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Posted 11-01-10 at 05:16 PM by BG Overdrive
I can't believe the negative media hype Shanahan is getting over this decision, and nothing is being mentioned about that INT he threw with 4min's to go that cost us the game. I applaud Shanahan for what he did. If nothing else, i hope Shanahan is conveying the message stupid mistakes like that will not be tolerated, which i believe he was doing when he pulled McNabb.
I'm noticing a constant trend with McNabb and it's not pretty. The guy is not a smart player at all and throws nothing but rocket balls and is unable to put any touch on his passes. I don't know how many times i've screamed for him to get rid of the ball with people wide open in the flats(his check down). The play he made earlier this year where we were up, with little time left in the game, and he ran for the first down, pretty much sealing the game, but then ran out of bounds and stopped the clock was another mind numbing experience.
I've also noticed he does not seem like a firey competitor. He seems to keep this half grin on is face no matter what the situation is. As was shown yesterday, we're last in 3rd down conversions and imo this is another reflection of McNabb. Good QB's convert on third down and can keep the chains moving. He hasn't done this all year outside a few times early on.
I've heard Philly fans claim he is a choker and i see now exactly where they're coming from. Proof of this was they way they were blitzing him yesterday. A good NFL QB will kill the blitz, something that McNabb doesn't seem capeable of doing.
Now, with all that said, he's leaps and bounds better than anything we've had in years, including Grossman and he does throw a good deep ball. The O line hasn't been much help either many times this year and i partially blame the playcalling for making him be under center on obvious passing downs when we're obviously having problems in our protection.
I believe McNabb is a talented QB, but he's just not a leader at the QB position and he's not a guy who is going to win games by himself. I wasn't crazy about the guy when we played against him and i truly believe he's been playing over his head and the worse is yet to come. He gotten lucky on some int's that have been dropped and yesterday i couldn't stop from thinking please don't throw a int, especially on that last TD inside the 5 that we ran in, but sure enough, he did it anyway, thowing into double, which some might consider tripple coverage, when that ball should've been in the stands.
I'm noticing a constant trend with McNabb and it's not pretty. The guy is not a smart player at all and throws nothing but rocket balls and is unable to put any touch on his passes. I don't know how many times i've screamed for him to get rid of the ball with people wide open in the flats(his check down). The play he made earlier this year where we were up, with little time left in the game, and he ran for the first down, pretty much sealing the game, but then ran out of bounds and stopped the clock was another mind numbing experience.
I've also noticed he does not seem like a firey competitor. He seems to keep this half grin on is face no matter what the situation is. As was shown yesterday, we're last in 3rd down conversions and imo this is another reflection of McNabb. Good QB's convert on third down and can keep the chains moving. He hasn't done this all year outside a few times early on.
I've heard Philly fans claim he is a choker and i see now exactly where they're coming from. Proof of this was they way they were blitzing him yesterday. A good NFL QB will kill the blitz, something that McNabb doesn't seem capeable of doing.
Now, with all that said, he's leaps and bounds better than anything we've had in years, including Grossman and he does throw a good deep ball. The O line hasn't been much help either many times this year and i partially blame the playcalling for making him be under center on obvious passing downs when we're obviously having problems in our protection.
I believe McNabb is a talented QB, but he's just not a leader at the QB position and he's not a guy who is going to win games by himself. I wasn't crazy about the guy when we played against him and i truly believe he's been playing over his head and the worse is yet to come. He gotten lucky on some int's that have been dropped and yesterday i couldn't stop from thinking please don't throw a int, especially on that last TD inside the 5 that we ran in, but sure enough, he did it anyway, thowing into double, which some might consider tripple coverage, when that ball should've been in the stands.
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