Eskin on Kolb/McNabb via PFT

I'm not sure I even want to weigh in on this, just passing it on to BGN so you guys can slice and dice it. Personally, I think this is textbook Florio and Eskin, just trying to rile up the fanbase for the purpose of riling up the fanbase. So get your clicks on it here and not there, I guess.

They're reaching for something ... anything ... to run McNabb out of town, and while there are a few legitimate arguments to why you might prefer Kolb, most of the anti-McNabb is based on a history of not getting it done in the past that has very little bearing on his potential to get it done in the future, if surrounded by a healthy, confident, complete team. I'm not sure why, as a fanbase, we're so eager to make a major change to a team that's on the brink, especially when having two capable QBs on the roster is almost always preferable to having one.

Eskin's "evidence" is a bit of a reach, IMHO. But it's probably not a bad thing, and especially if those young guys got a lot of work in with Kolb and find him approachable and expect to be playing alongside him for years, I'd take it as a positive for the Birds.

As I've said before, Reid/Lurie/Banner have never given much indication that they plan to part with McNabb at any time other than after the 2010 season, but if the right package were offered, the Birds are famous for cutting the cord earlier rather than later, with very few misjudgements along the way. No one could say we haven't given McNabb several runs at it, but I think it'd be a shame not to try once more with this roster.

I guess I did want to weigh in. PFT after the jump:

Report: Young Eagles looking to Kolb, not McNabb, for advice                                                                               Posted by Mike Florio on January 18, 2010 11:04 PM ET

As all eyes in Philly are fixed on whether the Eagles will be trading quarterback Donovan McNabb, there's a new piece of evidence indicating that the future might be now for the team's quarterback of the future. 

Howard Eskin of WIP radio and NBC Philadelphia recently has reported that, during the 2009 season, young offensive players were going to Kevin Kolb for advice on the sidelines before approaching McNabb.

Of course, this says nothing about the organization's opinions of McNabb and/or Kolb, but it's definitely a factor in the question of whether the powers-that-be believe Kolb is ready to be the kind of leader that a franchise quarterback needs to be.

So stay tuned.