Even though he’d like to evaluate Alex Smith more, 49ers’ head coach Mike Singletary isn’t ruling out the possibility of Michael Vick playing in San Francisco some day.
“I’m not going to say I’m open or closed,” Singletary said of the possibility of the 49ers acquiring Vick.
“I’d say it has to be something Scot (McCloughan) and I talk about and feel good about one way or the other. But we have not talked about it at this point in great detail. We’re trying to focus on what we have.
“I think right now we really need to look at the two guys we have,” Singletary added. “If everything works out with Alex and he’s back, we need to look at that and go as far as we can go with that. The whole Michael Vick thing, we have to sit down and talk about that. But for right now, we have enough on our plates.”
When asked about the team’s possibly going after Vick, team president Jed York said, “That’s up to Scot and Mike.”
He added that the possibility is probably remote.
“We’d talk about it,” York said. “If they felt it was right for the team, and convince me and my parents . . . it’s up to them to show that somebody who’s had issues in the past can be a part of this team. But that’s not something we’ve discussed, and I doubt that would happen.”
Vick could learn a lot about discipline from Singletary and maybe under the head coach’s guidance, could start to turn his life around. This is still a big “if”, but if Vick winds up in San Francisco, it’d be nice to know he’d have Singletary serving as a mentor.
