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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor
Vick looked good in Chip Kelly's system. There is do doubt it will give him opportunity go take advantage of situations.
However, running as many plays as the Eagles will, Michael will end up being hit twice as many times and time will tell if his body will be able to handle the abuse.
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With Andy Reid's son dying the week before the season started, it was hard to imagine Andy or the team having a successful season.
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Interestingly, that wasn't what killed it, it wasn't Reid being distracted or busy with grieving, the opposite, Reid over-worked the Eagles offense, had Vick trying to many non-Vick things convincing Vick he could become a pocket-passer. Instead, you saw Vick over-thinking it on every play and subsequently getting hit or sacked mercilessly as the Eagles o-line also by bad coincidence collapsed under injuries. Had Reid let Vick be Vick, we would have saw 2010 11-5 playoff Eagles, not the miserable can't score 8-8 Eagles. To win with Vick you have to (a) have at least one wide-out on every play, (b) only use one back and consider Vick the other while (c) not getting to complicated in the playbook (Vick has some of the best instincts in the game with the fastest snap and epic arm, but if he thinks too much or has too complicated a play he is trying to run, he ends up getting hit). What Vick needs are plays simple enough to allow him in under 3 seconds to decide to either pass it or run himself. If he has to think to much, he doesn't have time to run, and he ends up getting hit.
My only concern is that Kelley's murderously high-paced offense is going to get a QB like Vick hit too many times on the run, and he is going to get hurt. Even McCoy won't survive long getting hit 15-20 times a night for 16 games. It is a double-edged sword, probably ONLY Vick or Peyton Manning could possibly have enough speed and strength of arm to keep up with Chip Kelley's system, but the other side is that playing SO many possessions is going to mathematically translate into more hits per game, and more hits per game translate into more injuries per season. You saw this in the second half, Kelley went classic and tried to slow the game down by focusing almost exclusively on the run game (Vick threw 190yds in the first half, less than 40 in the second half) which slowed the pace, but also got Vick and McCoy HIT LIKE CRAZY. That is simply unsustainable, even if it was fucking ridiculously exciting football to watch
