Donovan McNabb Pulls a What If
Donovan McNabb is now wishing he had Terrell Owens back. In what is being dubbed as a revealing reflection with ESPN’s Matt Mosley, McNabb says “It could’ve been great” if Owens stayed in Philadelphia, better known to us as Hell.
You can read the Hashmarks post about it here. McNabb says this about Owens:
“In his situation, he’s finally maturing at age 35 [actually 34]. Sometimes it’s you, sometimes it’s me. [T.O.] thought for so long it was someone else, but at some point, maybe it dawns on you that it’s not everyone else’s fault. I think once Bill [Parcells] left, T.O. realized that Jerry [Jones] truly loved him. And now he has a quarterback that he feels comfortable with. He’s listening. Sometimes you have to understand the reality of the whole situation, and I think he did that.”
What a ridiculous statement. McNabb shouldn’t be so quick to criticize someone’s maturity. I mean, here is a guy who vomited during the most important game of his life and led what goes down as the worst clock management ever in the history of the Super Bowl. Did he expect T.O. to settle for that kind of immaturity?
As I predicted, McNabb also reveals he will play somewhere else than in Philadelphia, and he is prepared for that eventual decision. Although he believes the Eagles will be atop the NFC East, rest assured that a slow start in Philly will translate into McNabb’s last season in the city of hell.
McNabb is realizing once again that the organization for which he plays did nothing to bring him a big-play receiver once again. In fact, after the T.O. debacle, the Eagles have been hesitant to sign any big offensive powerhouse. Now he is crying, so desperate he even wishes he had T.O. back.
Donovan McNabb will be a Dolphin next year. They need one more crappy QB to make a full team. …I think?
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August 11th, 2008 at 5:56 pmSounds like a man who came to the realization that he got as close to a superbowl ring as he’s ever going to get with that team. Watch. In a few weeks his parents are going to write something bad about the eagles organization on their blog.
The thing I really love about his comments is that by aknowledging that he may have had some responsibility for the TO problem, he’s quietly pointing fingers at the Eagles organization for overreacting and getting rid of a player they needed. Even when the man takes some blame, it’s just a backhanded way to point fingers at how the organization fucked up and got rid of a player he needed.
August 11th, 2008 at 7:06 pmi agree with statement above lol
August 12th, 2008 at 11:28 amRedskin Guy…
August 12th, 2008 at 1:58 pmYou hit the nail on the head…I think McNabb can feel the heat of Kolb, and i believe he feels his days in Philly are numbered. I agree, maybe 4th week of season Donovan will be the T.O. this time and start bashing the front office and coach. The handwriting is on the wall!
Sorry Ian the Iggle…but it is the truth!
Completely ridiculous.
FACT: McNabb never threw up in the Super Bowl, and throwing up has nothing to do with maturity.
August 12th, 2008 at 3:41 pmThe clock management does not fall on him, as much as it does Andy Reid who had the team huddling up instead of running a hurry up.
McNabb blames TO’s ankle as the reason the team did not run the hurry up. Even if you don’t buy that, and blame Donovan for the clock management, you should know that, bad clock management has nothing to do with maturity as a person.
McNabb did not reveal that he is gone, he simply stated that if the Eagles do move on he is prepared. Your original prediction of McNabb being gone this off season was wrong, and if McNabb plays well your latest prediction will be wrong as well.
McNabb was simply answering a question regarding TO. This is not him taking a stab at the Eagles for not getting another premier WR. He is simply answering a question. Stop adding your own assumptions to his statements.
To say the Eagles did “nothing” to bring McNabb a WR is false. They traded for Donte Stallworth, drafted Reggie Brown, signed Kevin Curtis, and recently just drafted DeSean Jackson. Stallworth played well, Kevin Curtis had an excellent season last year, and we’ll see how DeSean Jackson turns out. So far he is getting rave reviews. They also made attempts at Randy Moss this off season, and always try to improve the team every year. Saying they did nothing is incorrect.
Guy – Dude how did you come away with all of that? A. He never said 1 word negative to wards the Eagles organization or that he feels he will not win a Super Bowl with the Eagles. In fact he said that the Eagles are the best team in the NFC East. That sounds like he feels they can compete for a Super Bowl to me. B. He never said anything about taking blame for TO being a complete douche bag. He said maybe TO finally realized that HE HIMSELF(TO) is at fault for what happened, and that TO finally matured somewhat since then. You twisted his words up in your mind, and came out with your own imaginative things of what you thought he meant.
Ian admits poor clock management. My post is 100 percent accurate and on the mark, Ian. You are hilarious. And wrong.
August 12th, 2008 at 4:04 pmIan..
1. no one tells off guy unless its me…or L hat..
2. mcnabb WAS great….but thats all over now..
3. the only thing black and green …besides shit when your sick….is the eagles…
have a nice night…
August 12th, 2008 at 8:08 pmps. T.O. is a hero for even playing in that superbowl…so tell Mc bitch to place the blame some were else….cuz if the eagles did win that game…T.O. would have been your mvp…SWOLLOW THAT
August 12th, 2008 at 8:09 pmAll this says to me is that McNabb really needs to move on and stop talking about something that happened four years ago.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:01 amit proves he knows his window is about to slam shut, and he’ll be gone next year, and the eagles will again fall to shit status in the nfc east. he knows that owens was his shot, and it should have been up to him to mend that fence and get him back. he failed to do it and thus failed his team as their leader. he’s still a great performer on the field, and will catch on nicely someplace else that he can have a fresh start. hope mcnabb has success in his new home next year, cause it’ll give us another reason to laugh our asses off at the pathetic front office of theiggles. no need to comment ian, it won’t matter anyway, this is a cowboy blog and we hate the eagles. right, wrong, or indesisive, we rule here. so as iron man said, swallow that
August 13th, 2008 at 6:43 am“They traded for Donte Stallworth, drafted Reggie Brown, signed Kevin Curtis, and recently just drafted DeSean Jackson. Stallworth played well,” last time i checked dante stallworth went to cleveland not the eagles…just in case you dont believe me http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/team/Roster.html thats your roster so next time you want to cry do it on your own cite..and do your homework before you speak..
August 13th, 2008 at 3:43 pmIan, I came away with all that by something called deduction. Deduction and an ability to see past the words to look into the effects. He’s saying that his team could have gone to a superbowl with TO. He MEANS that the team fucked up by dropping him.
And even if you cannot determine maturity by clock management skills, you can determine maturity by watching how McNabb has a hissy fit over and over and over again. You’re on crack if you think he didn’t have a hand in his parents comments on their blog while Jeff Garcia was in the middle of taking the Eagles to the playoffs. Allowing yourself to become a distraction because your team is doing well without you is ALL ABOUT lack of maturity.
And I love your “facts” ian. You don’t know if he threw up any more than we do. Were you there in the huddle with him every play? What exactly do you base this “fact” on?
August 14th, 2008 at 8:49 amTo say that McNabb’s comments are “ridiculous” just goes to show how awful the person who runs this site is. He’s one of the biggest homers I’ve seen (example: Cowboys #1 on your power rankings—are you kidding me?). Saying that McNabb and T.O would not have been great together for years to come is the ridiculous thing. Also, saying that T.O wasn’t immature when he was with the eagles is just idiotic. That being said, T.O DID learn from his behavior in Philly and now is a valuable asset to a very good Cowboys team.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:01 pmIron Man – TO had an OK Super Bowl, but without his speed he was one dimensional. Great effort, but after the game is when you realized who he did it for. Not the fans or the team, but for his own gain. All he could talk about after the loss was how well he played, and how he proved everybody wrong. He is a me first guy, and always will be. TO would have been a hero, but he had to open his mouth 5 minutes after the game was over and ruin it.
Joeseph – He was ASKED A QUESTION ABOUT TO. McNabb is not harping on the past, the reporter is. All he did was give his answer.
Dave – Did you read his comments where he said the Eagles are the best team in the NFC East? So where do you get that he knows the window is shut? The window is not shut, and he knows that it is not shut. There is no such thing as a window of opportunity anyways. In todays NFL any team can win any year.
Erik – I know Donte Stallworth is not on the Eagles roster. They traded for him in 2006 dumb ass. It was a move to improve the WRs, and he played pretty well. They tried to give him a long term deal, and his douche bag agent turned it down. They ended up settling for much less money on a 1 year prove it deal with New England.
Guy - Your deductions are just wrong. You think he means the Eagles fucked up by letting TO go, but he does not think that. The only reason TO was being mentioned, was McNabb was asked about him in this interview. McNabb gave his honest answer that the two of them could have had great success together. That does not mean he hates the Eagles for getting rid of him. In fact McNabb himself was fed up with TO. He also never said anything about going to a Super Bowl with TO. You invented that comment in your own head. He never said that, and in fact feels this team can get there without him, just like they did in 2004.
What hissy fit has McNabb had? WTH are you smoking? I love how you make a bold statement and have nothing to back that up.
Donovan had absolutely nothing to do with his Mothers blog. That is her blog, with her words, her feelings, and her decision to post those online. McNabb was unfairly blamed and criticized for words his mom wrote in a blog. What his mom said was really not even bad. All she said was it would be bittersweet if the Eagles won the Super Bowl, and Donovan was unable to be a part of it. Which if you think about that statement, it would be bittersweet for HER. The NFL team her son plays for wins the Super Bowl, but her son was injured and unable to play. That is almost the text book definition of bittersweet. The media ran with that comment, and made it out to be some sort of shot at Jeff Garcia, when it HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH GARCIA AT ALL! It was simply the way she would feel no matter who the QB was other than her son.
The facts are that Jeff Garcia and Donovan McNabb are great friends. That year they actually roomed together in training camp, and they still keep in contact with each other regularly to this day.
As far as the Super Bowl goes, I have the entire game on my computer in HD. You never once see him throw up, get sick, or do anything out of the ordinary. In the biggest media event in the world with thousands of cameras recording and flashing every second of the game it is impossible for him to throw up and it not be on camera somehow. Even if the TV missed it, somebody with a camera would have gotten a shot of that happening, and they did not, because it never happened. McNabb was exactly what TO accused him of being, and that is tired. I am willing to bet any QB would be tired of throwing the ball 52 times, running for your life, and taking punishing hits from the Patriots defense. It was a bad day overall for that group, and yet they still managed to score 21 points.
August 17th, 2008 at 5:18 pmHey Ian, I can read english fine. You don’t need to use caps, I can see perfectly well. McNabb was the one in 2005 who said keep my name out of your mouth, and don’t bring the media into the situation, and just call me if you had a problem.
Well, what did McNabb do this time? He didn’t have to answer the question. He could have gave a pc answer and declined to address the issue. What good does it do now to answer questions about Owens to the media, especially ESPN? Let it die already.
Maybe you can spell my name right this time.
August 17th, 2008 at 9:12 pmJoe – Unlike Drew Rosenhaus, McNabb has the guts to answer the questions asked to him. This was not a press conference, this was a sit down interview, and you don’t just “no comment” these questions.
There is nothing wrong with his answer. He gave an honest response, and there is nothing bad about it. What is wrong with saying that he thought the two of them could have continued to play well together? Nothing is.
If you want to look at the he matured at age 35 comment as a little bit of a stab, then OK McNabb took a small shot at TO.
Look at how the entire situation went down. McNabb lobbied for TO to come to the Eagles, and stuck his neck on the line for the guy. He gets traded here, signs a big contract that he was so happy with at the time, and then less than a year later he is throwing McNabb under the bus and wants a new contract. It didn’t stop there, as TO went on to blindside McNabb in the media several times, until he finally got kicked off the team.
You expect McNabb to just move on from all of that? I don’t. I havn’t moved on from hating TO. I hope TO attempts suicide again, and is successful this time.
TO has not let this go either. All off season in 2006 TO talked about the game at the Linc. He couldn’t wait to kick the Eagles ass. Then last year when he had the big game, he made sure to flap his wings to mock the eagles, and talked as much smack to the fans as possible.
These two will never let this go, and in a heated game like football I don’t expect them to let it go.
That would be like you asking Cowboys, Redskins, Giants, and Eagles fans to just let everything go, and be the best of friends. It’s not going to happen, because these are bitter rivalries, and that is the way it is.
August 18th, 2008 at 1:47 pmIan, you need to take your painkillers and zone out on the couch, buddy. Don’t come over here and attack Joseph, whose calm and collected thoughts are improving this site’s commentary. Your vicious cycle of anger is just not going to be accepted here. You need to realize that whenever I mention a peep about McNabb, I am usually 100 percent accurate. The only thing I got wrong so far was that he would be traded. I thought for sure they’d dump his fat, broken-arm rear to the Dolphins.
August 18th, 2008 at 3:14 pmLike being honest to the media has helped McNabb in his career. It’s great he’s answering the question truthfully I guess for him, but you never answered my question, when I asked what good does it do to take a small jab at T.O. to a reporter? And when a reporter asks a question during a sit down interview that you don’t want to answer, just decline. Lots of players do it. It avoids drama and speculation.
And you make it sound like I was defending T.O. Like I blacked out during the 2004 offseason and didn’t know the two were feuding.
The point is: It’s over. I thought the both of them had enough camera time and interviews to express all of their thoughts and problems. It shouldn’t be discussed. But Mr. McNabb’s comment speaking of T.O.’s newfound maturity wasn’t necessary. Speaking candidly to a reporter about an issue that happened four years ago gives the public ammunition to call him a whiner and a baby. He is going to be called insecure and desperate. That’s just the machine working, Ian. You can’t stop it. McNabb could, by not answering.
And my comment wasn’t even that bad. I wrote he should move on and stop talking about the past. Who’s Matt Mosley to Donovan McNabb? “Next question, please.”
August 19th, 2008 at 5:49 amNice looking out, Dan.
Also Ian, you hope T.O. commits suicide? Wow. That’s taking it to the extreme.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:51 amJoseph, Ian is the dickhead who celebrates the day Michael Irvin was carted off on a stretcher and is sorry the man didn’t die. So the TO comment is right in line with him being a total asshole.
As for it being a formal interview, anyone who’s ever seen one knows that there are more options than answering honestly and saying “No comment.” There are hundreds of ways of giving an answer that is meaningless and skirts around the topic. Head coaches do it each and every week. McNabb answered the question that way because he wanted to answer it that way.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:47 amOh really? Cool. Ian=Asshole. Got it.
Yup there sure are more options. I was just citing the ones that came to me at the moment. These athletes have a dictionary of cliches at their disposal.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:16 amThis what TO said in response.
“I love my situation here,” Owens said. “Other than that, things that happened in Philly happened three years ago. I don’t know what the deal is with me being in the news from (McNabb). I am happy here. I am scoring touchdowns. I have scored as many touchdowns in just as many games with Tony Romo as I did with them. I don’t know what the problem is.”
That comment can be looked at as a small shot back at Donovan, saying that it doesn’t matter who the QB is, he is going to score TDs.
I guess TO can’t get over it either. There is too much bad blood between these two to get over it. It’s like Ali and Frasier. These two will hate each other until they are old men.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:35 pm