Already Under Pressure, Michael Vick Must Overcome Poor History vs. Giants

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We know Mike Vick has been pretty bad so far this season, but sometimes it helps to run all the numbers together.

In three games, Vick has completed 55 percent of his passes (on 41.6 attempts per game), for an average of just over 300 yards, a 66.3 quarterback rating, three touchdowns and nine turnovers (six picks, three fumbles). Related to the turnovers, Vick, by himself, has tied the  Kansas City Chiefs for the second-most turnovers by a team through three weeks in 2012. The Eagles, of course, lead the NFL in that category with 12.

I don't mean to pile on. I only bring up these numbers in relation to the fact that even his coach's confidence may be beginning to waiver, Vick's contract is get-away-from-able at the end of the season, and the quarterback has struggled (mightily) against the Giants during his career in Philadelphia.

Sure, there was the "Miracle at the New Meadowlands," but the Eagles were down 24-3 at the half and 31-10 with 8:17 to play for a reason. That insane comeback caused many a media personality to scrap the barrage of articles and on-air segments that would have surely followed about how Mike Vick had already been figured out.

And it was the Giants who had figured him out — a month beforehand. One week after Vick looked like a world beater, scoring six touchdowns against the Redskins on Monday night, the Eagles advanced to 5-2 with a 27-17 win over the Giants. Vick finished the game 24 of 38 for 258 yards and a rushing touchdown. On their own, those numbers aren't bad.

But the Giants defense provided the blueprint for how to beat Vick in 2010. Whereas other defenses didn't have an answer for him, the Giants heavily blitzed Vick from his left, forcing the lefthanded quarterback to his right, so as to considerably limit options. Vick fumbled twice that day, and lost the football once.

Still, the Eagles survived and moved on to Chicago, where the Bears did the exact same thing to Vick the following week, again making him look ordinary, as they beat the Eagles, 31-26. And then — and then — there was The Joe Webb Game one week after the miracle comeback in Vick's second outing versus the Giants. You remember: the Tuesday nighter versus Minnesota where Vick turned the ball over three times and the Vikings' dropped three more potential interceptions.

Moving forward, Vick faced the Giants just once in 2011. (He missed the second meeting due to inury.) In that Week 3 matchup, Vick went 16 of 23 for 176 yards and an interception before exiting the game in the fourth quarter once the Giants fractured his non-throwing hand on what Vick called a late hit. He was hit 13 times in all that day. He also fumbled three times, but didn't lose any of them.

The point of this less-than-pleasant trip down memory lane is that Mike Vick's job is feeling increasingly on the line. That the details of his last meeting against the Giants sound way too familiar and commonplace at this point. And that now, one week after he, his coach and his teammates were embarrassed in Arizona, they're coming home to once again face the Giants under the lights on national television.

The Giants, the team who showed the league in 2010 the way to contain and even stop the runner-up the league's MVP award. The Giants, the team who knocked Vick out of a game in 2011. The Giants, who seem to have Vick's number.

Mike Vick is about to play one of the biggest games of his career against the team whom has most seemed to have his number.

It's time to see what, if anything, Vick has really learned over the last three years, and whether Andy and Marty are going to give him any help.

Related: Filmroom Friday: How Reid Is Setting Vick Up to Fail [T7L]

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