Hugh Douglas Weighs In On McNabb

[JansenFan]

Ex-Eagle Douglas: McNabb not a leader
Former defensive end takes shots at quarterback during radio interview

Former Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Hugh Douglas criticized quarterback Donovan McNabb during a radio interview on Tuesday, in particular that the signal-caller is not a good leader.

"The thing that Donovan needs � it's been proven, especially this year � he needs other people to lead," Douglas told WIP-AM (610). "He's not a leader. He doesn't want to lead. He is the leader on the field as a quarterback; he isn't a team leader. He needs a good supporting cast."

When contacted by the Philadelphia Enquirer later Tuesday, Douglas said, "In order to be a leader, you have to be in people's face; if that is what you think, he isn't that guy. Donovan will lead on the football field, and if you need him to give a Vince Lombardi speech, he won't."

Douglas told the newspaper that he talked with McNabb after the radio interview and that McNabb was OK with what Douglas had said.

Douglas, hired as the Eagles' ambassador after being waived in September, also said in the radio interview that coach Andy Reid was wrong when he though there were leaders on the team.

"Big Red [Reid] thought he had a bunch of leaders," Douglas said. "When he realized [he didn't], it was too late.

"At some point, [Reid] is going to have to go in that locker room and make it like Beirut again, to be totally honest," Douglas told WIP-AM. "It's obvious right now that the guys who he thinks are leaders aren't his leaders, and the young guys aren't ready to lead."

Eagles cornerback Sheldon Brown told the Enquirer that he disagreed with Douglas.

"To me, that is disrespecting guys he played with," Brown told the newspaper. "How can you say guys like Brian Dawkins or Jon Runyan aren't leaders? It's a comment that doesn't speak fairly to guys we have in the locker room, and I think that is just radio talk.

"I don't care what Hugh says," Brown said. "Quite frankly, the guys I am playing with I trust, and I trust the leaders we have. I am around them every day, and Hugh isn't around them every day."

� 2006 NBC Sports.com

[DEHog]

I said before and I'll say it again this whole thing is the begining of the end for DNabb in Philly...they won't be happy untill they run him out of town. All he's done is take them two three Conference games and a SB...yet I bet he get blame for the whole T.O. thing in the end. I see him going home to Chicago.

[air_hog]

Well, I agree with what Douglas is saying that McNabb doesn't get in anyones face, but I don't think that doesn't make a leader.

I mean, you can still lead by example, which is what McNabb does.

[Redskin in Canada]

The END of the diplomatic career for HIS Excellency, Mr. Eagles Ambassadour H. Douglas. What a two-face bum!

I just love it. Nothing like Negadelphians at work: self-destructive like no other team on earth.

You know how we sometimes say that some of our former players may come back to haunt us? Donovan will end up OUT of Philthy (just like Reid) and come back to haunt them.

Oh! The good old Kotite days! I miss them so much that they may just come back in fashion.

[Primetime42]

Hugh Douglas...why does anyone care? He had no business in the lockeroom getting his ass kicked by Owens and he has no business chewing out McNabb now.

[Chris Luva Luva]

Ill be glad to see McNabb go somewhere else and get a ring. He's a heck of a person and player. If things were different I'd love to have him as a QB, I think he's a leader. I dotn believe you have to be volatile to be an effective leader when everyone is working towards the same goal.

[skins81]

I luv me sum Hugh

[EA7649]

And some people want TO?

[tcwest10]

Hughie weighing in again ? McNabb quoted three days ago as having said that the TO debacle was "black-on-black violence" because TO said if Favre (who is, ummm, "white") was the QB, there'd be a couple of trophies for the Eagles ?
I love it when a division rival buries itself.