It's fair if you say we should simply ignore you no matter what you say . . . You are no longer the franchise quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles.
In a practical sense, what you say has little impact on what's going to happen here.
Still, you majored in communications at Syracuse University. You know how this game works. You know that until the Eagles actually play a real game and the Kevin Kolb era actually begins, you are still newsworthy in this city.
You know all you have to do is say something slightly insightful about your time with your former employer, or in this case something really ridiculous, and you're guaranteed a news cycle in Philly.
I'm not going to go into everything that McNabb said in his interview in the current issue of GQ. Much of it is about stuff that has been discussed over and over.
I will say, however, that if No. 5 would have been so forthcoming about his thoughts when some of the incidents he reflects on actually happened, his image as a player who never said anything with meaning wouldn't be so strong.
Still, some things have to be dissected, especially the part when McNabb complained, "No one in the organization ever stepped up and said anything," in his defense about some of the real and some of the imagined criticism he took during his tenure in Philadelphia.
Huh? What?
I know I haven't always been the most ardent supporter of the Eagles front office, but McNabb must have played in New England for the last decade if he honestly believed Eagles management didn't always prop up his back.
"They'll say something to you in the building, but not publicly," McNabb told GQ about his feelings about a lack of support. "My feeling was, 'I'm out here getting cut up, where are you?' I'm always defending and helping you guys, but where's the support?"
