[SirClintonPortis]

Originally Posted by juskins

Well, Sir Clinton Portis, I watched Donovan under achieved for 11 games and thought the other two games he played in were decent showings. I kept waiting for those good two games to show up in the other eleven games he played in for us.

This is not about an employer=employee dispute at all. When does a player have a say so in professional sports? And, yes, it's my way or the highway in this business. The player doesn't get to dictate his terms of making an adequate performance. Obviously, you can't light a fire under McNabb's ass to motivate him to play better.

Shannahan pulls the strings and he calls the tunes. There's no "can we just all get along" mantra here. This is about making or taking a stand as to whom you support - not trying to point out the short comings of both sides.

And both sides are coming out with some believable statements and not-so-believable statements, hence I cannot totally trust either account.

While I'm probably sure McNabb is displeased with the benching itself, he is at least giving the appearance that it was the way he was demoted and benched that is the main issue. IF what he claims is true, then it's unprofessional and not exactly best for the team because they should have been totally practicing with Grossman on the first practice day of the week and the head coach should have communicated to him first. IF McNabb is just making shit up, then Shanahan probably handled the situation properly and wasn't unprofessional, disrespectful, etc, and McNabb was just trying to get attention. The benching is not the object of complaint by McNabb, but rather how it was handled. If it was Zorn not informing his QB late in the week, we'd all be skewering his incompetence.