Michael Vick Is Quickly Becoming A God In Philadelphia

Michael Vick and the Philadelphia Eagles arrived at FedEx Field in Washington expecting a tough, hard-fought battle against the Redskins amid a driving November rain storm. It took all of 14 seconds for Vick to deliver a knockout blow with the Eagles' opening salvo as Vick connected with WR DeSean Jackson on an 88-yard TD pass on the first play from scrimmage. The Eagles were able to bottle up the Redskins' offense early and Vick went to work once Philly got the ball back. The Eagles scored touchdowns on their first 4 possessions including 2 TD passes from Vick who also added a 7-yard TD and Philadelphia held a 28-0 lead at the end of the 1st quarter, the largest lead by a road team after 1 quarter in the history of the NFL.

On the first play of the 2nd quarter Vick launched a pass down the near sideline hitting Jeremy Maclin for a 48-yard TD and a 35-0 lead. The Eagles would continue their domination for the rest of the quarter going in to halftime with a 45-14 lead, setting the franchise record for points in a half of football. When it was all said and done the scored showed the Eagles 59, Redskins 28 in what was one of the most dominating performances in team history. The Eagles produced their second highest scoring output in team history falling just short of the 64 points they put 76 years ago.

Michael Vick turned in what was possibly the best performance by a Philadelphia Eagles QB ever as he went 20/28 for 333 yards passing with 4 TDs and rushed for 80 yards and 2 more TDs becoming the first player ever to throw for over 300 yards, rush for over 50 yards, throw 4 TDs and rush for 2 or more TDs.

Basically he was unstoppable. Several times during this game I simply marveled about how good Vick was last night. It really wasn't fait when he was playing at that level, there is just no way to defend him when you are trying to cover all of the Eagles' speedy receivers (Jackson, Maclin and slot receiver Jason Avant each had over 75 yds receiver and a TD) and still keep Vick in check in the running game. If Vick can continue to churn out performances like this then the city of Philadelphia will be more excited than it has been in years as the team has the chance to do something special this year with Vick at the helm