A case of the Mondays can strike at the beginning of any week, year-round. Ok, you get the point, I was in a crappy mood. Who's the last person I want to hear open their multi-million dollar pie hole when I'm already ticked off? You would be accurate in saying the quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles, far more accurate in fact than he was throwing the ball against every good team he played this season. I'll throw 2 quotes out from losing quarterbacks this weekend.
The first is from a future first ballot hall of famer with 3 Super Bowl wins and the second is from a sarcastic little punk who has never understood how to accept the public scrutiny that comes with being a star athlete.
1) "I'd have been booing us, too, the way we played. That's [the fans] right. We just didn't play well, and you've just got to give those guys credit - they played well in all phases, and really put it to us."
2) "We won 11 games. We didn't win 16, I'm sorry for that. But you know what - we had a great season. We did a lot of explosive things on offense. [Whether] they were winning teams or not. I can't control that. But we beat some fairly decent defenses. We can't control what their record is at the end. But one thing we can control is winning the ballgame."
One guy is a proven winner and leader who thrives in clutch situations and despises losing. The other is a whiny, wanna-be funny, "leader" that will make obnoxious comments after an unbelievably humiliating loss. "We didn't win 16. I'm sorry for that"?!?!? Who says stuff that is simultaneously that idiotic and that instigative to a town that lives and dies with its football team's success?
Look, you've got guys like Brady and Manning (and about 10-15 other starting qbs) who understand what legitimate success is, and don't call a season "outstanding" in which a divisional opponent beat you 3 times and embarrassed you two of those times (as McNabb did). SHUT UP DONOVAN, SHUT UP DONOVAN, SHUT UP DONOVAN!!!!!!
Has #5 had some great moments in Philly? Of course, no one with half a brain would argue that. But how quickly people forget that when we made our run of 4 straight NFC championship appearances that(other than one year) the NFC in that time period was by far the worst conference in NFL history. But the past could be argued about endlessly, but still has little to do with our current predicament.
We need to make a change. It's time to bring in Kolb at least for a couple years to see if the guy can lead a team and be the future of the franchise. The issues are much deeper than just the quarterback on this team clearly. But that is where it all starts, and that's the first thing that needs to happen going forward.
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