The Blindside

There is.

A couple different themes:

1 there is no more "rebulding". You can go from 5-11 to 11-5 in one year with sked fornat (worst play worst) and savvy acquisitions. Jeff has already made this point for several years but analysts still treat these huge improvement teams as wonders and flukes tho it happens every year.

2 THERE IS NO MORE SALARY CAP. Has anyone adjusted to this fact yet? The notion of any concern for mcnabb's $11 million salary in 2010 is pointless.

More to the point. Why aren't the cards willing to give up on leinart? There's no salary cap hit for cutting him. Do they think he can start? If so why hasn't he already.

With no cap you can carry 2 quality qbs on your team all the time.

Under this scenario and for a team like the rams, mcnabb can serve like doug pederson while they groom bradford - only mcnabb is a pro bowler and will win games so you haven't wasted a season or two getting bradford ready and are totally competitive. Heck, you can even franchise mcnabb so you get him for two seasons. He's also insurance in case bradford turns out to be more ryan leaf/tim couch than carson palmer.

I think the roethlisberger/flacco situations have fooled some where 1-3 year qbs aren't asked to do much and awesome D stifles opponents and this system is seen as as a good and replicatable model - which it isn't.

Finally, maybe we (and the eagles) are overestimating mcnabb's ability. But objectively he is still a top 12 qb in the league. Why the 20 teams with worse qbs aren't interested is beyond me.