Does Vick deserve a second chance?

and I thought he was mature enough to start working his butt off to be a starting QB I would give him a shot. I would not sign him to be a WR or a Wild Cat specialist however because to me this is a boom or bust thing. The backlash of signing him from the public and PETA would be so huge that unless he was going to be a major contributer I do not think it would be worth it.

someone will offer him a deal eventually, barring league sentencing. If a QB goes down early in the year (like a Brad Johnson in for Romo situation) or a team is desperate for a back-up, he’ll at least get a strong look from some ball clubs. It’s easy for a coach or GM to say that Vick’s paid his dept to society if their asses are on the hot seat.

New England, Seattle, Dallas, San Francisco

The ideal road for him is to go somewhere that already has a high profile QB and/or Coach, establish himself as simply an NFL player for two seasons. During that time he’ll likely be given some small opportunity to showcase his skills once again, giving him a chance to get a semi decent contract when he becomes a free agent in a few seasons.

Is jerry jones just going to pick him up at prison, or will he just be waiting at Vick’s house?

I don’t care what happens with this dude.
I have been given so many chances in life it’s not my place to judge.
I volunteer with animal shelters occasionally and my wifey is always watching the Animal Planet cops show and if I ever came across someone beating a dog, I would drop him. Sometimes it’s hard to control your emotions when your a 6’2" 225lb MMA trained, testosterone fueled nutball. but I digress ….. Whats done is done, and I would never root for this guy, but I will not want to prevent him from bettering himself either, because it can happen. I just hope that one day he will truely come realize the value and fragility of all life and that it is a thing to be grateful for and not destroyed at will.
I have had Boxers and Bulldogs my whole life and I can tell you they are part of my family.

i still think the brutal torturing and murdering of creatures out weighs vicks gambling problem by a long shot … i could care less if the guy blows his money on the horse races … now if your hinting that he may be throwing games for profit then yes that can be quite serious …. but the dog raping issues should be enough to not even let this punk through the doors in the first place… i dont understand how any dog owner could forgive him … assuming that there is a good few people who do that will be responsible in determining if vick can come back

It’s about whether his actions were egregious enough to deserve a lifetime ban from the NFL.

If the dog fighting thing was his first fuck up, I’d say, do your time and get on with it, but this jerk off has already had like 5 “2nd” chances. At what point do you say enough is enough and cut ties. It drives me CRAZY when assholes like this, who are afforded every opportunity in life just don’t get it. He looks at his job in the NFL as a RIGHT not a privilege.

Maybe it’s because I got laid off and am out of work that I’m so bitter about this guy but man, if I got a job making anywhere near what he made, I’d be afraid of leaving the house so I didn’t fuck that up. This asshole just screws up over and over again and doesn’t even consider the fact that there could be long term repercussions for his actions, because there never are any.

He wasn’t that good of a QB to begin with, more like a glorified RB. Seriously, if the Eagles took him on, I’d have to find a new team. Let him go make $50/week in the Arena league to see how good he had it.

If a team will hire him then he deserves another chance.

Now that said, I wouldn’t want him as an Eagle. I would root for the guy, I don’t like him, I think what he did was disgusting… but he did his time. I don’t have a problem with him earning a living if he finds a team that wants him.

Without going into a long discussion at the moment, all of this just brings up the social problem of the double standard. Just like the double standards amongst the sexes, sports stars are awarded special treatment from the beginning. I was talking about it with a friend last night and he made a good point. The reason why stars/athletes are the way they are is partially due to how they are brought up in life. Student athletes are put a step above the rest many times. They are coddled and get away with a lot of crap! If this is their upbringing, if they are never “taught a lesson” (in the sense that they get punished when they do something wrong and abide by the same rules/laws as normal students/people), then we have to expect them to act the way they do. Instead of ranting/rambling about this, I’ll let you guys ruminate this whole idea of a double standard.

Vick did a terrible thing and there is no coming back from what he did. I just think that we as a society are what create a person like Vick (moreso his persona). If we expect to treat athletes the way we do, letting them off easy if they committ a mistake, having other’s do the required work for them (college athletes, for example, have papers written for them), and pretty much put them a step above the rest, than reinstating Vick into the NFL shouldn’t be surprising.

I’m one of those that although I’m not for dog fighting, I don’t think what he did was really worth the federal sentence he got…it was obviously compounded by him not being forthright once the controversy starting rolling, but I truly believe he was actually singled out for being a high profile athlete in this case.

So, yes, I think he deserves a second chance.

IF I GOT ARRESTED AND WAS SENT TO PRISON ON A MULTIPULE YEAR SENTENCE, I KNOW MY BOSS WOULD NOT HIRE ME BACK.