Twitter is upset Lamar is still being compared to Vick and think Vick's PR is better than the player was

[GilSho]

I've been seeing the same sort of convos with AI when it comes to Gen Z and younger Millennials. Both cultural icons, both born entertainers, both highly influential and BY FAR the most popular players in their respective leagues at certain stages in the 2000s but to the people that weren't alive to witness it, the numbers don't match the hype.

 

[VegetasHairline]

Lamar Jackson is what everyone expected Michael Vick to be.

 

[BlackAchilles]

Lamar been passed Vick by

Vick stood out in part cause it was still a big deal to have an athletic black qb and it was slow white guys at qb ... now even the white guys gotta be semi mobile

 

[GilSho]

Vick was a trendsetter but I do find it funny how Vick stans act like he invented the concept of being a dual threat QB as if Randall and Steve Young didn't exist.

I hate how Cunningham has completely been erased from history as if he wasn't one of the trailblazers for black QBs and doesn't have an All-Pro 1st team and MVP on his resume unlike Vick.

Same shyt with McNabb who carried bums for most of his career but doesn't get a fraction of the love Mike does.

 

[FTBS]

Lamar is Vick on Madden 04 in real life (until the playoffs and I am a fan).

I imagine this is what it was like for some old heads when MJ cleared Dr. J. Julius was better than Vick for the record.

 

[10bandz]

OP is such a c00n Anti Vick anti AI anti Kobe anti Deion

Contrarian against every athlete real nikkas gravitated towards to while dikkriding his fake ass idol

 

[Mike18jj]

No need for anybody to downplay Vick considering what we witnessed at the time was something nobody ever seen. Lamar clearly is the ultimate evolution to what Vick was, but you don't get lamar without seeing what Vick succeeded at doing.

 

[Harry B]

Vick was/is his role model and that’s where it stops

That’s not to down Vick, but more to raise Lamar. Also Vick could’ve been so much more under the right circumstances.

Lamar last season was another type of cheat code. Imagine if he didn’t have goat level Henry, he’d probably throw for 5k with godly precision and rush for 1k

 

[feelosofer]

I agree. Lamar is miles ahead as a passer than Vick ever was and low key Lamar may have more impressive lateral movement and agility. Lamar ability to navigate small spaces to elude tackles is underrated.

 

[Clark Wayne]

Lamar has definitely surpassed Vick but Vick walked so Lamar could run so to speak (No pun intended)

 

[Crude]

Vick kinda set the standard for franchises building around dual threat QBs especially ones that were brehs.

Lamar is a much better player than Vick was.

Guys like Randall Cunningham, Michael Vick, and to a lesser degree Donovan McNabb definitely walked, so Lamar could run.

Those guys were the forefathers of coaches realizing they could move on from stationary cacs sitting in the pocket. A lot of those coaches didn’t think Black men had the intelligence and wit to play the position before those guys.

Then those White coaches slowly started moving towards these spread style offenses in the last 15 years or so and realized they could do a lot more with dual threat more athletic guys.

 

[desjardins]

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[concise]

Vick led the Falcons to a conference title game once. Lamar has yet to do that.

 

[Street Knowledge]

Vick was a crappy passer who had one good year throwing the ball against mostly trash defenses in 2010 and then got exposed the next year hard.

Dudes highlight film and madden 04 had people thinking he was better than he actually was.

I do give him props for not throwing his Atlanta coaches under the buss though.

 

[Stop_It_5]

Vick led the Falcons to a conference title game once. Lamar has yet to do that.

Literally did it in 2023