Quote:McCown is a year older than vick, mccown has played in 58 games in his 12 year career and vick has played in 128 games in a 13 year career. mccown career passer rating around 75. vick around 81. 

I think people forget that last year was an abnormality for McCown, whereas it was more par for the course for the Michael Vick of post '09. Vick has become a better passer as he aged, and he is still dynamic. The biggest legitimate knock on him is his inability to finish a whole season healthy lately. That said. He usually gets 12+ games, and is around for the playoffs. I would be in favor of signing Vick, but I don't think you avoid drafting a QB just cause of that.

 

I think signing Vick should make you Smarter about drafting a QB, and less prone to reach. And that is how I want our front office to be anyway. I don't want them to ignore QB cause of a signing, but rather to draft how they should draft a QB anyway (i.e. based on evaluation and not overreaching because 'somebody else might steal Gabbert from us!').

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