Eden Prairie, Minn. - It 'was just a game Sunday, although a very bad game with 39 yards passing. Still, it was a bad game after a poor season in which Donovan McNabb was considered (Notes) unsuitable for the Washington Redskins quarterback. At some point he will face the possibility that Andy Reid was right: Maybe it's really ready.
McNabb hate this question. He rolled his eyes a little 'when it rose again Wednesday here in Minnesota - his last stop. When you throw 39 meters, the question can be asked, especially if you look very early, at 35 years, a quarterback with the most beautiful days have passed. He is not so fast. His steps do not have the same sizzle. The process to find open receivers seems to be promulgated.
Especially if it just looks old.
McNabb hate this question. He rolled his eyes a little 'when it rose again Wednesday here in Minnesota - his last stop. When you throw 39 meters, the question can be asked, especially if you look very early, at 35 years, a quarterback with the most beautiful days have passed. He is not so fast. His steps do not have the same sizzle. The process to find open receivers seems to be promulgated.
Especially if it just looks old.
McNabb is good at deflecting the issue of its decline. He spent years batting away criticism in Philadelphia where he was not as deserving as he threw a lot of touchdowns and the Eagles deep into the playoffs, so he is accustomed. On Wednesday, he stood behind a lectern at the training center of the Vikings "and said everyone is always too much in just one week.
"As the season goes on, the guy they thought looked good in the first game, you have not heard of him more," McNabb said. "The team that may have started a little slowly, then continued to advance, the team of which you speak later, one thing I learned through my 13 years in the NFL. Everyone wants to take the crown, Denny Green said: "You want to crown em, em crown." "
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It may be difficult to declare McNabb can do it fast. Minnesota has a difficult task for the first game against the talented San Diego Chargers defense. The Vikings installed a new offense this summer, and McNabb did not arrive until closing has not had much time to build continuity. Things could be better. And although not all familiar with the Vikings are based on a strong running back Adrian Peterson to carry them. The offense does not require that McNabb win the games themselves, but to soften the defense of Peterson to run.
Unfortunately, this puts him in bad situations.
Instead of throwing so much of the first year and the second down with him last year in Philadelphia and Washington, crashed into a third-and-6, and a third-and-8 is. It 'hard to expect that the quarterback has succeeded In times like these.
Vikings coach Leslie Frazier spent much time Wednesday to talk about how the Chargers have done a fantastic job of depriving main target McNabb, forcing McNabb to look the other player progressions. But the Chargers had a lot of them are also covered. After McNabb ran for his life.
You could probably use a more dynamic offense. However, this does not account for 39 meters. Nothing can explain the 39 meters. It is unfortunate chain of 300 - and 400-yard performance - and up to 500 meters - with so many other neighborhoods in the league in Week 1. As the Vikings grew more conservative and preliminary McNabb, everyone pulls more than ever, and while they are succeeding.
The call to McNabb is that he has always been stubborn. This is its biggest flaw. Eagles executives tired of the way they swept the instruction with a quick "I", when in fact either not understood or simply not bother to listen. At that time, I could live with her because she could still reach a receiver striped by the band and find a way to throw your computer problems in the first two options were not there. Last year, Washington's stubborn inflexibility in fierce conflict with coach Mike Shanahan. Finally, the Redskins essentially fired, forcing the player who has announced as the new face of the franchise to languish on the bench until the season is over and you could get rid of it after closing.
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McNabb has now moved into the phase of his career where he is a friend try to use magic, it can not be there, jumping from one team to the hope of finding what he had in Philadelphia. Minnesota does not seem like a long-term destination. The Vikings did not draft Christian Ponder (notes) to sit for long. They have to sell a future here - not 39 yards passing quarterback in decline.
Wednesday, Frazier called McNabb a "pro". And there is no doubt that a quarter will be just what the word implies. Going to work hard. They encourage their teammates. Needless to say the right things.
But the end is generally high in the NFL and be a "pro" is not enough.
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