Vick isn't getting many "live" reps so far. He's a tiny part of the on-field practice scene, even as he dominates media coverage of the Eagles. It seems obvious that the Eagles aren't going to judge this experiment on a few days or even weeks of work.
"He hasn't played football for 2 years, and so it's going to be a process," offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg said yesterday, in Mornhinweg's first news conference since the Eagles signed the 29-year-old former Pro Bowl quarterback who missed the last two seasons while serving a prison term for running a dogfighting ring. "We're going to work with him after virtually every practice on one thing, maybe two. And we've got to get him back to football shape. I think he's in pretty good shape, but back to football movements. I think he's been throwing a little bit; he looked good throwing the ball yesterday, so I think we'll be fine there . . . He will be in an intensive learning situation right now and all the way through."
After being introduced at a Friday news conference, Vick did not speak to reporters over the weekend, except to comment "this is weird" when he saw a few dozen media members gathered around his locker cubicle following Saturday's practice.
Yesterday's postpractice session was conducted with Mornhinweg, offensive quality control coach Doug Pederson and quarterbacks coach James Urban. Vick would drop back, throw a short pass to Pederson, then run a couple sprints before dropping back and throwing again.
Mornhinweg said the priority would be teaching Vick the quarterback position in Andy Reid's version of the West Coast offense - any work on special packages would come after the first goal was accomplished.
