The McKolb debate.

until you brought up the word “Cribbs.”

I don’t get why people keep bringing up a trade for Cribbs. Why would we have a need for Cribbs? We almost have too many offensive weapons as it is. It was like there weren’t enough balls to go around. So how does Cribbs help this team get better? We have some major needs on the defense and we could use some help on the O-line, but the offensive skill positions are the LAST positions we need to address right now.

I think they’re about equal right now, but McNabb’s talent is going down while Kolb’s is going up, and it will go up sharply with starting experience.

I’d rather trade the guy on the downward slope, and extend the guy with the upside…especially considering we are in a position to have so many skill players together for so long. Let Kolb start throwing to DeSean, Maclin, McCoy, Celek, Weaver…and we’ll be really happy to know that has potential to last for 5+ years.

It’s really just an exaggerated option. I personally feel (as I said in my last fanpost) that I think we’re best served keeping McNabb, drafting a QB this year, and re-evaluating at the end of next season. If the newly drafted QB is developing, hurray! If not, no biggie. Then we can decide whether to keep McNabb or Kolb. Sure, we don’t get draft picks for McNabb, but we have the best chance to win now.

it’s not a question of loyalty. Some people purely love McNabb, others purely hate him; many think both QBs are viable options. All of these fans on BGN are loyal to the eagles. The question is whether it is better for the eagles to trade McNabb and move to Kolb or to give McNabb another shot (and then likely run into issues with keeping Kolb…he won’t be content as a backup forever).

Also, players show no loyalty to their fans (look at Favre), and fans need to show no loyalty to players. I do get attached to players, and I really like McNabb. He was the QB of my childhood. However, I’m loyal to the team and will be happy regardless of what happens. I do really think Kolb will be a good QB and potentially a better fit for the system reid is supposedly running (WCO), but if mcnabb is back I’d be happy just the same.

he has a track record of doing what’s best for the team, not necessarily the player.

You’re saying it is worse than the Favre situation because he may not retire for 8 years and we may be stuck losing to him year after year for all we know….

brian dawkins. randall cunningham. duce staley. troy vincent. tra thomas. they were all so loyal to the eagles. are those situations all different too?

becasue he has all this young talent and he’s not consistent enough..a.nd like ive been saying he gets too damn antsy in the pocket when he gets nervous

i don´t think it would be a disaster with kolb! this team is too good to really suck it up even with kolb!
if kolb was the qb this season i think the eagles would have gone at least 10-6!

A fine example of the type of person I spoke of in my post. Thanks!

he cant win sb alone…. and i still stand by my arguement weeks ago that the reason he has a bad game was because idiot rooks on the line cant block and give him time to think…… hes not the smartest qb in the league mcnabb has made a living using his legs until he found a throw but his legs have turned into tree trunks and its not as easy for him to move around…. i stilll feel kolb is unproven everyone looks at him like hes a god for having 2 400 yard games … one was vs the cheifs who have worst d in the league next to the lions and the other was vs NO which is very uncosistant d…. but even still he threw 4 ints 2 for tds he couldve thrown 600 yards 4 ints is still horrible…… people also look at the yardage like it is so meaningful…… when u play for a team who would rather throw the ball every down does it say much?

Maybe he once was, but he hasn’t played like one very often—and when he does its against a weak opponent.

Listen, we don’t even need an amazing quarterback with mike vick legs and a joe flacco arm. All we need to do is have a quick decision making, accurate QB. Our WRs will get open, we just need someone to step in the pocket and make the throws. I think Kolb can do that, I think McNabb coudl do that OK at one point , and his athetlic ability could offer us even more tooo.. But he’s just tooo inconsistent and there’s many a time when even the WR catches the ball he has to stop, or make an adjustment.

McNabb is NOT a West Coast QB,and I think weak armed Garcia proved there. Even when we did run the ball more with him, we still threw it way more than passed it.