One of the great things about baseball is that usally you're back on the field within 24 hours of a crushing loss, with the ability to put a terrible play or miscue in your rear view mirror pretty quickly. Not so with football -- where a lousy game or a stupid comment is allowed to fester for days. So it has been with Donovan McNabb and his stunning admission that he didn't know there was only one overtime period and that a tie was possible in their 13-13 deadlock with the (equally?) lowly Bengels.
Everybody and his brother has an opinion, so you knew that Warren Sapp would be weighing in.
WARREN SAPP: "…when I heard him say it I almost passed out. I thought, 'This will follow you for the rest of your career.' Your legacy in the league, Donovan, will be throwing up in the Super Bowl, Rush Limbaugh and now 'I didn’t know they were ties in the NFL.'"
Hey, he forgot getting booed on draft day. I think that Sapp was absolutely right, that these are the moments that define the McNabb decade in Philly -- and you could surely say that's unfair to ol' No. 5. It was Limbaugh (and the booing fans who, let us not forget, wanted future Pot Hall of Famer Ricky Williams) who was the idiot, not McNabb, and as for throwing up in the Super Bowl, that's never been proven despite the ring of truth.
But this tie thing is completely on D-Mac.
Look, the guy's never had Hall of Fame passing accuracy, and time has shown that he's not really a leader in the locker room, either. But he did seem to have three pretty big things going for him in the early 2000s heyday. He was a potent threat to run with the ball, he had the aura of a smart quarterback, and his team won.
But now he's too banged-up to carry the ball anymore, and his post 2004 record as a starter is mediocre. But his comments about the tie in Cincinnati were the last straw -- because he looked, fairly or not, like kind of a dim bulb on Sunday. So now No. 5 not only has no legs and no winning karma, but maybe he's not as intelligent as you thought all along.
What's left?
Limbaugh's comments were about the media, not McNabb.— jmc
Just remember that he heaves right before he throws a TD pass. It's such a giveaway. I happen to think people blame him for more than he deserves. I have no problem with busting his chops over this, but for example at the press conference yesterday, when he said that he's not going to talk about it anymore, radio host and callers got all indignant over that. What more do they want? He was wrong, he admitted he was wrong, there's a game on Sunday. BTW since teams get bye weeks, how come the NFL doesn't give the Thanksgiving teams their bye the Sunday before Thanksgiving, instead of making them prepare in only 3 days? Never made sense to me.— SteveMG- "...he had the aura of a smart quarterback"...I noticed you didnt say he WAS a smart QB. What specifically gave him the "aura"?— urkidnmepal
Comment removed.- Anyone notice the closer that Will gets to publishing his book, the angrier hank gets? What's up with that?— Talking point sleuth
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..........and a Will Bunch toady.— ocjones- Comment removed.
- Throwing up never been proven? So Jon Runyon and the center (can't remember his name now) are liars. They reported it on Comcast, not as a putdown, but to show that McNabb was giving it all on the field. I don't mind McNabb puking his guts out if he'd show some guts and take some chances on the field instead of being Mr. Safe Play all the time. Winners take chances to help their teams. Jeff Garcia was a lot less talented than McNab, but he motivated the Eagles to win.— mike l
- Geez, what a gang of whiny losers. The column is about McNabb and you pathetic losers can only gripe about Will and Sleuth? Just proves the intelligence (or lack thereof) of the conservative mind.— mike l
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