The Facts:
Following up on the
ongoing story. ... Vick was asked to re-learn the quarterback position in certain respects when he came to Philadelphia, with mixed results. Sometimes the Masters degree he crammed for under Andy Reid and Marty Mornhinweg helped him, sometimes he looked encumbered by it. Now, he’ll be asked to learn another language. “I don’t know if it’s rebuilding. I think it’s going to be very new from what he was trained to do because systematically it’s going to be different,” said current OC Pat Shurmur. “But it’s something that we’ll teach it in a way where he’ll be able to pick it up quickly and get out there and do what he does.”
Reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer
Fantasy Football Diehards Line:
As PhillyMag.com's Tim McManus suggested, new HC Chip Kelly seems to prefer a simplified approach to football, and the coaches have been quick to point out that they are not reinventing the wheel here, so they don’t anticipate a gigantic learning curve. But there will be one. A lot of it is about getting accustomed to new verbiage. Kelly wants everything to be truncated. “It will probably be a less wordy operation,” said Shurmur. “No matter what we decide to run or what the plays are, we’ll try to have one or two words to paint the picture instead of five or six. ..." How fast can Vick [and the rest of the QBs on the roster] play in the new system? McManus believes that will be part of the evaluation during Kelly’s open quarterback competition.
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