[editor's note, by BleedGreen] promoted from diaries. and let me just say... Let's be clear about this. Don McKee is simply incredibly bored and can't think of anything to write about, so he decided to basically act as if he was some crazy fan calling sports radio with a wacky trade idea and pass it off as a column in a major metro newspaper. This is something I've gotten pretty upset about in the past. These big net sites like Yahoo and others like it don't do a whole lot of reporting on their own. More often than not they act as news aggregators for local papers and AP stories. So a local columnist writes an opinion "what if" piece like this one and yahoo and other sites just pick it up like he's written a news column. Then they label with a headline calling it a "rumor." It's just incorrect and irresponsible and I really wish more people would call them out on it. This has happened several times this offseason where a local writer has written an opinion piece on what he thinks the Eagles should do and the national or web media picks it up and labels it a "rumor." Rumors are things journalists hear from sources, not when a columnist opines about what thinks the team should do.

In McKees' defense he even titled the story "A McNabb trade (In Theory)", when Yahoo! picks up the story it becomes titled "NFL Rumors Super shuffle? McNabb, Briggs swap makes sense". No indication that this is just a thought on the part of a writer. They specifically label it a rumor! In an age where people unfortunately just read headlines, this is wildly irresponsible.

Anyway, I digress... onto the actual story. Thanks to Andrew for being on top of this.

First McKee opines in the Inky, then Yahoo actually picks it up like a real story!!!

Yo!  Here we go!

Wild and crazy rumor time!

Eagles to ship McNabb to Chicago for rights to Lance Briggs.

Apparently this is part of the effort to build an all Weakside Linebacker Team.

I'm speechless at this baseless rumor mongering by Don McKee.

Must be a REALLY slow day.