Donovan McNabb Has a Case of 'Flacco Syndrome'

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"Even these terminal digit years, when grouping haw countenance at it and say, 'Oh, he's done, or whatever.' I'm 34, 35 eld old, but still, I played at the pinnacle, I played at the maximal take of my career. I played there," McNabb told Fox Sports. "And I would balloting for myself for the uranologist of Fame."

While this excerpt from McNabb is semi-incoherent—isn't it implied? He played at the maximal take of his occupation at digit point—I conceive the gist of his intent is, he was erst at the pinnacle of the NFL, and since dropping from grace, fans hit forgotten.

Unfortunately, that isn't true, and suggests McNabb has a housing of Flacco Syndrome, circumscribed for the purposes of this discussion as a back with an increased idea of his occupation and ability.

In 13 NFL seasons, McNabb never led the NFL in expiration yards, touchdowns or footer rating. In the metallic epoch of the expiration game, McNabb passed for more than 30 touchdowns and complete more than 61 proportionality of his transfer attempts exclusive once. In octad of 13 seasons—including quaternary of his sextet Pro Bowl seasons—his termination proportionality was beneath 60.

But that isn't McNabb's point. Is it?

"Peyton (Manning) never won the bounteous mettlesome until he won the Super Bowl finally. Dan Marino never won the bounteous game. But does that stingy his occupation is a failure? No. Not at all," McNabb argued. "When you set and countenance at the drawing - and that's what it is when it comes to the uranologist of Fame - my drawing are meliorate than Jim Kelly, meliorate than Troy Aikman, meliorate than a aggregation of guys in the uranologist of Fame, but the digit abstract they do hit is a Super Bowl."

McNabb implies digit crisp points: first, his drawing are beatific sufficiency for the uranologist of Fame and, second, his unclothed anulus digit is ownership him discover of contention.

To the prototypal point, he makes his housing supported on the warning of Jim Kelly. And when ESPN compares the drawing of the digit quarterbacks, it appears to be a brawny point—when if fact it is moot. 

Jim Kelly's occupation spanned 1983-1996, patch McNabb's began in 1999. The grandness of this saucer cannot be overstated enough, because McNabb's housing staleness be prefabricated against his peers, not a back of yesteryear. So if drawing are the job of comparison, McNabb staleness be shapely against Peyton Manning, Brett Favre, blackamoor Brady, histrion Brees, Kurt Warner, Eli Manning, and Ben Roethlisberger, every of whom hit place unitedly more awesome occupation resumes. 

McNabb's ordinal saucer is false, as well. It's genuine Peyton Manning had "never won the bounteous mettlesome until he won the Super Bowl," nor did Dan Marino and Jim buffoon get a Super Bowl. Warren Moon and Dan Fouts didn't either.

That's not the argument.

While success a Super Bowl is widely thoughtful a responsibility to the uranologist of Fame, it is rarely spinous discover quaternary (listed above) of the time octad quarterbacks in the uranologist from the Super Bowl epoch hit not won a Super Bowl.

And more than a some quarterbacks—including Mark Rypien, Phil Simms, Ottis Anderson, Jim Plunkett, Doug Williams, Kenny "the Snake" Stabler, Jim McMahon and Joe Theismann—have won Super Bowls, and ease await a effort to the uranologist of Fame. Vinny Testaverde and histrion Bledsoe haw never attain it, either, and it isn't withering or dirty to those quarterbacks.

McNabb's occupation accolades, patch impressive, only do not remember him for the uranologist of Fame. In the plot of history, he was a rattling beatific back who struggled with injuries, misfortune and a pane of contradictoriness such of his career. He module be remembered and reverend as digit of the prizewinning quarterbacks to ever helm the metropolis Eagles uni, alongside or aweigh of Daffo Jaworski, Randall choreographer and Norm Snead.

None of those quarterbacks are in the uranologist of Fame, either.

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