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Kudos to Michael Vick for his comments regarding Nick Foles

While Michael Vick had a great start to the season, which his pre-season performances which earned him the starting quarterback job under first-year head coach Chip Kelly, and his grand showings against Washington and San Diego to start the regular season, the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback has been hampered with a hamstring injury which has given back-up Nick Foles an opportunity to show his progression as an NFL quarterback, and outside of a very poor showing against the Dallas Cowboys, the young slinger has shined. With Foles at quarterback, the team has reeled off three consecutive wins to improve them to 6-5 and tie them atop the NFC East with Dallas. With Vick's hamstring being close to 100% again, there was some talk among sports-writers and analysts on what Kelly was going to do at quarterback. Well, it appears as if Vick is making that decision a whole lot easier for the first-year head coach.

Talking on WIP-94.1 FM late last week, Vick said this regarding the current situation:

"In all honesty and all fairness, how can you take a guy out of the game who's playing so well? I understand the position this team is in. The one thing I never want to do is be a distraction."

It's nice to see the veteran quarterback reacting to the situation in such a manner. He's certainly matured and become more of a team-player since his early Atlanta days. It'll be interesting to see what Kelly does with the two uniquely gifted quarterbacks. As I wrote a week or two ago, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Kelly start Foles, but utilize Vick at times as well. That kind of system is typically frowned upon by NFL traditionalists, but if there's one thing Chip Kelly isn't, it's being conventional.

http://espn.go.com/blog/philadelphia-eagles/post/_/id/2137/vick-how-can-you-take-foles-out?ex_cid=espnapi_public
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