Rex Grossman's Three Game Audition

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Hey guys. I'm new around here, but I was the one who originally cut the Indy game footage of McNabb that Dirtbag posted. I just got done cutting the Tampa Bay game.




I think the two games are an interesting sample of Donovan's tenure; overall, he finished with good statistical games, but whenever he was called on to close out games, he couldn't get it done.

The Tampa Bay game is also interesting just because of how little McNabb actually threw the ball compared to other weeks. Kyle called A LOT of runs in the first half, but whenever Donovan had to convert a third down, he seemed to have trouble; at 1:11, the offensive line did a pretty good job picking up the blitz, but McNabb rushes a throw to a wide open Chris Cooley that would've been for a first down.

Then they run that stupid shovel pass that McNabb loved in Philly the next time they're in the red zone.

I cut out the part at the end of the second where there some bizarre clock management issues with McNabb that caused a delay of game penalty and made them burn all their timeouts after K-Wil set them up on the goal line again.

In the second half the defense wasn't playing as well and the Bucs had shut down the run, so Kyle was throwing it more to try and get some points on the board and get some seperation. There were three passes in the second half that would've been picked off had it not been for the crappy weather conditions, and a lot of balls that were thrown into the ground or thrown low that were hard to catch.

Everyone looked at the last drive of that game and said "cleary he has it, what are the Shanahan's doing", but even that drive was speedy. And this with McNabb having some fairly clean pockets most of the day. He was only sacked twice in that game.