Tuesday, February 08, 2005
Sick or Nerves?
On Angelo Cataldi's TV Show on Comcast last night, two Eagles linemen showed up as guests. The irrepressible Jon Runyon and the irreproachable Hank Fraley came to commiserate about the Super Bowl loss. Cataldi, a former journalist and Pulitzer prize winner and now a morning radio self-deprecating host and buffoon (and I mean that in an affectionate way), launched a piercing question.
"What happened?".
Probably due to jet lag, the rowdy fans at Chickie & Pete's Drinking & Dining Emporium (where the weekly show is usually telecast from), and staring at the face that sank a thousand ships, the two Eagles crumbled under the weight of this ponderous inquiry and revealed the following:
1) Donavan McNabb was feeling very nauseous in the last quarter of the game, possibly due to the temperature changes in Jacksonville.
2) The reason there was no hurry-up offense in the last 8 minutes was due to the inability of McNabb to call out the plays. Coach Andy Reid, while taking the bullet for the slow tactics of tha t last quarter during post-game interviews, had actually called for the 2 minute drill offense; McNabb couldn't execute it.
3) At times in the huddle, McNabb had come close to throwing up. At one point, he was mumbling and speaking so low that the players could not understand which play they were supposed to run. Receiver Freddie Mitchell, who considers shyness a social disease and self-propagandization an American right, spoke up and called the play that he had brought in from the sidelines.
4) When Fraley, the Eagle center, had tried to rush the linemen to the line of scrimmage to run off a quick play, Donavan had called them all back to the huddle because he couldn't run the play.
The hanging question, "Did a bad case of nerves hit McNabb?" was not answered. Cataldi looked stunned. He'd asked a fairly simple question; the flood of answers was clearly unexpected, especially when you consider how the Eagles are usually circling the wagons when any controversy comes up.
The next few days will be very interesting. The Philly press detects blood in the water. Verbal brutality is on the way.
On Angelo Cataldi's TV Show on Comcast last night, two Eagles linemen showed up as guests. The irrepressible Jon Runyon and the irreproachable Hank Fraley came to commiserate about the Super Bowl loss. Cataldi, a former journalist and Pulitzer prize winner and now a morning radio self-deprecating host and buffoon (and I mean that in an affectionate way), launched a piercing question.
"What happened?".
Probably due to jet lag, the rowdy fans at Chickie & Pete's Drinking & Dining Emporium (where the weekly show is usually telecast from), and staring at the face that sank a thousand ships, the two Eagles crumbled under the weight of this ponderous inquiry and revealed the following:
1) Donavan McNabb was feeling very nauseous in the last quarter of the game, possibly due to the temperature changes in Jacksonville.
2) The reason there was no hurry-up offense in the last 8 minutes was due to the inability of McNabb to call out the plays. Coach Andy Reid, while taking the bullet for the slow tactics of tha t last quarter during post-game interviews, had actually called for the 2 minute drill offense; McNabb couldn't execute it.
3) At times in the huddle, McNabb had come close to throwing up. At one point, he was mumbling and speaking so low that the players could not understand which play they were supposed to run. Receiver Freddie Mitchell, who considers shyness a social disease and self-propagandization an American right, spoke up and called the play that he had brought in from the sidelines.
4) When Fraley, the Eagle center, had tried to rush the linemen to the line of scrimmage to run off a quick play, Donavan had called them all back to the huddle because he couldn't run the play.
The hanging question, "Did a bad case of nerves hit McNabb?" was not answered. Cataldi looked stunned. He'd asked a fairly simple question; the flood of answers was clearly unexpected, especially when you consider how the Eagles are usually circling the wagons when any controversy comes up.
The next few days will be very interesting. The Philly press detects blood in the water. Verbal brutality is on the way.
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