Rebuttal

#5 naysayers would we be wise to remember that neither Tom Brady nor Peyton Manning has ever experienced a serious injury during their entire careers, compared to McNabb's broken ankle, sports hernia and torn ACL. in that span, the Eagles have gone to four straight NFC championship games and one super bowl. One can only imagine the "sucess" or rather non-sucesse the Pats or Colts would have without their starting QB (and this doesn't even count the separated ribs #5 suffered in the NFC champ. game vs. the Panthers).

Notes Pro Football Talk, "Vinny Testaverde, whose 1999 season evaporated in Week One when his Achilles' tendon popped. Or Dan Marino, who had the same thing happen when his foot planted on a grass field in 1993. If something like that would happen to Brady and to Manning, the entire 2007 NFL season would be turned upside down, opening the door for other teams to chase a prize that seems to be destined to go to the winner of the seemingly inevitable showdown in the AFC title game between these two teams."

Goodell has surely issued the secret memo to the refs: no QB touching of either player till after Nov. 11.