out of style and wins championships.

The best way to prevent Vick from landing in NE would be to pursue him ourselves.

I’m not sure I want to keep him out of New England. If Brady gets hurt again, he could be thrust into the starting spot. I doubt he fares as good as Cassel did last year. I say let him go to the Pats.

i do not want to see him as a pat. thats all the bills need is a belichek to have another weapon. I would take him if the price was right. if he comes in and teams r willing to throw millions at him nah im set. but if we could get him for league minimum or something cheap why not?

I actually jotted down some stuff today out of boredom with the thought that I might throw a Krytime style post up and I was going to bring Vick up. This is what I was going to post:

I honestly like the idea of signing Vick …. on a conceptual level. Adding a dynamic player who would give us versatility and the ability to get creative would be so fun to watch. You can never have an exciting enough product. But one of the things I love so much about the Bills is the bond between the fans. And part of what makes this site so great is the intelligence and civility. And never in a million years would I risk those things to sign Michael freakin Vick. Guy’s a loser and as exciting as he could be, I don’t want to deal with the arguments that would become so personal and stray so far from football. I would never want to go to a game and deal with protesters. Buffalo has one of the best fanbases in sport and keeping that foundation strong is more important than anything Vick would bring to the team.

And to add to that, I don’t think New England will sign Vick. I don’t remember where I read this but the Pats picked Christian Peter, a defensive lineman from Nebraska in the fifth round in the mid 90s. Peter had been arrested a ton of times although none were that serious. The Krafts, particularly Myra Kraft (the owner’s wife) heard about Peter’s checkered past and threw a fit. The Krafts refused to have a player like that on the team and within a week of the draft the team informed Peter and his agent that they weren’t even going to sign him. He had enough talent to last in the league for at least 5 years so he wasn’t some scrub that was causing too many headaches to give a chance.

I also don’t remember where I read this one, but Washington supposedly talked about signing Vick. The coaching staff all seemed open to it so they had a organization wide meeting to discuss it. The meeting hardly got off the ground because they decided that being in the very political city that they are, they would be so heavily protested that he simply wasn’t worth signing regardless of what he could do for the team. I guess they never even discussed what he could bring to the team because they decided based solely on factors outside of football. I’m not sure who is going to take a chance on Vick and his best bet might be to spend a year playing football in any league that isn’t the NFL.

Everyone a team is linked to Vick, I’m going to assume that it’s just the media trying to create a story until some team actually signs him. Just like it was ridiculous that writers thought Buffalo made sense because we signed TO, it’s crazy to think that New Enland’s willingness to add Corey Dillon or Randy Moss makes them any more likely to add Vick.

Any time you make a deal with the Devil, you will pay for it in ways that you can’t even imagine. I would pass on Vick and sleep well at night.

And with the liklihood that Trent misses some games, i’d rather have him than Fitzpatrick?
Just saying…

He is not a QB anymore, he has been gone to long to bring him in to replace Hamdan right now. As for other uses, Slash style play would do it and he would be good at it as well, but….. it has been 2 years since the man played contact football. I just don’t know if he could do it now.

Aside from the issues that would arrise with signing him (protests, unhappy fans, media scrutiny of the WRONG type) I think that he will play for someone this season. Bengals, Raiders and actually the Bucs make sense for him, heck even the Phins would be a good choice in a way scheme wise, but less so now they have Pat White on board.

Who cares actually?!?! Michael Vick isn’t going to be the reason we can’t beat the Pats again….

Plus, where’s he going to play? Backup RB? Wildcat QB (nope)?

We were up in arms over the behavour of Lynch, Simpson and Whitner now we are seriously dicussing signing a mediocre QB who has been in jail for two years for heinous crimes including delibaretly breaking a dogs back because it was too harmless.

Can anyone else see the contradiction here?

Its not like Vick is a good as Ray Lewis and can get away with murder!!!

I hate the idea of Vick even being considered by the Bills, he’s a low life that would be useless on our team.

What could Vick do in a Bills uniform? Use him in our wild-cat formations, use him as a slot receiver, 20-25% QB work

Ok I don’t know how many more times that we’ll have to go throw this but the Bills DO NOT HAVE A WILDCAT! So we could not use him in “our wild-cat formations” (as you said it) because we don’t even have a wildcat formation.

Using him in the slot is an even worst idea. I mean we all know that Vick can run (just about the only thing that he does well), but we have no idea if he can catch or run routes. To me he’d be behind Parrish in the WR depth chart, which means that he’d maybe see 10 to 15 snaps all year long. Again useless.

And using him for 20 to 25% of the snaps at QB is the worst idea of all. He’s got a cannon of an arm, but NO ACCURACY! And his decision making skills are HORRIBLE! Seriously, Losman had a more accurate arm and better decision making skills then Vick!

I really wish that ppl would stop saying that we should sign this guy, he’d be absolutly useless to us. Just about the only thing that I can think of that we could do with him is use him as the holder for feild goals and occasionally have him run for a first on a fake feild goal attempt. Thats it.

I say let the Pats sign him, it will be one of the few mistakes Belicheck ever does. And we might have a chance to beat the Pats because of it.

I don’t see him having a ton of opportunity as a Patriot.

Here is why:
-What the best answer for an unproven, untalented line? Mobile QB
-History tells us that Edwards will not make it through 16 games
-Wildcat option
-Vick is desperate….he will get in shape and study his butt off
-Stronger arm than Edwards for the deep ball
-Edwards will have some competition
-You can always find ways to get athletes on the field
-Vick will be cheap
-Who cares about PEDA? Im pretty sure Ralph doesnt

Vick simply is not a good fit for the Bills and the dumbest thing any team could do is to sign a player simply to prevent the competition from doing so. c’mon guys, get real.

The amount of “Vick to the Bills” posts has already bordered on insane. This is already getting worse than all the myrad Jason Peters posts we had to suffer through, and there was actually a reason for those posts.

I refuse to comment on any more Michael Vick posts, not because I hate him, but because the posts have become just another reason to rehash the same arguments over and over, and this time for virtually no purpose.

Disappointing.