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Here come the excuses!!!!
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:09 am
by ANT7088
Teammate: McNabb so ill he couldn't call play
Donovan McNabb was so ill in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl that a Philadelphia Eagles teammate called one play in the huddle, center Hank Fraley told a TV station.
"He fought to the end. He gave it his all," Fraley said on Comcast SportsNet in a show aired Monday night. "He could hardly call the plays -- that's how exhausted he was trying to give it his all. If you remember back when we played Jacksonville two years ago and he ended up puking, it was close to that scene. He exhausted everything he had."
Eagles spokesman Derek Boyko said Tuesday that McNabb wasn't injured during Philadelphia's 24-21 loss to the New England Patriots. However, McNabb might have been feeling sick -- he fought a cold earlier in the week.
McNabb was shaky at times in Sunday's game. He passed for 357 yards and three touchdowns, but he also threw three interceptions.
The quarterback misfired on several passes early, held the ball too long at other times, and made several poor decisions. One of the best scramblers in the NFL, McNabb had zero yards rushing on just one carry and was sacked four times.
He struggled in particular in the fourth quarter, getting picked off twice and looking slow in getting the team moving late.
"He didn't get a play call in one time," Fraley said. "He mumbled and (receiver) Freddie Mitchell yelled out the play we were trying to bring in. He was puking at the same time, trying to hold it in."
Mitchell said on Tuesday that McNabb was having complications and "couldn't get it out so I just had to finish the play up."
"It was my first time being the quarterback in the NFL," Mitchell said on a local television station. "It was hard. He kind of tried to get the hand signals to the team, but I knew what he was thinking. I just finished the play up."
McNabb left Tuesday for Hawaii, where he will start for the NFC in Sunday's Pro Bowl. His agent did not immediately return a phone call Tuesday.
The QB had the best season of his six-year NFL career, leading the Eagles to the Super Bowl for the first time since 1981 after three straight losses in the NFC championship game.
McNabb set a team record with 3,875 yards passing and became the first NFL player to throw for more than 30 touchdowns (31) and fewer than 10 interceptions (eight). His passer rating of 104.7 ranked second in the NFC.
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:56 am
by Irn-Bru
That Jacksonville game, as I recall, may be the only games ever played in the NFL where the last play of the game was a TD scored by the losing team. It felt weird to watch them score in the closing seconds, and kick the PAT, even though they had still lost by 7.
Knowing McNabb, he won't play up the sickness thing--or at least, I hope that he doesn't. He's a fighter, and to talk about being sick will only look like he's making excuses. Because it's not him currently spreading the story, I don't think anything less of him.
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:36 am
by redskincity
Sick, slick, they lost and its over. 0-0, Its a new year now.
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:40 am
by DEHog
Not sure what Freedie is talking about?? Here in Philly, Westbooke and Lewis are saying McNabb was fine?? Freddie said the TD to Lewis was a fluke?? Hey Freddie why don't you go out and make some "fluke" plays!! McNabb will never make excuses. I hate the Eagles as much as anybody, but living here in Eagles country and watching McNabb...he had been nothing but class!!
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 11:02 am
by redskindave
I agree with you guys, Freddie Mitchell is the problem, And buy the way? Didnt Rodney Harrison catch more balls than Mitchell?... lol.
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 11:08 am
by BringThePain!
I agree McNabb has been nothing short of a Classy guy in usually everything I've seen him do.... The guy sure does need to do something about his stomach problem... I don't think I've ever heard of a Pro Football Player up chucking so many times during football games....
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 11:20 am
by SkinsChic
Cry Eagles Cry.....
LOSERS !!!!!! All the excuses in the world aren't
will not erase the LOSS !!!!!!!!
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:04 pm
by Redskin in Canada
redskincity wrote:Sick, slick, they lost and its over. 0-0, Its a new year now.
Not soooo fast:
The Philadelphia Eagles is the ONLY team in the NFC East that does not have a Super Bowl victory in its long history. Two trips to the SB, two defeats. The first time Vermeil got to cry.
Are you surprised that P. players are blaming one another?
Are you surprised that P. fans are already searching and found scapegoats?
Are you surprised to see the hyenas in the hunt?
Come on people, flap your wings!
P. ONLY has a chance for as long as Andy Reid and Donovan MacNabb stick around. They are the ONLY guys with class in that joint.
Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 8:35 am
by DEHog
The Philadelphia Eagles quarterback set everyone straight after his first practice for the Pro Bowl on Wednesday. McNabb said he wasn't ill during the fourth quarter of their loss to New England, as center Hank Fraley claimed earlier this week, and receiver Freddie Mitchell certainly didn't call any plays for him.
The Eagles' offensive struggles were caused only by the Patriots and the tension of a Super Bowl, not a phantom sickness.
"No, I wasn't sick and no, I didn't throw up," McNabb said. "If people want to use that as an excuse for why we lost, that's not the way it was, but I'll put it on my shoulders. I'll take the blame. ... When you're trying to make every play possible, you have to dig deep. We were just trying to give it all we had."
Like I said McNabb makes no excuses and takes the blame...He is a class act!