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Falcons traded the wrong QB
By
Furman Bisher | Friday, March 23, 2007, 11:57 PM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Furman Bisher
To get to the point, the Falcons traded the wrong quarterback. Of course, that?s an illogical conclusion. They had no alternative. How are they going to dump a $70 million load on some other NFL team? The logical conclusion is that Arthur Blank and his franchise are wed to Michael Vick, and when an athlete?s picture begins to appear more often on the front page than the sports page, it?s a marriage in trouble.
Now, having said all that, you?ll note the modest little line that appears beneath the picture of that grizzled old guy accompanying this column, that what is written here is strictly my opinion. The very notion that the Falcons could have traded Vick rather than Matt Schaub is preposterous. But it was a question of hanging onto the quarterback from Wahoo U. and losing him next winter. Schaub is a commodity. He is a quarterback in the NFL tradition, drop back, find the target, deliver the pass or hand off. Run only when under defensive duress.
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