Michael Vick believes he can take Jets to Super Bowl
By Mike Dyce
It looks like the New York Jets are set to go with second-year quarterback Geno Smith under center. Jets head coach Rex Ryan isn’t necessarily coming out and saying Smith is the starter and left the door open for veteran Michael Vick, who the Jets signed this offseason, to come in and win the job.
“Geno Smith is going to be hard to beat out… He knows the offense forward and backwards,” Ryan said, via Manish Mehta of the New York Daily News. “Mike Vick definitely has a chance to win the job.”
Vick has contradicted his head coach and said that it isn’t really a quarterback competition.
“Going through the competition with Nick [Foles in Philadelphia], we knew both of us coming in that it was open competition and the best guy was going to win the job,” Vick said, via Seth Walder of the New York Daily News. “Pretty much cut and dry. This situation is different. It’s kind of unique. Even though it’s not an open competition, we’re both competing every day.”
If he were to win the job, Vick thinks he could get the Jets over that hurdle and to the promised land of the playoffs.
“I just feel like I can help any football team, any organization, particularly this football team, get to a Super Bowl,” Vick told the New York Daily News on Thursday. “It’s tough at this stage of my career because I still feel like I’m a fairly young player and I can still keep up. People make it seem like I’m getting older and things are not the same. I beg to differ.”
Vick also went on to support Smith and said he thinks that he’ll start the season as the starter.