What would BB have done if he was HC/GM of Atlanta
 

If Belicheck came to Atlanta as the new HC/GM this past off season prior to the scandal, how do you think he would have handled the QB situation? Think he would have had an open competition for the starting QB spot between Schaub and Vick or look to trade one or the other before or after the season?

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He wouldn't have traded away Schaub. Vick would have been out the door before this scandal even started because no way does BB want a QB that can't throw the football.

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He would have used Ernie Adams' time machine to go back and draft Tomlinson. If the Time Machine was in the shop, he would have started Schaub.

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I don't think Vick would have been flat out cut prior to training camp, simply due to the cap implications.

Schaub would have certainly not been traded, and the plan would be for an "open competition" in camp, though I think it would be understood in the front office that Schaub is starter.

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THere is no way BB would have let VIck stay as QB. Probably would have drafted a good QB or groomed Schaub.

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BB would have coaxed Mo Lewis out of retirement for old times sake. After Vick was carried off the field, there would have been an open competition for the QB position. Vick would have been traded to the Bills before the scandal broke.

Next question.

Re: What would BB have done if he was HC/GM of Atlanta
 

First off, file for re-instatement of the spelling of his name as "Belichick". Then move Vick to a slash position role, where he could have been great--though his lack of football intelligence may ultimately have spelled his failure as a player regardless.

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It wouldn't have been his decision for the same reason he wouldn't have been interested in the job. Michael Vick was to Arthur Blank what Drew Bledsoe was to Bob Kraft. Bill didn't have the cache to quibble about that or really do much about it when he arrived here in 2000. And absent a fortuitous hit in the second game of his second season as a HC, whose to say he would have ever had the ability to jettison Drew. It took a hit, a lucky guess on a 6th round draft pick and a Lombardi to even give him that cache here with Kraft.

Blank was still wed to Vick in the early offseason. Not to mentioned fairly chained to him via dead cap. That is why he brought Petrino in, to salvage his investment on the field. There were rumors of his pushing the FO to go after a new WR to be the backup face of the franchise, so his faith in Vick was beginning to waiver as the draft approached, but unable to pull a deal off he obviously signed off on trading Schaub away in part to mute any more QB controversies in Petrino's first season. Blank was still convinced at that juncture that Vick put more fannies in the seats than Atlanta could by just winning. Belichick believes winning is the only way to approach a need to fill seats.

If Bill went to Atlanta in 2008 would Blank give him carte blanche? You betcha. But in February 2007, carte blanche would not have been on the table where the QB was concerned. Those decisions were less about football than business.

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Belichick is a historian of football. He would have duplicated what Vince Lombardi did in a similar quandary.

a) Schaub would have been given the job of QB (You know, the Guy who THROWS the football) and
b) Vick would have been given the job of Halfback (You know, the Guy who RUNS the football).

Every once in a while the Falcons would use the HB option pass play...

SEE biographies of HOF players Bart Starr and Paul Hornung.

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when being asked about it by media he would say

"we'll only talk about players that are here"