McNabb is No Elway. Someone Should Break it to Him.

[After the McNabb trade went down, I decided to get a die hard Eagles fan's take on the whole situation. You could get Ustad Hammad's musings on anything and everything here.]

Donovan Jamal Mcnabb. gone. Well its truly the end of an era, and a tumultuous one at that. As a die hard fan of the Eagles, i have to say I'm generally happy about it. At first there was shock and even irritation that a trade was made with the Redskins. The vile Redskins. However, i have faith in Daniel Snyder. i have faith that he is not an intelligent football mind, and that any trade he makes or acquisition he gets will likely fail at some point. On the other hand, most of Andy Reid's choices and acquisitions are actually not that bad at all. Recall in the 1999 draft class was a QB rich one...or so we all thought. Reid managed to sift through it all and passed on Ricky Williams to get Mcnabb. Everyone knows how that panned out.

So here is my take on it after having a chance to absorb the trade. The Redskins are doomed. If they do not win in two or three years they're back to the basement of the NFC East. and quite frankly, that's how it will play out. People forget that it's a team stacked to the brim with washed up big names on offense. In the backfield they offer three running backs with sketchy careers going forward. Portis is coming off a season marred by a concussion and he is 28. That most likely gives him 2 more solid years, assuming the Redskins haven't run him into the ground already given their dependence on him. Willie Parker and Larry Johnson are the second options and who really cares about them? Santana Moss is also over 30. Chris Cooley may be the only thing that they have going for them over the next 5 years and by then all the other pieces will be washed up, including Mcnabb. Given that they have at maximum a 3 year window to take care of business, that does not exactly give them much time to adjust to the new system Shanahan brings and the time it will take them to build some chemistry.


On the other hand, you have the Eagles. There are a few reasons this works well for them. First, you find out what Kolb's got. Second, you will probably have a good shot at destroying the Redskins considering you know all of Donovan's weaknesses. Trust me, he has plenty to be exploited. If nothing else, the Eagles have gone younger and at its worst, if in two years Kolb stinks, you move on to someone else. That means 3 years the Eagles would not be deep in the playoffs, but you need to realize they were not going deep in the next 3 years with DMac. So who cares who the QB is that leads you to mediocre records with a one and done record in the playoffs? Could you imagine how much worse it would be to go average 10-6 over the next 3 years with Mcnabb and then finally bring Kolb on only to realize after an additional 3 years that he is either much better or much worse? i refuse to tolerate 6 years of crappy football. So let's bring on the Kolb era and fast forward this show!


Can't wait to see the NFC East matchups.