Michael Irvin says to take it from someone who knows: The worst thing that can happen to Michael Vick right now is to be kept away from football.

"I've been there when you spend eight hours a day in a courtroom and people are talking about you like you are the worst person in the world," Irvin said Monday. "I'm not condoning what he might have done, but to take the game from him, at this stage, I think people don't understand how it breaks him."