Bear Backer said:
Poacher said:
Get ready for Fumblepepper hype all over again. He had a good game against a terrible Dolphins team.
isn't that the truth. Old Black Quarterbacks who have any modicum of success never die, they are merely recycled over and over again. They are also bad teammates like both Culpepper and McNabb have proven over the course of their career. McNabb can't even stand the thought of a young white QB being drafted early behind him and all Culpepper has done is sulked on the sidelines when he is not in the game over the last couple of years. Donovan Mcnabb will be 32 years old next year and is constantly hobbled. With his injury history he can't expect to be a starter forever. So does he help groom a young kid who could step after a few years, or step in a year or two when he is on one of his extended injuries and maybe help get the team to the playofss, was he happy for Jeff Garcia who stepped up and got the Eagles to the playoffs? Heck no he whined and complains and plays the race card. Instead of wanting to go into 07 with Garcia as a capable backup he complains and uses his leverage to have Garcia run out of town. That tells me McNabb doesn't care about his teammates or his team, all he cares about is McNabb. He doesn't want anyone capable behind him, because it has to be the McNabb show or nothing. They showed a shot of Josh McCown smiling and talking to Culpepper who had a good day. Did Culpepper ever give McCown any words of encouragement on the sidelines, heck did he ever even speak to him? Not that I could tell from any clips. The whole first 3 weeks everytime they showed Culpepper on the sidelines he had a scowl on his face and looked like he was thinking "get me in this game coach, you cracker." White players in the NFL have to learn to stop supporting these guys. If they want to be islands all to themselves and are only happy when they are in the spotlight, then let them do it on their own. I'll never understand what Mike Furrey did. Granted he had a pretty good game today, but when Johnson comes back he will most likely be back in his supporting role. Certainly no black starter is going to lobby for a white player to come in and replace him.
I agree. Granted, McNabb had a good game last week, but then, if you get paid millions of dollars a year to throw a ball around, then you'd better be able to step up and do so well, and in a consistent manner.
BUT --
McNabb wants to be treated like a hero for his "uncanny" knack for
sometimes playing as well as the average white quarterback, most of whom typically outplay him anyway and are notably less arrogant or self-deluded in doing so.
It all revolves around the fact that McNabb is a black athlete playing a legitimately white caste position, since blacks have repeatedly shown themselves utterly incompetent in this leadership slot despite being given repeated chances and excuses made for them, where as whites in caste positions for the most part succeed despite racism against them.
As a non-white (and non-black) with nothing to gain either way, I DON'T find myself asking "why aren't there more McNabbs?" nearly as often as "why aren't there more Drew Bennets?"
