Is McNabb too sensitive?

[Tomahawk]

Before some of you say to yourself "IS HE NUTS?! McNabb has handled every situation with class and a cool and calm attitude and never let it affect his play on the field!!" keep reading. McNabb seems to let things really get to him and take a lot of things personally which means holding grudges. Now when things get to you, you can handle it in a number of ways. McNabb usually comes off as cool and calm about the subject, but you have to recognize the fact that usually he has a couple days at the least to prepare for answering questions on specific matters involving him and the team(minus post-game press conferences which are basically only questions about the game itself). Also if you are a good actor, you can hide your true feelings, and McNabb does have experience acting in chunky soup commercials. 

At times I can see through his words and look at simple face expressions and mannerisms. I can still see tension and bitterness in his face when people bring up him being booed at the draft. Now it's good he uses that to motivate himself, but I know deep down he doesn't like the Philly fans because of a few idiots that booed him. I even remember that segment he did with Bradshaw where he said he likes Syracuse fans more than Philly fans, and that annoyed me a bit. When the Rush Limbaugh situation came up, he was cool and calm in the press conference, but when someone catches him off-guard in a locker room, you can see the bitterness in his face. You can hear in his voice that it does bother him. I also think that criticism really gets to him. Now this TO thing comes along, and once again days after TO's original comment McNabb has a while to prepare for the response to the media and doesn't make it look like it bothered him. When you are talking to the media it's easy to dodge questions. Then as more stations talked to him like ESPN and the like, you could tell by looking at him that those comments got to him.

Now is the latest of all things, and that was the ESPYs. I have not seen it and if anyone has a clip of it, I would love to see it, but everyone is saying all over that McNabb just looked like he absolutely did not want to be there. I did see TO do the awards and he looked like he was having a good time, but from what I hear McNabb looked very bitter and looked like things were very awkward. TO did not. Is McNabb too sensitive to criticism? It seems from my point of view that when McNabb can't dodge questions and has to be placed in an awkward situation he doesn't handle it very well. Even if TO did take some stabs at you, you have to at least have a sit down with him or try to make things right for the sake of the team. TO's comments were not warranted, but it's not like he said I hope he dies a horrible death or anything. What does this all mean? McNabb seems to play great regardless of criticism, so I'm not trying to say that McNabb being sensitive will prevent him from winning a Superbowl or anything. I'm just a little concerned for the guy for this season though. If it was that awkward at the ESPYs, it can't help that 2-way chemistry on the field this upcoming season. They need to be on the same page. I know TO did make the little jabs at him, so naturally he should be the one to apologize, but you know he isn't going to. So sometimes the bigger man has to step up and make things right. The bigger man in this situation is Donovan. Do you guys think he's too sensitive?

You're making a lot of assumptions.  You can see through his words? Riiiiiiiiight.

[TempleOwl]

Maybe McNabb looked stress because he had diarrhea or maybe he felt nauseous that night or maybe his wife didn't put out that day and he was pissed.

You can't assume it was because he was uncomfortable with TO's presence.  Hell, maybe he thinks the ESPY's are BS just like i do. 

Actually that is exactly how i interpreted his demeanor.  He seemed disinterested in the whole thing, like it was all BS.  I even made that comment to my kids.

[WEST is GOD]

All I want is to see the guy lighten up a bit. Of course he's human but I think he's too uptight. I'm not hating on him I love McNabb and would want no other QB to run this team. I don't think him being uptight could cost us a Superbowl, but it seems like it's very easy to screw up a relationship with McNabb. Say one wrong thing and he holds a big-time grudge.

[Drunkmasterflex]

I think you are reading way too much into things.  He seems like the exact oposite of uptight.

[Tomahawk]

All I want is to see the guy lighten up a bit. Of course he's human but I think he's too uptight. I'm not hating on him I love McNabb and would want no other QB to run this team. I don't think him being uptight could cost us a Superbowl, but it seems like it's very easy to screw up a relationship with McNabb. Say one wrong thing and he holds a big-time grudge.

How in the motherfarg do you know if McNabb holds farging grudges?

[MadMarchHare]

Because he's holding one against him for naming himself TOisGOD.  Leaves dirty messages on his answering machine.

[PhillyPhreak54]

McNabb still holds a grudge against those who booed him. He's talked about it a little before and said that he does what his momma told him to do -- forgive, but not forget. He uses that response on several things (TO ripping him, Limbaugh, being booed).

But he is human. Of course that stuff bothered him. But how he lets it bother him is why I like him. He'll address it and move on and use it to motivate him. He turns the negative into positive energy. I like that.

And I would hold a grudge against the people of my new professional town if they booed me even before I had a chance to prove myself. Hell yeah, I'd be a little bitter. Because they didn't just rip him professionally, they took personal shots at him. And those personal shots still ring true today, sadly. You can still hear it when people rip him now for stupid ass reasons.

I wish he was a little more open with the local media, but he's not. And I can't exactly blame him either. You see McNabb be himself more during national interviews. But with the Philadelphia guys he is more reserved and less personal.

[T_Section224]

How in the motherfarg do you know if McNabb holds farging grudges?

you can see it in his eyes 

[WEST is GOD]

All I want is to see the guy lighten up a bit. Of course he's human but I think he's too uptight. I'm not hating on him I love McNabb and would want no other QB to run this team. I don't think him being uptight could cost us a Superbowl, but it seems like it's very easy to screw up a relationship with McNabb. Say one wrong thing and he holds a big-time grudge.

How in the motherfarg do you know if McNabb holds farging grudges?

Educated guess.

[RomeyRome]

no

[Sgt PSN]

All I want is to see the guy lighten up a bit. Of course he's human but I think he's too uptight.

 

You're kidding right?  I don't know McNabb from Adam but if there's one thing I think it's safe for me to say about the guy it's that he is nowhere near uptight. 

This thread's a joke.  If someone talked ish about you through the national media, I'd love to see how you'd respond everytime a reporter stuck a microphone in your face asking your comment on it for 4 months. 

[Yeti]

he said he likes Syracuse fans more than Philly fans, and that annoyed me a bit.

Me too.

Think it, say it to your friends, but don't say it on national TV.  Christ, we take enough hits.

[WEST is GOD]

All I want is to see the guy lighten up a bit. Of course he's human but I think he's too uptight.

 

You're kidding right?  I don't know McNabb from Adam but if there's one thing I think it's safe for me to say about the guy it's that he is nowhere near uptight. 

This thread's a joke.  If someone talked ish about you through the national media, I'd love to see how you'd respond everytime a reporter stuck a microphone in your face asking your comment on it for 4 months. 

You're missing the point entirely. My point is the comments get to him from day one, but Donovan is able to hide it in press conferences. I still think he's a bit too sensitive, and it has nothing to do with producing on the field in the past. I just hope it doesn't break team chemistry with TO on the sidelines. TO's comments were petty and I would've laughed them off in two seconds and that would've been that. They seem to have gotten the better of Donovan. It won't affect his play on the field, but that wasn't even my point. I'd prefer a happy locker room and a good team morale.

[WEST is GOD]

he said he likes Syracuse fans more than Philly fans, and that annoyed me a bit.

Me too.

Think it, say it to your friends, but don't say it on national TV.  Christ, we take enough hits.

Not only that but it was the way he said it. He didn't even take two whole seconds to think about the question. He said Syracuse fans in a split second. He has to understand that the fans love him. I love when players in this town embrace the fans and Donovan isn't one of them. I can't make him change his demeanor, but he is holding an unnecessary grudge. This issue is dead and gone. It's too old to use as motivation anymore. I love Donovan, but jesus move on from this issue with the fans already. It was 10-20 people that booed him. He's gotten booed at the stadium before but that is when he'd play horribly. Most people get trashed when they play bad here. The sad thing is he will never be over it. The same IMO holds true for the TO situation. When you hurt Donovan's feelings that's it. I don't think the TO situation is repairable. Even if TO did apologize I don't think Donovan would truly accept the apology. I don't know for sure, but going by situations in the past he will never move on, and that is a shame. They were roommates last season and were such good friends. It's TO's fault for making the comments but McNabb should try to make things right. If TO tells him to farg off, then McNabb should hold a grudge. If TO wants to hug and make up then their chemistry will be that much better on the field.

[Munson]

This thread defiantely is a joke.

Like Phreak said, McNabb takes an issue, adresses it, and moves on. He's not "too sensitive". I wanna know how you would take it if someone you worked with started talkin to the whole place about you having a tiny pecker. Would it bother you a little bit?

Same thing here. McNabb is taking cheap shots from TO, and McNabb is adressing it and moving on. Just because you love TO doesn't make him right. If There is a problem in camp, it's TO's fault, not McNabb's.