Posted on 02/07/2005 8:48:24 AM PST by gopwinsin04
It looked like Donovan McNabb saved his jitters for the Super Bowl. McNabb spent the week telling jokes, being loose and insisting that he felt no pressure leading the Philidelphia Eagles versus the New England Patriots.
But the five time pro bowl QB had a shaky performance in the most important game of his career Sunday, a 24-21 loss to the Patriots. McNabb turned the ball over three times, including crucial interceptions in the first and fourth quarters.
McNabb misfired on several passes early, held the ball too long in other instance and made several poor decisions. One of the best scramblers in the National Football League, McNabb had zero yards rushing on just one carry.
McNabb rebounded from his rough start with a strong second quarter, finally leading the Eagles into the end zone after sqandering several scoring opportunities. But he made a critical error midway through the 4th quarter right after the Pats took at 24-14 lead.
After he connected with Terell Owens on a 36 yard pass, McNabb badly underthrew his reciever Smith on the next play and was intercepted by linebacker Tedy Bruschi.
McNabb had the best season of his six year career, leading the Eagles to the Super Bowl for the first time in 24 years after three consecutive losses in the NFC title game. But McNabb couldn't deliver the Eagles first championship since 1960.
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Maybe McNabb is overrated.
Sure he came up shakey....Rodney Harrison will do that to ya.
WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO PATs!!!!!
The media wanted him to do well, but he choked
Its not McNabb's fault. The first turnover was his fault, but the Eagles never got a running game going due to the Pats defense. By the half the Eagles were one -dimensional and eventually thye were going to force a bad decision from McNabb into mistakes, which they did.
Good for the Pats. Happy here the Philly trophy case remains empty.
I think that's probably accurate but you should take into account the fact that they put up 21 points on a very good defense.
With any lesser defense, he would be doing fine. Personally I thought Phillie did as well as they could given their opponent. It was a great game, and not typical for superbowls which have not always been as competitive as this one was. The Pats earned their victory.
So, how did Freddy Mitchell do, and did he ever give whatever it was to Harrison like he planned?
The Iggles are not known for their rushing game in pressure games, right?
Credit for the failure should got to Andy Reid as well. What kind of gameplan was it to throw the ball 50 times in a close game?
Perhaps Mom should have made him some soup before the big game?
What are you, some kind of racist? ;)
Did anybody else notice that the Eagles basically gave up 3 points by letting the clock run down when they had 1 minute before the half. They got into feild goal range but didnt have time to kick a field goal because they had let the clock run down earlier in the drive. What was the point of that?
I saw TO screaming at McNabb to 'relax' after that bad 4th quarter INT..
Didn't 3 Eagle TD passes go through Rodney's area? He looked kinda ticked on the sidelines after each one of them.
Didn't Rush get slammed for suggesting the same thing????
McNabb was the only one with a "shaky" day. 21 incomplete passes, 3 INT's and 3 others that were close.
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