Steve, you really HAVE TO learn how to do the quote thingy since your method confuses what others say to you with your response to them...
Given how tough it is to build a case against this kind of secretive subculture activity, Vick would likely have to do a lot more than name names - he would have to testify to specific acts he witnesses and/or provide some sort of hard evidence to corroberate his testimony.
* I do hit the quote button but don't get the blue background. Pats1 fixed it once but it doesn't work anymore. And I am suggesting that Vick would have to testify to what he knows. And I am suggesting that if he did that, he could plead guilty, do little if any time, say he's sorry, blah blah blah and possibly revive his NFL career. If he goes to trial and is found guilty, he'll likley do too much time and never have his career back.
No way - his career is already nearly irretrievable. Pleading guilty would provide the commissioner more than enough on which to suspend his sorry ass for life. His testimoney in others trials would be the icing on that cake. It's essentially a gambling ring he runs and runs with, and that is a career death sentence in professional sports. Oddly now that Taylor has beaten him to the bargaining table his best course may be to go for an OJ like jury nullification. He's supposedly always been a somewhat charasmatic being - maybe he can charm a juror or two and end up with a mistrial or aquittal. I doubt the acquittal, but mistrial is a distinct possibility and it just buys his side time for folks to cease caring so much about avenging the dead dogs.
Plus unless the Feds have the makings of a case against anyone Vick could substantiate by testifying to, his testimoney alone would be of little value. Believe me, anyone who had dealings with him has moved their operation and covered their tracks pretty good in the weeks since his property was raided. By now they've had time to sanitize locations he might be familiar with too and pay off some of their own crews to get lost for a while. They expected from the outset that if he got jammed up his only way out might be to sing. This was his passion, it's their livlihood.
It's all well and good to say I know who killed X, but unless you are implicating yourself as an eye witness and or have something that can be used in addition to your own testimony to validate it, or as in this case the Feds already have a lot of physical evidence Taylor is just corroberating - especially when it's buying you a reduced sentence - you're usually not going to get much of a deal for your testimony. Tony Taylor is making their case against Vick. Vick would have to make their case against someone else they already have the foundations of a case on. He'd have to give them something really big to sway them from merely using him as a high profile example, as they did with Martha and the Enron shirts. So unless Vick has the bigger fish on tape or he copied the records they likely don't keep or have shredded by now if they did, or he can lead the Feds to the mass graves of the dogs they killed in his presence, I don't think Mike has all that much to trade. He can still try though...
And as exciting an athlete as he is (or was before he started getting dinged up regularly and his attitude started making him someone casual fans lost interest in), he was never a very good QB and he's now the antithesis of the face of the franchise player most teams want if not need that player to be. It's not just the time served in this case it's the nature of the crimes he serves any time for that will keep him off an NFL field likely permanently.
