Lots of buzz surrounding your friend, Kellen. Some analysts have him as high as the No. 4 QB on the draft board. What really matters is what the experts at TexAgs think, which is why I'm here.
Put it down. Kellen Mond will be the second coming of Donovan McNabb. He will eventually start in the NFL because he has the arm and work-ethic necessary to make it. He's coachable and has enough sense to keep out of trouble. He is also inconsistent, inaccurate and had a way of irritating fans with his demeanor.
When you talk to Aggie fans, it's a lot like asking an Eagles fan about McNabb. He owns all the franchise records, but never led his team to a Super Bowl. He has all-Pro tools, but no one will stick their necks out to say he's worthy of the HOF.
Put it down. Kellen Mond will be the second coming of Donovan McNabb. He will eventually start in the NFL because he has the arm and work-ethic necessary to make it. He's coachable and has enough sense to keep out of trouble. He is also inconsistent, inaccurate and had a way of irritating fans with his demeanor.
When you talk to Aggie fans, it's a lot like asking an Eagles fan about McNabb. He owns all the franchise records, but never led his team to a Super Bowl. He has all-Pro tools, but no one will stick their necks out to say he's worthy of the HOF.
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Most fans probably realize that McNabb's legacy here is complicated. He has all the major franchise passing awards. He had far and away the best career of the five hotshot quarterbacks in the 1999 draft. One of the two Super Bowl appearances the franchise has ever managed. Nine playoff wins, which is a lot for a guy who critics say never came up big in the clutch. A fourth-and-26 bull's-eye to keep his team alive in a playoff game, even harder to explain away in terms of non-clutchness. He was the key player on a team that he said yesterday "came together like Voltron" in dominating the NFC East for the decade of the 2000s. Find another era in Eagles history with that much winning.
But there were the four losses in five NFC title games, and there was that maddening, plodding drive that saw the Lombardi hopes slowly trickle away. There was the thing about being so determined not to throw interceptions, receivers frequently had to scoop the ball off their shoe tops. There was his goofy, oblivious grin, charming on an up-and-coming kid, jarring and infuriating on a 30-something alleged football statesman. Air guitar in the tunnel before that last blowout loss at Dallas, the wrong tone at the wrong time. And overall, a feeling that as much as McNabb accomplished, which was a lot, there was a final corner he never turned as a mature quarterback - he could have been even better than he was, could have lasted longer.
The bottom line, though, or one big part of the bottom line, anyway, is what Lurie said yesterday: that McNabb was "a franchise-changing quarterback." Lurie acknowledged the decision to make No. 5 the ninth Eagles number retired was a complicated one, and even McNabb acknowledged it wasn't as much of a "shoo-in" as Dawkins' No. 20 was a year ago.
Source: Donovan McNabb's complicated legacy with Eagles
