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Originally Posted by SmootSmack
I've brought this up before, but it was Allen who initiated the idea. He was in some meeting, forget when exactly, but I think it may have been during Super Bowl week. And when I say meeting it was nothing formal, just some get together with NFL execs. And he came back to Shanahan and basically said "Look, I think we could have a real shot at getting Donovan McNabb, would you be interested?" That's how it all started
If I recall correctly, McNabb's contract makes it a lot easier to let him go now. Sucks what happened but time to rip the band-aid right off
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Ok, so Mike was on board. If that's the case it does sound like there was either a serious disconnect between he & his son, Kyle came on board too late to change the decision, or Mike said McNabb is our qb & if you want this job you'll have to deal w/that.
I can't remember when Kyle was hired, but to my point - would Kyle have ever consulted on McNabb? Kyle may have been stuck w/him the way that most coaches are stuck w/players on a roster when they take over. Just because he's the coaches son doesn't mean he didn't have to deal w/personel that he didn't want.
I'm not making excuses for any of them, just pointing out that in any organization decisions are often made w/out consensus of all the top brass. We've seen here that when a coordinator is against bringing a player in, it usually doesn't work out, e.g. J. Taylor & AH w/Blache. Hopefully this will just be a good learning experience for the shannys that they can build on.