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Time for Donovan McNabb to Go: Philadelphia Eagles

The young guys on the Philadelphia Eagles aren’t exactly singing, “The wheels on the bus go round and round.” Not after their own quarterback threw them under the bus.

Yes, our old friend Donovan McNabb is back to his old ways of not accepting any of the blame when things go wrong. Here is exactly what McNabb said after the Eagles humiliating 24-0 loss to the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday.

“We showed our youth, in situations where everyone began to look around to see who was going to make a play, rather than stepping up and making that play. That’s something that comes with the territory, when you have a young group.”

DeSean, Jeremy, say hello the undercarriage of the bus. The wheels on the bus go round and round indeed. All over their heads, courtesy of their pathetic loser of a quarterback. WRs DeSean Jackson and Jeremy Maclin may not have had a great game, but they didn’t deserve that.

That is a textbook case of what you’re not supposed to say about your teammates, particularly if you’ve had an abysmal game yourself. You especially don’t say that if you are the QB of a team. And you really shouldn’t be saying crap like that when you are constantly telling everybody that you are the leader of the team. The jury rests its case against McNabb being the leader of the team.

I have given McNabb a break throughout most of this season, because he has played well. Of course, when you’re beating up on the worst the NFL has to offer week after week, it’s easy to take all the credit. Leaders emerge when things go wrong. McNabb said “…everyone was looking around to see who was going to make a play…”. Hey Donnie, maybe as the QB, that should have been you making a play, Douchebag. Or how about if you’re really the leader of the team, you lead those young players when they are looking around? It’s what winning QBs do.

McNabb did neither of those things. That’s why he isn’t a winner and never will be. All he did was overthrow, underthrow and throw behind wide open receivers all day. Then, he has the audacity to rip the very receivers who managed to get open? That’s just pathetic.

At this time, I must point out that Jeremy Maclin made one of the most cowardly moves not seen from an Eagle since the days of Ricky Watters. At the end of the game McNabb threw possibly his best pass all game. He dropped in some perfection right over a cornerback and a closing safety, right to where Maclin could catch it in the endzone. Only, Maclin took his eyes off the ball for a full five seconds and never looked back up for the ball. You see, he was watching that safety closing in, making sure that he wouldn’t get hit. If he even gave half an effort for the ball - it would have been a TD. But he didn’t and it was possibly the most gutless play you will ever see on a football field. It reminded me of the infamous Todd Pinkston alligator arm, “I lost the ball in the lights” move. Yes, it was that bad. Fox showed it a few times and even Troy Aikman and Joe Buck commented on how sad the effort was. Jeremy, you just got punk’d by Joe Buck. “Duuuuude.” It doesn’t get any worse than that.

So McNabb or one of Maclin’s other teammates should have gotten in his face, but it shouldn’t have been done in public. It definitely shouldn’t have been said to the media. If you say that McNabb never named Maclin and Jackson specifically, then please tell me who else he could have possibly been talking about when he said “youth”? Rookie LeSean McCoy got one stinkin’ carry thanks to the genius that is Andy Reid.

McNabb isn’t a leader. He also isn’t a winner. He comes up small every time in the biggest games. His 1-5 record in NFC Championship Games and the Super Bowl prove that point. The one win? Well, that was the game where Michael Vick quit the second he got off the bus in the cold of Philadelphia in 2004. I was there and it was obvious. While McNabb technically gets a win there, he certainly wasn’t the one who led the team to the victory. No, when McNabb got the chance to lead his team to victory that season, he literally choked on the field in Jacksonville during the Super Bowl.

McNabb will never win a Championship because he just doesn’t have it in him. He might be a more gifted passer that Ben Roethlisberger, but Big Ben has won a few Super Bowls. McNabb might have a bigger arm than Eli Manning, but Eli got hot enough to stop making stupid mistakes and ride a dominant defense to a Super Bowl title himself. McNabb can’t do that. When the pressure really starts to grow, McNabb becomes the New York Mets of the NFL and chokes.

Then, he’ll do something like he did here and throw his teammates under the bus, instead of taking any of the blame on himself. None of his teammates could possibly have an ounce of respect left for him now. McNabb is trying to backtrack on the comments and say they were taken out of context. No, sorry Donnie. I saw the full press conference and read the transcripts. You said it and you showed everyone exactly why you will never be a winner. I’m just glad that you will be choking for some other team next year.

Since the Eagles gave Andy Reid that ridiculous extension, it will be McNabb that is made the scapegoat for yet another season without a Championship. As recently as a week ago, I would have said that was unfair. After what he just did to his teammates, I say it’s time to move on. We’ve seen this act before and it’s getting old. We don’t know if Kevin Kolb can win a Championship, but we definitely know that McNabb can’t. He just doesn’t have it in him. Maybe he left it on the field in Jacksonville.

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