Donovan McNabb

[Eagles_Legendz]

randall won a LEAGUE mvp

donovan won a best qb in the nfc east award over patrick ramsey....quincy carter and kerry collins

McNabb was runner up to league MVP in 2000.

[ice grillin you]

ha.....he loves runner up trophys

[Sgt PSN]

That makes him 2nd runner up in best winning percentage during the aughts.

[Sgt PSN]

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/pattisonave/Donovan-McNabb-Robert-Griffin-III-is-getting-brainwashed.html

I want to go back to liking him again.  I really do.  I want to be able to look back on his career and enjoy it for what it was in spite of that 1 glaring shortcoming.  But I'm having a really hard time doing that when he just won't stfu and enjoy retirement. 

Yesterday, I wrote on how Washington quarterback Robert Griffin III was asked by GQ Magazine about Donovan McNabb, and said: "It's probably best we don't talk."

Well, McNabb clearly did not listen. In fact, he did the exact opposite. On his NBC Sports Radio show, McNabb said that Griffin has been "brainwashed."

Credit to the Washington Post's Sarah Kogod, who in the ultimate act of journalistic selflessness (a phrase I would not otherwise use to describe the subject at hand) listened to the show and transcribed McNabb's remarks. I don't think I would have been able to get all the way through them without leaving my computer to go smash some air guitars.

"I'm just trying to help him," McNabb said of Griffin. "Clearly the young generation, they think they have all the answers. He's going through a little turmoil right now, trying to make it out on the field, and it's unfortunate."

A little turmoil? Unfortunate? Yeah, that's how I'd describe the gruesome knee injury that ruined his rookie season.

And clearly, it's all the fault of "the young generation." Because McNabb was so perfect in every way.

(Okay, now I'm venturing into territory I'd rather leave to McNabb's fellow sports radio hosts.)

"But that's where we're at right now as far as these young quarterbacks who think they have all the answers," McNabb continued. "Until things start to fall apart and come down trembling on you, then you want some help."

Then came the kicker.

"I honestly think that over there in Washington, he's getting brainwashed," McNabb said. "He's getting input from whoever it may be on, 'There's no reason to talk to him, it didn't work out here.' "

Wouldn't there be a pretty good chance that the "input" from "whoever it may be" is in some way tied to Mike Shanahan? As in the same coach who coached McNabb during his disastrous tenure in Washington?

(Well, maybe it wasn't so disastrous if you're an Eagles fan. But you get my point.)

McNabb kind-of-sort-of acknowledged as much. "If they expressed their dislike when I was there, or what I used to do, so be it," he said.

I can't speak for the coaching staff,  but I'm pretty sure the fans at FedEx Field did plenty of expressing dislike when McNabb's lone season in Washington ended with a 6-10 record.

McNabb attempted to finish his remarks on a positive note. Like so many of his pass attempts, though, they went awry at a key point.

"I hope the best for the young man, but the direction he's going in is really a direction he does not want," McNabb said. "He does not want to go there with me, especially when I got the last word."

Really?

Allow me to make two small suggestions.

The first is that Griffin will do just fine going there, because he's more popular - and has much more of his career left - than McNabb.

The second is that McNabb has not "got the last word." At all. And it's his fault, not Griffin's or anyone else's.

As one of my colleagues - I will leave him nameless for now, out of courtesy - said of McNabb this morning: "He needs to retire from the world."

That's a better last word than anything McNabb has come up with so far.

[Eagaholic]

Lurie jumped the gun retiring 5. McNabb is becoming an embarrassment to the organization, even among fans who just casually follow the NFL. There is nothing slowing his free fall in idiocy and he can't save himself. He'll be finding himself locked into a Merril Hoge/Warren Sapp type of clown caricature to stay 'relevant'. Sad ending considering how he actually did have some very good years and helped bring pride back into Eagles football. 

[smeags]

at least the rest of the nation is getting a dose of what this fanbase went through for years.

this quote was classic

"I hope the best for the young man, but the direction he's going in is really a direction he does not want," McNabb said. "He does not want to go there with me, especially when I got the last word."

[MDS]

at this juncture not even J...the all time clubhouse leader in 5 worshiping...can defend him

right?

[methdeez]

at this juncture not even J...the all time clubhouse leader in 5 worshiping...can defend him
right?

His press conference performance was always poor, but he was still a damn good QB.
Just not a very likeable dude.

[ice grillin you]

also incredibly overrated as a qb

[smeags]

`yea but his qbing days are over so now it's just the dbag personality left.

[hbionic]

I was probably Phreak's deputy in the McNabb love department. But what the farg?

Shut the farg up you annoying farg. Nobody cares about what you have to say, and RGIII doesn't need your 'advice'.

Shut the farg up you farging ass.

[ice grillin you]

ten days after the eagles play the team whose qb the bedwetter is trying to mentor they are going to be retiring his number

[MDS]

they should retire his life

5 is even ruining the good times for me and when i look back on it i really didnt have a good time watching him lose playoff games

[hbionic]

Maybe the sooner they do it the better. They won't owe him anything after that and he can be gone for good.

[smeags]

mcdiva doesnt take rejection well.