The Scale of Falconliness, Quarterbacks Week: Michael Vick

guy’s name is a powder keg. I gave him a 7 because I think all the good and excitement that he brought to Atlanta and Atlanta Falcons fans for years outweighed the main ugly incident that everyone knows about. The silver lining is that once he “left” we really saw what kind of team we had and knew that we needed a lot of help and a new coach (stupid puketrino). Puketrino is just under dumb Robinson from the SB incident in 98.

Let me make it clear. I enjoyed the years he was here but I wouldn’t want him back on my team.

Oh and one other thing for the list. You may have covered it under “Lies” but I think lying to Arthur Blank deserves a bullet of its own. He was behind MV7 100% and if he told the truth might have turned out a little differently for him.

The question here is not whether he was a good player or not. It’s how “Falconly” he was. I’m not sure what that means exactly, but I just can’t voice any support or approval for someone who participated in dog-fighting. In my book it’s just barely less evil than molesting children.

As for his on-field performance, Vick was an electrifying player to watch but I never felt like we had a solid, dependable offense with him. Sure, he rushed for a zillion yards, but that was almost always the result of him not being able to find a receiver and then “just winging it” with his astonishing natural talents. Improv is fun to watch but it won’t win a championship.

As much as he was a freakish athlete, he was an even more freakish idiot. The guy might be one of the worst human beings, let alone Falcons, to walk the planet. And if you still love him after all the stupidity and failure he brought to this team, then let me direct you here.

I gave him a 5. He was my favourite player and while I am trying my best to hate him and snickering to my girlfriend whenever I see someone wearing his Philly jersey in a mall I just can’t help it. I love this guy. I even had him and his 2 TDs on my fantasy team last year. I cannot stop MV7 from being my favourite player. He was either the best or worst player we ever had. In my opinion he was simply the best. But despite being the man while he was here, no one has hurt this franchise more. The fact that we came out of it so fast is thanks to Dimitrinoff being the best GM in the league.

This is one of the hardest questions ever asked. When Michael Vick went to prison i said i would rather my wife leave me. But as far as being the greatest falcons qb id say hes 4th behind Bartowski, Chandler and Miller and maybee Toliver just for beating the 49ers on a Hail Mary. But MV7 leaves me feeling empty handed, he was by far the most athletic Falcon and the most exciting to watch. And as well as Matty Ice Ryan plays hell always not be as favorite as MV7 cause for some crazy reason live Mick Vick said before he went to prison Everyone Loves Michael Vick….But with all that being said he really screwed us Falcons fans hard and i hate seeing him in a Philly Jersey…

Is that he was one of the most gifted athletes of all time in any sport and because of that everything was always handed to him on a silver platter and any wrong he did would be washed under the rug (as we can see by some of the responses on here).
If he were to have applied himself in any way at all to study the game, opposing defenses, his own receivers and lineman and that amazing thing called the playbook than we would have had a QB of the ages. No contest. Instead, he even admitted he never took it seriously (and people still forgave him????), dirty bird’d the fans, oregeno-juana bottle, lied to the commish, Mr. Blank, killed dogs for sport….essentially he epitomizes what every young athlete should strive not to be.
I dont even feel right giving him a 1 because that is too high. And to think, I bought my son his jersey…

Being “Falconly” to me is not setting records. It is in being part of the fandom, it is standing up through the face of adversity and persevering regardless of the losing streak we held and it is overcoming anything set in your path to do all that you can do without having the benefit of a good system/ownership (that is, until Mr. Blank came along). It is being the underdog and being proud of what can be accomplished in spite of it. That is Falconly.

This is about Falconliness—-person who dedicated himself to the Falcons. Vick could care less about the Falcon Fans nor his former team. For that reason I’d give him a 1, and added 2 points for the “Short term” excitement he brought to the team.

My grade 3

Athletically…A freak of nature. If the NFL was a one-on-one contest, he would have won the Super Bowl each year. He got to the NFL by doing his own thing. That was all he ever needed to know. (A note to Arthur Blank: You did not do him any favors by firing Reeves)
Yes I am one of those “he ain’t no QB” guys. Just imagine…Combine the average NFL QB’s preparation, ability to read a defense and “team first” mentality with his physical talents.
Off the field: The last memories we have of vick is a long list of stupidity (which is still growing…as in birthday party with known felons in attendance). In real life, you are always gauged on your latest accomplishments. Don’t think so? Ask your boss.

Who is less Falconly, Vick or Petrino?

Atlanta is full of a lot of black people that like to support their own kind, and Vick epitomized that. That’s why with all the issues he had, Vick supporters still loved him, infact they loved him more because of that. It made him cool, one of the guys in the hood just doing his thing. Although I’m not into that, I was thinking some of the the consequential treatment he was getting like from PETA was unfair.
But let alone, despite him not being a role model and not worthy of our team and sometimes overrated, he was still an exciting player to watch that could make something happen (just not at clutch times) broke records. Vick was the offense. Without him we saw how bad we really was.
However like someone said. If it wasn’t for Vick, we may never have Matt Ryan, Dimitroff, and Mike Smith, or what we have now.
So I think Vick at least deserves a five. He’s like the person you’d think that was the one, though you though maybe there could be something better so you settle for less hoping that that person will turn it around, and then lighting strikes and a Jamarcus Russel like black hole unexpectantly occurs and you have a rut then things work out for the best.

We had to go through a year of hell to get to our heaven (still a work in progress), and our Jesus Matt Ryan is leading the way through the red sea 2010 season

Wish the same story would be true for me though…no fairy tales in life

What I see most of the people saying he deserves a 10 see mto be forgetting is that you are not rating someone’s play only. You are rating that person as a Falcon both on and off the field. How can you say he defines being a Falcon when all he really did was trash the team off the field and have couple decent seasons as a running back under center?

There was no doubt he was exciting to watch but so is the college triple option. That doesn’t mean he was a great Falcon at all though. It’s not like his on negatives were that he played for another team or he made a negative comment or 2 about the team. I am not sure if he was trying to ruin the teams image or if it was a subconcous thing but he show cases exactly what we don’t want the players to be. I would rather have a losing team with good people than a great team full of jerks simply because it makes it that much sweeter when something good does happen.

 I sincerely hope he has learned his lesson and has cleaned up his act but that doesn’t change what he did when he was the face of the franchise.

…but then I remembered where the Falcons were when we drafted him. We had gone from the Superbowl to successive 5-11, 4-12, 7-9 seasons. MV7 takes the starting role, Falcons go 9-7, and beat the Packers in the playoffs IN LAMBEAU. Okay, we go 5-11 the next year, but that was the DOUG JOHNSON and KURT KITTNER year that resulted in Dan Reeves’ exit. MV7 returned part time against the Texans in week 13, but really started the next week against Carolina, throwing for 179, rushing for 141 (and a TD). MV7 was 3-1 as a starter in that abortion year. The next year we went 11-5, then 8-8, then the finale of the Vick era at 7-9. So: MV led 2 very good teams, and two amazingly average teams with little talent.

If this last paragraph were the whole story, MV7 would be a solid “9” – as we all know, there was more to the story. Dude was Nuke Laloosh: $5 million arm, 5 cent head. Sure, he brought new fans to the dome… but half of them blame the Falcons organization for the guy going to PRISON. In the last month I’ve had 3 conversations with people who said “I was a Falcons fan until the team done him wrong.” WHAT? We should have just paid him MORE money while he sat his ass in prison?

This paragraph should have made him a 4 at best. So I averaged the 2 Mike Vicks, and rounded up to give him a 7. Sue me.

Can he be erased from the books like they do in college! If not then 1..

Never was more than this and never will be more than this.

 But still had to give him a one