DUNCANownsKOBE
11-17-2012, 11:40 AM
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8636738/andy-reid-michael-vick-project-coming-end
Vick has always been overrated as a quarterback because, in truth, he was a smallish scatback who merely lined up at QB -- the NFL's greatest escape artist, a one-man "Cirque du Soleil" act who often got a pass for his passing. Reid's only shot with Vick was letting him do what he did so stunningly in Atlanta -- mostly follow his run-first instincts. Instead, Reid and QB coach Marty Mornhinweg tried forcing their square-peg passing game into the round hole that is Vick. He tried valiantly to become a conventional field-scanning pocket passer, but the more he tried to glance at options 1-2-3, the worse it got. He became a brain-cramping identity crisis: Run! No throw! No wait! Too late.
:lmao
And as Vick was busted and finally sentenced, our ongoing "First Take" debates opened my eyes and mind to this: Several black debaters made the case it isn't as common in the black community to treat dogs as family members. No doubt some black families do, but in the black community dogs are more likely to be treated as pets -- as just animals. So I eventually heard via Twitter from many black viewers who were just as outraged over Vick's prison sentence as I was over his dead-eyed cruelty.
"They're just dogs!" I heard again and again.
:lmao indirect slam at black culture
Vick has always been overrated as a quarterback because, in truth, he was a smallish scatback who merely lined up at QB -- the NFL's greatest escape artist, a one-man "Cirque du Soleil" act who often got a pass for his passing. Reid's only shot with Vick was letting him do what he did so stunningly in Atlanta -- mostly follow his run-first instincts. Instead, Reid and QB coach Marty Mornhinweg tried forcing their square-peg passing game into the round hole that is Vick. He tried valiantly to become a conventional field-scanning pocket passer, but the more he tried to glance at options 1-2-3, the worse it got. He became a brain-cramping identity crisis: Run! No throw! No wait! Too late.
:lmao
And as Vick was busted and finally sentenced, our ongoing "First Take" debates opened my eyes and mind to this: Several black debaters made the case it isn't as common in the black community to treat dogs as family members. No doubt some black families do, but in the black community dogs are more likely to be treated as pets -- as just animals. So I eventually heard via Twitter from many black viewers who were just as outraged over Vick's prison sentence as I was over his dead-eyed cruelty.
"They're just dogs!" I heard again and again.
:lmao indirect slam at black culture