The offense, you tell me. Has anybody who failed to convert third-and-1 over and over - it happened again Sunday, with Correll Buckhalter stacked up at the line - ever won a Super Bowl?
Donovan McNabb threw for 349 yards against the Seahawks. That was the bottom line on the network highlight shows Sunday night - scarcely a word about how he got there. McNabb is getting to be kind of Ryan Howardish in that regard. Ideally, you wouldn't go through the peaks and valleys of 3-for-13 with a bad pick, then 13 completions in a row, suddenly seeming almost impossibly accurate, impossible to stop. Some of the Seattle defenders absolutely gushed about McNabb after the game; when you don't see him often, maybe it's harder to dismiss the really good stuff he does.
Yet, many of the rest of us, what we see is that this is McNabb's 10th season, all of them with Andy Reid. Should there still be this much confusion, this many bungled red-zone opportunities? I'm certainly including Reid in that conversation. Loved that third-and-goal call from the 4 on Sunday, the screen to Brian Westbrook. When the Seahawks saw the Eagles' formation, they all started yelling and about two-thirds of the defenders ran over to the right side, where the play was headed. Westbrook had no chance. At least we were spared the familiar shovel pass, which someday very soon is going to be picked off by some 400-pound nose tackle who watched a little film.
