Transition

We all had a feeling in the pit of our collective stomachs, after back-to-back bitch slaps from the pimp hand of the hated Dallas Cowboys, that this moment was almost upon us. Hardly anyone employed outside of the NovaCare Complex could have envisioned that Donovan McNabb would be packaged yesterday for some draft picks to the Washington Redsinks.

Throughout his career McNabb has had to deal with the venomous angst of Eagles fans, however he is not alone in that regard. When Ron Jaworski was under-center for The Birds, fans wanted Randall Cunningham. When an injured Cunningham was replaced by an aging Jim McMahon, and experienced some success, the mob wanted McMahon. When a Cunningham returned from injury, fans wanted Rodney Peete, and so forth.

For whatever reason, inferiority complex with repect to New York and D.C., the patented pessimism of Philadelphia, Eagles fans have constantly found every shortcoming in their quarterback's play and beat that dog until it died.

Will Kevin Kolb be spared the same fate? Unlikely dear passengers.

When people speak of what troubled them most with McNabb they site his performance in Super Bowl XXIX when he could not lead the Eagles to victory against the New England Patriots.

51 is the number that stands out in that game to The D-train Daily Staff. "51" as in the number of pass attempts that McNabb officially logged that night. A 10-point deficit in the fourth-quarter aside, Andy Reid had McNabb throw early and often in Jacksonville. In fact, if you count sacks and McNabb scrambles, there were 56 called pass plays that game.

And that, Reid's (and anyone under him who calls plays) tendency to go mad bomber when it is even a distant thought of a team being vulnerable to the pass, has held the Birds back more than McNabb's play.

So say what you will about McNabb, things will not change with Kolb as the Eagles QB unless REID changes his ways.

And we here at the D-train Daily will show him the errors of said ways when the Eagles convene for training camp this August.