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Originally Posted by GMScud
Yes McNabb is 33, but he's still one of the best in the business, and despite your injury comment, he's started 44 of the last 48 regular season games. Pretty solid.
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I'm probably nitpicking GMScud today, especially since I'm largely in agreement with (t)his post, but when you have to frame McNabb's durability in the concept of the last three years, because he comes out in the bottom third of quarterbacks in durability when you talk about last year, or the last four years, or the last five years, seems like selective sampling.
The whole picture is this (I'm not going back past 2004, but you absolutely could without changing the results):
McNabb started the following % of his teams games:
2009: 88%
2008-09: 94%
2007-09: 92%
2006-09: 88%
2005-09: 81%
2004*-09: 84%
*I did not penalize McNabb for sitting the final game in 2004 on Coach's Decision. I just didn't count that one in games played.
McNabb misses almost two games a season -- for his career -- with injures. No matter how that's trended over the last three years, he's not going to get less injured as he gets older. He might play through more injuries...but I'd rather he not if it's going to hamper his effectiveness.