With 20th Pick, Bucs Select… Michael Vick
April 22nd, 2011
It’s at this point of the year, with less than a week to go for the NFL draft, Joe’s just about tapped out on mock drafts.
It seems cool cat Maoist Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports is tapped out on mock drafts year round. In what has turned out to be a tradition with Silver, he mocks the mock drafts by using a mock draft where every player in the NFL is available for selection.
In this not-so-surreal world — Joe will explain why it’s not so surreal in a moment — the Bucs go after quarterback Michael Vick.
20. Tampa Bay Buccaneers – Michael Vick, QB: The Ultimate Mock Draft has officially come full circle. In UMD I, with Vick coming off an NFC championship game appearance for the Falcons, I made him the No. 1 selection based on his raw talent, youth and potential. That looked more and more absurd as the years passed – until last season, when Vick’s resurrection with the Eagles became the NFL’s most compelling story. Granted Vick, who’ll be 31 by the start of next season, is one off-the-field mistake away from putting his career in jeopardy. However, it’s not like that will scare away the Mark Dominik/Raheem Morris regime, which drafted Aqib Talib, signed LeGarrette Blount and seems to exhibit the kind of “morally casual attitude” that Boone referenced in “Animal House.” So the Bucs bite on Vick, meaning he’ll return to the Georgia Dome on an annual basis.
Well, first, Joe has to clarify something Silver wrote. Dominik and Morris did not draft Talib, it was Chucky, who didn’t give a damn if a guy was still wearing an orange jump suit and tip-toed around in shackles so long as he could play football. Rap sheets did not exist in the eyes of Chucky.
Also, comparing Talib to Blount is simply absurd if not outrageous. The only thing Blount ever did was was drill some clown in the grill after a game, and Joe is convinced to this day said the clown something to Blount that would incite violence. Talib already had a well-documented track record prior to leaving college.
It’s a shame that someone Joe respects as much as Silver would be so reckless.
But back to what Joe mentioned earlier, that this concept Silver has is not so far-fetched. If the lawyers and the suits — not the football people — get their way with the NFL labor lockout, each and every player will be a free agent after each season.
Rather than a draft, it would be a free agency free-for-all. So Silver’s tongue-in-cheek mocking of the mock draft is much closer to reality than even he may have realized when he began mocking the mock draft.
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:38 pm
I’d rather pick my a$$ 20 times, than pick Mike ‘Dog Killer’ Vick!
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Joe
Look at the coach in white shirt and blue hat right before the punch. He clearly doesn’t like what his player just said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEu3GzNDs74
April 22nd, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Theodore:
Oh, Joe knows. He’s seen that video many times. Pretty obvious Blount was provoked.
April 22nd, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Joe I don’t really understand what you’re saying. Why would we sign Michael Vick?
April 22nd, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Patrick:
Read Silver’s column. You’ll understand then.
(Hint: Silver is mocking mock drafts.)
April 22nd, 2011 at 2:30 pm
No way. There is no way every player will be a free agent every season. It will never, ever happen.
April 22nd, 2011 at 2:31 pm
Dog killa.
April 22nd, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Theo
‘The only thing Blount ever did was was drill some clown in the grill after a game…’
And go after his teammates and some fans.
He was a rabid DOG after that game!
April 22nd, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Joe,
I may be the wrong one, but I am pretty sure you are mistaken on what the lawsuit would end up causing (even in worst case scenario.) While every player would have the ability to be a free agent without a draft or free agency restrictions, they would still have to sign contracts. These contracts could, and probably would have stipulations regarding the length of the contract, just like any other work contract.
April 22nd, 2011 at 3:09 pm
I would like to mock Silver’s mocked mock draft but he did such a good job sounding stupid that i don’t know where to start.
April 22nd, 2011 at 3:22 pm
Here a mock, there a mock, everywhere a mock, mock! E-I-E-I- Joe!
April 22nd, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Joe,
There are many articles from nashville suggesting that the reason blount was exposed by the titans was that he did something similar there.
April 22nd, 2011 at 3:40 pm
There is actually youtube video of it. I suspect we havent heard the last of this kind of stuff from blount.
Google: blount titans punch.
April 22nd, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Freeman goes 12th. Awesome.
April 22nd, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Vick going 20th to the Bucs isn’t the story here. The story is Freeman going 12th in a draft of ALL NFL players. Now that’s saying something.
April 22nd, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Thomas 2.2:
Blount did something similar… in practice. If Joe had a dollar for every fight there is in practice, Joe might have enough cash to sway Rachel Watson.
Swinging in practice is one thing, swinging a helmet in practice is quite another.
April 22nd, 2011 at 8:23 pm
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
April 23rd, 2011 at 3:59 am
Oh no, there was a fight in practice!!!! Oh no, Thomas, a fight in football, how could that happen???? In training camp?? That never happens.
Are you friggin kidding me? Are you that really that stupid Thomas, or just running out of Buc-bashing material? I’ve been around college basketball my whole life, both as a player and a coach’s son, and there are usually about 4-5 fights a year within a team (and that’s a “nonviolent” sport). It’s called sports and being competitive. Wake up to the real world buddy! To think that you actually believe that the Titans cut him because of that. You, my friend, are a MOW-RON!