Michael Vick
Michael Vick
Michael Dwayne Vickis an American football quarterback who is a free agent. He has previously played for the Atlanta Falcons, Philadelphia Eagles, New York Jets and Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth26 June 1980
CityNewport News, VA
CountryUnited States of America
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I think I have a lot of learning to do. Back at Virginia Tech, I threw the ball enough, but not as much as I would have liked to. I think in the NFL you have a lot more chances to throw the football downfield. It's going to be a challenge.
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We're all trying to get on the same page. I want to throw the ball right at them so they can catch it. I didn't do that all the time last year.
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Guys are four and five yards down the field and I'm throwing bullets. You can't do that.
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I don't care. It doesn't matter. At the end of my career they're going to judge me on wins and losses, not on how many throws I made from the pocket or what my quarterback rating was.
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It's 11 guys doing their job. If we hammer them, hammer them, throw it, and then run it at them, then maybe victory will come. At the same time, I have to be doing my job and the receivers have to be blocking. There are a lot of things that come together to make the run game work. We believe in it, which is why we are leading the league.
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It's a gift from a quarterback's standpoint that all you have to do is throw the ball up for the guys, ... You don't have to worry about throwing to short targets. That's sort of hard to do.
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It's a fine balance, ... At the same time, it makes my job a lot easier to just throw the football than wear myself out running.
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They try to keep me in the pocket, try to make me throw the ball, ... So what do we do? We gash them in the run game. We've got a counter for everything teams try and do.
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They say I can't throw the ball from the pocket and my passing efficiency isn't that good, so I had to show everybody. It's not trying to prove to the world, because I know what I can do and the Falcons know what I can do. From here on out, I don't want to hear that question again.
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They place burdens and expectations on me, ... What people don't understand is that it takes time in this game. They expect me to win a Super Bowl. They expect me to go out and throw for 4,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards every season. But it doesn't work like that.
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I don't know if I can, ... Maybe not, man. My passing attempts are not where they need to be. I need to throw the ball 30 to 40 times a game for me to have those numbers, but our run game's so good that I won't say it's hurting me, but I won't complain, because it's a lot easier and it takes a lot of pressure off me, too.
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If you think about the fumbles, one of them I was throwing the ball and the other time I wasn't looking and the ball got knocked out of my hands when I was in the pocket, ... I try to make an effort that every time I run the ball and every time I'm in the pocket I should protect it, but sometimes there is just nothing you can do about that. You see it all around the league, and it's just something that you have to be conscious of, but at the same time it's hard, to tell you the truth.
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We turned the ball over three times, ... You can't do that in this league.
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We are very critical of ourselves and of how we play and what we do as Atlanta Falcons, ... We know that we have some work to do on both sides of the ball, and that's what we are looking for from our team: improvement. It would be a great situation to be in, 5-2 and 1-0 in the division. It's a great step for us, and obviously as we come back we have to win games and step our own game up a little bit as we get into playing more divisional opponents. We have to really focus in and beat New York this week and worry about what is down the road a little bit later.