Donovan McNabb says Peyton Manning should not stand next to Tom Brady
The date is February 6, 2005. The site is Alltel Stadium In Jacksonville, FL. This is Super Bowl XXXIX between the New England Patriots and Donovan McNabb's Philadelphia Eagles. The Patriots survive a hard fought tussle between two heavyweights, and a final drive is halted on a miraculous interception by Patriots S Rodney Harrison.
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The Fox Sports network now employs the former Philadelphia Eagles QB. Chris Chase, USA Today:
It’s not that McNabb’s a bad talker, it’s that he’s proved incapable of speaking in television-appropriate soundbites during his brief time on TV and was never very good at explaining his play or knowing the rules during his career. Every sentence becomes a paragraph. Most of those paragraphs somehow reference his playing career. Many of those references involve a plea to “check the numbers.”
Broadcaster, Donovan McNabb tells us "Tom Brady is a winner. He could throw 9,000 incompletions in a game. When he walks into the stadium, he only wants to beat Peyton Manning. After the game, all we talk about is Peyton Manning threw for 400, 500 yards."
While it is true that Tom Brady is 11-5 in head to head competition against Peyton Manning, the last "real win" for Tom was against Donovan McNabb. That was a decade ago. Let's also include the statement from Bill Belichick that Peyton Manning is "the best quarterback I’ve coached against.” That list would include Joe Montana, John Elway and Dan Marino.
Alex Marvez, FoxSports:
Brady said Belichick reminded the team in his post-game speech that "seven wins doesn't get you anything." But by dominating a quality team like Denver, this seventh victory invoked memories of those championship Patriots teams that clicked in a complete fashion. There were 17 players from New England's Super Bowl-winning teams of 2001, 2003 and 2004 who were honored at halftime of Sunday's contest.
Maybe the 2014 Patriots (7-2) will someday celebrate a Lombardi Trophy. Securing the AFC's best record and a head-to-head tiebreaker edge over the Broncos (6-2) for home-field advantage during the postseason is a big step toward making their own imprint in NFL history just like Brady and Manning have done themselves.
Please work with me for a minute. I am Bill Polian, Indianapolis Colts General Manager. You are Scott Pioli, New England Patriots VP of Player Personnel. Wikipedia:
When Belichick accepted the Patriots' head coaching position in 2000, Pioli became vice president of player personnel. The two eventually became the first personnel director/head coach tandem in league annals to win three Super Bowls during a four-year span (2001–2004). He and Belichick split the duties usually held by a general manager on most other NFL teams, though Belichick had the final say.
The Colts will trade head coach, Tony Dungy and kicker, Mike Vanderjagt to the New England Patriots for head coach, Bill Belichick and kicker, Adam Vinatieri.
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