Washington Close to Sending McNabb to Minnesota

[Diivox]

Would you prefer them have Joe Webb start and teach Ponder how to be an NFL quarterback? You are acting as if the Vikings have an endless line of Pro Bowl quarterbacks just waiting to join the team. Minnesota will take what they can get at the position, and if McNabb is the best they get, well it is sure as hell an upgrade.

Kyle Orton? Kevin Kolb? shit, maybe even Carson Palmer? these are guys you can trade for who are way better than McNabb at this point in his career, and in Orton's case, could probably be had for the same price + maybe a spare part. Matt Hasselbeck? Marc Bulger? Veterans you can have without the primadonna bullshit, who are equally short term solutions, and without needing to give up a draft pick.

So which is it? are the Vikings trying to win now? Then trade for somebody who isnt washed up. do they honestly think they are a playoff team with McNabb? they arent. Are they trying to put a body out there to let Ponder watch and learn? then why the fuck are you giving up a draft pick for the guy if you arent trying to win this year anyway? a draft pick for a guy that is going to get cut by the start of the league year on aug 4th at the latest, and by all accounts, has had 0 interest from anyone else?

Then, once you do bench McNabb for Ponder, which everyone who is supporting the move seems to indicate, heres what you'll get:









just a metric fuckton of Donovan McNabb face. the only guy who has a more negative effect on his team or sulks harder than him is Jay Cutler. His ego is too big to ride the pine, and he has to be coddled too much (financial apology anyone?). Plus, like it or not, he's always going to be known as the guy who puked his guts out and wilted under the pressure in the Superbowl. That is not somebody you want your franchise QB to emulate, nor can you really expect to show respect for.

McNabb needs to go someplace that doesnt have a long term solution at QB on the roster yet, someplace like Buffalo or Arizona or (before today anyway) Seattle. He is not going to be happy keeping the seat warm for anybody, and the only way he's going to get a team anywhere is if he at least thinks they beleive in him as more than a 1 year rental.

[ralaw]

I like McNabb and he certainly is a better option than Webb or Ponder, but that isn't saying much. This time last year I thought McNabb was still good, but after watching what he did last year I feel that he is done. He'll be servicable, and I wouldn't expect anything special. Washington's WR's (Moss, Armstrong, Cooley) aren't that bad.

[Guest]

I like McNabb and he certainly is a better option than Webb or Ponder, but that isn't saying much. This time last year I thought McNabb was still good, but after watching what he did last year I feel that he is done. He'll be servicable, and I wouldn't expect anything special. Washington's WR's (Moss, Armstrong, Cooley) aren't that bad.

I blame the system and the inability to adjust to McNabb. Simply put, Kyle Shanahan should have tailored the system to McNabb, and not the other way around. McNabb is still a solid quarterback, should never have been benched and should still be starting for the Redskins.

[Senser81]

I blame the system and the inability to adjust to McNabb. Simply put, Kyle Shanahan should have tailored the system to McNabb, and not the other way around. McNabb is still a solid quarterback, should never have been benched and should still be starting for the Redskins.

How do you tailor a system to McNabb? Throw fewer passes?

j/k

[Diivox]

39 yards passing.

[NAHSTE]

Yall are drinking some serious hatorade with McNabb. He is still a serviceable QB, and will be an upgrade compared to anything else the Vikings had.

LOL at you and the 4 who thanked.

[Raidersabc123]

im not the biggest McNabb supporter but it was just one game vs the #1 defense last year im not saying hes going to be great or even good just cant completely call him done yet

[Aso]

im not the biggest McNabb supporter but it was just one game vs the #1 defense last year im not saying hes going to be great or even good just cant completely call him done yet

He looked awful pretty much all last year and looked ten times worse on Sunday. He hasn't done anything to suggest that he's not done. So I think we can call him completely done. How many games are we suppose to wait. Against any NFL defense, last years #1 or not, 7/15, for 39 yards is absolutely awful.

McNabb = Trash