Someone's gotta ask, Vick anyone??

[barrett]

Everybody likes to talk about bad he was, but he was plenty effective as a QB. He won games and made the Falcons a better team.

When he bootlegs a few times a game, it means that everyone on the back side stays home and the MLB doesn't fill as hard on the running plays. So every runing play basically gets a 1-2 man advantage on the front side. That's how the Falcons led the NFL in Rushing with Warrick Dunn going for 1400+ at 5.1 ypc. Just compare the rest of Dunn's career to when he played with Vick. Vick may not be able to pass at all, but he makes the RBs 10 times more effective. Plus he almost never turns the ball over. This makes him ok in a ball control, run based offense for a team that wins with defense (what the falcons had when they went to the NFC Title game). I bet if you put him on the Ravens, they win more games than they do with Joe Flacco next year.

With that said I wouldn't touch him for our team and our offense in a million years.