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First - All the reports describe statements by offensive linemen, not McNabb. So he's not making excuses.

Second - Did you see the TD pass to Westbrook? The TD pass to L.J. Smith? How many other NFL QBs could make those throws?

Third - The second stringer was Koy Detmer. I'll take a sick McNabb over a healthy Koy any day so give up on the "he should have pulled himself" line.

Last - As an Eagles fan, I have watched and read McNabb's public comments over the past five years. He has only said exactly the right thing every single time. He is an admirable man and has handled unwarranted abuse with great restraint.

Hey, I'm a big Limbaugh fan. I also think his McNabb comments were taken out of context and twisted to fit the left's name calling agenda. Reasonable minds can differ as to McNabb's football ability (I happen to think he is excellent). There is no doubt, however, that McNabb is a complete gentleman and professional. We should admire his restraint, his public behavior and his exemplary personal life, not trash him.

You nailed it - all of your points are right on! Also give the Pats kudos for having the stamina and the conditioning to not run out of gas at the end of the game (even with some players going both ways) AND for having the ability to put enough of a hurting on enough of the Eagles players that they did appear to have nothing left in the tank at the end. Belichik and team found a way to win. Again.

Hey, I'm a big Limbaugh fan. I also think his McNabb comments were taken out of context and twisted to fit the left's name calling agenda. Reasonable minds can differ as to McNabb's football ability (I happen to think he is excellent). There is no doubt, however, that McNabb is a complete gentleman and professional. We should admire his restraint, his public behavior and his exemplary personal life, not trash him.

Agree. Bottom line, however, the Pats are/were a better team & would win again if played next week.

Your summation is the best I have seen on the board regarding McNabb. I credit him for his exemplary behavior.

The sports moguls chose a devised fight over what Limbaugh DID NOT imply and did their usual spin to guild their lily. It has backfired and spewed soil all over them for their sordid efforts.

I am not a Limbaugh fan in the least but in fairness he did not say that McNabb would never become better or that his race made that impossible. Neither is Limbaugh so utterly ignorant as to not know that black had been seen before in a SB QB who won.

Doug Williams was/is a man of quality, too and we fervently hope that McNabb is another, win or not. The entire problem here consists in the media "pimping" a specific chosen and ignoring entirely by choice the fact that McNabb can never be the first black QB to win the prize. What Williams did was a far greater accomplishment given his circumstance than McNabb, all these years later, could ever pretend to.