Michael Vick made a shocking revelation Saturday about his impending battle with Geno Smith for the starting quarterback job during the New York Jets training camp.
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There is no battle. Geno Smith is the team's starting quarterback.
The New Jersey Star-Ledger quoted Vick as saying he has no intention of taking Smith's starting spot.
"Geno's the starting quarterback for that football team," Vick said in a brief interview Saturday afternoon during a family fitness event at Knight's Personal Fitness in this city's Kensington neighborhood.
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"Ultimately our goal is to try to help Geno become the best quarterback that he can be. Myself and (third-stringer Matt Simms) are all trying to put him in a position where he can get better from year one to year two."
The announcement flies in the face of Vick's comments in January when he decided to leave the Philadelphia Eagles, who moved on to Nick Foles as their starting quarterback.
"I'm still a starter," Vick told the Star-Ledger's Eliot Shorr-Parks in January. "I'm not a backup quarterback."
But Vick avoided the question of competing for the starting job when asked on Saturday.
"I'm fighting to get better as a quarterback every day," Vick answered. "In the NFL, you want longevity, and the only way to have longevity is to be as consistent and as good as you can be for a long period of time."
Jets offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg said earlier this week that Smith would get a few more repetitions in practice, but stopped short of naming Smith the starter for the 2014 season.
"Geno will get a few more reps, but not many," Mornhinweg said, according to the Star-Ledger. "I'm going to try to do the thing right. It will vary day to day. Like I've done it in the past. Some guys at all positions, not just the quarterback position-and I tell the players this up front-some guys are going to get more of an opportunity than others. It's just that simple.
"Well, in many cases, the guy that gets less reps wins the job sometimes because they took advantage of what reps they had."
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