Not the economic kind either…
I read this and the first thing that came to mind was the Denver Broncos squad that beat Green Bay in the Super Bowl. During the build-up to the Super Bowl that year, the media basically made Green Bay into a dynasty- even though they had only won 1 Super Bowl the previous year and they had yet to play the game that year yet. Most of this was because Green Bay had a guy named ‘Favre’ as QB. Of course, Denver had a guy named ‘Elway’ who was Favre before Favre was Favre, but we have to overlook that for the moment.
Anyway, Denver wins the Super Bowl (one of the better ones to watch) and afterwards, they reveal that their media strategy was to play-along with the “dynasty” narrative for Green Bay. In reality, they were furious with the way it was assumed that Green Bay would roll over them and they hated every minute of having to answer questions and concede that Green Bay was better than they were. Shannon Sharpe was quite vocal about all of this afterward the game. They never believed it for a second, and it showed come game time.
So, given Vick’s past where he was inconsistent at best I figure the Giants are trying to instill complacency in him by telling him how awesome he is. In other words, it’s a mental game. I suppose the question will be whether Vick and the Eagles buy into it.