I don’t know if Michael Vick can change the way he plays.
To be honest if he does it wouldn’t be good for the Eagles. He can play smarter, but the somewhat reckless way he approaches the quarterback position is what makes him so dangerous.
You want to keep that aggression, but just learn to get down or out-of-bounds to live to play another down.
“I want to make a promise to all my fans that I’m going to make a conscious effort, a cognitive effort, to make sure that I protect myself,” Vick told WPEN-FM in Philadelphia. “And you know my motto has been this for the last six months, and I repeatedly said to myself: ‘Get the next yard on the next play.’ Ya know, whether I’m running the football or scrambling or trying to do something improvising. Get the next yard on the next play. Vick talked about leaving yards for second and third down, an unusual suggestion for a quarterback, but the Eagles are pushing Vick to tone down the scramble-into-traffic act. “Praying to God that I can play 16 games,” Vick said.
He is correct, the Eagles can’t prosper if he isn’t on the field, so hopefully his prayers will be answered.