Donovan McNabb says he's focused on the future and not the past, but
he talks about the team's past success as if it happened a year or two ago rather than three long years ago.
I like his confidence. He thinks they can beat the Cowboys, Giants and Redskins. He talked about how they should have beaten those teams two times each a year ago. He give number 36 and number 20 as reasons they will succeed this year, but number 36 may be holding out and number 20 may not ever be that number 20 we knew.
McNabb expects Westbrook to be in to camp on time. I'm not as sure about it as he is.
I think he's right to be positive but he and this football team have got to prove that they can be as good as they were when the Eagles were going to the playoffs year in and year out.
On one hand he's using the team's past success to prove why they can be champions while at the same time talking about not dwelling on the past.
He does have something to prove whether he wants to dwell on it or not. It's not that he hasn't done it before but he hasn't done it in a good while.
Three years is a long time in NFL terms. Many times players are the last ones to know that the success is over. I think McNabb still has some good football in him but he's going to have to go back on the field and do it before we all know for sure.
This football team has less than ten major contributors still on the team that were on the roster of that Super Bowl team. McNabb may not know that this team is not even close to being the same group of guys who went to the Super Bowl.
He's looking to starting fast and getting back to the level they were at in 2004. I hope they achieve that but it's going to be a much different group of guys getting it done.
McNabb thinks offense needs to get back to the basics but they can't because they don't have the personnel they had in 2004. They've got to use deception and trickery with this group.
They're going to have to get a lot of people involved.
