Sunday, December 30, 2007

Kevin Harlan and Rich Gannon Should Not Announce Games Together

I pretty sure that's the biggest thing I got out of watching the Eagles-Bills game today.

Donovan McNabb looked solid again today. He looks like he's really starting to get his accuracy back. In years past, when he missed a wide receiver, he's always would under throw him. Earlier this year, when his accuracy was really off, he started over throwing wide receivers. He' started to under throw guys again which to me is a good sign if that makes sense.

Late in the fourth quarter when McNabb hit Greg Lewis down field, he showed he's still got great awareness. As soon as Lewis got off the line McNabb knew where he wanted to go with the ball. Lewis got two steps on his man and McNabb recognized with Lewis's speed that's all he needed to get the ball to Lewis. McNabb put the ball right where Lewis could catch it easily.

Earlier this year I wasn't sure what I wanted the Eagles to do with McNabb. As of three weeks ago, I was leaning towards the Eagles should probably cut ties if they could get something good in return through trade.

The last three weeks showed Donovan can still play and deserves another year with this team. I think he's a definite upgrade over A.J. Feeley and the "QB of the future" Kevin Kolb. I was at training camp this year almost every day covering it for ESPN radio. At training camp I saw McNabb and Kolb everyday running the same drills. Kolb just couldn't hit his wide receivers in simple 7 on 7 drills. Kelly Holcomb and A.J. Feeley had no problem doing it, but Kolb couldn't. Kolb didn't show much of a deep ball either. Now I understand, this was Kolb's first training camp, but when he's their top draft pick and "QB of the future," he should be able to easily hit wide receivers in non-contact drills.

The Eagles should have waited a year to draft McNabb's heir. There are much better QB's in the draft this year. I think Brian Brohm, Andre Woodson, Matt Ryan, and Colt Brennan should all prove to be better NFL quarterbacks than Kevin Kolb.




2 comments:

Anonymous said...

McNabb has always been successful at picking apart poor defenses. Shouldn't Eagles talk be centered on Brian Westbrook ? It is Westbrook's team, isn't it ?

Colt Brennan throwing the ball all over the field on a team with a decent defense is next year's path to the Superbowl. Think Billick could change ?

Harlan and Gannon is almost as bad as Baldinger and anybody

Rush said...

congrats on the deadspin link!


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