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Originally Posted by GTripp0012
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.
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The reason I used the past three season is simply because he started 14, 16, and 14 games during that span. Sure it's selective and helps my argument (why wouldn't I spin it in my favor
). But I would say those past few seasons are more of an indication of where his body is at right now than when he was dealing with broken ankles, ACL's, and hernias 4-7 years ago. Also, if I'm not mistaken, those three major injuries I just mentioned were all the result of McNabb scrambling, which he doesn't do nearly as much anymore.