Right or Wrong

I am big enough to admit when I am wrong...and small enough to crow about being right!

I was wrong. Donovan Mcnabb CAN throw the football in the ocean from the bough of a schooner. After yesterday's performance against the Detroit Lions, that is fairly obvious even to the most ardent Eagles' hater.

Apparently not an Eagles' hater, Brian VanOchten of the Grand Rapids Press gushes:

The embattled Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, who'd been portrayed as both a disgruntled black athlete in a controversial HBO interview that aired last week and a scapegoat for his team's 0-2 start this season, silenced his critics with a record-shattering performance in a 56-21 rout of the Detroit Lions amid a hard-to-please crowd of 67,750 at Lincoln Financial Field.He didn't just shut them up.

The NFL superstar, who'd been greeted with a loud chorus of boos during pregame introductions, responded with the finest game of his career. He transformed the eers into robust cheers while completing a career-high 80.8 percent of his passes (21-for-26) for 381 and four touchdowns for a perfect 158.3 quarterback rating. He also completed 18 consecutive passes, second only to his NFL-record 24 straight completions spanning two games in 2004.

It just doesn't get much better than that.

OK, OK! I get it. I was wrong.

But I was right, too. Last night, during the broadcast of the Dallas Cowboys' ass-whuppin' of the Chicago Bears, Al Michaels quipped, "I guarantee you Rex Grossman will get 100 times the criticism of Donovan McNabb this week."

Al's point? It isn't a black and white thing, Donovan. It's a do-you-suck-or-not thing. That's it! The Iggles fans don't care if you're black, white, or chartreuse as long as you throw the ball to your guys more than you do to their guys...and win. It's that way everywhere, man. So stop whining like a little school girl and being lured into playing the race card by no-talent, overrated, big-mouthed, melodramatic, barely-black-in-the-first-place boneheads like Bryant Gumbel.

I was wrong about this, too: The Cowboys are not defenseless against the pass. Last night, after playing their corners too softly for the entire first half against the Bears, they put them closer to the line, got more physical, stuffed themselves in the hip pockets of Bears' receivers and stole the ball from Rex Grossman three times. So, they can defend the pass...as long as Grossman is the one throwing the ball, at least.

But, I was right, too. Romo is the real deal. Not since Roger Staubach was in his prime have Cowboys' fans seen someone move so well in the pocket, buying time, and torching defenses. And not since the high-powered high-flying Rams' offense of 2000 has an NFL team scored 116 points in the first three games of a season.

With Jason Campbell making strides in Washington, Eli Manning figuring it out in New York, McNabb returning to his game-breaking ways in Philadelphia, and Tony Romo in Dallas threatening to make everyone forget the rest of them even exist, the NFC East is shaping up to be the beast it was always meant to be.

I am right, ya know? And what's wrong with that?