Where will McNabb land?

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Originally Posted by Monkeydad

I also think it's premature to blow things up regarding McNabb here. We signed him to a multiyear deal, lets give him more than ONE year to get it.

Yes, he's a pro QB and should have been able to make the transition to any offense, even one that was 180 degrees different than the only pro offense he's ever run.

Yes, the coaches made some bad decisions and said some questionable things.

End of the day, they're all professionals who should be able to work together and they all have contracts to fulfill.

I honestly think McNabb after a year in the system with our offensive upgrades will be much better in 2011...if given the chance.

McNabb starter, Beck backup. If Donovan tanks another season, THEN send him packing and draft a new QB, unless Beck emerges.

McNabb has always had accuracy issues throughout his career, BUT he can still throw a nice deep ball and our new WRs should be getting downfield a LOT. If you look at his stats, 2010 was an anomaly...he NEVER threw that many INTs before. Drom 2009 to 2010, he dropped from 22 TDs/10 INTs to 14 TDs/15 INTs. You don't fall that far from age in the span of 12 months...he had a horrible O-line, a revolving door at RB, 2 decent WRs and was slow to grasp the playbook. He should know it by now. Let him prove it.

The problem...dude has plenty of time to grasp the playbook. We traded for in in April of 2010. He went to every OTA, every minicamp, had training camp, had ample time to sit down with Kyle and get it down, had two preseason games and thirteen regular season games to learn the offense.

For comparison's sake, Sam Bradford was a rookie quarterback with no weapons outside of Steve Jackson, and an offensive line that was mediocre-to-average. Bradford, the rookie, ended up with a higher QB rating, more touchdowns, and a better completion percentage.

Jay Cutler had to learn a completely different system with only one Pro Bowl wide receiver and an relatively unproven running back and a bad offensive line and the Bears got to an NFC Championship game.

It's not about him knowing the plays. I'm betting he knows the plays. It's about executing them. That's where the problems came in. McNabb's fundamentals are such that the execution of the offense suffered. It's nice that McNabb can throw the ball 70 yards with a flick of the rist, but this ain't Air Coryell. It's not a vertical passing offense.

He just couldn't execute the plays as called on the field. When I go back and look at the games, I see it time and time again, where he drops back, and it seems like he's only reading half the field, or he's only reading his number one and his checkdown guy. His footwork wasn't good, he couldn't keep good time with his receivers.

And the attitude was the tipping point. The inability to take coaching. The dude said he felt like they wanted him to be a robot. No, they wanted him to run the plays as called the way they were designed. Coming onto the practice field late, not keeping a good tempo during practice or during the game.

Like I said, his best chance to start and have some prolonged success probably is to stay here, but he'd have to change his entire make-up and be way more open to the way Kyle wants things done. It's hard to meet a guy halfway when he seems resistant to what you want and need him to do.

Another year might just make the situation worse, especially if he keeps the contract he has now. Why prolong the agony if you feel like he can't be the guy?