{"id":1377,"date":"2009-02-21T06:35:32","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T10:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/02\/21\/as-if-vick-as-not-done-us-enough-favors\/"},"modified":"2011-06-19T07:02:45","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T11:02:45","slug":"as-if-vick-as-not-done-us-enough-favors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/02\/21\/as-if-vick-as-not-done-us-enough-favors\/","title":{"rendered":"As if Vick as not done us enough favors &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had no idea that Vick was still taking up space on the Falcons\u2019 salary cap.  According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/sports\/content\/sports\/falcons\/stories\/2009\/02\/20\/falcons_vick_trade.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/sports\/content\/sports\/falcons\/stories\/2009\/02\/20\/falcons_vick_trade.html', 'ajc');\" target=\"new\">ajc<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Falcons have announced their intentions to trade his rights. If the Falcons can\u2019t find a trade party and they release Vick once he is reinstated, they would take a $15.430 million salary cap hit in 2009. He is also due a $680,000 bonus in 2010.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So let me get this straight.  Vick goes to prison, which has to be some sort of breach of contract.  At a minimum it has to be a violation of the NFL Code of Conduct.  But, when all is said and done, Vick still could cost the Falcons in excess of $15 million against the 2009 salary cap?<\/p>\n<p>Un\u2019fing believable that the league would allow this to happen.<\/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=\"https:\/\/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>I had no idea that Vick was still taking up space on the Falcons\u2019 salary cap. According to the ajc \u201cThe Falcons have announced their intentions to trade his rights. If the Falcons can\u2019t find a trade party and they release Vick once he is reinstated, they would take a $15.430 million salary cap hit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/02\/21\/as-if-vick-as-not-done-us-enough-favors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">As if Vick as not done us enough favors &#8230;<\/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=\"https:\/\/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":[12,29],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3509,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/3509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}