Eagles Quarterback Situation

Since the trade of Donovan Mcnabb to the Redskins, there has been a quarterback competition between the Eagles' Michael Vick and Kevin Kolb. Vick is now entering his second season off his suspension for dog fighting allegations. Andy Reid, the coach of the Eagles has finally permitted Michael Vick the start for the team, but some fans feel Kolb could start much more efficiently. Your decision is up to you, but lets give history a check and line their stats up. 2010 has sparked an important question among Eagles fans, "Who should our Quarterback be"?

 The first aspect we will look at is overall performance at quarterback throughout their careers. In his 7 NFL seasons up to now, Vick had passed for a total of 11591 yards; these actually aren’t half bad numbers (considering he was a running quarterback in the past and rushed for 3954 yards in that same space of time). Kolb spent 3 years with the Eagles up until this point, and had only passed for 885 yards collectively in those seasons. We can’t underestimate Kolb based on this, entirely on the fact he was always in Mcnabb's shadow. (No his rushing performance is nothing to be mentioned). Before we entirely massacre Kolb on stats, he plays with ice in his veins during the playoffs than Vick.

 Touchdowns are an important aspect to the game, as well as interceptions because each gives you a quarterback’s efficiency level of getting the ball into the end zone. Kolb is an improving project on these factors, and in the times within Mcnabb’s shadow, he threw for 4 touchdowns and 7 interceptions. Vick on the other hand, throughout the time of his career before 2010 threw for only 72 touchdowns, matched by a higher 52 interceptions. To add Vick has a career accuracy rating of 54% whilst Kolb has one of roughly 57.3%. Vick is getting older, and he cant over-rely on his running power anymore; it'll be interesting to see how his cannon can improve. Either quarterback can be used in terms of arm based on their pasts; the accuracy factor won’t matter much.

  2010 play was discluded until this point, to give you all a previous background of each quarterback; mainly for the reason that old trends tend to repeat. Vick now in 2010 has thrown for 6 touchdowns, 0 interceptions, a 61.5% completion percentage, and 799 yards in just 5 weeks; showing tremendous improvement from his past game. Kolb has thrown for 2 touchdowns, 1 interception, a 63.2% completion percentage, and 478 yards. They are seemingly at an equal par in play level; Vick just brings more of a veteran presence to the team

2010 thus far is telling us, it doesn't matter who starts at quarterback in Phillidelphia, but rather injuries around them that could impact the team. Either quarterback could take this team to the playoffs based on their 2010 performances thus far. Vick will take the starting role for now, but Kolb definitely has a chance to win it back.