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they claim that the pats have the best defense in the history of humanity, lay in tom brady's jock like it's the holy hammock of canton, ohio, THEN turn around and say that McNabb (who has accomplished less than only ONE other QB in the past 4 years) is a benficiary of his defense. unreal.

Agreed. The Eagles are my second most disliked team just behind the Steelers, but even I see the hypocrisy in these posts.

Does anyone really think that Brady could lead any other team to the superbowl championship? As I've said before, put Manning on the Patriots and they'd never lose a game.

If McNabb and Brady had switched places 4 years ago, we'd all be talking now about how McNabb is among the top 5 QBs ever and Brady would probably be out of the league by now.

If any player showed greatness on Sunday, it was TO. Put TO on any top 15 team and they become instant superbowl contenders. The same can't be said of Brady or McNabb. I do think McNabb really hurt himself after the Rush fiasco. Rush didn't attack him personally - at the time McNabb had about 4 poor games in a row and the media was wondering what had suddenly gone wrong.

Rush rightly pointed out that nothing had SUDDENLY gone wrong, McNabb just wasn't as good yet as the media had claimed. He never said that McNabb wasn't good or wouldn't be good, he just pointed out that at that moment in time, he wasn't there yet.

This isn't anything out of the norm - it happens in baseball all the time. An other average rookie will have a good post season and all of a sudden he is hailed as the next hall of famer. Jared Wright comes to mind.

McNabb could have helped himself by making a joke out of it and not taking it so seriously. Instead, he seemed bitter and embraced the attitudes set forth by that jackass Tom Jackson and other members of the ESPN crew. There was no reason the situation had to be get blown up the way it did and McNabb could have done a lot to have prevented it.

By McNabb reacting the way he did and letting it be a big story, he guaranteed that about 40% of the country will always root against him and want to see him fail. Unfortunately, if he does ever win, the media will use that to discredit Rush and by extension conservatives. He made it to where he will never be a loved QB like Roger Staubach or Dan Marino.

I do think McNabb really hurt himself after the Rush fiasco. Rush didn't attack him personally - at the time McNabb had about 4 poor games in a row and the media was wondering what had suddenly gone wrong.

I find you to be generally reasonable, but there are a lot of things wrong with the above two sentences.

first, rush DID single out mcnabb as an example of "social concern".

second, mcnabb didn't react - the media did.

third, the media, for once, WAS right about something being wrong - donovan had a thumb injury.

mcnabb did everything he could to defuse the "controversy" - and the notion that he has to win a superbowl to "prove rush wrong" is ludicrous on its face. not to mention rush's lap-dogs will simply THEN say that it was the defense/receivers/coaching/weak NFC/etc.

he was thrust into a lose-lose situation by someone else, and has done the best he can.

it's pathetic how these rush-zombies grasp at straws (like one subpar game against the world champs in a 15-4 season) to bolster what they know is a weak case to begin with.

sorry to be so rushed, circumstances require I disconnect for a while and wanted to wrap this up first.

As I've said before, put Manning on the Patriots and they'd never lose a game.

Put Manning on the Patriots and he'd never be allowed to play the way he does on the Colts. Most of the time Brady is throttled back, but when a score is needed, they just turn him on, score, and then settle back into a basic offense. MAnning operates in a completely different environment.