Marcus is the pick of the Vicks.(COLLEGE FOOTBALL)

Publication: The Sporting News

Publication Date: 28-OCT-05

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Please everyone hands and feet inside the car. This is going to be a wild ride.

Marcus Vick is better than Mike Vick.

There, I said it.

I don't mean he's better than Mike in certain aspects of his game. I don't mean he's better than Mike compared to where Mike was at this point in his college career. I don't mean he does better things than Mike or that he has more potential than Mike or that one day he'll eventually be better than Mike.

I mean he's better than Mike. Period.

I mean if I were starting an NFL team--and I hate NFL analogies because it does a disservice to the college game and because, frankly, the NFL is about as exciting as C-SPAN--I'd take Marcus. He's a much better thrower, he's just as good a runner, and he has a thicker body frame to absorb big hits. He plays with intensity, he wants to win, and whether he admits it or not, he's always playing with an I'll-show-you attitude because some dude before him tilted the bar to 10.

Marcus is a quarterback in every sense. Mike is a highlight film--a strip of dynamic frames that sputter in the projector when he's forced to make plays with his arm. Marcus is comfortable with his role in the Virginia Tech offense. Mike plays as if everything were riding on his performance.

So I threw these thoughts by Hokies quarterbacks coach Kevin Rogers, who never worked with Mike but knows a little something about dual-threat quarterbacks, having coached Donovan McNabb at Syracuse. I expected...

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