McNabb, Eagles find lost rhythm “McNabb’s quarterback rating of 41.4 was the lowest in the NFL. His self-esteem was even…

And props to all those that mentioned how under-rated McMair is. He is never mentioned in the sports community though out of the last four years he’s taken his team to 1 Super Bowl, 2 AFC Championship games, and 1 playoff year. If that’s not consistant, I don’t know what is.

Bryan Cox is a bigger idiot than Rush who has even less business being there.

I must humbly disagree with the agitator. Vick is one of the most accurate long passers in the game. Remember the pass he made moving to his left 50 yards downfield on a rope hitting the receiver in the numbers against the dolphins in his rookie year? Or the pass he made to Andre Davis that went 65 yards in the air off his back foot that hit davis in stride against BC in 1999? Granted these are just anecdotes, but they are representative of his accuracy. He is one of the most accurate passers in the league right now.

The fact that he threw few passes in college says nothing about accuracy; you did not site a completion percentage. It says more about the system he was in.

Simply put, Michael Vick is Jordan with a helmet. Michael Bishop couldn’t hold Vick’s jockstrap.

They may not hire inferior QB’s to fill some PC motives,

but, they may have to hire inferior coaches because the NAACP says so, and may face fines if they dont at least interview. Case : The Detroit Lions, Millen tried to meet the NAACP’s requirements, but no black coaches would be interviewd because they Knew the lions wanted the Mooch. Thus, the Lions, and Matt Millen were fined 200k.

How long before Hiring QB’s to fill a quota becomes the norm?

How come nobody is complaining about the lack of black punters?

The point is that as a team owner, you should hire, and are expected to hire the BEST tallent regardless of race. It may not have been true 20 years ago, but it is true today. We have progressed, we have moved on.

But what is stopping the NAACP from complaining about the disproportionate amount of black team owners?

Oh, and when can we start complaining about the disproportionate amount white basketball players?

And while we are at it, When will the NAACP start complaining about how Hockey is nothing but a good ole boy network only fit for White players.

When will MLK finally get his Freeking way? When jessey and al and louis check out.

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He goes as far as to agree with Rush that McNabb is overrated, which I am not willing to do. He does make a pretty compelling argument using Eagles offensive statistics vs. defensive statistics over the last three years to prove the case that the “defense carried this team”.

This was a terrible thing to drop on McNabb. How exactly is he supposed to argue the case that his performace hasn’t been inflated by a condescending media?

McNabb- 79.3 career passer rating

Vick- 86 passer rating last year in
first full year

McNair- 81.7 career passer rating

Johnson- 84.6 career passer rating
11th highest of all time

92.9 last year to lead NFC

63% completion percentage 2002

2nd to Brett Favre in
winning percentage for
active QB’s

Granted all of the other guys could outrun Johnson on their knees but I think Brad Johnson has proven to be a winner throughout his career. He’s not flashy but he’s consistent and he wins.

I’m glad you’re not suggesting that white players (or Gannon and Warner in particular) are given a pass when they play poorly. Gannon especially seems not to have recovered from the savaging he got in the super bowl and the media. And someone on ESPN stated flat out that the Rams could only make the playoffs with Bulger at QB – and this before the year began.
Still, let’s just agree that other factors beyond race hatred and pure, unadulturated malice went into the decision to give Warner the MVP in 2001 over McNabb.
The race issue was a red herring from the beginning. Forget McNabb – personally, I think he’s a bit overrated myself – think about Steve McNair. There’s a guy with zero help who’s gotten his bunch of old, slow and generally untalented teammates to the playoffs time and again. They haven’t even had a particularly dominant defense save in 1999 (which was luck). If there really was a vast conspiracy to shove black QB success down the throat of the football watching public, Steve McNair’s face would be ubiquitous. He’d be in BASEBALL ads.

Shane,
sorry to be picky, but the white winner of the slam dunk contest was Brent Barry. Jon Barry’s his 3 point shooting brother who’s probably never dunked outside of a playstation game. And sorry, but Brad Johnson doesn’t deserve the press that Culpepper or Vick get. Those guys change the entire tenor of a game. Brad Johnson’s success is based on not making mistakes. It’s totally different. Unless you’re arguing that winning a super bowl is the sole criteria upon which QBs should be judged, in which case you’d have to say that Trent Dilfer is better than Michael Vick, Daunte Culpepper, Rich Gannon and Dan Marino. I’m about the biggest Seahawks fan you’re likely to find, but I’m unwilling to make that claim.

Any statement that focuses on race is racial in nature. Seems pretty clear to me.

Beyond that, anything that mentions race is so frightening in this country. I’m surprised Al Sharpton isn’t on the news right now screaming racism. Or is he? I doubt he’d miss an opportunity. The mere mention of race gets twisted and turns into hatred by those with…. what exactly? Nothing better to do? I mean, really, it’s somewhat insulting that you can’t say anything about race without being attacked. At what point are we no longer protecting minorities but instead, patronizing them to death?

I hope you didn’t infer that I felt there was a conspiracy to shield whites from criticism, because I have absolutely no reason to believe that, nor could I cite one iota of evidence to support it. (Being a New Yorker, I assure you that there are no sensitivities whatsoever to the cruel condemnation players suffer at the hands of the local media and fans. There is also no bias whatsoever in praising them. Fans, coaches and sportswriters all love great players, great teams, great seasons, etc.)

It never crossed my mind — nor do I recall any sportswriter or friend or enemy of mine mentioning that McNabb was robbed of the 2001 MVP because he was black. I think Warner got the MVP for the very reason you suggested: he had godlike (oops!) stats. McNabb was my choice for MVP in 2001 because I felt he was indeed MOST VALUABLE. He did more with less than Warner, even though Warner’s stats were better.

While Kurt Warner is indeed a white christian (hey! why’d you bring religion into this? Are you god-baiting or something?), his 2001 season was, statistically speaking, one of the best ever. He took his team to the super bowl. He threw for almost 5,000 yards. You want to say that the talent surrounding him was better, or that the system they ran was conducive to passing yards, fine, but since when have those things counted against a guy in the MVP voting? You can make a case for McNabb that year, though I’d still say it’s a tough one. His QB rating was around 15 points lower. Let’s just say it’s far from settled that McNabb was robbed.
Same with Gannon last year – he clearly had a great season and probably deserved the award.
More importantly Gannon and especially Warner haven’t been immune from criticism. Warner was savaged by ESPN before the year and esp. after the first game. There is no conspiracy to shield whites from criticism, okay?