In Alabama no one threatens others with insults like , "You fuckin honkey", or ,"You fucking spick", or "You fucking 'neighbor." They just lynch you, no questions asked.
Um, what?
They are still lynching folks in Alabama? Did Mr. Peabody send the message board through the way back machine?
Dude, a school in Mississippi just had their first inter-racial senior prom two years ago. Think about that.
Are they are still lynching people?
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They are still lynching folks in Alabama? Did Mr. Peabody send the message board through the way back machine?
Dude, a school in Mississippi just had their first inter-racial senior prom two years ago. Think about that.
Are they are still lynching people?
Let's put it this way - I wouldn't be surprised. First inter-racial prom, belief in creationism, dog fighting is the norm. You mean you would be surprised?
Mike Vick would be a tremendous boost to the Eagles O.
He's just dying to get on the field and explode. I hope they don't unleash him during round 1. We don't have a LB that can catch his little ass.
I was thinking the same thing. Are the coaches smart enough to play him though. I'm not a fan whatsoever of him, but hell we signed him let him play. Did he even touch the ball last week? I think to have a shot at winning we need him in there as well some other things.
8/28/98- Camden, NJ
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
Mike Vick would be a tremendous boost to the Eagles O.
He's just dying to get on the field and explode. I hope they don't unleash him during round 1. We don't have a LB that can catch his little ass.
I was thinking the same thing. Are the coaches smart enough to play him though. I'm not a fan whatsoever of him, but hell we signed him let him play. Did he even touch the ball last week? I think to have a shot at winning we need him in there as well some other things.
he was the emergency qb last week. his ankle was probably not 100%. i would think without a doubt reid will utilize him fully on saturday. he didn't do much at all against them the first game either.
"As you may have seen, I went too far with my Spudcam video prior to Sunday's game against the Cowboys. Acting alone, and without permission from the Eagles organization, I walked out to the middle of the field at Cowboys Stadium and spit on the Cowboys star, and for that I deeply apologize to the outstanding Cowboys organization and the fine people there, from Jerry Jones to the rest of the team."
The sad part about this story is that the Eagles had it up on their website as one of their features earlier today! Sad, very sad my friends
"As you may have seen, I went too far with my Spudcam video prior to Sunday's game against the Cowboys. Acting alone, and without permission from the Eagles organization, I walked out to the middle of the field at Cowboys Stadium and spit on the Cowboys star, and for that I deeply apologize to the outstanding Cowboys organization and the fine people there, from Jerry Jones to the rest of the team."
good for spuds.
i'll never forget listening to a drunken voicemail my old sales manager left one of my friends about 7 years ago. he was in texas and he was quite happy about being in close enough proximity to take a piss directly on texas stadium.
Dave Spadaro is the most annoying insider ever. The dude is clueless and drinks the kool aid more then the Jeagler But this is actually the first funny thing he has ever done. Fuck dallas go birds!!!!
Dave Spadaro is the most annoying insider ever. The dude is clueless and drinks the kool aid more then the Jeagler But this is actually the first funny thing he has ever done. Fuck dallas go birds!!!!
go back and read my posts dude. there is no kool aid being drunk. i just enjoy being objective and recognize what the team's done this year. i even said earlier in the year that if we didn't make it at least as far as we did last year, then reid should not be given an extension. my feelings changed a bit after all the numerous injuries we've had to endure. i just don't hop on and off the bandwagon like you
for the record, spadaro blows....but that was awesome :thumbup:
GO BIRDS!
He shoulda just spit at the scoreboard... it's close enough to the ground for him to reach it!
by the way...meadowlands stadium looks pretty awesome. i like how its all enclosed all the way around. a lot of the new places like the linc have openings so you can see the skyline and stuff. i don't need that at a football game. baseball, yes. but football's a different animal. i miss the vet.
He shoulda just spit at the scoreboard... it's close enough to the ground for him to reach it!
by the way...meadowlands stadium looks pretty awesome. i like how its all enclosed all the way around. a lot of the new places like the linc have openings so you can see the skyline and stuff. i don't need that at a football game. baseball, yes. but football's a different animal. i miss the vet.
Did they keep the tunnels in the enzones so they can fuck with visiting kickers during FG attempts??
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i don't know about you but i am sick and tired of hearing all the donovan nonsense and talk about dave f'ing spadaro......so, some of this may be a bit obvious, but here's how we win primarily on the offensive side for obvious reasons:
1-run the ball more. history has shown time and time again how much better the eagles are when they have some semblance of balance in their offense.
2-run the ball with lesean mccoy and leonard weaver. bwest should consider hanging 'em up at the end of the year. he's just not close to the same back he was 2 years ago.
3-we're the best screen team in the nfl, might as well call a few of those plays huh? for some reason i dont remember any screens sunday other than the one weaver dropped and another to westbrook. great way to throw off their pass rush.
4-hope mcnabb gets out of his funk early. if he was even a little on target last week, that game would have come down to the wire. you can usually tell by how he plays during the first few drives how his day is going to go. we also have an insanely good record when scoring on our opening drive this year.
5-catch the damn ball! as with mcnabb, if our receivers didn't turn into our 2002 receivers overnight, sunday's game would have been really close. jackson had a couple blatent misses as did maclin (that one ball was a little behind him, but thats a ball you have to catch). and i realize the game was lost at this point, but i've never seen jason avant miss such a wide open catch as the one that hit him in the #'s on our last drive. catch the damn ball!
6-have nick cole play the way he did last week. the o line was not great in giving up 4 sacks. but it was not cole's fault. he did a serviceable job blocking ratliff. their sacks were more a result of andy reid forgetting to run the ball and passing 36 times.
defensively---turnovers. turnovers. turnovers. our turnover ratio was waaaaay better than the cowboys this year. we must generate turnovers in order to win this game. obviously the linebackers have to play better. but we're playing with 2nd and 3rd stringers there. i can't fault them too much. just do what you do best----take the ball back and give it the offense. they will give up yards like they always do. but you have to blitz more, pressure romo, and force him to turn the ball over.
if you really think about it, despite the score, despite the shellacking; if donny hits jackson on that bomb....its 7-7 early. if donovan doesn't drop the snap, its 14-14 at halftime. if we don't miss on a couple other big plays, we very well could be the 2 seed right now. and i realize some will say "well if romo didn't get that pass deflected, it would have beenj31-0"---but that was not an unforced error. that was the result of asante samuel doing what he does best. don't get me wrong, we got killed in all phases of the game last week. but we're such a big play team, that we have won some of those games in the past. just cut out the mistakes and we will be fine.
the line is also telling me the birds have a good shot too. i was expecting dallas to be a 5 or 5.5 pt favorite. they are only 4 and in some places 3.5 favorite. vegas is enticing people to pick the cowpokes and that's just what people are doing. be smart. go the other way people .......GO BIRDS.
Fuck Dallas, Espn just had a cool segment on about the rivilary. I can't wait until tomorrow night, i just wanna see the birds come back and kick the cowgirls in the mouth. Here's to Sheldon Brown laying out F.Jones.
THE WIDE RECEIVER boasts. The Web site director spits. The Eagles get ready for another shot at the Dallas Cowboys and that is the trivia of another week at the carnival. The real subtext, though, concerns the quarterback and the question: Is this the last go-round for Donovan McNabb, the man who has done everything a Philadelphia quarterback can do except for the one thing that everybody so desperately wants him to do?
Personally, I think this is it. I think the club made that clear without saying it by giving McNabb a raise during the offseason but declining to extend his contract past the 2010 season. If they win a Super Bowl, of course, things change. If they get to another NFC Championship Game, and McNabb plays great, things change. Short of that, though, I think it's over.
Eleven years is a long time for a quarterback in one city. Five years is a long time for a fan base to be locked in perpetual debate about a quarterback - and that is how long Eagles fans have been burying me in a digital avalanche every time I type the guy's name, pro or con. Ever since that achingly slow fourth-quarter drive in the Super Bowl, when McNabb either did or did not throw up in the huddle, the town has been thoroughly divided. During the flash points, you can read the exhaustion on everyone's face, including McNabb's. Another flash point is coming, maybe as soon as tomorrow night. When this season is over, there is nothing that anybody will say concerning McNabb that hasn't already been said a million times. The answer here is not obvious until you look at the contract. McNabb has trade value only as long as he is under contract - which means you trade him now or you have to extend him for X-number of years after the season, with a new signing bonus and plenty of color and pageantry (and a likely one-way ticket out the door for Kevin Kolb, whom you have previously identified as your future).
If the Eagles lose tomorrow, does anybody really think they are going to do that? Or that they should?
I have tried to be as objective as I could be over the years - admittedly, with varying success. Sometimes I hear the really asinine criticism and lean more toward being McNabb's defense attorney. Other times, when he's having one of those worm-burner days, I am too harsh. Overall, I think his body of work suggests McNabb is the best quarterback in the history of the franchise. But I also have seen this team lose four conference championship games, three as a favorite - and he hasn't played a great, complete game in any of them, or in the Super Bowl.
Sometimes it is all about the quarterback in the NFL. Other than an NHL goaltender, the quarterback has more to say about winning and losing than any single player in professional sports. He just does. (And he is paid accordingly.)
Here is a stat list. It is of 10 elite quarterbacks playing today. They all play well when they win - McNabb's rating of 92.3 is seventh out of 10 - and they all play somewhere between less-well and badly when they lose. This is a list of their passer ratings in the playoff games that they lose.
Kurt Warner . . . 91.6
Drew Brees . . . 91.5
Tom Brady . . . 79.0
Tony Romo . . . 75.8
Ben Roethlisberger . . . 74.2
Peyton Manning . . . 70.6
Philip Rivers . . . 69.0
Brett Favre . . . 68.0
Donovan McNabb . . . 66.4
Eli Manning . . . 48.4
It is the heart of the matter with McNabb - that is, that he is almost never one of their better players in defeat. (Before last year's NFC title game, his rating in playoff losses was 58.9.) And then there is the question of comebacks. The people at the great pro-football-reference.com have compiled the numbers for fourth-quarter playoff comeback wins by quarterbacks. We'll take the same 10 guys and line them up based upon how often they have brought their teams back in the postseason. Brady is otherworldly, with six comeback wins out of nine playoff games that he trailed in the fourth quarter.
Tom Brady . . . 6-for-9
Kurt Warner . . . 3-for-6
Eli Manning . . . 3-for-6
Ben Roethlisberger . . . 2-for-4
Brett Favre . . . 2-for-12
Philip Rivers . . . 1-for-3
Donovan McNabb . . . 1-for-7
Peyton Manning . . . 1-for-8
Drew Brees . . . 0-for-2
Tony Romo . . . 0-for-2
These are just the facts in one of sports' toughest proving grounds, the NFL postseason. McNabb has won 60 percent of his playoff starts, a good number. Those are all big games, not just the ones he loses. Of course, the point spread suggests he had what was perceived to be the better team in 67 percent of those games. And around it goes.
I wouldn't insult McNabb and say that Kolb is better today, or anything like that - but Kolb is intriguing. He would be a more natural stylistic fit for the offense, with not as big an arm as McNabb but with more of a willingness to get the ball out quickly. But, yes, you would be gambling on his development here. There is no denying that.
If he never gets a chance, though, you never find out. This is a very young Eagles team. If it were an old core, about to collapse, I could see the logic of McNabb staying to the end - but that isn't the reality. If you sense ambivalence here, that is because there is ambivalence here. It has been 11 years, after all. But if it ends quickly, it just feels like this is it. *
because this is philadelphia and that is what people do here. :roll:
i for one am tired of this stupid conversation and refuse to engage in it until after their season is over.
and lomas brown picked us!....lomas brown?!?!?!!?! where the hell does he work now?
because this is philadelphia and that is what people do here. :roll:
i for one am tired of this stupid conversation and refuse to engage in it until after their season is over.
and lomas brown picked us!....lomas brown?!?!?!!?! where the hell does he work now?
And especially because Rich Hoffman is an insufferable prick. Met him at a book store in Wynnewood, and again in New Orleans. TOTAL DOUCHEBAG.
because this is philadelphia and that is what people do here. :roll:
i for one am tired of this stupid conversation and refuse to engage in it until after their season is over.
and lomas brown picked us!....lomas brown?!?!?!!?! where the hell does he work now?
And especially because Rich Hoffman is an insufferable prick. Met him at a book store in Wynnewood, and again in New Orleans. TOTAL DOUCHEBAG.
Fair enough, gotta be a jerkoff to write a column like that the day before the biggest game of the season.
From Simmons' article, and it almost makes too much sense.
Key Player: Donovan McNabb. And not just because Philly isn't as good as Dallas and needs three or four big plays to steal this game. Can you think of someone who defined the NFL Hyperbole Decade better than McNabb? He stinks! He's great! He can't win the big one! He's getting better in the clutch! He has no heart. He has a ton of heart! He needs to go! He needs to stay! I can't remember a more polarizing NFL career. Because he stunk last weekend, it seems logical that he would play well this weekend … right?
From Simmons' article, and it almost makes too much sense.
Key Player: Donovan McNabb. And not just because Philly isn't as good as Dallas and needs three or four big plays to steal this game. Can you think of someone who defined the NFL Hyperbole Decade better than McNabb? He stinks! He's great! He can't win the big one! He's getting better in the clutch! He has no heart. He has a ton of heart! He needs to go! He needs to stay! I can't remember a more polarizing NFL career. Because he stunk last weekend, it seems logical that he would play well this weekend … right?
....he does always seem to bounce back really well. reid too.
who knows? maybe last week's game was akin to last year's skins game. we all know what happend the week after we laid that egg, don't we?...GO BIRDS!
From Simmons' article, and it almost makes too much sense.
Key Player: Donovan McNabb. And not just because Philly isn't as good as Dallas and needs three or four big plays to steal this game. Can you think of someone who defined the NFL Hyperbole Decade better than McNabb? He stinks! He's great! He can't win the big one! He's getting better in the clutch! He has no heart. He has a ton of heart! He needs to go! He needs to stay! I can't remember a more polarizing NFL career. Because he stunk last weekend, it seems logical that he would play well this weekend … right?
....he does always seem to bounce back really well. reid too.
who knows? maybe last week's game was akin to last year's skins game. we all know what happend the week after we laid that egg, don't we?...GO BIRDS!
We plan on taking shots of Woodford any time an Aussie takes the field....tomorrow's going to be.....interesting.
From Simmons' article, and it almost makes too much sense.
Key Player: Donovan McNabb. And not just because Philly isn't as good as Dallas and needs three or four big plays to steal this game. Can you think of someone who defined the NFL Hyperbole Decade better than McNabb? He stinks! He's great! He can't win the big one! He's getting better in the clutch! He has no heart. He has a ton of heart! He needs to go! He needs to stay! I can't remember a more polarizing NFL career. Because he stunk last weekend, it seems logical that he would play well this weekend … right?
....he does always seem to bounce back really well. reid too.
who knows? maybe last week's game was akin to last year's skins game. we all know what happend the week after we laid that egg, don't we?...GO BIRDS!
We plan on taking shots of Woodford any time an Aussie takes the field....tomorrow's going to be.....interesting.
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Are they are still lynching people?
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
Let's put it this way - I wouldn't be surprised. First inter-racial prom, belief in creationism, dog fighting is the norm. You mean you would be surprised?
Anyway, this wasn't my point.
"I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
I bet I did. That you're a better man than me.
I was thinking the same thing. Are the coaches smart enough to play him though. I'm not a fan whatsoever of him, but hell we signed him let him play. Did he even touch the ball last week? I think to have a shot at winning we need him in there as well some other things.
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
he was the emergency qb last week. his ankle was probably not 100%. i would think without a doubt reid will utilize him fully on saturday. he didn't do much at all against them the first game either.
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-films-tea ... 2009-remix
"it is not the end of the season. it is merely the end of the regular season."
okay....time to get fired UP now! GO BIRDS!
Kick their asses, Eagles!
"As you may have seen, I went too far with my Spudcam video prior to Sunday's game against the Cowboys. Acting alone, and without permission from the Eagles organization, I walked out to the middle of the field at Cowboys Stadium and spit on the Cowboys star, and for that I deeply apologize to the outstanding Cowboys organization and the fine people there, from Jerry Jones to the rest of the team."
The sad part about this story is that the Eagles had it up on their website as one of their features earlier today! Sad, very sad my friends
good for spuds.
i'll never forget listening to a drunken voicemail my old sales manager left one of my friends about 7 years ago. he was in texas and he was quite happy about being in close enough proximity to take a piss directly on texas stadium.
i'd poop on the star if i could
It's because we have nothing to be jealous of?
No punters could even hit the board during the regular season and you want Dave to spit that high?
http://www.the700level.com/2010/01/dave ... .html#more
go back and read my posts dude. there is no kool aid being drunk. i just enjoy being objective and recognize what the team's done this year. i even said earlier in the year that if we didn't make it at least as far as we did last year, then reid should not be given an extension. my feelings changed a bit after all the numerous injuries we've had to endure. i just don't hop on and off the bandwagon like you
for the record, spadaro blows....but that was awesome :thumbup:
GO BIRDS!
by the way...meadowlands stadium looks pretty awesome. i like how its all enclosed all the way around. a lot of the new places like the linc have openings so you can see the skyline and stuff. i don't need that at a football game. baseball, yes. but football's a different animal. i miss the vet.
Did they keep the tunnels in the enzones so they can fuck with visiting kickers during FG attempts??
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HaHa!!
I'm still shocked he posted that..he seems so by the book normally
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1-run the ball more. history has shown time and time again how much better the eagles are when they have some semblance of balance in their offense.
2-run the ball with lesean mccoy and leonard weaver. bwest should consider hanging 'em up at the end of the year. he's just not close to the same back he was 2 years ago.
3-we're the best screen team in the nfl, might as well call a few of those plays huh? for some reason i dont remember any screens sunday other than the one weaver dropped and another to westbrook. great way to throw off their pass rush.
4-hope mcnabb gets out of his funk early. if he was even a little on target last week, that game would have come down to the wire. you can usually tell by how he plays during the first few drives how his day is going to go. we also have an insanely good record when scoring on our opening drive this year.
5-catch the damn ball! as with mcnabb, if our receivers didn't turn into our 2002 receivers overnight, sunday's game would have been really close. jackson had a couple blatent misses as did maclin (that one ball was a little behind him, but thats a ball you have to catch). and i realize the game was lost at this point, but i've never seen jason avant miss such a wide open catch as the one that hit him in the #'s on our last drive. catch the damn ball!
6-have nick cole play the way he did last week. the o line was not great in giving up 4 sacks. but it was not cole's fault. he did a serviceable job blocking ratliff. their sacks were more a result of andy reid forgetting to run the ball and passing 36 times.
defensively---turnovers. turnovers. turnovers. our turnover ratio was waaaaay better than the cowboys this year. we must generate turnovers in order to win this game. obviously the linebackers have to play better. but we're playing with 2nd and 3rd stringers there. i can't fault them too much. just do what you do best----take the ball back and give it the offense. they will give up yards like they always do. but you have to blitz more, pressure romo, and force him to turn the ball over.
if you really think about it, despite the score, despite the shellacking; if donny hits jackson on that bomb....its 7-7 early. if donovan doesn't drop the snap, its 14-14 at halftime. if we don't miss on a couple other big plays, we very well could be the 2 seed right now. and i realize some will say "well if romo didn't get that pass deflected, it would have beenj31-0"---but that was not an unforced error. that was the result of asante samuel doing what he does best. don't get me wrong, we got killed in all phases of the game last week. but we're such a big play team, that we have won some of those games in the past. just cut out the mistakes and we will be fine.
the line is also telling me the birds have a good shot too. i was expecting dallas to be a 5 or 5.5 pt favorite. they are only 4 and in some places 3.5 favorite. vegas is enticing people to pick the cowpokes and that's just what people are doing. be smart. go the other way people
http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/201 ... y_out.html
Rich Hofmann: McNabb looks to be on his way out
By Rich Hofmann
Philadelphia Daily News
Daily News Sports Columnist
THE WIDE RECEIVER boasts. The Web site director spits. The Eagles get ready for another shot at the Dallas Cowboys and that is the trivia of another week at the carnival. The real subtext, though, concerns the quarterback and the question: Is this the last go-round for Donovan McNabb, the man who has done everything a Philadelphia quarterback can do except for the one thing that everybody so desperately wants him to do?
Personally, I think this is it. I think the club made that clear without saying it by giving McNabb a raise during the offseason but declining to extend his contract past the 2010 season. If they win a Super Bowl, of course, things change. If they get to another NFC Championship Game, and McNabb plays great, things change. Short of that, though, I think it's over.
Eleven years is a long time for a quarterback in one city. Five years is a long time for a fan base to be locked in perpetual debate about a quarterback - and that is how long Eagles fans have been burying me in a digital avalanche every time I type the guy's name, pro or con. Ever since that achingly slow fourth-quarter drive in the Super Bowl, when McNabb either did or did not throw up in the huddle, the town has been thoroughly divided. During the flash points, you can read the exhaustion on everyone's face, including McNabb's. Another flash point is coming, maybe as soon as tomorrow night. When this season is over, there is nothing that anybody will say concerning McNabb that hasn't already been said a million times. The answer here is not obvious until you look at the contract. McNabb has trade value only as long as he is under contract - which means you trade him now or you have to extend him for X-number of years after the season, with a new signing bonus and plenty of color and pageantry (and a likely one-way ticket out the door for Kevin Kolb, whom you have previously identified as your future).
If the Eagles lose tomorrow, does anybody really think they are going to do that? Or that they should?
I have tried to be as objective as I could be over the years - admittedly, with varying success. Sometimes I hear the really asinine criticism and lean more toward being McNabb's defense attorney. Other times, when he's having one of those worm-burner days, I am too harsh. Overall, I think his body of work suggests McNabb is the best quarterback in the history of the franchise. But I also have seen this team lose four conference championship games, three as a favorite - and he hasn't played a great, complete game in any of them, or in the Super Bowl.
Sometimes it is all about the quarterback in the NFL. Other than an NHL goaltender, the quarterback has more to say about winning and losing than any single player in professional sports. He just does. (And he is paid accordingly.)
Here is a stat list. It is of 10 elite quarterbacks playing today. They all play well when they win - McNabb's rating of 92.3 is seventh out of 10 - and they all play somewhere between less-well and badly when they lose. This is a list of their passer ratings in the playoff games that they lose.
Kurt Warner . . . 91.6
Drew Brees . . . 91.5
Tom Brady . . . 79.0
Tony Romo . . . 75.8
Ben Roethlisberger . . . 74.2
Peyton Manning . . . 70.6
Philip Rivers . . . 69.0
Brett Favre . . . 68.0
Donovan McNabb . . . 66.4
Eli Manning . . . 48.4
It is the heart of the matter with McNabb - that is, that he is almost never one of their better players in defeat. (Before last year's NFC title game, his rating in playoff losses was 58.9.) And then there is the question of comebacks. The people at the great pro-football-reference.com have compiled the numbers for fourth-quarter playoff comeback wins by quarterbacks. We'll take the same 10 guys and line them up based upon how often they have brought their teams back in the postseason. Brady is otherworldly, with six comeback wins out of nine playoff games that he trailed in the fourth quarter.
Tom Brady . . . 6-for-9
Kurt Warner . . . 3-for-6
Eli Manning . . . 3-for-6
Ben Roethlisberger . . . 2-for-4
Brett Favre . . . 2-for-12
Philip Rivers . . . 1-for-3
Donovan McNabb . . . 1-for-7
Peyton Manning . . . 1-for-8
Drew Brees . . . 0-for-2
Tony Romo . . . 0-for-2
These are just the facts in one of sports' toughest proving grounds, the NFL postseason. McNabb has won 60 percent of his playoff starts, a good number. Those are all big games, not just the ones he loses. Of course, the point spread suggests he had what was perceived to be the better team in 67 percent of those games. And around it goes.
I wouldn't insult McNabb and say that Kolb is better today, or anything like that - but Kolb is intriguing. He would be a more natural stylistic fit for the offense, with not as big an arm as McNabb but with more of a willingness to get the ball out quickly. But, yes, you would be gambling on his development here. There is no denying that.
If he never gets a chance, though, you never find out. This is a very young Eagles team. If it were an old core, about to collapse, I could see the logic of McNabb staying to the end - but that isn't the reality. If you sense ambivalence here, that is because there is ambivalence here. It has been 11 years, after all. But if it ends quickly, it just feels like this is it. *
because this is philadelphia and that is what people do here. :roll:
i for one am tired of this stupid conversation and refuse to engage in it until after their season is over.
and lomas brown picked us!....lomas brown?!?!?!!?! where the hell does he work now?
And especially because Rich Hoffman is an insufferable prick. Met him at a book store in Wynnewood, and again in New Orleans. TOTAL DOUCHEBAG.
Fair enough, gotta be a jerkoff to write a column like that the day before the biggest game of the season.
Key Player: Donovan McNabb. And not just because Philly isn't as good as Dallas and needs three or four big plays to steal this game. Can you think of someone who defined the NFL Hyperbole Decade better than McNabb? He stinks! He's great! He can't win the big one! He's getting better in the clutch! He has no heart. He has a ton of heart! He needs to go! He needs to stay! I can't remember a more polarizing NFL career. Because he stunk last weekend, it seems logical that he would play well this weekend … right?
....he does always seem to bounce back really well. reid too.
who knows? maybe last week's game was akin to last year's skins game. we all know what happend the week after we laid that egg, don't we?...GO BIRDS!
We plan on taking shots of Woodford any time an Aussie takes the field....tomorrow's going to be.....interesting.