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Petrino to allow Vick audibles

Atlanta Falcons
02/05/2007 1:20 PM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports QB Michael Vick will have the freedom to make plays with more than his arm and his legs next season. Falcons HC Bobby Petrino is giving the quarterback the green light to change calls at the line of scrimmage. "We're going to put it all on him," Petrino said Friday to a small group of reporters covering the Super Bowl. "That's something that's new to him. It's something he's excited about. It's the way I believe you train a quarterback. You make him responsible for the protections, you make him responsible for what I call trumping the center — when the center makes a protection call and the blitz shows something different." Read more