Did S.I.’s Peter King have a conversation with somebody in the Philadelphia Eagles front office?
In his recent Monday Morning Quarterback, he did a great a job of arguing for the Birds to teams like the Seattle Seahawks, that they should relinquish a first round draft pick to the Eagles for Donovan McNabb.
He argued the point for the Eagles to them about how they should trade for McNabb, so that they can be assured of getting some solid play from the quarterback position.
Check him out.
“A playoff quarterback near his prime can be had for a premium price. The fact that there’s a real chance the Eagles could deal McNabb, and that McNabb is a half-year younger than Peyton Manning and apparently intends to play four or five more seasons, and also apparently has kicked the injury bug, leads 
me to this question: What in the world are all these quarterback-needy teams doing? Why aren’t teams running to deal for McNabb?”
The Birds must put him on the phone and give him the list of the league’s GM’s.
“What would you rather have, a four- or five-year shot at a relatively sure thing in McNabb (with a +12 TD/INT ratio in each of his past four seasons), or a guy who makes you go to bed uneasy every night for the next two or three years because you just don’t know how he’ll pan out?”
Check out the article because he lays out the argument that McNabb and only five other quarterbacks who were drafted to be franchise quarterbacks have lived up to the name since 1999.
Think about it, only six quarterbacks have lived up to their first round draft position since 1999.¬† It’s a good argument to not think you can be sure about drafting a franchise quarterback.
