Charlie Klein
Think about this for a second. Let's say you are a team that has relatively little talent on it's roster, but is owned by a man who is so egotistical and ignorant that he thinks his team is one over the hill veteran away from competing. He trades for this player, and it has very little impact on the team.
This is the exact scenario that played out last season when the Oakland Raiders traded for Richard Seymour from the New England Patriots. The Raiders still ended up finishing with five wins on the season. They wasted their seventh overall pick in the first round on a track star that cannot catch a football in Darious Heyward-Bey, who has more names than career NFL touchdowns.
So the answer to all of these issues is to trade for a 33 year-old quarterback? I do not think so.
But the Raiders are pretty much the one team that does not care about having to pay McNabb the $11 million that he is due for this season. The Raiders are the team that is dumb enough to not care about losing McNabb in the offseason.
The reports surrounding this rumor have been cause for mirth and derision for me. Adam Schefter's weak logic when it comes to attempting to make sense of this has made him drop a little in my eyes as far as the legitimate NFL reporter for ESPN. The link between the Raiders is that both Al Davis and McNabb are Syracuse grads and offensive coordinator Hue Jackson is a distant cousin of McNabb's.
Donovan McNabb likes Chunky Soup. I like Chunky soup. Does that mean that my Seahawks should be connected in a trade for him? No.
But in the crazy mind of Al Davis and whoever the Oakland Raiders General Manager is, it all makes way too much sense.
If Donovan McNabb becomes an Oakland Raider, I will have lost whatever respect I had for the Philadelphia Eagles. Of all places to send a good soldier, a player that has done so much for the city and the team, the Black Hole/Bermuda Triangle that is the Oakland Raiders is not one of them.
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