This is the first in what I hope will be 9 part series of posts detailing each position and the Eagles needs at the position leading up to the official beginning of the off-season - free agency.

If the Eagles make another Super Bowl run in 2009, it'll be on #5's shoulders

2008 Review

For the first time since the 2004 season, Donovan McNabb actually made it through an entire season without missing a game due to injury, but his season was still a story of peaks and valleys.  No other quarterback seems to have such extremes between his highest highs and lowest lows as our very own #5.  McNabb started off the season with a 3 touchdown game against the Rams, but then threw just 3 more touchdowns over his next 3 games.

This was the story of McNabb’s season, and in a way, his entire career with the Eagles.  When he was on in 2008, he was one of the best in game.  When he was off though, he made Kevin Kolb look like a good idea.  The seven quarters of football he turned in against Cincinnati and Baltimore were by far, the worst consecutive quarters of football McNabb has ever played wearing an Eagles jersey.  He rebounded nicely though, albeit against some weak defenses outside of the Giants and finished the season with pretty good numbers.  His 3,916 yards were a career high, his 23 TDs were the most he’s thrown since 2004, and he completed over 60% of his passes for just the third time in his career.

Position Needs

There’s rampant speculation that McNabb wants out of Philly and that his current tour of talk radio appearances is being done in an effort to make that happen.  The bottom line though is that McNabb is under contract for two more years with the Eagles and doesn’t have a whole lot of power here.  There aren’t going to be too many teams beating down the Eagles doors for a 32 year old quarterback with a history of accuracy and on field regurgitation problems.  Joe Banner has already said McNabb will be back in 2009 and no matter how much McNabb wants one, a new contract is probably not all that likely.

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