Football Training Follies: Philadelphia Eagles Sign Vick

Football Training camps are about to get started here in Philadelphia.






This morning, the whole city is abuzz with the news of the Eagles signing Vick.

I suppose this fraud of a Quarter Back will be arriving at Eagles Training Camp soon enough.

This is one of the dumbest moves in an Eagle history know for its idiocy...

In a city where the football team has turned down numerous players because of "character issues," ran T.O. out of town, and proclaims themselves as "the Gold Standard," without ever having won a championship, I find it amazing that they would sign a guy like Michael Vick, who is fresh out of jail.

Say what you want about TO, the guy treated training for Football like it was life and death and it showed on the field!

The management of the Eagles has some strange fascination with Donovan McNabb. The guy chokes in every big game, yet they can't seem to replace him with a real QB. So, after signing him to a contract that pretty much guarantees that, unless he's injured, will be the leader of the Eagles offense for the next 5 years, they sign another QB. A former starter.

I smell some kind of lame Andy Reid football expirement where he tries to turn conVICKt into a WR or some shit.

Vick is one of the worst QB's the NFL has ever seen. Great athlete, but an awful QB! Vick's signing will be meaningless, the Eagles will probably finish below .500 and I will laugh with glee...


but, I digress...

I'm sitting in a coffee shop typing this into my phone, so forgive my lack the normal Explosive Football Training pizzaz!

Anyway, I can see guys practicing right across the street. Right now they are going though conditioning work.

I won't name the team, but they are a power house and for damn good reason!

While most coaches center their football conditioning programs around jogging, these guys are out sprinting their asses off.

Line it up, sprint, walk back, repeat.

Look, football training shouldn't be so complicated.

-Lift heavy, lift for speed and do some rep work

-Sprint a lot

-Train your hamstrings like it's your job!

-Stop jogging...Please, if you listen to nothing else, listen to me here...

--Jogging has NO place in a football training program!

I'm keeping this one short, but get ready for the upcoming "Pre-Season Football Training" special, starting Sunday.

Until then, check out some of the older articles or head over to the probram page at Explosive Football Training Program

-Coach Steve, live from Philly with a 24oz espresso, ...ust up the street where a homeless guy once hurled a bag of garbage at me like a discus (he did a pretty damn good spin too)