Andy Reid Must Give Michael Vick More Control Of The Offense

I want to see Andy Reid and Marty Mornhinweg push the envelope when they get the chance to work with Michael Vick this offseason. They need to let him call more of the plays on the field. Take off the training wheels. Anybody who has ever learned to ride a bicycle knows that you can’t go as fast with training wheels still on the bike.

Take them off, Andy.

They should use more no huddle offense to put defenses in a bind when they’re trying to get certain personnel on and off the field.

Reid and Mornhinweg must give up some of the control. They’ve had control for over a decade and we have no rings. Give up the control and let Vick run the show. If they spot a vulnerability in the defense, they go for the jugular, they don’t wait to get to the sideline to ask the coach if it’s alright to change the play.

Do you see the freedom and control Aaron Rodgers has in Green Bay? How about Drew Brees in New Orleans? What about Peyton Manning in Indianapolis? What do these quarterbacks have that we don’t? Control isn’t the only thing they have that we don’t have yet here in Philadelphia.

That’s the kind of control that Vick should have here. I know that would be nearly impossible if the lockout isn’t ended soon, but if it is, I want to see the training wheels taken off the Eagles quarterback.

I want to see Vick challenged to see how great does he want to be. We all know this offense must be unstoppable if they want to win a Super Bowl. I want to see Vick pressured to take his knowledge of the offense up to a level where a team is afraid to blitz this team with all of these weapons.

Vick needs to be calling and changing more of the plays to combat the blitzing. Again, I want to see Andy take the training wheels off of the quarterback in this offense. They controlled everything when Donovan McNabb was the quarterback and they won a lot of games, but they didn’t win any Super Bowls. Let’s try it a different way.

I want to see the controls of this offense handed over to Michael Vick. Maybe we need to have it done in a ceremony at Lincoln Financial Field on the day of the draft. I think that decision is just as important as who they decide to draft.

Reid should let Vick make the changes necessary and go with the play that he feels good about. Let’s say he walks to the line and sees a defense that can’t stop DeSean Jackson or Jeremy Maclin from getting deep. He should immediately change the play and go for the kill.

He should also be able to check out of a play against the blitz to go after a weakness in a defense. There’s no defense that is good against everything and that’s the advantage of letting the quarterback make decisions on the field.

Many times the quarterback sees the adjustment that needs to be made before anybody else because he’s on the field. Sure there are times when the coaches see if first, but this offense has to adjust much quicker than it has in the past. The team never truly adjusted to the blitzing strategy which was being employed by nearly every defense they faced in the second half of the season.

That can’t be allowed to happen again.

At least give him the chance to sink or swim. If they make some improvements up front, nobody should be able to stop this offense, once Vick shows he’s able to make the adjustments on the fly.

No more waiting until he gets to the sidelines to make adjustments. The longer we keeping waiting to make adjustments the longer we wait for a Lombardi Trophy.

Do you Eagles fans feel me? I started yelling at the screen during the season, change the play, they’re blitzing again.