“There were times in games when I felt like I was dominating, and I was dominating too much.”

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Not the most humble choice of words, but also not without merit. Certainly, the Vikings could have used a tad less domination on this 46-yard touchdown scramble that won a 2002 game in overtime for Vick’s Falcons and left two Minnesota defenders crashing into each other, both having taken routes to the ball that assumed a normal NFL player was carrying it.

After 13 years in the NFL — not counting two spent out of the league while on suspension and serving a prison sentence for his role in a dog-fighting ring — Vick is hoping for another shot. The 36-year-old spent time with the Steelers last season, after being taken by the Falcons No. 1 overall in 2001 and also having played for the Eagles and Jets.

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“I would love to play this year, suit up for another run at it,” Vick said to NJ.com in June. “I still feel like I could play and there is a lot left in the tank.”

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Vick said Monday that he has had “a couple of phone calls,” but not as many as he “would like,” from NFL teams. “I can still win football games,” he said, albeit possibly not as “a 16-week starter.”

The four-time Pro Bowler claimed he could still run “a legit 4.5” in the 40-yard dash. As far as current quarterbacks who could outrun him today, Vick suggested Colin Kaepernick and Russell Wilson as possibilities. He added that “in all [his] years” at the college and NFL levels, he never had a coach tell him not to run.

For the best quarterbacks he ever faced, Vick nominated Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers and Drew Brees. “You knew you had to put up at least 30 points or more, hands down,” when facing those signal-callers, he said.

Vick played behind another top-notch quarterback last season in Ben Roethlisberger, but, when asked by Patrick if he could beat that quarterback in a race if he had to run backwards, he laughingly said, “Ben shouldn’t get offended by this, but yeah. … Ben is a great lateral mover.”