Even I am beginning to wonder.  I see how he hurt his ankle.  What I did not see was him limping into the dressing room for a cautionary x-ray.  It appeared to me that he was walking off at his natural gate.  There was no "walking gingerly" in his step that I saw.  Me thinks he wanted the x-ray, more than anyone else on the Falcons wanted him to have one, to protect his oh so potentially economically favorable long career.

Sheis, even that slimeball T.O. is playing with a hand that needs surgery and saying gimme the ball.  Did Vick even look like he wanted to get back in the game.  Hades no.  He looked very comfortable sitting on the bench with his little red knit cap on.  I  am reluctant to admit it, but I am becoming a hater.

It's his attitude that is beginning to really bug me.  Did he say anything to support his coach during the last week?  Not that I heard.  Not that anyone else heard either.  If you do not support your coach, it is very difficult to lead your team.

Vick isn't half the man DeAngelo Hall is.  Hall used his up and coming notoriety to support his coach, known to everyone ,for better or worse, as a player coach.  Vick can't support a player's coach?  Is it because Vick is not man enough to forgive Jim Mora Sr. for agreeing in an interview, after being asked, that Vick is a "coachkiller?"

That would be like Mora being mad at Vick for the "Ron Mexico" misadventure.  Wait a minute.  Is this the rift?  If it is, Mora did not show it.  He defended Vick in interview after interview.  It would have been nice if Vick would have reciprocated.

Of course, maybe Mora's hands were tied.  Afterall, it is obvious that Blank loves Vick.  After the 2004 season, when Vick and rookie coach Jim Mora Jr. led Atlanta into the NFC Championship Game, team owner Arthur Blank celebrated by signing Vick to a 10-year, $130 million contract extension. The salary cap consequences of cutting or trading Vick are now so cataclysmic that Vick and his team became immediate life partners.

Vick actually said this after today's game.  "I don't see how anybody can point the finger at me, I think I had a great season. I call myself 'Superman...,."  Yuck!  some team player.

It is also obvious that Blank does not love Mora.  Blank never bought that the Washington Huskies comments were said in jest.

Blank is on my nerves too.  I do not like the Jerry Jones coming down to the field late in the fourth quarter routine.  They can do it if they want to.  They are the owners.  But I don't like it.  It seems like an invasion onto the coaches turf to me.  I can see how it would cause problems with the coach being able to lead the team late in a close game.

Now Mora being a coaches player may hurt him.  Blank does not strike me as a servant leader.  No, he seems to be old school.  He seems to be more like Donald Trump.  I didn't like the way Blank fired Dan Reeves and I don't like the way he is about to fire Jim Mora Jr.,.  Tomorrow Arthur will prove to everyone that he is the Sherriff in the City of Blank Depot by firing Mora.  That's going to be two strikes against him in my book.

I left the Kansas City Chiefs because I got tired of Lamar Hunt, God rest his soul, and Carl Peterson.  I don't have anything against Rich McKay, I can't tell he is doing much.  It seems Blank is overly involved like Jones.  Who is the G.M. of the Dallas Cowboys anyway?

A new Head Coach, Offensive Coordinator, Defensive Coordinator, and staff is going to set us back another three years.  How is that going to set the Falcons up as perenial contenders?  And who wants the job?  Blank is trigger happy.  He is as bad as the owner of the Washington Redskins.  And the Falcons seem doomed to the same fate as the Redskins.

I will stay with the Falcons for the remaining three years of my five year contract I have with them.  But they have to keep my allegiance by making the playoffs again in that time.  Right now I don't have a lot of confidence that Blank and Vick can get that done.

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