Posted on 09/18/2007 11:25:04 PM PDT by MPJackal
Anyone who was watching the coverage of Monday night’s Eagles loss knows Rush was right. The announcers couldn’t bring themselves to criticize McNabb’s lousy passing, the last missed pass costing the Eagles the game. Instead, they felt obliged to find excuses for his performance. Would they have done that for Peyton Manning? Of course not.
How much money is this mental midget earning to play a game?
Hey McNab you oaf, shut your mouth and quit your bitching.
So true
Where I disagree with "Mike and Mike," who claimed their beef with Limbaugh was that he was "wrong in his premise that McNabb was overrated by the media," is that McNabb WAS overrated by the media at that time. He is a good QB, not a great one. If you list, in any given year, the top five QBs, I doubt McNabb is in there except for his Super Bowl year. Over time, he has had two recurring problems: receivers (no matter who they are, which ones they plug in) ALL seem to drop passes on him (which, IMHO, is not a receivers' problem but a QB problem) and he frequently is injured. Injuries can be "bad luck," or they can come from playin style (note that Tom Brady has NEVEr had a serious injury).
The point is, Rush was absolutely RIGHT in his original comments that McNabb WAS overrated when he made those comments; and today, McNabb is just looking pathetic. I note that in the game that caused him to make those comments, he was defeated by a . . . black quarterback.
Try LS's rule McNabb: complete passes and don't throw INTs and you won't get criticized, even if you're a polka-dot midget.
McNagg stinks!! He spends too much time selling soup, getting his Mom and Dad face time on TV, and he is always hurting, injured or too big a coward to actually play football. Garcia is 10 times the QB that McNagg could ever dream of being.
McNabb has been a very good QB, not great, but very good. The combo of McNabb (helped by some very capable backups) and Reid have made Philly a very competitive franchise for the past 5-6 years. Barkley was right when he said that no matter how well you’ve done in Philly, you don’t get any brownie points - it’s “what have you done for me lately” that counts.
I think McNabb will get better as the year goes on. He started to get into stride during the last quarter of Monday’s game. He is not operating at 100%, but if he gains his confidence back and gets game experience and stays at least modestly healthy, I think he’ll do a decent job this year.
Contingencies: IF he continues to get healthier, IF he can put up with the badgering and IF Philly can at least win a few games before they get hopelessly behind in the standings. And one remaining big IF - IF the Eagles can get a receiver or two who can actually get open and catch the ball. That is a commodity that has been sorely lacking since TO left.
Yes and Philadelphia is to blame for being so tough . . . but NY fans cheer as Chad Pennington hobbles off the field to save his team a time out, and suddenly Jets fans are the toughest of all (and considering that the Jets' backup QB hit three receivers with passes which, if caught, would have overtaken the opposition's lead in the fourth quarter, it seems possible the Jets fans have a point).But if that had happened to McNabb (and if the backup QB was white), the PC police of ESPN would have wanted to call out the National Guard.
The real issue is that criticism of the fans is criticism of we-the-people - and contempt for the people is the hallmark of the liberal.
“Should read liberal,commie,pinky,homo! “
No, three adjectives is emphasis, four is just plain redundancy. :^D
My take: Rush may have been right, or he may have been wrong. But what he said sure didn’t qualify as proof of racism. If McNabb is wrong, will he lose his job? Of course not. Although I entirely agree with the assertion that the winning QBs get too much credit, losing QBs get too much blame. If Philly were undefeated, McNabb would be basking in accolades.
Sometimes it will take at least four adjectives to describe someone or something....for instance...democraps! Try that on for size! :0 )
McNabb is a whiner because he isn’t living up to the expectations of the liberal sportswriters that were cheering for him, just exactly what rush said they were doing. RUSH is vindicated and right again.
It really was not as much about “what” Rush said, as it was who said it. Liberals HATE ALL conservatives and they wanted to shut Rush up any time and any place they could. There are countless examples of the double standard, many listed above. McNabb’s comments express his blatant racism by accusing others of it, done in the face of overwhelming to the contrary. I really don’t hear racist comments toward Tomlinson, Portis, Alexander, Bush, Johnson ........... I guess we are only racist towards QB’s, other positions are exempt. The truth, as Patton put it, “Americans love a winner”. We hate the guys that can not win the big game. The most racist people I have ever met were black, McNabb just reinforced that opinion.
They said opposite things.
McNabb is pulling the usual nonsense about wah, wah, wah, I’m black, so I’m discriminated against, and everyone picks on me even though I’m really good because I’m black. That’s the PC line so it does not get even lampooned much less censured.
Rush was saying everyone is anxious to say how GREAT black QBs are.
They’re the opposite “observations”.
I’m not a McDrabb fan but he is heads over heels over Stewart. There is something different concerning McDrabb. Sportswriters have criticized Doug Williams, Culpepper, Cunningham, Stewart, Rodney Peete, and the rest of them. There just seems to be some compact that never - under any circumstances - should McDrabb be criticized.
Should have been in Denver last year with the job Plummer was doing. There was a loud vocal group saying that Cutler should start. Nothing new. The city expects the QB to perform and win games. If you don’t, they have the next guy in line and are ready to give him a chance.
I remember when they were calling for Steve Walsh (not to be confused with the lead singer of Kansas) to start instead of Aikman.
Actually, what I found so interesting about the original Limbaugh/McNabbit flap was that no one brought up/touted Steve McNair, who took his team to a Super Bowl, and was 7 yards short of winning one; and who was consistently good in Houston/Tennessee without any controversy.
Tell that to Rex Grossman.
He took the Bears to the Super Bowl in his first full season and moved to 2nd place all-time for team single season passing yardage. All the talking heads want Brian Griese to replace him.
Exactly! I always thought McNair was a better QB anyway. So far, the NFL has had three black QBs start the SuperBowl and only one won it - Doug Williams - who I think was the worst of the three. Yet, When McDrabb went to the SuperBowl a couple years ago, I actually heard some announcers make the stupid remark that he was either the first or would be the first black QB to win one if he did win. Even McDrabb said that! Most forgot about Doug Williams and Steve McNair!
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