{"id":435,"date":"2007-08-21T12:01:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T18:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=435"},"modified":"2007-08-21T12:11:49","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T18:11:49","slug":"vick-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"Vick Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, he&#8217;s plead out. But I still think Easterbrook was right. It was frightening how quickly and nastily people turned on Michael Vick.  Steve Hummer writes a great epitaph <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/sports\/content\/sports\/falcons\/stories\/2007\/08\/20\/vickriseandfall_0821.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reading through <em>Pro Football Prospectus<\/em> right now and one of the things they&#8217;ve found is that QBs who come out early are more likely to flop. Actually, they don&#8217;t say it quite that way. They say that the two indicators of how well a QB will do in the professional ranks are how many games he started in college and his completion percentages. These measure, respectively, experience and intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Guys like Mike Vick and Ryan Leaf tend to come out of college early after having a magical season. They&#8217;ve never faced adversity or dealt with fame or learned how to be a real quarterback. They&#8217;ve been athletically gifted their entire lives, had instant success in college and gone straight into fame and fortune. The only difference was that Vick&#8217;s athletic prowress eclipsed that of Leaf &#8212; so it took a little longer for him to implode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, he&#8217;s plead out. But I still think Easterbrook was right. It was frightening how quickly and nastily people turned on Michael Vick. Steve Hummer writes a great epitaph here. I&#8217;m reading through Pro Football Prospectus right now and one of the things they&#8217;ve found is that QBs who come out early are more likely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=435\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vick Redux<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-71","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}