Monday, November 20, 2006

Devastating McNabb Injury

A swirl of emotion surrounding McNabb's knee injury- hopes of the Super
Bowl are out the window-obviously. They might still be able to make the
playoffs, but so what? They're not going to get very far.

With McNabb, anything was possible with this team. Amazingly, 5-5 still
leaves the Eagles in the playoff hunt. And they brought in Jeff Garcia
specifically for this very situation... to have a veteran QB that could
step in for McNabb if the unthinkable happened.

Some of my friends have tried to point out that too bad the Eagles
didn't win the Giants and Bucs game to give themselves (ie, Garcia) a
margin for error and give them a leg up in the playoff race.

Here's another thought: how much more devastating would McNabb's loss be
(if possible) they eagles had won those games and been 7-3 right now?
They'd be the #2 seed in the NFC, looking at a bye for the playoffs.
Losing McNabb in that scenario might have been even worse.

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