I know you’re probably saying I could care less what the Cowboys have to say about our football team, but it’s in the news so I have to give it to you.
Everybody and their brother has an opinion about the reported desire of the Philadelphia Eagles to trade franchise quarterback Donovan McNabb.
Now Cowboys defensive leader Keith Brooking has jumped into the fray.  He blamed the two humiliating losses by the Birds to Dallas at the end of the season on the Eagles coaching staff.
At the same time he has taken McNabb’s side and doesn’t think the Birds are making the right move in trading him.¬† Listen to him yourself when he talked to ESPN Radio in Dallas.
“The way we dominated them, obviously McNabb didn’t play his best, but they were very predictable,” Brooking said. “We knew exactly what was coming on every play. A lot of that didn’t have to do with Donovan McNabb.”
These accusations are indictments on the Birds coaching staff.  Remember that Jeremiah Trotter also said Tony Romo was calling out their blitzes and shifts before they did them.
I’ll bet you there’s one team which will get special attention from the Birds’ staff during the off season.
Back to the McNabb trade talk,¬† like a lot of the national voices who have weighed on the situation here in Philadelphia, Brooking doesn’t think McNabb has been given his proper due in the city.
Still the veteran Cowboys linebacker does acknowledge that for all he knows Kevin Kolb could be a great quarterback, but nobody knows yet.
“Now, that [Kevin] Kolb kid may end up winning three or four Super Bowls for that city,” Brooking said. “I can’t predict that. But Donovan McNabb, his body of work and what he’s done for that franchise, there’s not a lot of guys who come into this league who have played as long as he has and can say they’ve accomplished what he’s accomplished.”
It’s fitting that McNabb would leave town surrounded by all this controversy because while he was here he was always involved with it.
How does a guy who never got in trouble with the law and wasn’t a loud mouth in his news conferences, get in the middle of so much controversy?
Thank you for reporting this G. (Love the new website by the way) This is exactly what is wrong with this team. Waaaaaay to predictable, both on offense and defense. Reid is still trotting out his outdated and easily defensed offense and McDermitt is clearly not prepared for this level. Reids stubborn insistance that he knows better then everyone elses is what’s going to bring to the cellar, quickly. God I can’t stand him anymore
Even other team’s players are bbad mouthing Reid and Company
Interesting factoid about the new website… there were 4 more comments on this particular article which were already deleted.
NOW WITH A NEW SPECIAL TEAMS COACH, WE CAN ONSIDES KICK EVERY TIME WE GET THE BALL AT THE BEGINNING OF A GAME ,SO WE CAN COME FROM BEHIND TO WIN.
How many times have we heard this? For the past 4 or 5 years, opposing defenses have said they knew exactly which plays were coming, especially in crucial games. Let’s see, first we didn’t need top-flight receivers (despite throwing 70% of the time), then we just needed more receivers (that is, until they realized that it’s impossible to get the timing down with 6 starting receivers); we didn’t need linebackers, we didn’t need a fullback (because we could throw in short-yardage situations), we didn’t need more than one running back, because we didn’t ever need to run. We didn’t need first-round draft choices (It’s better to have quantity, than quality). We didn’t need rookies to play until their 3rd season (that is, until the Giants won with 5 rookies). The only thing we needed was the Reid system.
Drummer, if the O was so easy to read for the past 5 years, that plain and simple, than why did the Eagles dominate Dallas for the first 4 of them?
Oh wow we are predictable now? you give the cowgirls one season in the playoffs in a thousands years and they think they are almighty! how many times within the last 5 years have we predicted your weak scheme’s. Like Wade “sweet cakes” Philips is now all the sudden a legit coach. If I recall he would have been without a job if he did not win the first round of the playoffs.