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Mike Vick and Troy Smith

BleedRandG · 2010-11-08T17:20:07-08:00

The biggest reason why the Eagles won the game yesterday was because Vick demonstrated his dominant ability to scramble in the pocket. He ripped the colts with runs of 24 and 32 yards. On the other hand Vick had a Pedestrian day going just 17-29 and 218 yards and a TD. His ability to get out of the pocket and run made the colts defense frustrated and left them scrambling to find ways to try to defend it. He gave his team an edge and it proved to be the deciding factor in helping the Eagles win 26-24. It proves that, along with a good arm, being mobile in the pocket gives you a huge edge over the defense. Joe Montana had the same ability when he ran Bill Walsh's west coast offense as he often escaped pressure and turned what seemed to be a dead play into a big gain. If you have a QB that can scramble like Vick and throw like Montana you have yourself a weapon that cannot be countered. Troy Smith has the accuracy to be a good QB as well as the legs to be a Mike Vick type player. He could really be something special for us and I think he could be our future. In his first start he demonstrated that he possessed both the ability to pass with accuracy and scramble like Vick. On one play he scramble out of the pocket on a 3rd and short and threw a very accurate pass on the run to Josh Morgan for a big gain. On another he he escaped pressure and threw a short pass to Westbrook that gained us a first down. Other than that 1 yard TD run, he has yet to get one of those big runs for first downs. But as we all know from watching him in college he is more than capable of doing the same things that Vick does every time he plays. He has only played a game, but if he continues to improve upon what he did in London he could very well be what Alex could not and lead us where we want to go.

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