Michael Vick Accounts for Two Touchdowns in 34-7 Win

Written By Bob Cunningham On Sunday, December 06, 2009

Someone find the monkey that fell off Vick's back.



After not scoring a single touchdown all season long, Michael Vick accounted for two today. He ran his first one in from five yards out, and his second one came through the air on a pass to Brent Celek where Vick rolled left, and threw the ball all the way back across his body to the right.

Before that, Vick hit Reggie Brown on a 43-yard bomb to set up the touchdown pass. The ball was a bit underthrown, but Brown was able to come back to it, fight through a defender called for interference, and come down with the catch.

Unfortunately, Vick injured his right thumb and gave way to Kevin Kolb for the rest of the fourth quarter. Had Vick not been injured, he probably would have been allowed to take the reps for the rest of the game.

It's almost a story too good to write. Vick comes back into the league with a lot of hype, but once he gets his shot, we find out that there may have in fact been too much hype.

He didn't produce a whole lot all year long, causing many writers and bloggers, nationally or local, to ask if the Vick experiment was a waste of time.

So in the midst of all the pessimism surround Vick's season and the future of his career, he comes back to where everything started in Atlanta and scores his first two touchdowns of the season.

He didn't save the game, he didn't throw for 300 yards or rush for 100, and he didn't look like the Pro Bowl-caliber athlete that he was before his run-in with the law, but he looked like a guy who can be a key cog for this team in the final month of the regular season and into the playoffs.

The Mike Vick experiment hasn't failed, it's just taken a little while before the Eagles saw results.


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