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Originally Posted by wingdarkness
This is nothing new...This has happened all throughout the history of NFL football...When you have a guy for a starter for a decade and he doesn't produce a championship or hasn't produced a championship for a while it's a natural inclination to want to bring in new blood...Except for the super-elites (Terry Bradshaw, Montana, Elway, etc.) This has always happened...Hell let me contradict myself a bit, even Brett Favre and Dan Marino couldn't escape this fate...
McNabb is going to be a borderline Hall of Famer...He won't get in on his first ballot, maybe not even 2nd, but he'll get in there for time served (And honestly he has a level of pathos from so many in the media that'll get him through)...To me, McNabb nutured his own capabilities...By going so hardcore against being looked at as a running black QB, he took his most essential skill (The skill that has Vick looking like Steve Young on Steroids right now) and limited himself IMO...He's not a pure west-coast QB and by purposely taking that aspect out of his game it put the spotlight on his shaky accuracy as a QB...
He probably would have been great in Mike Shanahan's offense back in the day...The Bootlegs, the sprint-actions, where he would only have to throw to 1 or 2 receivers downfield would have been better for his career...Imagine him instead of Jake Plummer in that Denver offense pre-Cutler...
McNabb has obviously had a good career, but when you examine it under a microscope, or even in microcosm, there was more than enuff evidence provided to validate a switch in Philly based on performance...Not that Kolb (or even Vick to some extent) is soooo much better, but that they represent a new dynamic moving forward...
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Your playing minutia here, and the league standard is, if it ain't sinking don't fix it, look at Caughlin, although he won a superbowl, and destroying the patriots perfect season, he has basically had his team disintegrate while having a manning, it just goes to show that the switch based on seriously near insignificant improvements just don't happen in the NFL unless you can shed some huge bucks by eliminating contracts, but Mcnabb was already at the tail end of his career, he wasn't, isn't going to see big money again, and he doesn't have Farve's pedigree so the improvement in the current NFL should not have warranted his very ugly dismissal. Basically Philly Lebroned Mcnabb with a lot more class, and Mcnabb was a man about it.