Michael Vick Named Eagles Starting QB, Purely a Football Decision?

September 22, 2010   ·   Ray Boyd   ·   Jump to comments

Andy Reid announced his decision yesterday to end the Kevin Kolb era, at least for the foreseeable future. He is handing the reins to Michael Vick just months after handing them over to Kolb. What would drive Reid to do such a thing so soon? Winning.
Often time in sports when a coach says that they are making a decision like this solely based on football, I tend not to believe them simply because if it was solely based on football there would be no need to announce that. However in this case, I believe Reid.
This is clearly a football decision in a number of ways. First off, this offensive line is getting moved around like a plastic bag in a hurricane. Michael Vick was sacked 6 times last week and if they cannot block for him, there is no way they can block for Kolb.
Kolb looked like he was playing on hot coals against Green Bay and who can blame him, he had no time at all to get his feet set. Reid is just tailoring his quarterback to his offensive line an...

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