General manager Scot McCloughan left no wiggle room today when he appeared on "The Sirius Blitz" on Sirius NFL Radio with hosts Adam Schein and Jim Miller.
Miller: ". . . (Are there) any discussions on the potential - there have been whispers out there - that possibly
McCloughan: "Well, I think what happens there, and I totally respect it, is people understand who Mike Singletary is and understand that he has no problem giving guys second chances. Coach and I have sat down. We sat down and talked last week. We had an off-week of OTAs and we discussed about Michael Vick and we're not going to go that route. We will not do it."
Schein: "So Michael Vick is not on the radar for the 49ers?"
McCloughan: "Correct."
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There you have it. End of story.
When speculation began in February about
Still, while there were plenty of off-the-record assertions inside the organization that the 49ers would not pursue Vick, McCloughan and Singletary publicly took the high road, as recently as May 21.
Until now.
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THANK GOD! AND THE 49ers!
"Music to my eyes", reading this.
Vick was never an elite QB, and certainly 2 years in the pen isn't going to help raise his stock in that dept.
Very thankful we're not wasting our time with this hack, let alone the media circus that some team will inherit when they bring him on.