Vick expects to earn 10 mil/year upon release

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GBG

Loser
I don't know what kind of access Michael Vick has had to newspapers, magazines and the Internet in prison, but it seems like the news that he is no longer a hot commodity has not yet filtered down to Michael Vick.

In papers he submitted to a bankruptcy court, Vick indicated that he plans on making $10 million per season, which I'm pretty sure would be a record for an ex-con who had a career quarterback rating of 75.7 when he went away. From the Atlanta Journal Constitution:
The embattled Atlanta Falcons quarterback is hoping to earn as much as $10 million a year or more, according to court filings in his bankruptcy case. Under the plan he submitted to the court, Vick would keep the first $750,000 of his annual income over the next five years. After that, a percentage would go to his creditors based on a sliding scale. [...]

In a March 4 court filing, Vick’s attorneys say he “has every reason to believe upon his release, he will be reinstated into the NFL, resume his career and be able to earn a substantial living.”

“He is hopeful to play quarterback,” Daniel Meachum, an attorney and business manager for Vick, said in an interview.

“There is no person with his talent in that position in all the league.”
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That may have been true at one time, but there are also no quarterbacks in the league who have spent the last nine months sitting in a jail cell and eating prison food. I'm not a nutritionist or anything, but I'm pretty sure that's not what NFL team doctors would recommend for keeping a guy in optimum game shape.

The fact of the matter is that no one knows how Vick will perform when he gets out of the joint, though it seems extraordinarily unlikely that he'll look exactly the same as he did when he went in. Factor in the amount of teams scared off by the P.R. nightmare, and I think we're looking at a salary closer to $605,000, which was last year's veteran minimum for a seventh-year player.
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derringer007

derringer007

"Its An Outrage"
:cage: WOW!!!!!! You can make that much cleaning bathrooms :mop: at night and working at Micky-Ds during the day?? What a dumb ass :nod:
 
ExperiencedRookie

ExperiencedRookie

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Here is an interesting "Would You Rather" question. If you're the Detroit Lions and you had to choose between taking Stafford at #1 and paying him the fat ass #1 contract or signing Vick for 75% of that money, what would you do?

You don't really know what kind of QB Stafford will be in the NFl. You do know what Vick is capable of, but he hasn't played the game in sometime now.
 
Hawks Eye

Hawks Eye

Master of Inexpertise
ExperiencedRookie said:
Here is an interesting "Would You Rather" question. If you're the Detroit Lions and you had to choose between taking Stafford at #1 and paying him the fat ass #1 contract or signing Vick for 75% of that money, what would you do?

You don't really know what kind of QB Stafford will be in the NFl. You do know what Vick is capable of, but he hasn't played the game in sometime now.
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Wow.. that's a great question! I mean, I think the risk is the same for each of them. Stafford: you don't know how he'll fare in the NFL. Vick: you don't know what new trouble he'll get into.

My money'd be on Vick, if I was forced to make that choice.
 
Miller

Miller

Who Dey
Administrator
damn ER, great question.....

With Stafford I think you have a potential franchise QB, but it's just "potential"

With Vick the PR nightmare is the biggest issue, but seriously, how much can this hurt Detroit?? He would be the better bargain, but it would still be a short term contract for that money....what about both? Between Stafford, Vick, and C-Pepp, one is bound to hit....right?? :biglaugh:
 
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RLLD

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I sign both of them somehow. Vick will bring in $$ for the short term while I develop Stafford.

Once Stafford is legit, I trade Vick away for something else I need even more.

But I am also patient, and I watch as no one else bothers to make Vick an offer, and then I lowball his azz mightily, get him in for far less that he prolly should truly make to lessen the cap hit.
 
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