Vick is Illogical

Experts tend to agree that there should be 4-5 solid quarterback prospects in the 2014 NFL draft.  With a healthy offense, it’s quite possible that the Eagles could go 8-8 next year with Michael Vick under center.  That would probably put the Eagles middle of the pack in the first round, not ideal for grabbing one of the top QB prospects.

This is why, logically, Foles is the better Eagles option for the future of the organization.  If Foles goes 4-12, then the Eagles have better draft positioning. If Foles goes 8-8 or 9-7, then it would seem like he could be a quarterback the team could build around. Seems like a win/win situation. The same would go with Dennis Dixon.

Some Vick observations:

In 2004, Vick’s most successful year with a trip to the NFC Championship game, Atlanta’s passing game ranked 30th of 32 in passing yards with 2412 and 30th of 32 in completion percentage with 54.9.  In a league that is a passing league, Vick has never shown an ability to thrive in that environment, with the exception of his first 8 games back from prison when D coordinators didn’t know what to expect.

In 2012 the 33 year old veteran Michael Vick put up almost identical numbers to a 22 year old rookie. Vick had a Rating of 78.1 while Foles had a 79.1 rating.

In 2012 Vick’s Interception rate was 2.85, Foles’ was 1.89

In 2012 Vick, the veteran with speed/elusiveness, was sacked on 7.4% of all passing attempts, Foles was sacked 7.0% of attempts.

People say that Foles dinked and dunked, but that’s not totally true.  Vick averaged 11.6 yards/completion and Foles averaged 10.6 yards/completion, one yard less.

Vick’s career average completion percentage is 56.3. His completion percentage last year was 58.1. In the past twenty seasons, only two Super Bowl winning quarterbacks had seasons where their completion percentages were lower than 58.1 and 56.3.  They were John Elway in 1997 and Eli Manning in 2007.