Vick gets 23 months for dogfighting (merged)

#3
#3
As a Falcons fan, it would be nice if this could finally shut the door on this ridiculous episode. I'd like to just move on to the "our team sucks; time to rebuild again" phase. I'm not sure I can stomach watching the MNF broadcast tonight.
 
#4
#4
Vercingetorix said:
As a Falcons fan, it would be nice if this could finally shut the door on this ridiculous episode. I'd like to just move on to the "our team sucks; time to rebuild again" phase. I'm not sure I can stomach watching the MNF broadcast tonight.
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So I take it that you are not pumped about the dawn of the Chris Redman Era?
 
#5
#5
The worst thing about the QB debacle is that the Falcons will probably have to burn their top-three draft pick on a QB. And QBs at that point in the draft are an awful gamble. I had hoped that Harrington or Leftwich could get it done well enough that the team could draft a (relatively) can't-miss type lineman in the first round (assuming McFadden goes to Miami), and then hope to pick up a QB in the 2nd or 3rd round. Now you have to assume that the Falcons' chances are tied to Brian Brohm; if he's a bust, then that puts the Falcons that much farther behind.

Trying to find something about how much time Vick will actually have to serve; I think you don't get out early as routinely with a federal sentence. The AJC reports that he'll be out of the league until at least 2010, once you factor in probation. He's done.
 
#6
#6
Unfortunately no one suffers through the "actual" punishment. The loop holes that are created make a mockery of our judicial system and many people are not subjected to the actuall punishment. In Vick's case, they will hit him where it hurts only breifly, his bank account, however I do feel that some justice is served. My point is simple, stars dont serve actual time. Well, not much of it really. Its been said before, but I'll drag it back out, if it were you or I, we'd be put under the jail. When we eventually got out, there would be no return to grace story for us. You cant throw a football when your in your 60's! Well, maybe thats not entirely true. Testerverde (spelling?) might argue that. :)

Anyhow, I guess this is great news, but nothing was really changed. The Falcons suck, but they werent going to set the world on fire this year with him anyway. They hit em in the bank account and we all know, thats what means most anyway so...I guess good job Justice System!
 
#7
#7
GAVol said:
So I take it that you are not pumped about the dawn of the Chris Redman Era?
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I'm not excited about any of the other potential eras that are college seniors right now either.. Not a good time to be shopping for a QB... Ryan, White, Brohm, Brennan... no thanks.
 
#8
#8
I just saw the AJC report about it being 2010 before he could play again. I can't imagine that a guy could play QB in the NFL after a 3 year layoff.
 
#9
#9
orange+white=heaven said:
I'm not excited about any of the other potential eras that are college seniors right now either.. Not a good time to be shopping for a QB... Ryan, White, Brohm, Brennan... no thanks.
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if petrino sticks around, which i honestly don't see why he wouldn't, I've got to think that qb sticks out a little more than all the others.
 
#11
#11
GAVol said:
Sounds like a really good time to trade down.
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only problem is the smartest thing for the Dolphins to do is trade down as well because they need help just about everywhere. McFadden is about the only player the Dolphins could draft that might be a bad idea.
 
#13
#13
orange+white=heaven said:
I'm not excited about any of the other potential eras that are college seniors right now either.. Not a good time to be shopping for a QB... Ryan, White, Brohm, Brennan... no thanks.
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The thing is that even QBs who look like a sure thing have only about a 50% success rate, and none of those guys look remotely like sure things. That's way too much crapshoot in my mind for a draft pick at which you desperately need to find a long-term answer to one of your problems.

Who's the best OL this year? Glenn Dorsey would be a nice pick, but the Falcons need OL much worse than DL right now.
 
#15
#15
"Federal rules governing time off for good behavior could reduce Vick's prison stay by about three months, resulting in a summer 2009 release," according to the AP.
 
#18
#18
Look at Jamal Lewis, he's only now just getting back to form after serving just a handful of months in custody.

Don't forget about the state charges yet to be levied upon Vick as well.
 
#22
#22
volfanbill said:
???

several people get as much as half of their sentence reduced. Getting only three months reduced is noteworthy for how little it is.
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I read that wrong. I interpreted it as 3 months total served, not reduced 3 months. My mistake.
 
#23
#23
All right, I'm not sure if anyone cares about the details -- I'm not sure I do anymore, and I'm a Falcons fan -- but here's how they apparently got to 23 months. Vick was originally supposed to get 12-15 months, per his plea bargain. But after the failed weed test, the judge had to bump it up to the next range, which is 18 to 24 months. So he went back to the US attorney to ask for a revised recommendation within that range, and the US attorney said, "Based on the fact that we don't believe he's cooperating like he promised to" -- among other things, Vick supposedly failed a polygraph test w/r/t the question of whether he personally killed dogs -- "then we recommend that he be given a sentence towards to the top end of that higher range." Thus 23 months.

(I heard it on the radio, so it must be true.)
 
#25
#25
Hope that weed was especially good, since it apparently resulted in him getting about eight more months in jail than he otherwise would've.
 
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