Don’t Look For Vick To Go To Seattle

We aren’t looking for reasons to pick on ESPN’s John Clayton regarding the teams that he thinks Mike Vick could end up joining. But we can’t keep our mouths shut regarding our disagreement with his assessments. Clayton’s list includes the Seahawks, given that former Falcons coach Jim Mora is now the head coach there. Setting aside for now the fact that Mora’s dad once had to apologize for calling Vick a “coach killer,” the younger Mora’s words from Tuesday night’s SportsCenter special tell us everything we need to know. “I don’t know that everybody sees him as a quarterback,” Mora said in a pre-taped segment. “I spent three years with the guy, and the most consistent question I got was, ‘Does he have the skill set of an NFL quarterback or is he better suited to play another position?’” Said ESPN’s Ed Werder in response, “But you always stated your belief that he was a quarterback, and could succeed at the position.” Replied Mora, followed by a slight ish-eating grin: “Because he was my quarterback.” And so the common belief is that Vick won’t be permitted to play quarterback on a full-time basis if/when he’s reinstated. And so if Vick decides he wants to play quarterback only, he might have to go to the UFL (as Clark Judge of CBSSports.com points out) in order to show the NFL that he can still play the position he was playing when he entered the league as the first overall pick in the draft.