{"id":367,"date":"2005-11-06T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2005-11-06T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-11-06T19:00:28","modified_gmt":"2005-11-06T19:00:28","slug":"vick-the-role-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/11\/06\/vick-the-role-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Vick the Role Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After today\u2019s 17-10 victory over Miami, Michael Vick had the following to say to his (often) harsh critics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPeople say I can\u2019t throw the ball from the pocket. I had to show them,\u201d Vick said. \u201cFrom here on out, I don\u2019t want to hear that question \u2014 if I can throw from the pocket.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And Vick also had this qem of a quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI want people to praise me,\u201d Vick said. \u201cIf I\u2019m winning games, don\u2019t criticize me. That\u2019s all I\u2019m saying.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good grief!  Who likes to be criticized?  The Falcons are winning, that is all that really matters to me, but Vick needs to look in the mirror and realize that his passing performances (for the most part) this year have sucked.  Sure he has done it on the ground, along with Dunn, and the defense has been solid, but Vick\u2019s air attack has been less than impressive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/gamecenter\/gamebook\/NFL_20051106_ATL@MIA\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.nfl.com\/gamecenter\/gamebook\/NFL_20051106_ATL@MIA', 'Vick');\" target=new>Vick<\/a> threw for one TD, going 22 of 31 for 228 yards on the day.  Vick also had 38 yards rushing on 8 attempts.  OK, the numbers were good, and the Falcons won (all I really care about), but Vick needs to learn to shut his trap until he is regularly putting up number this efficient (and of course more yards).  All in all Vick did look very comfortable in the pocket \u2013 the bye week obviously helped \u2013 but again Vick needs to shut his f\u2019ing mouth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After today\u2019s 17-10 victory over Miami, Michael Vick had the following to say to his (often) harsh critics: \u201cPeople say I can\u2019t throw the ball from the pocket. I had to show them,\u201d Vick said. \u201cFrom here on out, I don\u2019t want to hear that question \u2014 if I can throw from the pocket.\u201d And &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2005\/11\/06\/vick-the-role-model\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vick the Role Model<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}