There is something to prove, and every player in the Eagles locker room knows that’s the case. The unsettling 2005 season is in the distant past, so the Eagles have made the commitment to move forward together, to re-claim supremacy in the NFC and to, well, just get things right.
To get the Eagles back on top.
“We’re all excited about that chance to start new and get it rolling again,” said quarterback Donovan McNabb. “We’re going to get there working together, coming together. That’s the way you get it done.”
After an extremely active off-season, during which the Eagles were busy signing unrestricted free agents, retaining their own players entering free agency and then diving headfirst into what the experts hailed as one of the best drafts in the league, Philadelphia returns for 2006 an intriguing blend of young and older, of a solid, familiar core and a new-look roster bolstered by some additions.
McNabb, of course, is the man in the middle of the offense. He struggled though an injury-plagued 2005 campaign and still performed brilliantly at times, earning the NFC’s Offensive Player of the Month award in September. But by the the middle of the year, McNabb was clearly hobbled by a sports hernia injury, one that he tore completely in a mid-season loss to Dallas.
Head Coaches Tom Coughlin and Andy Reid speak after the Giants 27-17 Week 11 win in 2005.
That final injury shelved McNabb for the remainder of the season, and he joined a slew of other key contributors who spent large chunks of the year on Injured Reserve. As the Eagles went through the final month of ’05, they did so with a long list of rookies and young players who were thrown into the fire.
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