Led the Eagles to five conference championship games. Donovan McNabb was born on November 25, 1976, in Chicago, Illinois. The Eagles went on to win their home playoff game in the wild card round of the playoffs against the New York Giants, 2320, with Garcia under center.
McNabb and Iverson: A Tale of Two Retirements | The Philly Post Donovan McNabb and the shaky Redskins offensive line have combined to put him on pace for the highest sack yardage total of his career. In week 4, on October 3, McNabb played against the Eagles for the first time, returning with the Redskins to Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. Four of those passes went for touchdowns (three of them went to Kevin Curtis), all in the first half. 1 / 21 Jul 29, 2013 Donovan McNabb was the No. Gardner Minshew has a new backup QB. As green fireworks exploded over the stadium, a banner with McNabb's name and number was unveiled. Despite McNabb's repeated denials over the years, legend has it that he threw Garcia had success, leading the Eagles from 5-5 after the Tennessee game to 10-6 and winners of the NFC East Division. At the Meadowlands on October 22, his 18-yard pass to James Thrash with 1:52 remaining gave the Eagles a 109 victory, and their first win over the Giants in ten games. In the loss to the Lions just before the bye week, Anthony Armstrong had the coverage beat but McNabb under threw him and he had to stop, literally stop, to make the catch. But as you get older those odds, statistically, decrease. The Eagles won 2311 and advanced to the NFC Championship game against the Arizona Cardinals, whom they defeated earlier in the season. McNabb caused another mild stir in camp when he suggested that the Eagles should not have lost a game to any of their NFC East opponents the previous season. [125] They have four children: daughter Alexis, who was born on September 23, 2004,[126] twins Sariah and Donovan Jr., who were born in 2008,[127] and Devin James, who was born in 2009. [128][129] The family splits their time between homes in Moorestown, New Jersey[130] and Chandler, Arizona. There are not many quarterbacks in NFL history that can say they have thrown more touchdowns than interceptions in every season that they have played. Titans quarterback Will Levis opens up about emotional draft day. Following the injury, McNabb's willingness to run decreased,[citation needed] and his rushing statistics never matched the high standards set in his first four years. PHILADELPHIA -- The Philadelphia Eagles retired Donovan McNabb's No. Playing another season, in Washington or anywhere else oustide Philadelphia, will help make that mental image last a little longer. The other problem McNabb is facing is his ability to lead receivers. Although the slow start hindered his overall statistics for 2003, McNabb had the highest quarterback rating (97.5) in the NFL for the second half of the season and also completed over 62% of his passes for over eight yards per attempt. Hightower retires after winning 3 titles with Pats. His 125 rushing yards were the most by an NFL quarterback since the Chicago Bears' Bobby Douglass rushed for 127 on December 17, 1972, and was the eighth-best rushing effort by a quarterback since 1940 when the T formation was introduced. McNabb could not keep the momentum rolling, however, as the Eagles lost four straight games. [132] McNabb currently is an athlete partner and serves on the advisory board for MODe Sports Nutrition. And like Bledsoe (with the Bills), McNabb left town for a division rival, had one surprising victory over their former team, but eventually fell back into mediocrity. If a team is in the market for a quarterback, that almost always means they have a gaping hole at the position. He just said he was tired. McNabb, who is in the process of launching his career as a broadcast analyst, is the Eagles' all-time leader in every major passing category, including attempts (4,746), completions (2,801), yards (32,873) and touchdowns (216). He was also sacked four times. All other NFL-related trademarks are trademarks of the National Football League. However, this was not a detriment to McNabb or the Eagles, as McNabb's offensive output increased in the years after his fourth season. In personal conversations with Eagles fans, they have pretty much told me that there isn't anything that has changed except the jersey. Making the move even more surprising was the fact that a division rival did the deal, with Washington sending the [more] He was the first Eagles rookie to start at quarterback since Brad Goebel, and the first Eagles rookie draft pick to start since John Reaves in 1972. Ben Roethlisberger's agent Ryan Tollner told NFL Newtork's Aditi Kinkhabwala that the Steelers "want Ben back and will contact me soon to address his cap situation.".
Donovan McNabb to officially retire with Philadelphia Eagles Monday - ESPN McNabb stated that he was excited that the Eagles gave Vick an opportunity to get his life back on track,[80] and The New York Times described McNabb's role in Vick's signing as an act of selflessness not often seen among professional athletes.[81]. McNabb was intercepted by Roy Williams towards the end of the game, and tried to tackle the defender when Scott Shanle came in and tackled McNabb to the ground. Fox: Time for McNabb to retire. McNabb, who also played for the Minnesota Vikings in 2011, always will be remembered as an Eagle, and retiring as one completes his NFL circle of life. But muscle memory of a decade's worth of Pro Bowl playing is going to be hard to break. Philadelphia met the Dallas Cowboys in week 16 with the winner becoming the NFC East champions. In the game, Kolb threw an interception that was returned 108 yards for a touchdown by safety Ed Reed, breaking the record he previously held for longest interception returned for a touchdown. Moving from there to the Cardinals (who this year squandered a lot of the good credibility they earned from 2008-09), or to the Titans (that situation with Bud Adams and Jeff Fisher is ugly), or even the Raiders would be a major downgrade. McNabb had said in May that he would retire with the Eagles but the team had not confirmed his plans until Sunday. It means he'll be learning another system next year and going through the same transitional struggles he is already experiencing in Washington. Fantasy football rankings for 2023 season, 10 fantasy football breakout players for 2023, Jets bolster OT group by signing veteran Turner, Broncos pick up Jeudy's 5th-year rookie option, Source: Seahawks declining option on LB Brooks, Bills ink vet Murray after passing on RBs in draft, Source: Ravens decline LB Queen's 2024 option, LB Barrett's 2-year-old daughter drowns in pool, Bengals' Ossai recovering from offseason surgery, Deion 'ashamed' after only 1 HBCU player drafted. McNabb was ushered out of Philly, which for all their faults and inabilities to win a Super Bowl, is still one of the league's best run organizations. Was Shanahan covering for his son, offensive coordinator Kyle? Fresh off his breakout rookie campaign, Seahawks receiver D.K. McNabb was 3 of 10 for 78 yards and one touchdown to DeSean Jackson, while also leading the NFC team in rushing with four carries for 26 yards. McNabb struggled at times as the Patriots' defense stifled the Eagles running attack, limiting the team to only 45 yards rushing. An article written by a staff member of The Philadelphia Inquirer refuted allegations of McNabb throwing up during the Super Bowl and even labeled the alleged incident "a myth". Donovan McNabb struggled through what was by far the worst season of his career. You won't want to miss a moment of the 2023 season! He ranked sixth in the nation with a 158.9 passing efficiency rating and 22nd in total offense, with 233.8 yards per game. Until this season. [75] The Eagles lost the game, giving McNabb a 1-4 record in conference championships, matching Ken Stabler with the lowest winning percentage in conference championships for a quarterback who has won it. It has to be hard for McNabb to look up at the Eagles and see Michael Vick have two excellent wide receivers and a fine running back. Although there was discussion on sports talk radio all week about the reaction Reid would get, he was greeted with a standing ovation. In week 2, McNabb nearly engineered a victory over the Houston Texans, passing for 426 yards (third-most of his career), but came up just short of a victory when the Texans prevailed 3027 in overtime. [68] Eagles officials stated that his rehabilitation would likely last 812 months, which completely ended his 2006 season and even raised questions as to whether he would be ready to begin playing by the beginning of the 2007 season.
NFL - Time for Donovan McNabb to retire The browser you are using is no longer supported on this site. In nine games, he threw 2,507 yards, 16 touchdowns, and 9 interceptions. So, Redskins fans have a 33 percent chance of having their starting quarterback playing out the entire season. He paid his fine and began serving his time on November 30, 2015. As week 3 approached, skeptics had already wondered whether McNabb still had the skill that propelled him to success in the past. He was a great scrambler during the early part of his career. [61][62] In 2003, Philadelphia's wide receivers caught only five touchdown passes, tying the record for fewest in a 16-game season. 5 in a halftime ceremony that was notable for how upbeat it was. Ten years ago on Easter (not 10 years to the day because Easter was on April 4 that year), a quiet news day quickly got a lot louder when the Eagles traded quarterback Donovan McNabb. Metcalf spoke to 547 players about social media, finances and meeting etiquette in NFL's first rookie webinar. If McNabb did not in fact have the "cardiovascular endurance" to run the no-huddle (which is hard to believe), Shanahan should have covered for the quarterback, not answered the question, or just made up another excuse. If McNabb truly thinks he has a lot left in the tank, then he should hang around, but there has to be some consideration for what Favre went through (ON THE FIELD ONLY) this past year. McNabb finished as the Eagles' career leader in passing yards, attempts, completions and touchdowns. The Jacksonville Jaguars have agreed to terms with veteran signal-caller Mike Glennon, the team announced. What else does that mean? McNabb's finest moment of the season and of his career came that year in a week-13 game with fellow Super Bowl-contending Green Bay Packers. McNabb carried that momentum into October as he went 33-for-48 (68.8% completions), and threw 369 yards and three touchdowns en route to leading the Eagles to a memorable come-from-behind victory at an unfriendly Arrowhead Stadium against the Kansas City Chiefs. After a year out of the league, quarterback Donovan McNabb is calling it a career.McNabb relayed his plans to retire during his radio show with Mark Malone on NBC Sports Radio. McNabb was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He became only the fourth quarterback in Eagles history to pass for 3,000 yards in consecutive seasons Sonny Jurgensen (196162), Ron Jaworski (198081), and Randall Cunningham (198890) were the others. By going the entire months of September and October without having a wide receiver catch a touchdown pass, the 2003 Eagles became the first NFL team since 1945 not to have gotten a touchdown pass from any of its wide receivers in the first two months of a season. McNabb was also a walk-on for two seasons for the Syracuse basketball team under head coach Jim Boeheim. As Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Lurie just announced in a press conference, Donovan McNabb will be inducted into the Eagles Hall of Fame and have his No. However, week 4 did not prove to be as good as the Eagles thought it would be. Those odds are never good. 2023 NFL Enterprises LLC. [76] This would later be matched by Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers in 2021, when he lost his fourth straight conference championship after winning his first trip to the game in 2010. Instead of a pitch-and-catch touchdown, it was a big gain which eventually led to a touchdown. He is becoming a "gunslinger" style quarterback. The deal stated that if McNabb was not cut or traded at the conclusion of the 2010 season, he would receive a $10 million bonus. He was the No. "It was awesome. The fourth-round pick in 2012 was then traded, along with a 2012 third-round pick, to the Houston Texans for a lower 2012 third-round pick, which would be used to select quarterback Nick Foles and linebacker DeMeco Ryans. Later, he was named to the Syracuse All-Century football team.[15]. With the win, McNabb became the first Eagles rookie quarterback to win his first NFL start since Mike Boryla (December 1, 1974, against Green Bay) and the first Eagle quarterback to win his first start since Ty Detmer (October 13, 1996, against the New York Giants).[25]. However, only McNabb and Daunte Culpepper went on to have successful careers in the NFL; Tim Couch struggled with the Cleveland Browns and officially retired in 2007 after being cut by the Jacksonville Jaguars in a failed comeback bid, while Akili Smith and Cade McNown were out of the NFL by 2002. A player of his caliber takes quite a bit of convincing to retire and I do not see it happening in the next year or two. Yeah, MJD only has one rushing touchdown. New England Patriots. Following some thoughts about retirement, LeSean McCoy's quest for the right situation on the right team continues two weeks ahead of clubs reporting for training camp. Since coming to Washington, the brighter idea of the Shanahan and Shanahan show has decided that now is the time to try and change his throwing motion and make him stretch his front leg out further during his release. McNabb was named the Big East's offensive player of the decade for the 1990s,[14] and Big East Offensive Player of the Year three times from 1996 to 1998,[12] as well as the first-team all-conference vote earner in each of his four seasons. Even if McNabb does go somewhere else, that means the quarterback position on the team he is joining is questionable to say the least. Redskins fans have watched Donovan McNabb go from McFabulous to McNasty in about two seconds many times over the course of the season thus far. After playing with a sports hernia and sore thumb, McNabb's season was finally over after a disastrous effort at home on November 14 on Monday night against the rival Dallas Cowboys. 10y. McNabb became only the third African-American quarterback to start in a Super Bowl after Doug Williams in 1987 and Steve McNair in 1999.[64]. The Redskins had a nice finish to the regular season, defeating the Jaguars on the road and losing by a field goal or less to Dallas, Philadelphia, and Tampa Bay. He attended Mount Carmel High School, where as a sophomore, he was a teammate of future NFL players Simeon Rice and Matt Cushing. Full list of Mr. Irrelevants in NFL draft history: Is Brock Purdy already the best final pick? 5 jerseys. [31][32][33] He threw a career-high 390 passing yards and four touchdowns in a 3524 victory at the Cleveland Browns on December 10 en route to his second NFC Offensive Player of the Week award. The Philadelphia Eagles announced Sunday that former quarterback Donovan McNabb will officially retire as a member of the team on Monday. During the game, McNabb tore the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and meniscus in his right knee while jumping out of bounds, ending his season, the third time in five years McNabb had gone down with six or more games remaining in the regular season. Total touchdowns per game, interceptions per game, and career touchdown-to-interception ratio ranked 24th, 16th, and 10th respectively (minimum 3000 attempts). [citation needed], In the playoffs, McNabb led the Eagles to their second Super Bowl trip ever, with victories over the Minnesota Vikings 27-14 and Atlanta Falcons 27-10 in the NFC Championship. Two plays later he throws into triple coverage and gets intercepted. McNabb was given Pro Bowl honors for the last time in his career. Can the presence of Tom Brady, a continued resurgence of Ronald Jones and the drafting of Ke'Shawn Vaughn add a rushing component long absent in Tampa? On the third play of the game against the Arizona Cardinals, he was sacked by the Cardinals' Adrian Wilson and LeVar Woods. Is the future really that bright in Washington? 2 overall pick in the 1999 NFL Draft. [56][57] He also completed the critical 4th and 26 pass to Freddie Mitchell during the game-tying drive at the end of regulation. McNabb is far younger than Favre, but Favre didn't rely on his feet as much as McNabb. This performance led to him receiving the FedEx Air Player of the Week award. NFL: Bills-Bengals game won't resume this week. The Eagles lost their first home game of the season to the rival Washington Redskins, 2012, though his numbers improved. McNabb was never the same type of record-setting runner as his Eagles successor Mike Vick or one of his Eagles predecessor's Randall Cunningham. If that is the case, why would McNabb want to stay around and help one of those rookies squeeze him out of either the starting job or the backup to Rex Grossman gig? Eventually, however, he decided to attend Syracuse and play for the Syracuse Orange football team, principally because he wanted to prove he was a competent "pocket passer", but also for their broadcasting journalism program.[9]. The Bears didn't pick up Mitch Trubisky's fifth-year option, but the team hasn't lost faith. He even went on to say, "I still put us at the top of the NFC. [139], On June 28, 2015, McNabb was arrested for DUI following a traffic accident in Gilbert, Arizona.
Donovan McNabb: From Chicago To The NFL - Highschool Cube If McNabb's inability to understand the two-minute offense was the reason, as he had previously stated, why he benched his quarterback, that is as much Shanahan's fault as anyones.
Donovan McNabb set to retire as an Eagle - ProFootballTalk PhiladelphiaEagles.com. This was also the first time that an NFL quarterback surpassed 100 yards rushing in a postseason game. [97], On July 29, 2013, McNabb officially retired from professional football as a member of the Philadelphia Eagles.[98]. All of the sacks and damages done to his aging body will take a toll on him quicker than usual. McNabb went 92-49-1 with the Eagles and holds the franchise records for completions (2,801), passing yards (32,873) and passing touchdowns (216). Philadelphia lost in a shutout by Dallas, setting up a rematch the following week in Dallas in the wild card playoff game. "I appreciate everything you've done for me," McNabb told the sellout crowd at Lincoln Financial Field. It's part of the rules, and we have to go with it. That incident at the end of the Lions game was a gross dereliction of authority by the Redskins head coach. There is still a very good chance that the Redskins use their 10th overall selection in this year's draft. In week 6, McNabb was 29-45 for 246 yards. Titans quarterback Will Levis opens up about emotional draft day. Minnesota Vikings. The final interception was during a last-gasp Hail Mary at the end of the game.
Donovan McNabb retires an Eagle; team to retire No. 5 - Yahoo Sports Despite this, you could almost forgive the fact that McNabb never won a Super Bowl as a player. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well". The story of the Cowboys scout and prospect son Dallas just drafted, Legacy pick: Cardinals take great-great-nephew of team's first-ever draft pick. He will be honored by the Eagles at halftime of their Sept. 19 game against the Kansas City Chiefs, coached by Andy Reid, his former coach when he played in Philadelphia. McNabb and Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie will hold a news conference at the team's facilities at 10 a.m. Information from The Associated Press was used in this report. This slide really does not need much elaboration. [93], McNabb requested and was granted his release from the team on December 1, 2011,[94] with a reported interest in joining the Houston Texans, Kansas City Chiefs, or his hometown Chicago Bears, all three of which lost their starting quarterbacks for the season to injury, but were still making playoff pushes. In 2001, McNabb led the Eagles to an 115 season and fourth-quarter comebacks in two wins against the defending NFC champion New York Giants. McNabb's 2005 season began in turmoil and ended on the injured reserve list.
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