Michael Vick to be Benched, Nick Foles In as the Eagles Continue to Stumble [UPDATE: Conflicting Reports Now Say Possibility But Not Decided]
Michael Vick looks to be out in Philadelphia, and Nick Foles in at quarterback, according to Michael Fabiano of NFL Network. Vick sounded like a man who was resigned to his fate after the game yesterday, acknowledging it was a possibility.
Yesterday, though, it was the defense with new defensive coordinator Todd Bowles that got handled, as the Falcons had 27 of the first 30 plays. The Eagles offense was behind with one 3 and out 14-0, and the game never recovered. Vick has been struggling this year, though, holding the ball too long, and the Eagles offense needs something.
Last week, it was Juan Castillo. This week, it sounds like it is Michael Vick. Pretty soon, they are going to run out of people to bench, and it will end with Andy Reid.
[UPDATE #1: Ian Rapoport, who also works for NFL Network, says no decision made . . . yet, though his sources say it would not surprise if Vick benched.]
[UPDATE #2: The "Vick likely to be benched" report came from Howard Eskin, and Fabiano apparently passed it on without crediting.]
[photo via US Presswire]

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October 29th, 2012 at 1:18 PM
http://twitter.com/HurcaneSandy
October 29th, 2012 at 1:19 PM
FURIOUS WANKING
/phillymantis, johndewar, etc..
October 29th, 2012 at 1:19 PM
“hi, andy? this is jimmy haslam, how the hell you doin?”
October 29th, 2012 at 1:19 PM
Ugh. Vick is my fantasy football QB. Was hoping to at least get the Saints game from him.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:21 PM
you in the TBL league? i got weeden stashed on my bench…YOU KNOW YOU WANNA.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:21 PM
I am definitely buying a bottle of Dom once Reid is fired. The end of the overrated Walrus is almost at hand.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:22 PM
Loading up on NO as soon as the lines come out. I don’t care if NO can’t play defense. Neither can Philly, but at least NO can play offense.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:22 PM
Not in the TBL league. I will now have to rely upon the immortal Carson Palmer.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:22 PM
So, an offense that was ostensibly left-hand dominant/more mobile QB transitions to more of a right-handed/more stay-in-the-pocket style. Literally at mid-season.
“It sounds wacky, but it just might work”.
Looking forward to see how Foles works out, actually.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:23 PM
you mean immortal in the david-from-prometheus sense right? because i think the metaphor of a cyborg-head with a destroyed body being stranded in a desolate moonscape of an environment is quite spot the fuck on.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:23 PM
Who are you kidding – you didn’t even bother to field a complete lineup this week.
/belt
October 29th, 2012 at 1:25 PM
Who signs Vick next year? The star-fucker owners in Miami? Jerrah? Arizona?
October 29th, 2012 at 1:25 PM
i only join fantasy leagues for the draft…yall are idiots for keeping on inviting me.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:26 PM
Back up in Buffalo.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:26 PM
i only join fantasy leagues for the draft…yall are idiots for keeping on inviting me.
And Spencer has just turned heel.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:26 PM
Your belt is coming to me soon. Considering I killed Broccoli Beef this week.
It’s not gonna be pretty
October 29th, 2012 at 1:27 PM
despite stephen ross being star-fucking, i dont think he’ll go for Vick, especially if Miami finishes 8-8 or better
October 29th, 2012 at 1:27 PM
Why not the Chargers? Beautiful area. Could use a QB.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:29 PM
i was born heel, KC.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:30 PM
He’s said this at least 100 times over the last few years. He’s single-handedly ruined 7 different league playoffs.
/Nobody reads the comments
October 29th, 2012 at 1:30 PM
He looked a’ight in the preseason.
Weeden is getting better & better. Tannehill is holding his own. You know about that RGIII cat. Luck is competitive. This is a good era to be a rookie QB.
Why not Foles? As long as he doesn’t fumble, that is an upward trend, right?
October 29th, 2012 at 1:32 PM
Foles was a really good QB in college at Arizona. He was the victim of having a bad defense and a Stoops as head coach
October 29th, 2012 at 1:32 PM
i was born heel, KC. Spencer
I envisioned this when I read that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy-LQH8N6Ug
October 29th, 2012 at 1:33 PM
Well this is absolutely awesome.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:33 PM
Maybe this storm will pick up a bit, and I understand that coastal flooding is an issue… but damn… some brisk wind and a little rain shuts down the entire east coast for 2 days? If Jim Cantore had hair it’d barely be moving and he’s in Battery Park.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:33 PM
He’s said this at least 100 times over the last few years. He’s single-handedly ruined 7 different league playoffs.
/Nobody reads the comments Rex
I have honestly never seen that, but I’m not in any TBl fantasy leagues so I wouldn’t have been paying attention.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:34 PM
im honestly surprised people still spend time on fantasy sports…i mean, like, what the fuck, man?
October 29th, 2012 at 1:35 PM
The storm isn’t supposed to hit here (east of syracuse, NY) until after 5PM tonight
October 29th, 2012 at 1:35 PM
http://twitter.com/HurcaneSandy
Well this is absolutely awesome.
“hurricane sandy @HurcaneSandy
KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE, THE OTHER HALF IS ME FUCKING UP YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. #SANDY”
October 29th, 2012 at 1:35 PM
Nice one. Flutie 2.0. I could see it happening
October 29th, 2012 at 1:36 PM
Partial to this one:
@HurcaneSandy
USING THE STICK FIGURES ON THE BACK OF YOUR VAN AS A HITLIST.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:37 PM
the Eagles offensive line is still garbage. Doesn’t matter who the OL is. Danny Watkins is an absolute bust (an unhealthy, but healthy scratch).
October 29th, 2012 at 1:37 PM
CRM hates all of you right now.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:38 PM
! I hope it doesn’t get that bad. The Flutie “era” in SD more circus than anything else.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:38 PM
CRM hates all of you right now.
That is nothing new.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:38 PM
what a whiny piece of shit.
/via ndub
October 29th, 2012 at 1:39 PM
He knows why this is happening. He. Knows.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:39 PM
didn’t CRM get hitched recently? we should be the last thing he ever cares about.
/except for NDub
October 29th, 2012 at 1:39 PM
im honestly surprised people still spend time on fantasy sports…i mean, like, what the fuck, man?
“Also, I like golf,” continued sixty-five year old man.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:40 PM
you know what i think might be a decent pairing? mike’s vick and martz.
bear with me…long developing downfield routes stretch the defense vertically, and the lack of any type of blocking gives vick ample opportunities to work in open space. sell out to blitz, vick’s cannon beats you over the top. sell out against the pass, you gotta deal with vick in space and leave WR’s open.
/counterpoint: i thought carson palmer would be good in oakland.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:41 PM
golf is like life, bro. id explain it to you, but first, you’d have to hit this bong.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:41 PM
Say it isn’t so. C’mon, CRM. We’re your favorite OFPs. You don’t hate us…do you?
October 29th, 2012 at 1:42 PM
Quite the misogynist, that Sandy.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:42 PM
Say it isn’t so. C’mon, CRM. We’re your favorite OFPs. You don’t hate us…do you?
He hates topical twitter accounts. Like, really hates them.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:45 PM
Glorious.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:45 PM
RIP Eagles Dream Team 2011-2012.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:45 PM
My favorite:
hurricane sandy @HurcaneSandy
LETS SCISSOR VAGINAS RT: @schmoss @hurcanesandy U aint nothin but a big ole bag o wind & rain. Settle down girlfriend. We know your fierce!
October 29th, 2012 at 1:45 PM
never change, romeo.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:46 PM
I’m with CRM.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:46 PM
Yeah I usually avoid the topical accounts but this one is gold.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:47 PM
Since the convo appears to have died down… Can we talk about how great Homeland was last night?
My one issue was that they were afraid to keep Brody for too long because they didn’t want his terrorist handlers to know that he’s been made… but wouldn’t they figure that out anyway when they discover that the video was taken from that terrorist guy’s office?
October 29th, 2012 at 1:47 PM
Wow, way to cover your tail there, you sensitive pussy.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:47 PM
I’m with CRM.
I am too… if only because 99.99999999% of the time they aren’t even remotely funny.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:47 PM
mole…wanna talk about how shitty boardwalk was? i mean, at some point, SOMETHING’S gotta happen, right?
October 29th, 2012 at 1:48 PM
LOL
October 29th, 2012 at 1:48 PM
I watched sports
October 29th, 2012 at 1:50 PM
Spence, I just watched last night’s Boardwalk and I have no idea what the fuck that hour accomplished.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:50 PM
Boardwalk was kind of ridiculous last night…if she could claim Jimmy as dead already why did she have to pick up some guy who looked like him and then stage a suicide? What the fuck was that all about? And the scene with Rosetti yelling at Jesus in the church seemed like a lame attempt to give him another side…..he was portrayed as a psychopath at the start of the season, don’t try to give him an introspective side you stupid fuck writers.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:50 PM
Yep.
But I hate popular stuff, which according to Kaiser, is inherently good because it’s popular.
/reads Fired Elmo
//OH MY GOD SO FUNNY
October 29th, 2012 at 1:50 PM
mole…wanna talk about how shitty boardwalk was? i mean, at some point, SOMETHING’S gotta happen, right?
One of my majors was history (I know-useless!) but anyways, this show really bugs the shit out me. I usually love period pieces, but knowing what happens and combining that with fictional portrayals of people that existed and those that didn’t is irritating. No idea why they went that route.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:50 PM
Boardwalk has reached full-on Sopranos aimlessness. There are far too many characters doing far too much nothing. They need a bloodbath or plotline convergence in a real bad way. Game of Thrones can juggle 16 different plotlines like a pro, but Boardwalk can’t even make a few interesting.
It’s unreal to see this statement under my name, but I’d rather watch TWD than Boardwalk on Sunday nights right now.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:50 PM
Can we talk about how great Homeland was last night?
now with me. I was watching football, then squeezed in walking dead at half, but went back to football. I even watched one entire inning of baseball. I couldnt’ really get that show started, because it was so late already.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:51 PM
Can we talk about how great Homeland was last night?
I watched sports
As did I. Fired it up about 5 minutes after the final out last night. Was tucked in bed by midnight.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:51 PM
Didn’t watch it. Was watching “The Trip” instead. Will watch tonight.
Definitely giving up on it after this season though.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:51 PM
im assuming keeping him in water would make the corpse only barely recognizable. assuming for insurance or something? yea, i have no fucking clue.
the scene with him at the table with his daughters, wife and MIL? yea…im assuming that’s what my sicilian grandfather looked like when he was that age.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:52 PM
Will watch tonight.
Be prepared for a stupid metaphor involving juggling.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:52 PM
I hear similar complaints about Boardwalk and Treme. Mainly that nothing ever happens on that show. I’ve not watched a minute of either, so I don’t know how true that complaint is.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:52 PM
wanna talk about how shitty boardwalk was? i mean, at some point, SOMETHING’S gotta happen, right?
I didn’t watch this one either, but it has been woefully uninteresting for nearly 2 seasons, so I am starting not to care, at all.
Naked ladies I’ve seen. So unless somebody set Mrs Schroeder on fire, I don’t care.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:52 PM
No talking Homeland yet. But I did watch Boardwalk. And by watch I mean I FF’ed through most of it.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:52 PM
it made you THINK about the characters man…didnt you get the role reversal? eli as the responsible family man? nucky the brother in need? gyp sympathetic?
HAMFIST.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:53 PM
Pretty sure 93% of all suicides occur within the first 8 minutes of a missing person reappearing.
/I just hope she remembers to destroy his laptop cpu.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:53 PM
too late…now a bloodbath would seem arbitrary and a clutsy attempt to inject live action into a simmering political drama.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:54 PM
gyp sympathetic?
This is completely inexcusable to me. Stop trying to make him human. You just fucking portrayed him having rough, animalistic sex in the last episode….don’t give him a fucking sensitive side now.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:55 PM
They need a bloodbath or plotline convergence in a real bad way.
too late…now a bloodbath would seem arbitrary and a clutsy attempt to inject live action into a simmering political drama.
They just had a bloodbath 2 weeks ago. A naked, bloody donged bloodbath.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:55 PM
im sorry, i LOVED the scene with him and his daughters. that was the most real his character has been all season.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:55 PM
you call taht a bloodbath? i called that a blood spritz.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:56 PM
I think she needed a Jimmy lookalike for the insurance. But they did a piss poor job of explaining that a body was required for the claim.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:56 PM
For some reason I thought his revival happened in SD instead of Buffalo. I only remembered the Flutie-led Chargers kicking the shit out of that awful 2003 Mike Tice Vikings team.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:56 PM
i think the flutie chargers had something like a 5-1 start or something and then tanked from there on out.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:57 PM
I think she needed a Jimmy lookalike for the insurance. But they did a piss poor job of explaining that a body was required for the claim.
Thank you, that sort of makes sense.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:57 PM
One that kills off important characters. When’s the last time we saw Chalky? Why does Capone or Rothstein only show up every other week?
October 29th, 2012 at 1:57 PM
He hates topical twitter accounts. Like, really hates them.
That is so very CRM.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:57 PM
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. One does not refute the other.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:57 PM
Made you should pay more attention to Uncle Junior.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:58 PM
She had him almost immediately found by the gals.
Also, I assume those were Gyp’s overbearing sisters, thus creating a more ham-fisted way of making him a sympathetic figure.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:58 PM
you want me to believe that the contingent beneficiary of jimmy’s life insurance was his mother and not his kid tommy? WELL I FIND THAT HARD TO BELIEVE.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:58 PM
Jamaal Charles was the Chiefs 6th leading rusher yesterday (and 6th most effective)…I applaud Romeo for keeping him on the bench.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:58 PM
Why does Capone or Rothstein only show up every other week?
It looks like a lot of the characters who have been kept on the side for the last season and a half are going to come up in next week’s episode. I’m liking what they are doing with the Capone story line and the Luciano story line, even if they aren’t explaining how it relates to Atlantic City and Nucky. Basically this season has gone off in a dozen different directions simply because the writers feel like they can.
October 29th, 2012 at 1:59 PM
not true…she was fully dressed and made up when talking with richard when the girls found the body.
how long does it take water to bloat a body?
/not asking you specifically, even tho…well…you like staring off into the distance on bridges and shit
October 29th, 2012 at 1:59 PM
just found out i passed the michigan bar exam
/completely irrelevant comment
//felt like bragging
October 29th, 2012 at 1:59 PM
Treme is more of an atmospheric show, and its pace is designed to mimic a New Orleans way of life. While the first season sorta just moseyed along, I’d argue that the second and third seasons are much more plot-focused. Either way, the acting and writing is fucking spectacular. I understand why people haven’t taken to Treme, but it’s probably the best show on TV.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:00 PM
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. One does not refute the other.
Of course they don’t, but why do we the audience need to see Rosetti as anything but an animalistic, bloodthirsty sociopath? I think giving him any sort of sympathetic, sensitive side ruins him as a character.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:01 PM
the jesus speech was an attempt to get the audience to sympathize, but i think the dinner scene was an attempt to show exactly why he takes everything so personally…id go nuts in that house too. sicilian chicks are fucking batshit crazy.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:01 PM
the jesus speech was an attempt to get the audience to sympathize, but i think the dinner scene was an attempt to show exactly why he takes everything so personally…id go nuts in that house too. sicilian chicks are fucking batshit crazy.
I didn’t dislike the dinner scene, but the church scene was utterly useless.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:02 PM
and robbing a priest? GET THE FUCK OUT.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:02 PM
Can we all agree not to comment on the next post?
October 29th, 2012 at 2:02 PM
more useless scene…church scene or any scene with margaret?
October 29th, 2012 at 2:03 PM
GLAD YOU ASKED! Actually, the main factor is water temp, but either way, even a day in the tub won’t decompose it. Decomp is slower in water, especially if cool. Other changes occur, but for the purposes of this show and discussion, it’s just a silly, shitty plot point.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:04 PM
HOLY FUCKING SHIT…
margaret schroeder – skylar white’s maiden name is “schroeder”
COINCIDENCE I THINK NOT.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:04 PM
more useless scene…church scene or any scene with margaret?
Toss up. Margaret needs to die. At one point in season 1 her character was an important part of the storyline, but now she seems to be there just to remind everyone that we are in the 1920s and that society was a changin’.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:04 PM
Church scene. It was a completely useless “look at me” scene.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:04 PM
i wont consider it silly if it kills off the gillian plot and allows richard to get hired by nucky.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:06 PM
and allows richard to get hired by nucky.
I really want this to happen. Sleater doesn’t seem as badass as he did last season. He’s gotten soft from spending too much time in Katie and Maraget’s ridiculously large undergarments.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:06 PM
No, it will just create the amazing camera shots of surprised, eyebrow-raised but clearly in the know people, such as Nucky.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:08 PM
it’s funny because it’s true.
agreed…but he hasn’t had much of a reason to either, with nucky losing a lot of juice.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:08 PM
You Joe Bush’d the fuck out of this.
Her maiden name is Lambert.
Her sister’s name is SCHRADER, but that’s Hank’s name.
Good lord.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:08 PM
Congrats!
October 29th, 2012 at 2:09 PM
i figured the caps would signify the obvious sarcasm…guess not.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:10 PM
… sure you did
October 29th, 2012 at 2:11 PM
YOU GOT ME.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:11 PM
BABE
October 29th, 2012 at 2:13 PM
That’s what killed Frank’s Place.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:13 PM
lol…that was good.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:15 PM
If it involves this Flutie, then OK.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:15 PM
whoa…what flutie is that?
October 29th, 2012 at 2:18 PM
I’m so waiting for Monster Is Meth to show up so I can belittle the fuck out of him for living in a hurricane zone.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:19 PM
Flutie’s daughter, Alexis. Patriots cheerbabe.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:21 PM
kif…what was that disease i had?
ugh…sexlexia.
/what i think of whenever i read the name “alexis”
October 29th, 2012 at 2:23 PM
Pnub: Don’t you ever watch the news?
Anton: Man, I hate that show.
Idle Hands. Love it.
/ Teenaged Jessica Alba’d
October 29th, 2012 at 2:24 PM
Coach killer. Too soon?
I can’t root for Foles b/c he looks like my cousin, Chuck.
Yeah, that Chuck, who is now in prison. For child porn related stuff.
/Seriously … true.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:24 PM
OH YEA.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:40 PM
just found out i passed the michigan bar exam
Congrats!
Thank you, kind sir.
October 29th, 2012 at 2:40 PM
You know, if Reid wasn’t such an absentee father, Vick wouldn’t need to be benched.
/ That guy
October 29th, 2012 at 2:42 PM
Also, is that a clean-shaven Reid in the background of the photo?