{"id":4643,"date":"2013-08-20T14:43:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T18:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=4643"},"modified":"2013-08-20T14:43:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T18:43:24","slug":"michael-vick-named-eagles-starting-qb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2013\/08\/20\/michael-vick-named-eagles-starting-qb\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Vick named Eagles starting QB"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael Vick has won the starting quarterback job of the Philadelphia Eagles. Signed to a one-year deal the Eagles will trust Vick to operate it’s offense under first-year head coach Chip Kelly.<\/p>\n

Vick always seemed like the logical option to be the starter as his skills fit Kelly’s playbook better then those of Nick Foles who saw action to close out the 2012 season.<\/p>\n

From what Kelly told reporters the Eagles plan to ride Vick for the season.<\/p>\n

\u201c[H]e\u2019s our starter for the season,\u201d Kelly told reporters<\/a>.\u00a0 \u201dIt\u2019s not a one\u2011game trial basis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kelly went on to say that the team was not entertaining trades for Foles for fear of injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t have to look any farther than last night\u2019s game with the Redskins, where [Robert Griffin III] is on the sideline and Kirk Cousins goes down in the second quarter,\u201d Kelly said.\u00a0 \u201dIn this league, you better have a couple of quarterbacks ready to go.\u00a0\u00a0 I mentioned that again to Nick today.\u00a0\u00a0 I think Nick is going to approach it that he\u2019s the starter, because that\u2019s got to be his mentality going into this and prepare like he\u2019s a starter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Vick has won the starting quarterback job of the Philadelphia Eagles. Signed to a one-year deal the Eagles will trust Vick to operate it’s offense under first-year head coach Chip Kelly. Vick always seemed like the logical option to be the starter as his skills fit Kelly’s playbook better then those of Nick Foles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[45,160,119],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-4643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-michael-vick","tag-nick-foles","tag-philadelphia-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}