10-Pack: Eagles put big-time pressure on themselves
Article By mflorio.tsn on 5th April, 2010
ProFootballTalk.com's Mike Florio weighs in on the Donovan McNabb trade:
1. The pressure is on the Eagles. Two years ago, the Green Bay Packers were willing to send quarterback Brett Favre to any team outside the NFC North. Indeed, the Packers' desire to avoid facing Favre prompted Green Bay to include a provision in its trade terms to the Jets that jacked up the compensation to three first-round picks if New York then shipped him to the Bears, Vikings or Lions.
The Eagles had no such fear with McNabb. They handed him to the Redskins for a second-round pick in 2010 and either a third-round pick or a fourth-round pick in 2011, and they won't be looking back.
Philly is willing to face Donovan McNabb twice a year, at the risk of being passed by the Redskins. They won't have to look back. They'll see McNabb twice per year. And the real concern should come from whether they ever see him while looking up.
Though plenty of Philly fans were ready to see him get shipped out of town, few will be forgiving if McNabb and the Redskins finish ahead of the Eagles in the standings -- or if McNabb and the Redskins advance deeper than the Eagles into the postseason.
And if McNabb gets his fingerprints on a Lombardi Trophy, the pitchforks and torches crowd will dismantle the NovaCare Complex, brick by brick.
So the pressure is on the Eagles, like few teams have ever faced.
2. As in the Jay Cutler deal, the winner came out of nowhere. I've been pushing for more than a week the news that teams other than the Raiders, Bills and Rams had been talking to the Eagles, but that those teams wanted to keep their interest in McNabb tightly under wraps. I also firmly believed that, like last year's trade of Jay Cutler, the quarterback's new team wouldn't be a team that anyone was thinking about.
And that's precisely what happened. Despite those reports that the Raiders were the front-runner...
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1. The pressure is on the Eagles. Two years ago, the Green Bay Packers were willing to send quarterback Brett Favre to any team outside the NFC North. Indeed, the Packers' desire to avoid facing Favre prompted Green Bay to include a provision in its trade terms to the Jets that jacked up the compensation to three first-round picks if New York then shipped him to the Bears, Vikings or Lions.
The Eagles had no such fear with McNabb. They handed him to the Redskins for a second-round pick in 2010 and either a third-round pick or a fourth-round pick in 2011, and they won't be looking back.
Philly is willing to face Donovan McNabb twice a year, at the risk of being passed by the Redskins. They won't have to look back. They'll see McNabb twice per year. And the real concern should come from whether they ever see him while looking up.
Though plenty of Philly fans were ready to see him get shipped out of town, few will be forgiving if McNabb and the Redskins finish ahead of the Eagles in the standings -- or if McNabb and the Redskins advance deeper than the Eagles into the postseason.
And if McNabb gets his fingerprints on a Lombardi Trophy, the pitchforks and torches crowd will dismantle the NovaCare Complex, brick by brick.
So the pressure is on the Eagles, like few teams have ever faced.
2. As in the Jay Cutler deal, the winner came out of nowhere. I've been pushing for more than a week the news that teams other than the Raiders, Bills and Rams had been talking to the Eagles, but that those teams wanted to keep their interest in McNabb tightly under wraps. I also firmly believed that, like last year's trade of Jay Cutler, the quarterback's new team wouldn't be a team that anyone was thinking about.
And that's precisely what happened. Despite those reports that the Raiders were the front-runner...
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