Andy Reid attempts to head off a brewing quarterback controversy in the wake of 6 quarters of great football from Michael Vick after 2 quarters of bad football from Kevin Kolb:
“I think it’s a beautiful situation,” Reid said Monday. “I look at it a lot differently than other people look at it. I’ve got two quarterbacks that can play at a very important position. I’m a happy guy about it. There are a lot of teams that don’t have good quarterbacks, ones that they feel like they can win with, and I feel like we can with both of those guys.”
If it’s true that Kolb is that good, it’s true that having both Vick and Kolb on your roster is a good thing. But it’s also mighty inefficient. Whether or not Kevin Kolb is a better quarterback than Vick, I think it’s pretty clear that Vick is one of the top 30 QBs in the league. That means he’s worth more to someone else as a starter than he is to Philadelphia as a backup and the Eagles should trade him. It never really makes sense for a team to be carrying two different starter-quality quarterbacks.
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