Mcnabb_fat"Little help here"

Truth.

I had to put a question mark there just for my own sanity.

It was widely talked about yesterday that McNabb was benched in the fourth quarter of Sunday's loss to the Lions because coach Mike Shanahan felt Rex Grossman was more prepared to run the two-minute drill- even though Donovan McNabb has been in the league for, ya know, 11 years.

Shanahan said that a number of minor injuries (hamstring pull, bruised shin, feminine cramps, etc.) and poor conditioning forced McNabb to miss five weeks worth of two-minute drill scenarios in practice, leading to the decision to go with Grossman for the final 1:50 of the game.  [NBC Philadelphia]

"The cardiovascular endurance that it takes to run a two-minute [drill], going all the way down with no time-outs, calling plays, it's just not easy.  If I thought it was the best situation to do, then Donovan would have run the two-minute offense…"

 

Heh.  Wait until he throws up in the huddle (kidding!  It didn't happen, folks).

Now we learn that the Redskins have called in JaMarcus Russell to workout for them.  Russell, who was once described by NBC as being "annually and incredibly overweight" (read: consistently fat), has been working out in Houston with former Sixers coach John Lucas (tangled web, weaving it- you get it).  This would be like the Flyers bringing in Patrick Kane if they were concerned with Jeff Carter's drinking, only if Kane sucked and was not on an active roster.

It gets better though, folks.  This morning Tim Hasselbeck was on with Mike and Mike, and said this of his time playing with McNabb:  [Bleeding Green Nation]

"I was a teammate of Donovan McNabb's in Philadelphia," Hasselbeck said on Mike and Mike in the Morning. "One of the things that drove them crazy in Philadelphia was the lack of tempo at which he practiced [the two minute drill]. . . . It was always something where you're leaving the quarterback meeting and it would be, 'Hey, listen, the head man wants a little more tempo today.' Nearly every single day. That's been the deal with Donovan McNabb. I know exactly what Mike Shanahan is talking about."

 

That would explain a lot.

Stephen A. Smith has an interesting take on the benching over at PSD.