McNabb's smile

[Russ Smith]

So what was that, was he just happy or was he trying to send a message to the Cards? Repeatedly in the 2nd half they showed him grinning like a cheshire cat at the line of scrimmage prior to snaps.

It got to where I was wondering does he have some tell on teh Cards defense and he's smiling or is someone trash talking on the cards side and he's smiling about that?

He's not smiling now.

 

[BCEagle]

That's just his game face. He had that same smile after Barber returned an INT 92 yards for a TD in the 2002 NFCCG. It's just Donovan.

 

[Perfectionist]

Yea, kind of his trademark, always that smile. Oh well, not so much walking off the field Sunday.

 

[Perfectionist]

Oh yea, the commentators are always saying its because he is having so much fun. But in most conference championship games, he has had that smiled knocked off!

 

[RonF]

He was also using his fingers like a six-shooter towards the Cards side of the field. I admire the man's ability but I sure didn't like it when he smiled as he was beating the snot out of us.

 

[Perfectionist]

Man that is what I love about Fritz, mostly make a great catch, hop up, toss ball to ref, go make another play.

 

[Renz]

I like players like Kurt Warner. The man doesn't smile until the game is won.

 

[football karma]

I for one have new found respect for him.

My one nit pick: can he throw a "touch" ball?

I saw an awesome deep ball. I saw the laser on the deep out.

What I didnt see is that imtermediate throw that has just a bit taken off of it -- lets the wr catch in stride and run. Its probably a throw that is Warner's best attribute.

On a crossing route, you miss just a little with the laser and its incomplete. Take a little off of it, and your margin for error is a little bigger.

 

[PJ1]

Flat out bugged the hell out of me. Was hoping someone would bust him in his Chunky soup eating mouth.

A very good player but I can't stand him.

 

[Spielman]

I for one have new found respect for him.

My one nit pick: can he throw a "touch" ball?

I saw an awesome deep ball. I saw the laser on the deep out.

What I didnt see is that imtermediate throw that has just a bit taken off of it -- lets the wr catch in stride and run. Its probably a throw that is Warner's best attribute.

On a crossing route, you miss just a little with the laser and its incomplete. Take a little off of it, and your margin for error is a little bigger.

He's just not that accurate, period, touch or no.

I saw a good take on him in a post elsewhere... McNabb does just about everything else a quarterback can do pretty well to extremely well. Moving around in the pocket, sensing pressure, running, good zip on throws, throws the deep ball well, reads the defense, looks off safeties... pretty much any other skill you can think of.

But then he's a 59% passer. In a West Coast offense, which traditionally produces the highest completion percentages, no less. It's far and away the weakest point in his game.

 

[Russ Smith]

He's just not that accurate, period, touch or no.

I saw a good take on him in a post elsewhere... McNabb does just about everything else a quarterback can do pretty well to extremely well. Moving around in the pocket, sensing pressure, running, good zip on throws, throws the deep ball well, reads the defense, looks off safeties... pretty much any other skill you can think of.

But then he's a 59% passer. In a West Coast offense, which traditionally produces the highest completion percentages, no less. It's far and away the weakest point in his game.

Yep he has a very bad habit of throwing the ball too low over the middle. It's a mixed bag, high over the middle is a nightmare you get lots of picks(Favre, Jake Plummer etc).

But low over the middle tends to result in plays like the one to BAskett where it might have been a TD if the ball was thrown better, or balls that just hit the turf in front of the WR which he has done his whole career.

And the crossing patterns as stated timing is critical. He hit Curtis in stride for 47 yards(if DRC wasn't fast that was a TD), but he missed several others where the ball was just not accurate at all.

 

[Divide Et Impera]

I thought his smiling was odd during the game.

2 side points. The Cards vindicated an ugly history against the Eagles. In particular:

1) The Cards getting busted out on 4 straight plays starting with a 1st and goal from the 1 back in, what, the mid-90s?

2) McNabb destroying the Cards on a broken leg - one of the most EMBARRASSING losses ever.

 

[Redheart]

...2) McNabb destroying the Cards on a broken leg - one of the most EMBARRASSING losses ever.

Diehard memory # 22133484

 

[conraddobler]

Yep he has a very bad habit of throwing the ball too low over the middle. It's a mixed bag, high over the middle is a nightmare you get lots of picks(Favre, Jake Plummer etc).

But low over the middle tends to result in plays like the one to BAskett where it might have been a TD if the ball was thrown better, or balls that just hit the turf in front of the WR which he has done his whole career.

And the crossing patterns as stated timing is critical. He hit Curtis in stride for 47 yards(if DRC wasn't fast that was a TD), but he missed several others where the ball was just not accurate at all.

He's not technically sound is all.

He's so gifted it's kind of a curse, a real good QB guru would work wonders with him if he'd listen.

His whole career has been in one place and IMO he's just never truly challenged to get better.

My evidence is his benching, never played better than after that, if you had a guy he respected dogging him night and day on fundamentals until he puked he'd eventually morph into some form of frankenstein QB monster which I don't think anyone could touch but lucky for us this has never happened.

 

[Osbern61]

I thought his smiling was odd during the game.

1) The Cards getting busted out on 4 straight plays starting with a 1st and goal from the 1 back in, what, the mid-90s?

That was 1992 and I believe it was actually 7 plays after a failed 3rd down attempt a personal foul gave us 4 more shots. Joe Bugel at his best.

 

[1DS]

I for one have new found respect for him.

My one nit pick: can he throw a "touch" ball?

I saw an awesome deep ball. I saw the laser on the deep out.

What I didnt see is that imtermediate throw that has just a bit taken off of it -- lets the wr catch in stride and run. Its probably a throw that is Warner's best attribute.

On a crossing route, you miss just a little with the laser and its incomplete. Take a little off of it, and your margin for error is a little bigger.

Meh...

He has his stong points, but he certainly has his weaknesses as well. He is excellent at deep balls, but his intermediate passes leave a lot to be desired. Also, he is great in the early stages of games, but it has been repeatedly documented that he stuggles as the game progresses. His stamina is a HUGE question mark. Remember the superbowl that he was gassed in and throwing up in durring the 4th quarter? Against us in the 4th quarter he was repeatedly throwing too far in front of or behind his recievers.. they were open but we not getting the ball in stride. He is good, but he has his issues.