Kevin Kolb, Philadelphia Eagle

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

How can you not love the way he plays the game?


...speaking of which, I guess his wife should just start chemo now.

[Feva]

If I'm Kolb's dad... I'm starting to get a little worried.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Has he checked himself into rehab yet?

[BigEd76]

easy i fully expect you to at some point have a link for this up and running

ha

Hartman was on WIP this morning and said that he came away from the interview very impressed with Kolb.  Apparently Kolb told him that although he grew up a Dallas fan, he was more of a quarterback fan instead and loved to watch Aikman and Favre, and he can't wait to get booed when he returns to Dallas in December...

[methdeez]

You don't usually get booed, or noticed, as a 3rd stringer...

[BigEd76]

nuh uh!  He's gonna start this year and McNabb will be driven out of town!  Philly media said so!

[BigEd76]

[Seabiscuit36]

A little green? Shocking QB pick wins over Rhome, Eagles   
   May 10, 2007
By Clark Judge
CBS SportsLine.com Senior Writer

Shortly after I reached Jerry Rhome by telephone Thursday, the former star quarterback and longtime NFL assistant excused himself. In the middle of a morning golf game, it was his turn to strike the next shot.

"OK," he said when he returned. "I'm within putting distance for a birdie."

   
Kevin Kolb will benefit from not being pressed into duty right away -- as long as Donovan McNabb is healthy.
Rhome enjoys golf and plays it well enough to carry a handicap of 12. But it's his other passion, schooling quarterbacks, that had me calling. I wanted to know how much time he spent with University of Houston quarterback Kevin Kolb, Philadelphia's first draft choice, and how long it will take for Kolb to develop into a pro.

"Good questions," said Rhome, as he walked to his next shot.

Kolb (pronounced Cobb) is the talk of Philadelphia not because of anything he has done but because what his arrival means for starter Donovan McNabb. McNabb already has said he was "shocked" by the choice, and Kolb hasn't said much of anything.

But Rhome did, and you might want to pay attention because Rhome is better with young quarterbacks than he is with his short game. He schooled Vince Young a year ago, working with him on taking snaps from center, and the results speak for themselves: Young was the league's Offensive Rookie of the Year.

This year he spent parts of four months with Kolb, working on the same problems that confronted Young. Kolb was a shotgun quarterback in college, but he was a shotgun quarterback in high school, too, and if there was a question on the guy at the February scouting combine it was how much trouble he might have taking snaps from center.

That's where Jerry Rhome came in.

"When I first got to Kevin it was after the Senior Bowl," said Rhome, "and he'd been working in Norv Turner's offense. Now, Norv and I are from similar systems -- what with me working in Washington and Minnesota -- so I understand his offense well.

"Basically, I took 15 patterns from the University of Houston and had him draw them up on the board. Then, I took the same patterns and drew them up from Norv Turner's system. So what you're doing is taking one pattern from one system and turning around and drawing the same pattern in another system. It's like talking two different languages.

"When teams would talk to him the question that always came up was: Can you adapt to other systems? And he proved he could. When he went to the board he showed how intelligent is he; then when they worked him out he did very, very well. Essentially, he showed them it's no problem.

"The same thing happened with Vince Young. When he got on the board, he did very, very well, and then, on the field, he answered whatever questions that were left. So two stumbling blocks were eliminated."

Kevin Kolb is not Vince Young. Jerry Rhome knows that. You know that. Anyone who follows football knows that. But he does share a couple of things with the Tennessee star: 1) He had to convince NFL teams he could adjust his game to fit their styles, and 2) he enlisted Rhome to help him with the argument.

Apparently, he succeeded. Kolb was the third quarterback taken in the draft.

"Personally," said Rhome, "I think he's mentally ahead of where Vince Young was at this time last year. Who isnt? Physically, I don't know if anyone is ahead of Vince Young. The guy can run and make plays and rise to the occasion. And he'll only get better the more he plays."

Rhome was instrumental in the making of Vince Young for the NFL. The two followed the same script as Rhome and Kolb -- meeting for a week here, a week there, to practice snaps, drops and deliveries. When they were through, Rhome expressed no reservations about Young making it in the pros.

"With the Titans he had to be ready to play," said Rhome. "I remember saying it would be better to train him and prepare him and build up his skills before throwing him into the fire, but when (Steve) McNair left he had to play because the Titans were on the ropes.

"With Kevin I hope that won't be the case; that McNabb comes in and plays well; that they go far, and Kevin can learn as he goes.

"Look, he's going to be a good quarterback. He has an accurate arm, and he's strong enough to make all the throws. It's all there. Maybe he's not a 10 in all categories, but he's a 9 in most of them. You put that all together, then see how he operates under pressure, and you have yourself a quarterback."

What Rhome must have is patience. I mean, with all this talk about Kevin Kolb what in the world happened to that birdie putt?

"Oh, I took a par," he said. "I putted while I was talking. I sometimes shoot pool with one hand -- only I'm not talking into a cell phone."

Here's hoping life in the NFL is as easy for Kevin Kolb as life on the fairway is for his teacher.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

BFF!

[The BIGSTUD]

He's trying to listen, but he can't take his eyes off the beard.

[NGM]

BFF!

"This is what happens when a woman becomes aroused."

[MDS]

McNabb kind of looks fat. Not Ryan Howard kind of fat, just kind of fat.

[Father Demon]

McNabb kind of looks fat. Not Ryan Howard kind of fat, just kind of fat.

The beard adds 10 pounds.

[Dillen]

McNabb kind of looks fat. Not Ryan Howard kind of fat, just kind of fat.

He's 6'2" 240 pounds. He's going to kind of fat regardless if he's an athlete or not.

[Geowhizzer]

McNabb kind of looks fat. Not Ryan Howard kind of fat, just kind of fat.

He's 6'2" 240 pounds. He's going to kind of fat regardless if he's an athlete or not.

What about 6'4" and 250.  No reason... just asking.