It is not concussion related, he is the permanent starting QB.
Im happy for him, he deserves it.

So much for Kolb being 'the guy'. Dude gets three snaps and then adios. Life as a Philly QB.

Just from a football point of view, Vick gives them a better chance to win. He also makes them more explosive and likely sells more tickets. Its a win win win for everyone, even those road games. Hate him or love him, I think he will still sell tickets, even if its for people who want to come and see him fail.

thats fucl<ed up.

give the guy a 1/2 audition to be the starting QB against the one of the top 3 D's in football and with the worst O-line in football?

and then bench him!!!!


Do I have to root for a dog murderer all season???

eagles games are sold out.. every which one even if Rock Hard Ten was named starting QB

Good to see common sense prevailing with the Birds' coaching staff on this one


"One dimensional" ... are you joking, slot???

Mike has like the fourth or fifth highest passer rating in the league so far … not to mention what he can do with his legs.

This guy is hungry, confident, and clearly ready to lead this offense.

:confused:

I think you meant Green Bay. Kolb played against Green Bay the first week of the season. When did Philly play against Pittsburgh, Baltimore or the jets?

I will agree about the worst line in football part. When you make Detroit look like the 85 bears, there are some serious protection issues.

agreed. He played extremely well in both games.

If Detroit looked like the '85 Bears, I don't think the Eagles would have put 35 on the board the other day.

I'll always contend that a team that wants to win won't have Michael Vick as their starting quarterback. It didn't work in Atlanta, and it won't work in Philly. This is a 6-10 team waiting to happen.

P.S. - the Lions have the worst secondary - nay, the worst defense overall - in the entire league. If not for LeSean McCoy having the best game of his career, you're talking about an Eagles loss to the woeful Lions and an 0-2 start. Anybody who actually watched the game the other day (I'm presuming only AntiTrust and myself did based on comments here) would realize that Vick was hardly the reason the Eagles won the game. This isn't baseball; stats can definitely lie.

Against Green Bay, he threw for 175 yards and ran for 103

Against Detroit, he threw for 284 and ran for 37

If anything, he is one of the most multi dimensional players in the game. That is one thing you can't dog him for.

Sorry, i couldnt resist that last line.

Want to wager on the 6-10 thing?

It didn't "work" in atlanta? Didnt they make it to the NFC Title game? Is that not working?

Agree 100%

He got sacked 6 times and there was pressure all day. Hence the 85 bears comment. And if you indeed watched the game you would see that they sent blitz after blitz against them all day long. You did watch the game didnt you?

Vick isn't a passer, never has been, never will be. The Eagles are a .500 team with him or without him. Running QBs don't win Super Bowls. Funny how Kolb was just the means to the end - excuse to run McNabb outta Philly. It's either that or Reid is/was wrong about Kolb.

More blind Vick fans.



2 games and they're off and stumbling.

Steve Young?

Steve Young threw for 232 TDs. The ability to run was an added dimension.

That's tellin' her ,Franky.



An obvious answer...but a good one.

Are you kidding? He was a purely run first QB for a good part of his career. That was always the complaint against him. That is why they wanted to run him out of town in his first couple of years after taking over for Montana. Even Rice complained about it in the beginning. Why do you think Charles Haley had to be traded before he literally killed Young? Added dimension? Please. He was the definition of a running QB.

How about Elway while we are at it? Ran a little?

Oh my God.


She's over the top now.

Someone squirt her.

Didn't "Roger the Dodger" get a ring or two too, dala?


Birds clearly have some major issues, slot … but Mike is a better qb now than he was in Atl.

Comparing Vick to these guys is ridiculous.

Vick=Bobby Douglas.


MUCH bettah comparison.

When Kolb does come back how effective will he be looking over his shoulder for the hook when he makes a bad play. Eagles unfortunately sold out their future for the short term.. My perdiction is Reid is done after this year.

Now I know you didn't watch the game. Blitz after blitz? Really? If they were blitzing so much, wouldn't more than one of the five Detroit sacks or three of the 11 QB hits have been from a non-defensive lineman? Detroit is hardly a blitzing team.

I thought I had read that Green Bay was the 2nd ranked Defense last year. Could be wrong.

headlines in the Philly newspaper today:

"TOP DOG"

only in Philly!!

:tro:

Kolb got bent over on this one. One headache was all it took. Had he not been hurt, he'd still be the guy & we still would have beat Detriot (sorry slot)

Our o-line is just so bad, that had to be a major factor in this decision. Maybe Reid was doing Kolb a favor by not letting him become a vegetable.

:zz:

they were throwing zero blitzes out there (blitz more than can be blocked)

You guys could have rushed 3 guys the whole game and still had 5/6 sacks.

And that's what they did. The Lions would be retarded to blitz that often because they literally don't have a soul who can cover man-to-man in the back seven. The front four was creating the pressure throughout the game.

And yes, you guys could have had anybody out there playing quarterback and still won.

Not comparing Mike to anyone, Mort

Just shooting down the claim that mobile qbs don't get rings

:tro:


Can't wait to see Mike raisin' some hell down in Jax

I kind of think that they are committed to Kolb for the future. That being said, with the state of mediocre that is the NFC East (all of a sudden out of the blue), maybe they feel that they could sacrifice Kolb for one more season at this point and make some sort of run with Michael Vick. You would think that even though he has played in regualr season games before, that this was going to be a big learning expierence for Kolb in his first full season as the starting QB. They were probably hoping that Kolb would play well enough to get them to a wildcard spot in what seems to be a transition year for the birds. But now with Dallas starting 0-2 and the Giants and Redskins not playing like world beaters, the birds realize that they have a legitimate shot at winning the division with maybe a more seasoned guy even though he is most likely a short term solution.

you guys have a really nice front four.. and awesome skill players on offense.

there will be improvement in Detriot eventually!

That's stupid.



They were all qb's first.

Being mobile was an added dimension.I think the point was that someone like Vick never won a ring.

They also gave up 51 points against Arizona in the playoffs. They're good but overrated.

Reid also would not guarantee that Kevin Kolb will remain with the team after the Oct. 19 trade deadline, despite touting Kolb's "bright future" in the NFL.

"I can’t predict anything down that far, nobody in this league can do that, that’s ridiculous," Reid said. "The future, we’ll just have to see."

WTF went so horribly wrong for Kolb in less than a half of play that now the coach can't guarantee he won't be traded...

Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/i..._deadline.html

It's a dog-eat-dog world, jms62.

And Mike is the big dog in Philly now...

^^^^ Philly Daily News ripoff artist.

^^^ Needs to be muzzled

^^^ needs castration.