Healthy Vick ready for Packers' adjustments

Michael Vick is confident that he'll be "100 percent" healthy for the start of Sunday's playoff game. The Packers are hoping to make sure he is somewhere less than that by the time the game ends.

Vick, who sat out the regular-season finale against the Cowboys while nursing a quadriceps injury he suffered the week before against the Vikings, said Wednesday that he doesn't expect to be hampered by the leg in his first playoff game since 2004.

"I think come Sunday I'll definitely be 100 percent, based on the way I feel now, and [I'm] just confident," Vick said.

But Vick also knows that the Packers will be coming after him, mimicking game plans that have befuddled him for most of his last two games.

The Giants were able to maintain pressure on him and sack him three times with blitzes before Vick exploded in the final 7 1/2 minutes in a comeback for the ages. The next week, the Vikings followed through on the Giants' scheme with their own pressures, hitting Vick and forcing him to throw from uncomfortable angles. He was sacked a season-high six times and threw an interception.

That's what Vick and the Eagles are expecting from the Packers.

"Pretty much that's what it's going to be," the quarterback said. "They're going to come after you, they're going to try to get you rattled, get you off your square, but that's football. You have to just be ready for it. Like I said, know exactly what you're seeing and play the game."

The Eagles also believe that their loss to the Vikings - and the first 52 minutes of the Giants game when they were offensively stagnant - was a blessing in that it allowed them to recognize some of their own weaknesses. They rested many starters last week and reportedly spent much of that time preparing not for the Cowboys in Week 17 but for the Packers in the wild-card round.

"I think the Vikings loss was a loss that helped us," wide receiver Jason Avant said. "You don't want to lose any games, but I think it was humble pie enough for us to focus and realize that you can't go out and play games with any team and not expect to get burned without focus and concentrating. So, the Packers do the same blitz, and they're better at it, so we better get ready for it, and I think we're prepared for it."

Including Vick. Especially Vick.

"I think Michael, he's aware of that," Eagles coach Andy Reid said of defensive adjustments in the last several weeks against him. "And like I said before, I think it's important starting with me that we're all aware of it, and it's a team effort there. In the case you're talking about, it's an offensive effort to make sure that everybody's on the same page and we're rolling there. But to answer your question, yes, he's aware of it."

Now he just has to do something about it.

Notes & quotes: Packers DE Cullen Jenkins, who missed the last four games with a calf injury, returned to practice . . . Eagles LB Stewart Bradley, who dislocated his elbow in Week 14 but was kept on the roster in hopes that he could be back for the playoffs, did not practice. Reid said it would be "a stretch" for him to play Sunday.