Reid un-benches McNabb

[Seabiscuit36]

Reid is an abomination.  His not calling a timeout when time was running down into halftime, and wasting 13 seconds before realizing a timeout should have been called is sickening.  Add to that Mcnabb failed to realize it, they should both be gone.  I miss the days of the opposing D having to use a LB to spy mcnabb, which opened up the TE or Slot receiver. 

[Rome]

Time for a thread title change.

[Diomedes]

Good thinking

[SD_Eagle5]

lol

[Diomedes]

from NYtimes 5th down blog

N.F.L. Fast Forward
McNabb to Start Again, but How Long Before He's Shown the Door?
By JUDY BATTISTA

On the day after Barack Obama won the presidential election, Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb mused what it would be like for his team to win the Super Bowl and to receive the congratulatory phone call from the country's first African-American president.

After being walloped by the Ravens on Sunday, the Eagles aren't going to the Super Bowl. And even if they do in the next few years, McNabb probably won't be the quarterback taking that call from the Oval Office.

His benching after one half Sunday almost certainly represented the beginning of the end of an era in Philadelphia.

Sure, Coach Andy Reid announced on Monday that McNabb would start when the Eagles host the Arizona Cardinals on Thanksgiving night. But it is hard to imagine Reid will go into another season with McNabb as the full-time starter after benching him — and not delivering the news himself — with the Eagles trailing by just 3 points against a fearsome defense. It is an ignoble and stunning conclusion to what seemed not that long ago like a rare quiet and healthy season for McNabb.

But even then, there were warning signs in the horrible starts, the hot finishes and the inexplicable streaks. And now this: McNabb has thrown five interceptions, fumbled twice and tossed just one touchdown pass in the past two games. Most shockingly, he also admitted to not knowing that a game could end in a tie.

McNabb hasn't been the only problem in the offense's meltdown. The running game, with Brian Westbrook, is confoundingly underused, with runs coming on a little more than a third of the offensive plays. Still, McNabb was made the de facto scapegoat by Reid, the man who was once his most steadfast champion.

Reid may have made a terrible mistake benching McNabb when he did, though, because it thrust Kevin Kolb, a second-round pick who did not throw a pass last year as a rookie and who had attempted just nine passes as a pro before Sunday, into an unwinnable situation. The Eagles were on the road against one of the N.F.L.'s most intimidating defenses. Soon enough, Ed Reed intercepted a Kolb pass when Philadelphia still had a chance and returned it 108 yards for a touchdown.

"Sometimes with a player, you step back an inch and maybe you go forward a mile," Reid said, which certainly made it sound on Sunday like he thought McNabb could return.

Reid left himself with two awful options: Stick with Kolb even though he would have had only three days to prepare for the Thanksgiving game, or put McNabb back in as a likely lame duck and brace for an absolutely brutal reaction from fans when he takes the field Thursday.

He has made his choice, for now. But either way, amid a slow but steady decline in recent years, the Eagles are sliding into a rebuilding mode. They are in last place in the National Football Conference East, two games behind the taterskins in the win column, and are perhaps the league's most underachieving team. Their playoff hopes are hanging by a thread.

It has been a sometimes exhilarating, sometimes infuriating decade for McNabb and the Eagles. No matter what happens in the short term, McNabb will probably have to be traded in the off-season. And as bad as he looks right now, he will probably draw interest elsewhere in the league (Minnesota, anybody) particularly if Reid plays him again and he bounces back.

McNabb was once just a few points — and an upset stomach — away from defeating the New England Patriots and becoming a Super Bowl champion. But on Sunday, he was quite literally left standing in the cold.

[Don Ho]

I thought he looked pretty damn strong in that long sleeve tee with the arms cut off at the elbow.

THAT is what an NFL QB is supposed to look like.

HA!    I was thinking the same thing.  Haven't seen that look since little league baseball.

[Don Ho]

Time for a thread title change.

time for some farging baseball!

[NC_Eagle]

I can't think of anything to say about Reid that will get past the profanity filter, so this instead:

[Magical_Retard]

I thought he looked pretty damn strong in that long sleeve tee with the arms cut off at the elbow.

THAT is what an NFL QB is supposed to look like.

HA!    I was thinking the same thing.  Haven't seen that look since little league baseball.

he was also very fiery!

[MadMarchHare]

McNabb still hasn't gotten over being booed - 10 years ago.

He will never come back from this, ever.  Christ, he may carry it over to wherever he's traded/dumped.  I'd try to trade him to Childress for draft picks at this point - he could actually make a difference in Minnesota (the biggest piece they're missing is a decent QB).  We're past the trade deadline, maybe?  Beats the shtein out of me.  What is patently obvious is that they didn't want to start Kolb on 2 days of practice.  After ARZ destroys them Thursday night, all Kolb for the rest of the season.

Napalm.

[Magical_Retard]

what i dont get is that if they really were trying to win the game and keep the playoffs hopes alive why didnt they put in feely?

he could have done better than kolb no?

[SD_Eagle5]

I forgot Feeley was on the team

[Geowhizzer]

I forgot Feeley was on the team

So did Reid.

[MadMarchHare]

What did PG call Feeley?  A clipboard toting interception machine?  Probably wouldn't have changed much.

[Feva]

FEELEY!!!