UPDATE: Michael Vick is going to enter a guilty plea on Monday and then wait for the judges decision.

Well as it stands right now, as Three Dog Night sang about many years ago, “one is the loneliest number” you could ever be Michael Vick. Seems that all of your “running buddies” have now or will by Friday have taken the Federal Prosecutors offer in the dog fighting indictments, leaving Michael to fend for himself.

{mosimage} I believe that Vick could have avoided all of this mess several months ago, by accepting responsibility for it back then. Admitting that he had made some bad judgment decisions. If he had done this then, he would have probably gotten off without being indicted, not facing possible jail time. At worst he probably would have received some community service and would be playing for the Falcons right now.

But no, Vick chose to deny any knowledge, participation or wrongdoing in this heinous crime and now finds out that his “boys, posse, running buddies”, whatever you want to call them are showing Michael just how much they really did have his back when the going got tough. In addition to having already lost every single one of his endorsement deals, it now appears to be very likely that he will, very shortly be out of the NFL and facing jail time. How much jail time remains to be seen, but lets look at his options as they stand right now.

First off and probably what his attorneys are or will be recommending to him, will be to try to get the best plea deal available, although at this point, since all the other co-defendants have or will have already done this, he will, as they say, get the leftover scraps. My guess would be somewhere in the range of 12-18 month of Federal Prison time. Which is usually done at about 75-80% since they do not have “early release”, so that would be 14 months on an 18 month sentence. Now if he had been the first one to try to get a plea bargain he would have likely received either probation or maybe 6 months and still have been able to salvage his football career.

Michael Vick Indicted

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