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Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on August 12, 2011, 11:08:30 PM
Akers nailed a 59yd FG

Quote from: DH on August 15, 2011, 12:21:24 AM
is that Tommy Hutton next to him?

QuoteLOS ANGELES - Football star Terrell Owens was rushed to a hospital last Thursday after a 911 call for a possible prescription pill overdose, TMZ reported Monday.

The unsigned free-agent, who's currently rehabbing from knee surgery, spoke to police at the unnamed Southern California hospital before his release, TMZ said.

Messages sent to Owens' publicists were not returned, and Owens' girlfriend declined to comment when reached by the Daily News.

The record-breaking wide receiver with five NFL teams under his belt, most recently the Cincinnati Bengals, was famously hospitalized in 2006 for what he called a bad reaction to painkillers.

A police report and media coverage indicated it was an intentional Vicodin overdose.

He later denied that doctors had to pump his stomach and said he was not depressed.

"The rumor of me taking 35 pills, I think, is absurd. I don't think I would be here if I had taken 35 pills," he said in 2006.

The 37-year-old veteran posted a Twitter link Saturday to a football training video purportedly made that day.

He tweeted earlier in the week that he planned to be back on an NFL team by next month.

According to the Korea Times newspaper, the loud-mouthed legend was in South Korea in September for a stem-cell treatment meant to speed the healing of his knee, which was injured when he tore an ACL in March.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2011/10/10/2011-10-10_terrell_owens_nfl_free_agent_hospitalized_in_possible_prescription_drug_overdose.html#ixzz1aUOdswP8

Quote from: hbionic on October 11, 2011, 01:07:18 PM
How many million reasons does he have left to live?

Quote from: Sgt PSN on October 19, 2011, 10:41:35 AM
So within the last 12 months, McNabb has been benched in favor of Rex Grosssman and a rookie.

QuoteDonovan McNabb surprised by benching.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Vikings coach Leslie Frazier officially announced the start of the Christian Ponder era Wednesday, a move that surprised veteran quarterback Donovan McNabb.

Frazier said the decision was based solely on what gives the team the best chance to win.

"I know I have a lot of football left in me," McNabb said.

"He is the head coach and decisions are made," McNabb said. "At this particular point, it's for me to continue to prepare and make sure that we continue to support Christian and make sure that he's ready. But most important for me, is to prepare because I'm just one play from going back in. Just make sure I'm ready when called upon and try to lead us to victory."

McNabb will remain on the team as the backup, and Frazier says he handled the demotion professionally and pledged to help Ponder succeed.

"It does not mean that I am giving up on the 2011 season," Frazier said. "The decision was made purely based on what would give us the best chance to win on Sunday. That's why the decision was made. I didn't feel or sense that staying status quo was going to get us a win on Sunday."

With the Vikings 1-5 and coming off of a 39-10 loss at Chicago, the move hardly came as a surprise. McNabb has struggled mightily for most of the season in this new offense and has never looked in rhythm while throwing from the pocket.

The Vikings passing offense ranks 31st in the league and McNabb ranks 29th in the league in touchdowns, 26th in yards passing and 19th in completion percentage. Frazier declined to give him a vote of confidence after a 39-10 loss in Chicago on Sunday night.

It's the second straight season that McNabb has been benched because of his performance, but his close relationship with Frazier seems to have made this one smoother than how things went down last year in Washington under head coach Mike Shanahan and offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan. McNabb's agent, Fletcher Smith, openly challenged how the two coaches handled the situation, calling it disrespectful and "unprecedented for a six-time Pro Bowl quarterback such as Donovan."

Ponder completed 9 of 17 passes for 99 yards in the fourth quarter against the Bears on Sunday night, his first NFL game action in the regular season. He also rushed for 8 yards and a first down to keep his first drive going, showcasing some of the athleticism that was apparent during his time under center in the preseason.

"When he got a chance to play in the game on Sunday, some of the things he did let me know that the game is not too big for him," Frazier said. "It's not too fast for him. He did some good things in a short period of time."

Ponder joins Carolina's Cam Newton, Cincinnati's Andy Dalton and Jacksonville's Blaine Gabbert as rookie starting quarterbacks in the league.

Newton's quick command of the offense and playmaking ability has been one of the most pleasant surprises of the season, Dalton has been a steady contributor and key to the Bengals' fast start while Gabbert has struggled in the early going with the Jaguars.

Now Ponder will get the chance to show how he measures up to the rest of a promising rookie class.

The Vikings selected him 12th overall in April, saying at the time that the Florida State star was the most NFL-ready quarterback in the draft. All signs were pointing to Ponder taking over from the very beginning, but the summer-long lockout prevented him from getting the practice time needed to learn the offense and get on the same page with his new teammates.

So Frazier turned to McNabb, a player he got to know very well as an assistant with Philadelphia. The trust the two had in each other was one of the biggest factors in completing a trade with Washington to bring the 13-year veteran to Minnesota, with Frazier saying at the time that he thought McNabb was the best option available to help the Vikings contend in 2011.

"I can't say that on July 31 I thought we'd be at 1-5," Frazier said, thinking back to the day the Vikings acquired McNabb. "There's no way I could've predicted that. I thought we'd be further along than we are. I have a ton of respect for Donovan both personally and professionally as well. But the decision was based on what's going to be best for our team and what's going to give us the best chance to win."

Frazier said he didn't regret his decision to bring McNabb in and was careful to point out that everyone -- not just the quarterback -- is to blame for the team's struggles. The offensive line has played poorly, offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave hasn't found a play-calling rhythm yet and the receivers lack a downfield threat to stretch the defense.

"This move is not just about the quarterback position," Frazier said. "Our entire team has to play better in order for us to win on Sunday."

Teammates took the news in stride, throwing their support behind the rookie and hoping the change will give them the jolt they need.

"You get to this point in the season and you're kind of looking for a spark or something to get you going, and obviously coach Frazier and the coaching staff felt like this was something that needed to be done to get us going," left tackle Charlie Johnson said. "So we're behind it, we're on board."

Now it's up to Ponder to make the transition from rookie backup to the one everyone in the huddle will be looking to.

"I don't think it's hard to do," Ponder said. "I think at the quarterback position, that leadership position comes natural. I don't really think anything of it. I'm just going to go out there and be the same person I've been for the last five years since college. I don't think it's going to be a tough transition."

Quote from: MDS on October 19, 2011, 01:02:46 PM
ignoring the mcnabb stuff, huh?

cant take the heat when the love of your life continues to prove how washed up he is?

Quote from: Rome on October 19, 2011, 05:33:20 PM

QuoteDonovan McNabb surprised by benching.

What a douche.

Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on October 19, 2011, 08:40:43 PM

Quote from: MDS on October 19, 2011, 01:02:46 PM
ignoring the mcnabb stuff, huh?

cant take the heat when the love of your life continues to prove how washed up he is?

Oh well it happens...I like the guy but my being a fan doesn't even approach the same level of the Cataldi/Todd O/Havas hatred.

Quote from: methdeez on October 19, 2011, 11:25:57 PM

Quote from: Rome on October 19, 2011, 05:33:20 PM

QuoteDonovan McNabb surprised by benching.

What a douche.

Seemed pretty innocuous to me.

Quote from: Sgt PSN on October 20, 2011, 01:59:15 AM
No athlete would ever publicly approve being benched.

Quote from: Zanshin on October 21, 2011, 08:20:45 AM
I heard they're kicking the tires on Amp LeeChris Warren.

Quote from: Munson on October 21, 2011, 01:39:47 PM

Quote from: Zanshin on October 21, 2011, 08:20:45 AM
I heard they're kicking the tires on Amp LeeChris Warren Tim Biakabatuka.

Quote from: Sgt PSN on October 21, 2011, 02:58:53 PM

Quote from: Munson on October 21, 2011, 01:39:47 PM

Quote from: Zanshin on October 21, 2011, 08:20:45 AM
I heard they're kicking the tires on Amp LeeChris Warren Tim Biakabatuka Fred Lane.

Quote from: FastFreddie on October 21, 2011, 03:24:02 PM

Quote from: Sgt PSN on October 21, 2011, 02:58:53 PM

Quote from: Munson on October 21, 2011, 01:39:47 PM

Quote from: Zanshin on October 21, 2011, 08:20:45 AM
I heard they're kicking the tires on Amp LeeChris Warren Tim Biakabatuka Fred Lane O.J. Simpson.

I was going to mock you losers for keeping this joke alive but decided to go the other way.

QuoteFor his part, Lombardi insists that people who have seen McNabb up close are fed up with his laziness.

"Donovan hasn't really been putting the time in," Lombardi said. "I was told by people in the Viking organization: 'He's the last one in the building, he's the first one gone, he's not willing to put the time in, late for meetings, late for practice.' So they just basically have thrown up their hands and said, 'We need to move on, because ultimately that's not what we want in a quarterback.'"

Given that three teams in the last year and a half have decided that McNabb is not what they want in a quarterback, there's nothing crazy about questioning McNabb.

Quote from: Diomedes on October 23, 2011, 07:28:10 PM
In hindsight, I don't think he ever cared.

Quote from: Sgt PSN on October 23, 2011, 07:07:11 PM
LOL. 

Really gotta give Reid credit for cutting ties with him when he did.  Basically got every productive snap out of that guy's career.  McNabb just doesn't care anymore and hasn't since the Dallas playoff game. 

QuoteTerrell Owens' workout was watched by two television networks but no NFL teams.

The 37-year-old free-agent wide receiver participated in some drills and caught passes Tuesday outside Los Angeles in a showcase televised by ESPN and NFL Network. He tells ESPN ''I definitely feel there are some teams out there that are interested.''

Quote from: Diomedes on October 27, 2011, 02:50:34 PM
Suicide?

QuoteIt's unknown whether former Vikings quarterback Donovan McNabb is attempting to sell any of his teammates on the notion that he should be the starting quarterback, in the hopes that perhaps enough players will clamor for McNabb that he'll be reinstalled at the top of the depth chart.  But it is known that McNabb is willing to publicly declare that he should be the starter.

Because he already has.

NFL Network special correspondent Andrea Kremer asks McNabb in an interview that will air Sunday morning whether he should still be the starter in Minnesota.  "Absolutely," McNabb says.  "Absolutely."

He thinks he isn't the starter because the quarterback gets both the credit for a team's success and the blame for its failures.  "Well, I mean, everyone focuses on my position," McNabb told Kremer.  "We should be sitting here, I'll be honest, at about what, 4-3, 5-2, or whatever?  We had games that we should have won, but we just didn't. Now is it the quarterback position?"

What he's overlooking is the fact that he wasn't benched due to his play or because he's the scapegoat for a 1-5 start punctuated by a blowout loss at Soldier Field that ran the team's road record against the Bears to 1-10 since 2001.  Chrisian Ponder is playing and McNabb isn't because the Vikings realize that the playoffs are a pipe dream, and because the Vikings need to know what Ponder can do.  Especially if that 1-5 (now 1-6) becomes 1-10 and worse, giving the Vikings a crack at Andrew Luck.

McNabb also flatly denied a report, originating last weekend on the same network, that he was benched because he showed up late for meetings and practices.

"Never," McNabb said.  "But from just people from the outside listening, they'll say, 'Oh, you know, sources said that he's not putting in that time to be a top tier quarterback.'  Well, just come to Minnesota.  Pack up your big jacket and your headwear, and come watch me."

They can watch him practice.  For the foreseeable fut

QuoteOn his treatment in Washington: "Disrespectful and disgraceful...You go to practice, you have a conversation with somebody in the morning, all of the sudden later that afternoon you basically hear the whole conversation that was played out behind closed doors, that's handled unprofessionally."

QuoteOn his benching in Minnesota, where he should "absolutely" still be the starter: "Everyone focuses on my position. I'm the one who either gets the most credit or the most blame. We should be sitting here, I'll be honest, at about 4-3 or 5-2. We had games that we should have won, but we just didn't...A decision was made from Leslie and we talked about a lot of things that were going on - and a lot of things we keep in house. But he also referred to a lot that is not just me at the position. You know there are a lot of problems on this team."

QuoteOn questions about his work ethic: "It's total BS. Even last year, I was one of the first ones in the building and the last to leave. It's the same here. I'm upstairs after watching film and going through meetings, and I'm eating dinner with coaches. I'm going back and watching more film. For something like tht to come out is ridiculous. But people from the outside listening, they'll say, 'Oh, sources said that he's not putting in the time to be a top tier QB.' Well, just come to Minnesota, pack up your big jacket and headware, and just watch me."

Quote from: MDS on October 31, 2011, 02:00:45 PM

QuoteOn his treatment in Washington: "Disrespectful and disgraceful...You go to practice, you have a conversation with somebody in the morning, all of the sudden later that afternoon you basically hear the whole conversation that was played out behind closed doors, that's handled unprofessionally."

playing the victim, check

QuoteOn his benching in Minnesota, where he should "absolutely" still be the starter: "Everyone focuses on my position. I'm the one who either gets the most credit or the most blame. We should be sitting here, I'll be honest, at about 4-3 or 5-2. We had games that we should have won, but we just didn't...A decision was made from Leslie and we talked about a lot of things that were going on - and a lot of things we keep in house. But he also referred to a lot that is not just me at the position. You know there are a lot of problems on this team."

"it's not my fault," check

QuoteOn questions about his work ethic: "It's total BS. Even last year, I was one of the first ones in the building and the last to leave. It's the same here. I'm upstairs after watching film and going through meetings, and I'm eating dinner with coaches. I'm going back and watching more film. For something like tht to come out is ridiculous. But people from the outside listening, they'll say, 'Oh, sources said that he's not putting in the time to be a top tier QB.' Well, just come to Minnesota, pack up your big jacket and headware, and just watch me."

lying and making a corny joke, check

seriously where is J. where are all the mcnabb homers. come on and defend your boy. come on.

Quote from: charlie on November 01, 2011, 02:31:06 PM
ex eagle starting qb's are a combined 3-12 if my math is right.

aj feeley 1-1
kevin kolb 1-6
don mcnabb 1-5

QuoteQB Christian Ponder has given the team a spark primarily because of his poise on third downs. Drives are lasting longer because he's making things happen, whereas Donovan McNabb often sputtered and threw inaccurately. In the three fourth quarters Ponder has played, he's accounted for nine third-down conversions. He's converted eight with his arm - completing 10-of-14 passes - and one with his feet - a 12-yard run on third-and-7. McNabb, meanwhile, accounted for just two third-down conversions in the five fourth quarters he played this season.

Quote from: ice grillin you on November 06, 2011, 01:43:46 PM
akers with another 50+ yarder

Quote from: General_Failure on December 01, 2011, 02:10:22 PM
Future Houston Texan?

Quote from: DH on December 01, 2011, 02:00:49 PM
Donovan McNabb, No Longer a Minnesota Viking

Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on December 04, 2011, 12:31:46 PM
Stacy Andrews hospitalized with pulmonary embolisms in both lungs

Quote from: FastFreddie on December 11, 2011, 05:38:23 PM
Dawkins on the way to the hall of fame

Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on December 11, 2011, 06:12:08 PM
Done and washed up. Got a great deal in Denver. Wish him the best. NATE ALLEN!

Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on December 24, 2011, 06:55:04 PM
Washed up Akers set an NFL record today with 41 FGs made

Quote from: rjs246 on December 29, 2011, 10:47:38 AM
So players and records from the 50s, 60s and 70s are inferior. But today's game is cheapening the currently-standing records?

Quote from: charlie on December 29, 2011, 10:50:54 AM
That means there has only been about 2 years of quality football ever played somewhere is the early to mid 1990s.

Quote from: FastFreddie on January 08, 2012, 09:07:30 AM
Guest analyst on ESPN from 10-1? Donovan McNabb!

Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on January 11, 2012, 08:06:39 PM
Grigson got the Indy GM job

QuoteT.O. announces that he's heading to the IFL
Posted by Mike Florio on January 19, 2012, 7:20 AM EST

Owens have announced, via a video apparently shot in his house (not to be confused with a press conference in his driveway), that he's joining the Allen Wranglers of the IFL.

"Uh oh!  It's official!  It just went down!  I'm headed back to Texas!  That's right.  IFL, here I come.  Allen, Texas, here I come," Owens said in a video linked from a Twitter message that says, "The WAIT IS OVER!!  GETCHA POPCORN READY!!"

Owens reportedly will receive compensation in the range of $250,00 to $500,000 from a team whose General Manager, former Cowboys receiver Drew Pearson, has criticized Owens in the past.

Quote
Donovan McNabb expected Bears call
ESPNChicago.com

Donovan McNabb admitted Friday that he was expecting a call from the Chicago Bears after Jay Cutler went down with a fractured thumb on Nov. 20, but that call never came and the Bears lost five of their last six to miss the playoffs.

The Bears did put in a claim on Kyle Orton after he was released by the Denver Broncos, but the Kansas City Chiefs claimed Orton before he was available to the Bears.

Meanwhile McNabb, a Chicago native who was released by the Minnesota Vikings on Dec. 1, watched Caleb Hanie lose four consecutive games for the Bears, who then turned to Josh McCown in losing their fifth straight. The Bears closed out the season with a win over the Vikes.

"I thought the Bears would call," McNabb said on "The Waddle & Silvy Show" on ESPN 1000. "So many people continuously talked about the Mike Martz offense and things of that nature. I personally didn't care about that. If you want to win and win now, you go out and get a better quarterback and you cater your offense to his strengths, and obviously the strengths of your team.

"Obviously it didn't work out well for them. It's unfortunate. I wish things would have worked out, but it didn't. We will see what happens from now on."

Quote from: MDS on January 20, 2012, 05:18:35 PM
lol at the "obviously it didnt work out for them'

what a passive aggressive douche. who can stand this guy.

Quote from: FastFreddie on January 20, 2012, 05:54:46 PM

Quote from: MDS on January 20, 2012, 05:18:35 PM
lol at the "obviously it didnt work out for them'

what a passive aggressive douche. who can stand this guy.

I remember when it was fun to watch him play football. That was almost a decade ago, though.

QuoteIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Quote from: SD on January 24, 2012, 06:26:05 PM
http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201201/terrell-owens-gq-jeremiah-trotter-told-me-not-apologize-donovan-mcnabb

TO is broke and friendless.

He trusted Rosenhaus with his money and got taken advantage of.

Quote from: BigEd76 on January 27, 2012, 05:51:03 PM
Heckert
Shurmur
Childress
Jauron
Rhodes
Hauck
Sheldon
Gocong
Dimitri Patterson
Artis Hicks
Jordan Norwood

They're putting together a nice collection of mediocre!

btw has anyone seen Heckert lately?  Dude must've gained about 75 pounds...

QuoteDonovan McNabb was a failure playing for Mike Shanahan and Kyle Shanahan in Washington, and McNabb thinks Robert Griffin III will be a failure in the Shanahans' offense, too. But that won't be Griffin's fault.

Asked on ESPN First Take if Griffin is a good fit with the offense the Shanahans run in Washington, McNabb answered, "No."

McNabb, who was benched in his only season playing for the taterskins, said that if the taterskins, as expected, take Griffin with the second overall pick in the NFL draft, the father-and-son Shanahan combination will try to force Griffin into their own offensive system, rather than modifying their offense to capitalize on Griffin's strengths.

"A lot of times ego gets too involved when it comes to being in Washington," McNabb said.

Where ego comes into play, McNabb said, is that the Shanahans think a quarterback has to fit himself into their offense — the same offense that Kyle Shanahan ran when he was the Houston Texans' offensive coordinator — rather than tailoring their offense to accentuate the quarterback's strengths.

"Here's a guy coming out who's very talented, mobile, strong arm, we've already heard he's intelligent, football mind," McNabb said of Griffin. "Are you going to cater the offense around his talent, and what he's able to do, or are you going to bring the Houston offense with Matt Schaub over to him and have him kind of be embedded in that?"

McNabb then took a shot at both Mike Shanahan and the other quarterbacks who have played for them, saying that Shanahan hasn't had success with a quarterback since John Elway in the 1990s.

"We talk so much about Mike Shanahan and the things he was able to do in Denver," McNabb said. "Well, I have a couple of names for you that Mike Shanahan — quarterbacks he's coached — and the lack of success that he's had."

At that point, McNabb ran down the last decade of quarterbacks Shanahan has coached (although McNabb curiously excluded himself from the list) and proceeded to suggest that the win-loss record proves Shanahan had failed with all of them.

"We had John Beck, who was 0-4," McNabb said. "Rex Grossman: 6-11. Jay Cutler, who was his prize possession: 17-20. Jake Plummer, a guy who had success, led them to the AFC Championship against Pittsburgh, as we know, and then benched him the next year, because he wouldn't do what he wanted him to do. Brian Griese, who was supposed to be the heir apparent to John Elway, hasn't had a lot of success."

McNabb then suggested that if Shanahan can't make the offense work with Griffin, Shanahan could be fired at the end of the season.

"I don't think it's a good fit," McNabb said. "If this doesn't work this year, if we don't see a splash like a Cam Newton splash, this could be it. . . . How long does he have with RG3? The seat is hot right now."

McNabb compared his own talents to Griffin's talents, and McNabb indicated that Shanahan doesn't know how to use a quarterback with those talents.

"I was misused," McNabb said. "Absolutely, I was misused."

And McNabb thinks Griffin will be misused, too.

Quote from: MDS on March 29, 2012, 12:55:15 PM
where is houston J. come on and defend this fat washed up clown.

Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on March 29, 2012, 01:40:48 PM
He's right. 100%

Quote from: MDS on March 30, 2012, 03:59:48 PM
seriously.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/03/30/mcnabb-im-the-most-unfairly-criticized-quarterback-in-nfl-history/

Quote from: FastFreddie on March 30, 2012, 05:09:18 PM
Losers whine about their best. Winners go home and farg the prom queen.

Quote from: SunMo on March 30, 2012, 04:17:45 PM
good lord, somebody needs to tell him to shut the farg up.

what a gaping weeping vagina

QuoteThe Donovan McNabb pity party continued on Friday when the former Philadelphia Eagles star said he was the most unfairly criticized quarterback in the history of the NFL.

Making himself out to be a football version of St. Paul, martyr McNabb made the comments during a 13-minute segment on ESPN's "First Take." While debating whether Tim Tebow should be on Twitter, Skip Bayless made the assertion that the New York Jets backup was the "the most unfairly, over-criticized quarterback in the history of this league."

"Negative — I am," McNabb interrupted. "I am. Nobody's been criticized as much as I have."

You want some cheese to go with that persecution complex? When was McNabb ever criticized by the mainstream press? He was rightly praised for being a top-tier NFL quarterback during his prime and was vehemently defended against any suggestion he wasn't. The racial aspects of Rush Limbaugh's comments aside, most analysts also disagreed with his football take (that the defense carried Philadelphia). McNabb began his career 56-23, won a playoff game in five of his first six seasons and advanced to four straight NFC championship games. Even when he lost his first three, criticism was rarely lobbed his way. It was similar to how Peyton Manning rarely got called on his middling playoff record.

[NCAA tourney video: Which team will win the national championship?]

Then McNabb made the Super Bowl and frittered away much of the fourth quarter by huddling when his team was trying to make up a 10-point deficit. He reportedly vomited in the huddle during one of the drives. There were rumblings of McNabb's late-game problems, but hardly a national uproar.

If Philadelphia fans were tough on him, that puts him in a special club reserved for every recent Philly athlete not named Chase Utley.

The media sided with McNabb in his beef with Terrell Owens the next year. When McNabb went a pedestrian 26-22-1 over the next four seasons, few mentioned his decline. Andy Reid later traded McNabb to the Washington taterskins and the focus was mainly on how Donovan could help his new team, not that the trade signaled how little faith Andy Reid had in his former quarterback. Trading McNabb to a division rival was one of the sharpest rejections of a major quarterback that the league has ever seen. It wasn't viewed that way at the time.

If you had to pick one extreme or the other, the media treated McNabb with kid gloves. Imagine if Jay Cutler threw up in a Super Bowl huddle or if Michael Vick lost three NFC championship games in a row.

Consider this: Over the past two days, McNabb has blamed his failures on coaching, brought down a player who hasn't been drafted yet and whined about how the media didn't treat him right. He's shown that he can be self-serving and phony. Yet he made it through 13 NFL seasons without the press calling him on it.

Quote from: QB Eagles on March 31, 2012, 10:36:20 AM
Can we have an "Ex-Eagles in the NFL Except for Donovan McNabb" thread? Actually, this thread should be Donovan-free anyway because he's not really in the NFL anymore.

Seriously, I thought we were done paying attention to this funhole's whining when he left town. I can understand getting jollies from watching him implode on the taterskins and Vikings, but to sit there and read and/or care about his bitching at this late date takes more masochism than should be present even in the average Eagle fan.

Quote from: ice grillin you on March 30, 2012, 11:53:27 PM

Quote from: SunMo on March 30, 2012, 04:17:45 PM
good lord, somebody needs to tell him to shut the farg up.

what a gaping weeping vagina

get over it

Quote from: rjs246 on April 01, 2012, 09:05:15 PM
Uh seriously. You all need to farging get over it. He's a bitch. He's also gone now and has been for a minute. He's a douche. He was good but not good enough. He was soft. farging shut up and focus on complaining about the current eagles qb. Jesus Christ with you people.

Quote from: ice grillin you on April 02, 2012, 09:50:04 AM
lots of eagles fans are very uncomfortable still talking about the bedwetter because they know that they rooted for coddled and loved him way to much and more importantly way to long...so now they just wanna make believe he never existed so that they can be free from the self hatred and shame of having defended him for so many years

Quotethese same fans tho will still go on forever about michael irvin being a crackhead or any other of the many early to mid ninties cowboys

Quote from: ice grillin you on April 02, 2012, 12:33:50 PM
those cowboy teams were about as likable as you can get in sports

QuoteAdam Schefter
Houston Texans have re-signed free agent S Quintin Demps.

QuoteDefensive tackle Trevor Laws, who spent his previous four NFL seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles, became the latest free agent to visit the Rams. Laws, 26, worked out at Rams Park on Thursday

Quote from: SD on April 11, 2012, 09:18:47 PM
And just think they took him BEFORE they took PIMP

I'll never forget the draft day analysis by the Eagles brass "He knows how to use his hands to get rid of defenders". That's so important for a DT to do, not shooting gaps or collapsing a pocket.

Quote from: ice grillin you on April 11, 2012, 09:20:42 PM
second round picks are an embarrasment in the reid era...they struck gold with shady and pimp in back to back years but other than that its been a debacle

Quote from: Feva on April 12, 2012, 03:27:25 PM

Quote from: ice grillin you on April 11, 2012, 09:20:42 PM
second round picks are an embarrasment in the reid era...they struck gold with shady and pimp in back to back years but other than that its been a debacle

Doesn't change the point (which is right), but Sheldon Brown can't get no love? MAYBE Mike Lewis that same year?

Quote from: rjs246 on April 23, 2012, 10:49:59 AM
5 years max before we hear about his brainmush issues.

Quote from: rjs246 on April 23, 2012, 10:49:59 AM
5 years max before we hear about his brainmush issues.

QuoteThe Cardinals' signing of linebacker Stewart Bradley to a five-year, $25 million contract was widely met with media praise last July, but things didn't turn out nearly as well on the field. Bradley received a $5 million signing bonus, yet wound up playing less than 20 percent of Arizona's defensive snaps.

In order to keep his roster spot entering year two of the deal, Bradley agreed to a $2.5 million pay reduction, Adam Caplan reports. The salary slash wasn't accompanied by the usual "signing" bonus to make up the difference, either. Bradley's base pay simply dropped from $5 million to $2.5 million.

QuoteOn Monday, former NFL receiver Cris Carter provided great insight regarding the concussion issue during ESPN's Outside the Lines.  On Tuesday, Carter chimed in on the other big issue in the NFL.

Actually, it was more than a chime.  It was a freaking gong.

Carter told ESPN Radio's Hill & Schlereth that Carter placed cash bounties on opposing players during his career.

"I'm guilty of it," Carter said.  "It's the first time I've ever admitted it.  But I put a bounty on guys before.  I put bounties on guys.  And the guys tried to take me out, a guy tried to take a cheap shot on me, I put a bounty on him, right now."

"A money bounty?" Mark Schlereth asked.

"Absolutely," Carter said.

"Protect me. . . .  Protect me from him. . . .  Especially if he's playing a different position where I can't protect myself," Carter said.  "I'd tell one of them guards, 'Hey man, this dude is after me, man.  Bill Romanowski.'  He told me he's gonna me out before the game, in warmups.  No problem.  'I'm gonna end your career, Carter.'  No problem.  I put a little change on his head before the game.  Protect myself, protect my family.  That's the league that I grew up in."

Asked whether he was the only one to do that, Carter was emphatic:  "Heck no!"

Carter added that he has no regrets.  "Matter of fact, if I see a couple of them dudes that was trying to cheap shot me walking through ESPN, I'd put a bounty on them right now."

Carter explained that the bounty was "based on protection or big hit, excitement or helping your team win, it wasn't to maim or hurt the dude."  And that sounds a lot like how the Saints would explain the use of bounties from 2009 through 2011, if any of them were to admit to it and/or if there were evidence of it.

Carter also said that he was in the Eagles locker room for the 1989 Bounty Bowl, and that he was present when former Eagles coach Buddy Ryan "put the bounties on the guys."  Carter said he disregarded those types of bounties, but other players didn't.  "I saw guys getting wiped out, guys going for the money," Carter said.

Later in the interview, Carter said that bounties also were used by the Vikings to protect players like Randy Moss, Daunte Culpepper, and Randall Cunningham

Quote from: Rome on May 11, 2012, 11:17:54 PM
Borderline NFL Pro Bowl Center

Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on May 11, 2012, 10:36:49 PM
Jamaal Jackson trying out with the Giants this weekend

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Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on May 11, 2012, 10:36:49 PM
Jamaal Jackson trying out with the Giants this weekend

...and according to Coughlin, Jackson said his heart isn't into it anymore and he's retiring

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Quote from: Rome on May 11, 2012, 11:17:54 PM
Borderline NFL Pro Bowl Center

lol

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Quote from: ice grillin you on May 12, 2012, 12:07:31 AM

Quote from: Rome on May 11, 2012, 11:17:54 PM
Borderline NFL Pro Bowl Center

lol

Considering that pro bowls are meaningless, I don't see how this is lol worthy.  He was an above average center who played on some really good teams and it's not like the league is littered with dominant centers, so it's probably not much of a stretch to say that he was borderline pro bowl material. 

Anyway, he did his job fairly well.  I hope his brain isn't mush. 

Quote from: phillymic2000 on May 15, 2012, 01:55:08 AM
Problem is, last year Tebow won a playoff game with a 12 yard throw and a 68 yard run afc for a playoff win.

Dmac had 39yds in the first game, or was it in a playoff game?

QuoteKevin Kolb booed at Cardinals Fan Fest

Posted by Mike Florio on June 14, 2012, 2:06 PM EDT

AP
As the saying goes, the backup quarterback is the most popular guy in town.  While John Skelton may not have earned that title in Glendale, Arizona, they've found their pariah.

During a Fan Fest held Wednesday night at University of Phoenix Stadium, starting quarterback Kevin Kolb was booed.

Darren Urban of the team's official website acknowledged the reaction on Twitter, pointing out that Skelton received no noticeable audio feedback from the 15,000 or so fans who attended.

It's never a good sign for the starting quarterback to be booed.  It's even worse when it happens while the team is 0-0, and hasn't even opened training camp yet.

The organization did Kolb no favors by pursuing/flirting with/evaluating Peyton Manning.  It represents a vote of no-confidence in the quarterback about whom the Cardinals, in hindsight, had too much.

Quote from: FastFreddie on June 27, 2012, 09:41:55 AM
Pics of TO jacking off on Skype are on the market. No idea how Chuggie pulled it off.

QuoteThe email address of the woman selling the pictures matches an email address used by an escort in the Seattle/Portland area.

When asked if she is an escort, the would-be seller said she lives in the South, and used a friend's email address to contact us. We asked if her friend is an escort in the Portland/Seattle area and she said, "I think she is."

Quote from: QB Eagles on August 04, 2012, 01:26:20 PM
Chris Gocong was carted off during Browns practice with some kind of leg injury. Also, Chris Gocong is still in the NFL.

Quote from: Sgt PSN on August 05, 2012, 12:51:15 AM
I thought Ernie Sims came from the Lions. 

Quote from: PhillyPhreak54 on August 05, 2012, 11:34:12 PM
PFT saying that a Seattle radio station is reporting that TO is on his way to visit with the Seahawks

Quote from: Diomedes on August 06, 2012, 02:13:33 AM
Who exactly is their Quarterback anyway?  I forget.

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Quote from: ice grillin you on August 17, 2012, 11:45:59 PM
he really is horrific....i hope shes not around to see me say this but pg called this from day one

QuoteCardinals quarterback Kevin Kolb found it difficult to do much on Friday night to make his case for the starting job.  After all, it's hard to throw when being constantly harassed by the Raiders defense.

In the end, Kolb had as many sacks as completions:  three.

After a crunching collision between multiple Raiders and Kolb behind the line of scrimmage early in the second quarter, defensive lineman Tommy Kelly said as he made it to the sideline, "That boy's scared," according to the Raiders TV broadcast being streamed through NFL.com's Preseason Live package.

Kolb completed three of six passes for 22 yards, leading the Cardinals on a seven-play, 41-yard touchdown drive.  Kolb's other scoring drive came via a field goal scored after an interception return by Kerry Rhodes put the ball deep in Oakland territory.  Arizona lost nine yards in three plays before the kick.

Quote from: Sgt PSN on August 18, 2012, 01:08:29 AMDon't forget, PG is the homer that Jay can only dream about being.

Quote from: ice grillin you on August 18, 2012, 01:11:56 AM
this is true she ws a massive 5 fan....but im trying my best to be fair.....a call is a call (unles its a homer call?)

QuoteKevin Kolb's rocky start  in Arizona has not gone unnoticed by his former teammates.

"I'm going to call him tonight. That's my boy," said Michael Vick Saturday. "From what I hear, he needs some protection. Other than that I really don't know. [I'm going to reach out]  just to encourage him more than anything."

Kolb was sacked three times — once in the end zone for a safety — and went 3-of-6 for 22 yards against the Raiders Friday night. He is now 5-for-15 for 47 yards, no touchdowns and an interception in the preseason, and finds himself in a battle with John Skelton for the starting job.

"He is skittish. He is scared back there," said Raiders defensive tackle Tommy Kelly, per the Associated Press. "Anytime anybody gets close to him, he starts looking at the refs. As a defensive lineman you love a quarterback like that. He ain't even trying to look at the routes no more. He is paying attention to us and you ain't going to get nothing done like that."

Kolb fired back at Kelly on Saturday.

"Scared? Scared of what?" Kolb said, according to the team's website. "Taking a hit? I have never been afraid of anyone on the field and that will never change. That includes Number 93 (Kelly). There's a fine line between holding in the pocket and trying to escape to make a play. Tommy Kelly is too clueless to know the difference. I don't mind people criticizing my play. Don't ever question my toughness."

The former Eagles signal-caller is reportedly playing behind a wobbly offensive line. The situation may have just worsened, as left tackle Levi Brown might be lost for the year with a torn triceps.

"I feel bad for him," said Brent Celek, who was tight with Kolb when they played together. "The guy's a good player. Just from what I'm hearing things aren't working out so well. But it's still the preseason. He's just got to keep his head down and keep grinding and keep going. I still think he's a great quarterback. Doesn't change my mind."