What's best for Kolb is a trade to a team where he can resume the role of the young starter taking over the reins, his role here a year ago before that Game 1 concussion and the amazing re-emergence of Michael Vick. Reid has made it clear he intends to trade Kolb, but the NFL lockout has stymied that effort. The draft slipped past a month ago with player trades prohibited; the Eagles missed their best chance to add something for Kolb that would enhance the 2011 team. Now, the calendar pages keep flipping. Despite Reid's intentions, there might come a point in August or September when nobody will want to trade much for a quarterback who would have to learn a new offense on the fly. Kolb is under contract only for this season.
"You could keep going down the questions - there's a list of questions," Kolb said. "Nobody knows the answers. To say that it didn't cross my mind, I'd be lying. Again, a lot of unknowns.
"I want my opportunity. If the situation [of staying with the Eagles] can't be avoided, I'm not going to sit there and be a turd. That's not my style. I think that I've voiced my opinion, and there's nothing more I can do. Just like always, whatever situation arises, I'll just have to roll with the punches."
Nailing down that starting job, wherever, is "a big deal to me," Kolb said, but he isn't having any secret discussions with other teams, or getting any inside information the rest of us don't have.
"Really, I don't know," Kolb said, when asked whether he thought he might be back with the Birds for a fifth season. "Does anybody know right now? It's kind of radio silence, it seems like. I just don't want to get my mind set on one thing or one team or one place to live, and then something different happens."
