McNabb a (benched) Redskin

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People haven't quite figured that part out yet. I'm no longer amazed at what I read on the Web.

 

Re: McNabb a (very rich) Redskin

Someone at ESPN, an editor perhaps, did not agree with their own reporter's assertion that the initial report was 100 percent correct, seeing as how they added this Editor's Note to an Insider posting on Vick's potential contract windfall.

Monday afternoon, ESPN NFL Insider Michael Smith reported that the Washington Redskins had agreed to a contract extension with Donovan McNabb for five years and $78 million, with $40 million guaranteed. [Editor's note: It's subsequently been reported that the McNabb deal is for significantly less money than that initial report].

 

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Here is a good explainer of the deal, which suggests Smith isn't wrong in his reporting. But there is a gray area between "correct" and "technically correct, but with a lot of agent spin." This is pretty standard for ever major NFL contract, which is why it's a good lesson for anyone reading this to always be skeptical of the term "guaranteed" money. There are just multiple ways to spin a contract

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/Inside-the-McNabb-deal-an-analysis.html

 

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Smith is wrong in his reporting. He said McNabb is guaranteed $40 million. That is purely incorrect. There's no "technically correct" about it.

Look up when DeAngelo Hall got traded to the Raiders. He was "guaranteed" $24 million. When they cut him halfway through the season, he ended up with $8M. Was it "technically correct" to say he was going to get $24 million?

 

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Some of the talk in DC is that McNabb lacks the personnel on the 'Skins that Vick has in Philly. Who on Philly this year, wasn't there last year when McNabb was starting? Some McNabb apologists over the years have complained that he never had a good team around him in Philly. Now he leaves Philly and all of a sudden Philly has great players around Vick? Maybe McNabb is just a decent QB, over-hyped and over-praised?

 

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Jackson getting a year better and the RB getting a year better is all I can think off quickly, but Jackson is a monster. He might be one of the five best big play WRs in the league right now.

 

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Early in McNabb's career his best option was TE Chad Lewis, another guy the Eagles found off the scrap heap (He was originally with the Eagles, cut, signed with St. Louis, cut there and brought back by Reid). Guy made a few Pro Bowls and rarely dropped a pass. Broke his foot catching a TD late in the 2005 NFC title game. People forget about his absence in the Super Bowl that year.

 

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The truth is McNabb has never been an elite QB, just a pretty good one.

He's never been that accurate a QB. His career completion percentage is 58.9. His career passer rating is 85.9. Only three times was he above 90, one of those was last year with all those weapons and another was the TO season.

Never been spectacular, just consistently solid.

 

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Donavan McNabb has been one of the five best quarterbacks in the league almost every single year he was a starter -- and I bet if you looked at who the other four were throwing too he had the worst personnel around him.

And outside of Peyton Manning, there wasn't another quarterback who was asked to carry the offense as much as McNabb as Andy Reid is from the "running game? who needs a running game?" school of West Coast football.

And despite that he was on the doorstep of the Super Bowl five or six times.

He absolutely was an elite quarterback for a lot of years.

 

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He's in the Drew Bledsoe/Dave Krieg/Rich Gannon class but with a better surrounding cast for MOST of his career.

 

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And he's now a benched quarterback, unlikely to become very rich after all.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/redskinsinsider/donovan-mcnabb/mcnabbs-agent-on-benching-its.html

 

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He's guaranteed a $3.5 mil option for next year.