{"id":268,"date":"2005-11-06T09:40:02","date_gmt":"2005-11-06T17:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songoose.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:37:59","slug":"a-thought-on-mcnabb-vs-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"A Thought on McNabb vs. T.O."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I live in the Philadelphia area and I&#8217;m an Eagles fan, and although I&#8217;ve heard about McNabb and T.O. for months on end, I never <em>really<\/em> understood where this whole spat came from in the first place&#8230; until today.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN spent about 17 hours this morning talking about the T.O. suspension, and it was during NFL Countdown that I finally understood it. Terrell Owens was upset because last year, in the week leading up to the Super Bowl, the Eagles, including McNabb, were adament that they could win the game without their star receiver &#8212; and here is the key &#8212; <em>who was injured and not supposed to play<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Were they supposed to say they could not beat the Patriots without T.O.? All evidence (medical and otherwise) suggested that T.O. would either not return at all or, if he did return, would only be able to play sparingly. <\/p>\n<p>Yep, normally athletes going into a game where they are underdogs tell the press that they can&#8217;t win. The Eagles definitely should have said, &#8220;nope, you&#8217;re right &#8212; we just can&#8217;t win if he doesn&#8217;t play. If he can&#8217;t go, we shouldn&#8217;t even play the game!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of the stupidest things I&#8217;ve ever heard. (At least until I heard Michael Irvin agree with him.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in the Philadelphia area and I&#8217;m an Eagles fan, and although I&#8217;ve heard about McNabb and T.O. for months on end, I never really understood where this whole spat came from in the first place&#8230; until today. ESPN spent about 17 hours this morning talking about the T.O. suspension, and it was during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}