It’s funny when I see this entire Donovan McNabb situation going on in Washington D.C. People, including myself, have looked at Coach Mike Shanahan as the bad guy by benching the former pro bowl quarterback. But, if you take a further look, Andy Reid is really responsible for this entire debacle.
Let’s examine the past for a minute. At one point, a year ago, the Philadelphia Eagles had three quarterbacks on its roster: Donovan McNabb, Kevin Kolb, and Michael Vick. Unless you’re an idiot, you know out of those three quarterbacks that Michael Vick was your best athlete and best quarterback despite public opinion. Andy Reid is a quarterback master and knows talent. I also know quarterbacks and know talent working with the National Football League Elite Combines system.
Of those three, I would hands down choose Michael Vick as the starter but Andy Reid could not due to the outbreak of public negative opinion at that time a year ago in Philly and throughout the entire United States. So, Coach Andy Reid had to stay quiet and play his cards like a cool hand of poker.
First, he gets rid of Donovan McNabb in a trade to make way for Michael Vick, not Kevin Kolb, the way that it looked on the surface. To make it appear as though he was for Kevin Kolb all the way, he fully backed him in public and declared Kolb the starter despite knowing that Kevin Kolb would NEVER EVER be a first team quarterback and had nowhere near the skills of Mike Vick.
To make this story plausible, the Eagles would even go as far as presenting Kevin Kolb with an unbelievable contract on paper. To the public it seems like a huge contract and huge commitment. In reality, the contract is incentive laden with on the field incentives. If you’re not on the field, Philly doesn’t owe Kolb the money. Why? This was to make the public believe that Philly was fully committed to Kevin Kolb and soothe the public opinion of the Philadelphia Eagles’ decision to even pick up Mike Vick.
Philly had to show publicly that they were fully committed to Kolb financially but show that they didn’t really want to pay Mike Vick. Remember, America loves slaves and so they would only want to see Mike Vick in a slave type role to feel satisfied. Philly would show Kolb as their high paid dude, trade McNabb, and keep Mike Vick as their low paid super quarterback. This would in turn make the public sympathize with Philly when they started to lose with Kevin Kolb that Andy Reid already knew they would never win with him.
As planned, Philly starts to lose with Kolb. Andy Reid in public shows his support of Kolb. This makes the city of Philadelphia empathize with Andy Reid since Philly is already a city of fans that only want to win. As soon as they see loses, Philly fans will change on you in a heartbeat.
Andy Reid already felt that Donovan McNabb was done when he traded him. He gave this information to Mike Shanahan, as the coaching community is a very tight community. Mike Shanahan did not suddenly come upon this decision solely by himself. He got input on the only coach Donovan had: Andy Reid.
It’s funny when I see this entire Donovan McNabb situation going on in Washington D.C. People, including myself, have looked at Coach Mike Shanahan as the bad guy by benching the former pro bowl quarterback. But, if you take a further look, Andy Reid is really responsible for this entire debacle.
Let’s examine the past for a minute. At one point, a year ago, the Philadelphia Eagles had three quarterbacks on its roster: Donovan McNabb, Kevin Kolb, and Michael Vick. Unless you’re an idiot, you know out of those three quarterbacks that Michael Vick was your best athlete and best quarterback despite public opinion. Andy Reid is a quarterback master and knows talent. I also know quarterbacks and know talent working with the National Football League Elite Combines system.
Of those three, I would hands down choose Michael Vick as the starter but Andy Reid could not due to the outbreak of public negative opinion at that time a year ago in Philly and throughout the entire United States. So, Coach Andy Reid had to stay quiet and play his cards like a cool hand of poker.
First, he gets rid of Donovan McNabb in a trade to make way for Michael Vick, not Kevin Kolb, the way that it looked on the surface. To make it appear as though he was for Kevin Kolb all the way, he fully backed him in public and declared Kolb the starter despite knowing that Kevin Kolb would NEVER EVER be a first team quarterback and had nowhere near the skills of Mike Vick.
To make this story plausible, the Eagles would even go as far as presenting Kevin Kolb with an unbelievable contract on paper. To the public it seems like a huge contract and huge commitment. In reality, the contract is incentive laden with on the field incentives. If you’re not on the field, Philly doesn’t owe Kolb the money. Why? This was to make the public believe that Philly was fully committed to Kevin Kolb and soothe the public opinion of the Philadelphia Eagles’ decision to even pick up Mike Vick.
Philly had to show publicly that they were fully committed to Kolb financially but show that they didn’t really want to pay Mike Vick. Remember, America loves slaves and so they would only want to see Mike Vick in a slave type role to feel satisfied. Philly would show Kolb as their high paid dude, trade McNabb, and keep Mike Vick as their low paid super quarterback. This would in turn make the public sympathize with Philly when they started to lose with Kevin Kolb that Andy Reid already knew they would never win with him.
As planned, Philly starts to lose with Kolb. Andy Reid in public shows his support of Kolb. This makes the city of Philadelphia empathize with Andy Reid since Philly is already a city of fans that only want to win. As soon as they see loses, Philly fans will change on you in a heartbeat.
Andy Reid already felt that Donovan McNabb was done when he traded him. He gave this information to Mike Shanahan, as the coaching community is a very tight community. Mike Shanahan did not suddenly come upon this decision solely by himself. He got input on the only coach Donovan had: Andy Reid.
