Head's Up... Vick Update

[Hostile]

Mike Vick worked out for the Patriots today and a friend of mine informs me they are seriously considering signing him.

Cue the backlash.

 

[WoodysGirl]

PFT has been all over this today, so I wouldn't be surprised if he'd go there.

1 year deal, probably and no pressure to play immediately.

 

[FanSince61]

Mike Vick worked out for the Patriots today and a friend of mine informs me they are seriously considering signing him.

Cue the backlash.

Just so it's not here.

 

[zrinkill]

Wonder if Brady is more injured than it appears?

 

[WoodysGirl]

Don't think so..

Patriots' Brady expects to take the field for preseason games
Associated Press


FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady expects to be on the field in exhibition games next month -- his first action since injuring his knee in the 2008 regular season opener.

"Yeah, I think I'll play," he told reporters after practice on Friday. "I mean, last year it wasn't like I wasn't supposed to play. I would have loved to have played. Just some circumstances came up where I couldn't."

Brady mum on reported pregnancy
Tom Brady won't say whether he's expecting a child with wife Gisele Bundchen, saying "I don't have all the facts and it hasn't been researched enough." More ... After missing the entire preseason last year with an unspecified foot injury, the two-time Super Bowl Most Valuable Player -- and 2007 NFL MVP -- was playing the first quarter of the first game last season when his knee collapsed on a hit from Kansas City Chiefs safety Bernard Pollard. He missed the rest of the season.

Back on the field for training camp this week, Brady admitted to some arm soreness as he works to get back into football shape.

"It feels pretty good, and then you come out and do four or five practices in a row and it doesn't feel as hot, so it's part of what training camp is about," he said. "The soreness becomes a part of the practices and you just have to do a good job of taking care of yourself. My arm was in really good shape coming in. It still feels like it's in good shape, so hopefully it stays that way."

Brady said he doesn't spend much time thinking about the repaired knee. He is wearing a brace during practices.

"I've kind of made a concerted effort to move on," he said. "That was last season and this is this season. I don't think about it. I think it's been a great learning experience for me and I'm using it, really, as a positive. Hopefully I can go out this year and be a great quarterback for this team."

Brady said the brace isn't restricting his movement, although he joked he may have gone from "slow" to "slower." The biggest challenge for the Patriot star will be getting back to his form in 2007, when he threw an NFL-record 50 touchdown passes in leading the Patriots to a 16-0 regular season before losing to the New York Giants in the Super Bowl.

"I hope it finishes different if we are in that position," Brady said.

But he said there were some good things that came from his injury and forced time off.


"I think I've learned a lot of things that I wouldn't have learned had I been playing, things that help you grow as a person and as a player, as a leader, as a teammate," he said. "I'm going to take those lessons and hopefully be a better player for them. When you're sitting watching, it's not fun and you're not a part of it and you don't feel a part of it, even though you're a part of the team. I feel a part of it now."

One of the changes has been with his family. Brady got married over the winter to supermodel Gisele Bundchen, and the two are reportedly expecting a child (though Brady would neither confirm it nor deny it).

But a bigger surprise has been in coach Bill Belichick, who Brady said is "going soft on us."

"He doesn't yell at us like he used to. We're looking for him to get after us a little bit," Brady said. "I don't know what happened. I think as he's getting older, he's getting a little softer."

Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press

 

[WoodysGirl]

Mike Vick worked out for the Patriots today and a friend of mine informs me they are seriously considering signing him.

Cue the backlash.

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Pats say Vick wasn't in Foxborough

Posted by Mike Florio on July 31, 2009 5:37 PM ET
The ping (beer) pong match that unfolded today regarding rumors and reports linking quarterback Mike Vick to the Patriots finally has prompted a response from the team.

And the Patriots say that Vick did not come to Foxborough.

Team spokesman Stacey James told Ian Rapoport of the Boston Herald that Vick was not in town working out for the Patriots -- and that Vick won't be.

The rumors began this morning, with rampant e-mails and Internets accounts of folks who claimed they saw Vick at Logan Airport in Boston. Equivocal comments from coach Bill Belichick regarding the team's potential interest in Vick served only to fuel the rumors.

A local sports web site then said that Vick was indeed in town and meeting with the Patriots.

An Associated Press report regarding a hearing in Vick's pending bankruptcy case put him in Virginia, knocking down the "Vick is in Boston" rumors.

Tom Curran echoed the notion that Vick didn't make an appearance in Boston or Foxborough or New England on Friday, which seemed to put the issue to rest.

But then Jeff Darlington of the Miami Herald reported that Vick is in New England, after all.

As a result, we feel like we've been playing ping (beer) pong all afternoon.

But we kind of like the feeling. So we're kind of rooting for a rumor that Belichick has been spotted in Eastern Virginia.

And now 10 percent of you will have read that last sentence to mean that there's a rumor that Belichick has been spotted in Eastern Virginia.

Hey, these rumors don't start themselves.

 

[Four]

ya the new guy on NFLN said there was no way Vick was in Foxborough because he had some bankruptcy hearing in virginia at the same time he was supposed to be working out for them.

I would like to pat myself on the back though, I said all along he would end up in Boston.(yes I know)

 

[burmafrd]

Looks like maybe Hos has a bad source this time.

 

[THUMPER]

Just so it's not here.

My feelings exactly!

 

[Hostile]

Looks like maybe Hos has a bad source this time.

You can work out for a team somewhere besides home. My source just said they worked him out. He didn't say where it happened.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Mike Vick worked out for the Patriots today

Been talking to Nors again?















:laugh2:

 

[Hostile]

Been talking to Nors again?


:laugh2:

I have to admit, that was funny. I wonder what his take on Vick to his team would be? I am glad he's not here to share that with us.

 

[SkinsandTerps]

I have to admit, that was funny. I wonder what his take on Vick to his team would be? I am glad he's not here to share that with us.

Could be worse.

What was that other posters' name ? Karter ? Or something like that, all I remember is that it was probably 2 years later and he was still trying to get Quincy back to Dallas.

EDIT: And yes it was pretty funny.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

You know the deal.

Pats deny - so it DID happen.



End of Line.................

 

[Spectre]

You can work out for a team somewhere besides home. My source just said they worked him out. He didn't say where it happened.

stubborn...

 

[silverbear]

I have to admit, that was funny. I wonder what his take on Vick to his team would be? I am glad he's not here to share that with us.

I kinda miss his stories about his accomplishments as a long jumper...

Don't miss the Ty Law obsession, though... or his groupie-esque adulation of Ricky Santos... yeah, I'd like him to come back just long enough for me to ask him now Superstar Santos' career was coming along...

 

[yentl911]

They obviously won't have him on the team as a QB......will they? I am thinking they may try the "Wildcat" once in a while with Vick in the game but maybe even more of an option would be that they are going to have him play RB? What are your thoughts? He may be hungry enough to swallow what little pride he has left and try to be a RB. New England has a way of getting the best out of players and this may be a great example.

Did I mention that I hate New England?

 

[InmanRoshi]

They'll use him as a Wildcat weapon. They loved Pat White too.

 

[FLCowboyFan]

What drives you crazy is that if the Pats sign him, it will be seen as a brilliant move. If we signed him, it would be seen as Jerry being a desperate idiot and there would be loads of articles written about him needing to bring in a football man like Bellicheat!

:bang2:

 

[rynochop]

What drives you crazy is that if the Pats sign him, it will be seen as a brilliant move. If we signed him, it would be seen as Jerry being a desperate idiot and there would be loads of articles written about him needing to bring in a football man like Bellicheat!

:bang2:

My thoughts exactly. "Jerry got rid of all the distractions then brings in the biggest circus of them all." "Slap in the face to Romo", etc, etc.