As I rode in to work this morning, folks on the radio kept telling me I should be thrilled. I should LOVE LIFE right now. I say BOO to that.
As a Redskins fan NO I am not happy about trading for Donovan McNabb and I'll tell you why. We gave up the No. 37 pick in the draft this season AS WELL AS a third or fourth rounder next season to get a guy that will likely only play 9-11 games for us (look at his injury history. Shoot, he played just 14 games last season!) then bolt for Minnesota after the season to replace Brett Favre under Brad Childress, one of his former coaches in Philly. He openly said he wanted to play for Childress and Minny. So I give up basically a second first round pick this season (the draft pool is DEEP) AND another pick next season for McNabb who will play PART of ONE season for us before he leaves for the Vikings?
You want me to be excited over that?
The only reason this went down is because new coach Mike Shanahan looked at Campbell and said, "OH HECK NO!" and realized McNabb was better than Clausen or McCoy or Pike, and that is true. But ONE YEAR? AT THAT PRICE of the draft picks? Come on.
And he MIGHT get us to the playoffs (we still play in the division with Dallas-a playoff team, NYGiants (SB champs three years ago) and Philly (a playoff team last season that still has two other QBs with playing experience!). DO I REALLY THINK HE'LL win us a Super Bowl in his one season? NO.
So what will he do? Will he make his 7th Pro Bowl? Perhaps (because other QBs will drop out, not because I believe in Devin Thomas, Malcolm Kelly or Santana Moss). Will he make his 6th NFC championship game? Doubtful (but this team SHOULD be better now that it respects its coach). Will he put up decent numbers that will get him either a WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY to large of a contract from Snyder in an attempt to keep him from going to the Vikings? LIKELY.
Another thing should be addressed as well. Why were the Eagles shopping him, first of all; and secondly, do they REALLY think he has that much in the tank that they'd trade him to a team they will face TWICE this season? Shouldn't they be afraid to face him if he still has his QB gifts? They traded him WITHIN THE DIVISION. Scares me as to if he is still the McNabb that took his team to all of those NFC Championship games.
Oh and I cannot wait to see if he throws up in the huddle if the Skins actually DO make the playoffs. Wait, he'll probably be hurt at that point in the season. WHO NEEDS AN ACL? Ribs, what are those? We don't need no stinkin' ankle!
I do like McNabb over Rex Grossman and Jason Campbell, but I believe the cost was too high and I don't think he'll stick around DC for a REASONABLE number in 2011. This is a one-and-done, ala John Wall, and my bracket saw how that turned out....
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Honestly though the question is... did you make next year's team better? Yes, measurably. They will get a left tackle with this draft pick who hopefully can be your guy for years. They will take a QB in next year's draft who will be the future guy and they could get a big framed guy (6'6) like Tony Pike etc later in this draft who can develop. So next year when you have the Left Tackle in place already then you can draft from hopefully a deeper pool of QB talent...if Mcnabb goes anywhere. Santana Moss just got a lot better, Devin Thomas and Malcolm Kelly are talented we know... do they have the work ethic yet? We're about to find out.
You're right, this move has same old Snyder written all over it. Huge offseason acquisition and it's inside the division which says quite a bit about what they think he's got left. Thomas and Cooley should be great options in the Red Zone and I think Willie Parker (more injuries) should be a good pickup to catch the ball out of the backfield too. At the very least you have a better coach and instead of a 3 year learning curve you get instantly better with that pick. They probably feel they can get it back trading some of the pieces they have now.
You have to hope he's tremendously motivated because this is a huge slight by the Eagles. The worrisome thing is if the Eagles were going to jump on this deal NOW considering the ramifications they either feel he's beyond finished or no other deals offered were even close to this one and they feel like they can immeasurably get better in this draft.
I wouldn't say thrilled. Cautious optimism. You're MUCH better at QB and Cooley should be back that's great. They still don't have much at receiver and the line sucks balls currently. It will be interesting to see what Shanny can do with it.
If they stay healthy though Mcnabb should help maximize and expose the talent you do have and that simply hasn't happened the last several years.
If the yahoo story is right he forced his way to Washington which would be good for Washington and honestly if you just get this year out of him... still not so bad really. He's going to be more fun to watch than Campbell and watching anyone in this draft learn to play.
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