I still think it was dumb. McNabb played well, but I think that had more to do with the entire team recognizing what they needed to do to stay in the playoff race. The D, the O-line, Westbrook, the receivers: everyone came out with just as much intensity as McNabb. The reality is that McNabb's one of a handful of QB's in the league that is good enough to receive the benefit of the doubt. In a division with some very good QB's, he's the 3rd, maybe 2nd best one. And you would never see any of the coaches of those other teams try to do something like that with their QB. What you do is let him play through his mistakes, make sure he recognizes what he did wrong over the practice week, and have him start the next week knowing he's good enough to bounce back. Any short-term benefit you think you might get from inserting Kolb for a few snaps is totally offset by the long-term negative of taking your franchise QB for granted.
Weren't we down by only 3 or 4 points against the Ravens when he got benched? It seemed like the benching motivated him to play better last game, but if we hadn't thrown Kolb into the fire, I wonder if we could've somehow beat the Ravens...
I would have taken my chances with McNabb bouncing back for a great 2nd half then with an unproven QB.
There's 2 sides to the argument. You guys(DD and LO) are arguing whether or not it was good for that game. I'm talking about his play, in general.
The Cardinals have a porous defense, it is not that surprising to me that McNabb was able to go off on them in Philly. One and a half games is a small sample size of poor performance.
I don't think it would have made a difference either way not that it matters anyway, Eagles season is practically done.
