He won’t catch a lot of flack for it, as working for the Worldwide Leader insulates you from criticism, but one guy with egg on his face right now is Chris Mortensen. The more enterprising members of the Atlanta sports media, namely sports talk station 790 The Zone, got good information from the local media in Virginia that Mike Vick’s fingerprints were all over this dogfighting ring and his flunkies were not going to be able to take the rap for him.

Then a few weeks back, ESPN’s Mortensen reported that Vick was unlikely to be indicted. The ESPN report was a surprise to anyone who had followed the story closely here in Atlanta and had listened to the interviews done by Sandra Golden when this story was breaking. You’ve got to wonder who Mortensen’s sources were on this.

Much will be made of Vick’s conversations with Roger Goddell, who was promised that there was nothing to these allegations. But you also have to wonder how Arthur Blank, Rich McKay, and all the Falcons officials who were misled by Michael Vick over the past few months are going to react to this. Vick swore he had nothing to do with any of it. But if the indictment is accurate and Vick was intimately involved with executing dogs, among other things, you’ve just got to wonder if the Falcons would be willing to take the ginormous salary cap hit and cut ties with a guy who they simply cannot trust.

Obviously the Falcons never even think about trading Matt Schaub if they knew this situation was coming down the pike. Can Vick focus with this hanging over his head? Could this possibly be Joey Harrington’s team this season?