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Originally Posted by SolidSnake84
I'm late getting involved in this thread, but i can't see how there is anything to even compare Jason Campbell to Donovan McNabb.
Even if we look at only their NFL careers, McNabb has been surperior in every aspect to Campbell. That's obvious. His multiple Pro Bowls, Championship Games, and lone Superbowl Appearance all attest to that.
Dating back farther, in college, McNabb also put up the surperior numbers and people knew that he would be going to the NFL. It's shocking how Jason did much of the same thing he does here down in Auburn, according to Al Borges...
No comparison between Campbell and McNabb...
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Well, when you've been a quarterback in the same place McNabb has for more than ten years, you're bound to run into a string of success.
I frequently ask myself if there's anything that he does so consistently well, game in and game out, that makes him such an irreplaceable part of the Philly offense. And I've come to the conclusion that: McNabb is a very, very good player, and has been so for a long time, but there's nothing Philly couldn't replace if, say, he went to go play overseas. They proved this, I think, with the Kolb pick. I doubt Kevin Kolb is ever going to be a hall of fame player, but he's a functional piece in a bigger machine, who happens to be blocked by McNabb.
None of this is meant to be disrespectful, as Donovan is valuable year in and year out in the Philly offense. Of course, if the Eagles had taken Ricky Williams instead, McNabb could have gone to the Bengals or the Bears, and you would have never heard from him again. On the other hand, he's a big reason that the Eagles have been able to remain so good for so long. By ignoring the QB position every year, they've been able to build a team that could easily survive a QB swap. Ironically.
For a much shorter time, Campbell offered us stability at the QB position, but if the difference between his career and McNabb's is that, when the going got tough, McNabb labored through it and Campbell fell victim to his teams' offensive suckitude, well, then you'd have to conclude that McNabb is the better player. I'm just not sure that the going ever got tough on McNabb, which is where the comparison falls apart.