Maybe McNabb is overrated.
Sure he came up shakey....Rodney Harrison will do that to ya.
WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO PATs!!!!!
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.
So, how did Freddy Mitchell do, and did he ever give whatever it was to Harrison like he planned?
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?
McNabb was the only one with a "shaky" day. 21 incomplete passes, 3 INT's and 3 others that were close.
No two minute offense, time management that looked like union rules, no fire, no passion, no guts,
T.O. was the real player of the Eagles. He's a punk, but a gutsy one at that
Looks like Rush lost his job (as football analyst)to PC but time rings in his truth.
McNabb did well. Perfect? No, but he had a good season and the Pats are a tough team. He did well.
The second was the TO factor. TO played superbly and with great gusto and heart. Yet he hadn't played for many many games and the team hadn't adjusted to having him. It was a factor in not getting much of a ground game or offensive synchronicity going. I suspect it was a big factor.
That "flop-the second-time" chart is for baseball. In football, the team that lost the superbowl has often won the next year.
Oh please.
I hate pandering to blacks more than arguably anyone on this forum but all this McNabb crap is enough already.
The Eagles would not have gotten there if he weren't decent enough.
I feel sorry for the guy. He gets his team to the big game and they lost barely against a team that was far better in almost every way measurable.
We all know most sports talking heads are the most liberal and race pandering fools around but why must folks drone on and on. McNabb is not the black messiah of quarterbacks. That was Warren Moon.
Rush should have shown better tact when he shot off his mouth on this before. McNabb has had to live that down forever.
Now why the media gives a pass to black( and some "cornfed") thuggery in sports is one aspect of this sort of stuff I WOULD like to see harped on. It has ruined a good bit of it for old farts like me but McNabb has been beat up enough.
This is why I watch so little of this overhyped junk since the late 70s. I did see the last bit and I respect that player who played hurt...forgot his name....so many sissies now....they used to always play hurt. Inject cortisone or carisprodial and lidocaine and play that game!
Damn...the good ol days.
Is Paul Horning still alive? Anyone remember the size of Namath's knees when he played....those were heroes....real hombres with huges stones.
True, but it wasn't the Pats' D that was causing the Iggles to burn off the better part of two minutes going less than 30 yards at the end of the game. Peyton Manning would have at least run 2-3 plays per 30 sec. It was as bad clock management as I've ever seen, anywhere, and much of the blame MUST go to McNabbit.
The Pats D just never let's the opposing team get out of the gates. They are also very well coached and are masters at disguising their defensive coverage. No quarterback looks good against that D - you simply cannot figure out the coverage scheme even when the play is underway. Rodney Harrison made that first interception and was a good 20 yards from the ball when it was thrown. There was a lot of air under the ball, but he still came from nowhere to pick it off.