Does anybody remember when John Elway was going through the same shit that Mcnabb is going through?I was really small but I can recall Dan Reeves being the coach and he was talking about letting Elway go, and they even drafted Tommy Maddox in 1992 in the 1st round! What happened? Maddox shared time with Elway in 1992, played in 13 games and had less than 1000 YD's passing! Tommy Maddox came out of UCLA, he was drafted Higher than Kevin Kolb and didn't endup being the replacement. Why did the Bronco's want to replace Elway? Agian I was 9 years old but I think they said that he played on the edge, Throwing to many INT's and forcing too much. Looking at Elway's stats we will compare him to Mcnabb. It shows that Elway throws tons more INT's than MCnabb.

Hall of Famer John Elway's First 10 Years

  Passing                  
Year  COMP  ATT  PCT   YDS    Y/A   TD INT
1983  123   259  47.5  1663   6.4   7  14
1984  214   380  56.3  2598   6.8  18  15
1985  327   605  54.0  3891   6.4  22  23
1986  280   504  55.6  3485   6.9  19  13
1987  224   410  54.6  3198   7.8  19  12
1988  274   496  55.2  3309   6.7  17  19
1989  223   416  53.6  3051   7.3  18  18
1990  294   502  58.6  3526   7.0  15  14
1991  242   451  53.7  3253   7.2  13  12
1992  174   316  55.1  2242   7.1  10  17
*Tommy Maddox Drafted for replacement

Donovan Mcnabb
Passing
Year   Comp  ATT  PCT    YD    Y/A  TD INT
1999   106   216  49.1   948   4.4   8   7
2000   330   569  58.0  3365   5.9  21  13
2001   285   493  57.8  3233   6.6  25  12
2002   211   361  58.4  2289   6.3  17   6
2003   275   478  57.5  3216   6.7  16  11
2004   300   469  64.0  3875   8.3  31   8
2005   211   357  59.1  2507   7.0  16   9
2006   180   316  57.0  2647   8.4  18   6
2007   195   326  59.8  2329   7.1  13   6

I'm not a huge stat guy but you guy's love them. So the only thing I can say is that Mcnabb has less YDS, Ints and His TD's are right there.

  I guess alot of people forget this about Elway. He took them to the Superbowl and lost to the Dynasty team in the 1980's that nobody beat the Niners w/(Joe"Cool"Montana). I think everyone would agree that we have a dynasty team that beat us and keeps winning the Pats w/(Tom"Cool"Brady). I really don't understand what local writers, Local Fans, WIP and natonal media is talking about. Mcnabb is having a bad year. Period. Our team isn't all that any way as we have learned. But QB's Like Elway, Farve, Cunningham, Gannon, Chandler, Brees, etc.. have come back from adversity and have played the at the highest level. I think when you think of them specific QB's I think of the skill players that they had. Elway had Smith, Mccaffterty, Sharpe, Davis. Farve has a bunch of young play makers finally. Cunnningham had Moss, Carter, Smith, Gannon had Rice, Porter, Brown. Chandler had Mathis, Dwight, Santiago, Anderson
Brees had Henderson, Bush, Colston, Copper and Horn.

Ok here's a real question? Who do we have to help Mcnabb? For real? It's not a whole lot. We have to get more players to help him. What would happen if we drop Mcnabb and go with Kolb? Kolb prolly will not have the same group of skill players so comparing will be tuff. We know that most Qb's don't make it to Mcnabb's level. Next year I will be shocked if we have such a weak offense. Brown and Curtis are great complemetry players we need to upgrade at TE and WR. This can happen too. This isn't baseball like Andrew reminded us that teams go from worst to first all the time!

Lastly in my last rant I said that we like blue collar, screamer types. We do. Mcnabb is himself and no one can change that. I think to myself what would happen if a city asked me to be cool calm type guy knowing that I'm a screamer. I couldn't change what I was so why would we ask MCnabb to do the same.Ask yourself the same question. The bottom line is John Elway had the same shit happen to him Minus the injuries, he took his team to the Superbowl and lost. He got help from his GM to get him playmakers and he rallied his career to end up with 2 superbowls. Why? Because he was a above average QB (with and this is important) playmakers surrounding him. We need to do them same.

What do you guy's think?