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You know, if Vick continues to accumulate off-field incidents like he has, it’s really going to test Goodell’s big-stick approach to dealing with his league’s employees. At any rate, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Vick’s presence at the NFL draft gave Goodell a chance for an impromptu 20-minute conversation with Vick about his issues. Vick’s quotes after? Interesting:

“After what happened Friday, and then what happened on Monday, I just wanted to crawl in a hole. I can’t take it no more. I walk around with a smile on my face and act like I’m happy, but on the inside it’s hurting. And it’s killing me. I ain’t got no more energy left for it. The more I continue to do things and my name is in the media, I’m not going to get anywhere. . . . I’m taking it upon myself and giving everybody my word that things are going to get changed around. Things are going to get turned around. I have a game plan for it. . . . The company I keep, a lot of things gotta change, and I mean that from the heart.”

Apparently Goodell can consider the message received. The recent stuff? A trespassing charge (while fishing), something that is no big deal at all, and has since been dismissed. Then there was this stuff:

“Police conducting a drug investigation raided a house owned by Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and found dozens of dogs, some injured and emaciated. Police also found items associated with dog fighting.

State Police Sgt. D.S. Carr said Vick’s relative, Davon Boddie, 26, lives in the house. Vick owns the property, but doesn’t live there and wasn’t present when a search warrant was executed in a drug investigation Wednesday night, Carr said. Boddie was arrested outside a nightclub by Hampton police April 20 on charges of distribution of marijuana and possession with intent to distribute. The search warrant was executed by a multijurisdictional task force in a narcotics probe.”

I am guessing THAT is the kind of thing that got the commish’s attention. Add in your garden variety spy compartment water bottle incident and Vick really would be well served to watch his step the next little bit. No one is quite sure just how far Goodell will push his new-found enforcement power in terms of whether merely being associated with bad stuff will be enough for discipline. Mike Vick probably doesn’t want to be a test case along those lines.