McNabb Trade-Part 2

There are many layers to this Donovan McNabb trade. Other than the obvious attempt to trade him at non peak hours, there’s one other odd storyline. Not only did they trade him inside the division, but they traded him to a rival team. It’s like the Packers trading Brett Favre to the Minnesota Vikings. Over the last few years, the Redskins have been the one team inside the NFC East that the rest of the teams in the division and conference had no worry about. They began to change that around by hiring one of the best respected and talented offensive minds in the NFL, Mike Shanahan. I guess the Eagles decided they wanted to help speed up the Redskins’ rebuilding process by giving them a Hall of Fame QB and take away one of the Redskins draft needs. Just to be a bit frank, this was probably one of the dumbest moves for the Eagles; one they will regret for a very long time. Now the Redskins can focus on either drafting a LT to protect McNabb or focus on getting a dominate DE to rush the QB. They don’t have to worry about wasting three years to develop Sam Bradford or Jimmy Clausen. This year the Redskins took a different approach to free agency. Year’s past they would go out and sign a big name free agent to the biggest contract ever. It was different this time around. Now the eagles have supplied them with everything they needed and wanted, a QB.