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**Manster** · 05-09-2007, 04:35 PM

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Rewind to spring 2003. The Philadelphia Eagles were in the process of cleaning house. The team and several popular 30-something players were parting ways, and it was not going over real well in the locker room.

"You try to sit back and learn from it, because you never know," said one veteran leader. "In a couple of years, it could be you."

The veteran who said that? Quarterback Donovan McNabb.

So, when McNabb said on Tuesday he was "shocked" to learn that the Eagles drafted his possible replacement with their first pick, he should've known it was coming. Under Andy Reid, this is the way Philly rolls.

I always think it is funny if you do something like this with any other postion it is called looking ahead, planning for the future, but heaven help them team that tries to do that with the QB position.

The-Hammer · 05-09-2007, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Manster

I always think it is funny if you do something like this with any other postion it is called looking ahead, planning for the future, but heaven help them team that tries to do that with the QB position.

All of a sudden it's lack of confidence, or thinking maybe he's too old.

**Manster** · 05-09-2007, 04:39 PM

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It's important to point out here the manner in which McNabb spoke out Tuesday. It was not done at the Eagles' NovaCare Complex in Philadelphia -- the site of every other McNabb press event since the venue opened five years ago. No, McNabb spoke at a skating rink in South Jersey. It was handled not by the Eagles public relations department but by a fired former member of that staff whom McNabb has hired to help with media relations for his foundation and charity work. The four local media outlets invited to the event did not include the Eagles' official TV station, the local ABC affiliate.

The way they got rid of some of there players in the past, Simons, has got to be in the back of his mind. Every player on the team nows that they are not safe and could be next in line to be replaced.

**bigboy** · 05-09-2007, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Manster

I always think it is funny if you do something like this with any other postion it is called looking ahead, planning for the future, but heaven help them team that tries to do that with the QB position.

PERFECT SENSE, you have to love the media.

I think everyone is overlooking what he meant by "shocked." Maybe Im wrong but I took it more as a "The Eagles need to take a DE or a LBer or a SS"...then a QB came out of left field, and it shocked him in that way, not in the way that he was upset they drafted his possible replacement.