McNabb a (benched) Redskin

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Which is why you will always be considered a child. Grow up guy and stop trying to turn this thread about you and your stupid responses.

There will be a lot of pressure on McNabb but I think he's shown that he isn't the type of quarterback who makes other players great around him. That's a bigger knock than his not winning the big ones.

 

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McNabb may have some birdies left on the back nine on a Sunday, but he's still down 4th and 8, 4 holes to go and 8 shots back.

 

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Too bad he already left the Eagles -- or else he could win.

I'll be here for a while.

 

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any reaction quotes from Henley or Frey? Is he the new Joe Walsh, leaves the Eagles only destined to return?

 

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Being 20th in the league in completion percentage last year (or somewhere around there) might be considered evidence to some... (I guess he's running out of clubs while forgetting to sign his scorecard, err, something like that. These sports metaphors always throw me).

 

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Donovan McNabb has been a consistent winner in the National Football League for a decade. Matt Ryan had an excellent rookie year. Matt Schaub has nice stats for a .500 team. I don't get it. I don't think McNabb's a Hall of Famer, but his accomplishments simply dwarf some of the QBs supposedly superior to him -- Romo for example. The Redskins are obviously better off with him than if they hadn't made the trade. They are still about 10 players short of a playoff squad, so even if they'd gotten Brady or Manning it wouldn't have helped all that much.

 

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What he did for most of those 10 years has little to nothing to do with what he'll do in the immediate future.

 

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OK, how do we assess what McNabb will do in the immediate future? Go on the ever popular Last Game Projection? In that case, the Pats should trade Brady, too. He sucked very much against the Ravens.
All we have is the record and guesswork. The Eagles made a guess they could get rid of McNabb and not take a hit in 2010. My guess is they're wrong. We'll see. But there is no EVIDENCE to support the contention that McNabb won't play well in 2010, except that he's going from a pretty good team to a pretty weak one. That would affect his performance, or any quarterback's performance, at any age.

 

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Not that McNabb was lighting it up against the Panthers, but that one's not entirely on him. He got hurt in the second quarter of that game, stayed in until the fourth but was obviously not 100 percent.

 

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That's what makes it so fun to talk about -- we don't know, and can't know for sure. But it's not just his last game. He wasn't exactly an elite QB last year: 12th in QB rating, 20th in completion percentage. He's a year older; he's going to a team where he'll have less to work with. It's not hard to paint an unflattering picture. Could that picture be totally wrong? Of course. That's why this is such an intriguing trade.

 

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I didn't say he was going to be good or bad in 2010. Just that career stats are a poor way of judging him or anyone else who has been along around as he has.

 

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"Donovan is an accomplished quarterback who has been a proven winner in the National Football League," Shanahan said in a news release. "I have long admired his competitiveness and feel he will be an outstanding addition to the Redskins and our community. He knows our division and the roadmap to success in the NFC East." / Mike Shannahan

Boy this relationship went downhill fast.