Vick Offered Minimum One Year Prison Sentence as Part of Plea Deal

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Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Very true about Schefter and the Raiders.

As for Vick and the Falcons, I would think that if he is actually sentenced to serve in prison then they can void their contract with him. There must be some "If you have to serve over a year in prison, the contract is terminated" clause in the contract.

I do not know about that because his whole contract was a concern for the Falcons when all of this came up. Once again it was Shefter that pointed it out. Much of Vicks money was guaranteed, little of it was to be paid through bonuses. Releasing Vick can result in a huge cap hit as well. The Falcons would need some sort of relief from the league to not count Vicks salary against the cap. I am not saying that it cannot be done, but saying that it needs to be done.