Okay, I’ll agree with you on most of that. While he did some things that forced defenses to make adjustments they’d never made before (and looked damn good doing it), he just didn’t win enough games. But, stay with me for a second. Hypothetically speaking: Vick doesn’t have all these off field issues. The Falcons continue to build their personnel around him. How do you think he does over the next five years (assuming he stays that long)?

Looking at Vick’s QB rating is not the best method to accurately quantify what Vick did for this organization. In the case of Vick, that’s almost as bad as looking at a RB’s receptions category and saying he is a bad RB because he didn’t catch many passes. What Vick can do on the field is far and away more than what any other player in the game can do. When you looked up that QB rating did you happen to also look up how many dropped balls the Falcons recieving core had over the course of his career? Surely you haven’t forgotten about Peerless Price completely giving up on almost every single pass? Roddy White, Michael Jenkins, and even a good bit of Crumpler in Vick’s last year, they all dropped more passes than most other teams WR’s groups.

If you look at Vick to become that pocket passer like Peyton or Montana, then you are asking for the wrong thing. The whole point of Vick’s talent is the ability to make things happen when there’s nothing downfield. I’m sure you weren’t calling him a failure when he was dashing 50 yards down the field and diving over defenders into the endzone to get the Falcons into the playoffs were you?

Even you yourself have stated how horrible the decisions of the front office have been over the last decade so how are you to blame Vick for not having the right personnel around to support him? The Falcons drafting over the last six years alone has been downright confusing at times and atrocious at others. Vick also did not get Reeves fired and he did not choose to have a West Coast offense put into place. That style is not the best for him to succeed, yet he made our team successful regardless by abandoning it when things went wrong and taking over and making plays with his feet.

Petrino was going to happen wether Vick was sucessful or not because Blank got impatient with Mora. And what with Vick in jail now it’s hard to argue that the deal was not a mistake, but at the same time it’s real easy to say that now, yet when it happened everyone in the ATL was praising it because we had locked Vick up for the next ten years. Blank is why Petrino happened, not Vick. I can’t even see how someone could make that assumption. Blank is the one that got impatient during the hiring process and Blank is the one that always wants to make a splash. Vick performance did not cause any of those things to occur. If you want to blame performance then look at the receivers or the o-line or even the ever present horri-bad secondary, but in no way could Vick’s performance on the field be put into that equation.

I guess I just find it funny that the one person that almost single handedly turned this fanbase around now has the same fans calling him a failure on the field. And you aren’t the only one so this isn’t a direct comment to you. I know plenty of people who were sitting right beside me when he superman’ed across that line and went nuts because of how damned amazing he is that are now trying to claim that he did nothing for us on the field. It seems to me that a lot of people confuse off the field antics with on the field performance and think that they are mutually tied together, which is completely off base and wrong. That’s like saying T.O is a bad receiver or that Pacman Jones is a horrible corner.

Don’t let your personal views and morals get in the way of good common sense people.