Donovan McNabb will have a fresh start.

No doubt about that as he will be with a new team at the start of the 2010 NFL football season. In case you didn’t know, he was traded to Washington, where he h

as been a welcomed addition. It now begs the question: Are the Eagles better off without him? Are the Redskins better with him? The answer could be yes to both.

You see, Donovan McNabb went to six Pro Bowls and led the Eagles to eight play-off appearances, five NFC championship games and one Super Bowl in 11 seasons. But he did not win the big one, and the organization decided to move on with Kevin Kolb at quarterback.

Though Kolb has started just two games in three seasons, he has received high praise from his coaches, teammates and analysts. He is considered a born leader who is well suited to run Philadelphia’s offense.

While McNabb was the starter in Philadelphia, the Washington Redskins had a revolving door at quarterback. They used 10 different starters in 11 years and only one made a Pro Bowl – Brad Johnson in 1999. Washington won only two playoff games during that time.

So, McNabb brings stability and a strong pedigree to a critical position. “I think it’s more psychological for the team, because everybody knows what he’s done,” Mike Sellers, the Washington full-back, said.

McNabb’s success in Philadelphia is tarnished somewhat by…

Of course, he needs to save the Raiders first.

It took two preseason games for Jason Campbell to stop feeling like the deposed quarterback of the Washington Redskins and to begin feeling like the rightful quarterback of the Oakland Raiders for the 2010 NFL football season.

The Oakland Raiders acquired quarterback Jason Campbell from the Washington Redskins for a 4th round draft pick in 2012. An while Campbell may be an upgrade for the struggling Raiders franchise, the expectations and hopes should be kept under control in Oakland because Jason Campbell is far from the savior that will save the bay area franchise.

“It was weird when I first got here,” Jason Campbell said late Saturday night, standing in a rapidly emptying visitor’s locker room at Soldier Field after he made his second preseason start for the Raiders. “But as months have gone by, it’s kind of like getting farther away now. Last week, the first time being in a different uniform playing a game just felt different. But this week, it was like, ‘Okay, you got that first game out of the way. Now let’s turn to the second game”.

Campbell’s five-year tenure with the Redskins was all about change. He endured new head coaches, offensive coordinators and offensive systems. When the Redskins – under another new coach, Mike Shanahan, and a new general manager, Bruce Allen – stopped believing that the former first-round draft choice was the answer for them at quarterback, the biggest change of all came when Campbell was traded to the Raiders in April.

The Redskins’ new regime had traded for Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, making Campbell’s…

I guess it was only a matter of time before the Redskins found a taker.

After the Washington Redskins acquired the services of Donovan McNabb for the coming 2010 NFL football season, many assumed that Jason Campbell was well on his way out. And just a few short weeks after landing McNabb, the Redskins finally got rid of that ”other black quarterback” nobody from D.C. wanted anymore.

You read it, with Donovan McNabb now Washington’s new main man at quarterback, the Redskins traded Jason Campbell to the Oakland Raiders, letting Campbell start over after all those disappointing runs he had with the nation’s capital.

The problem is, the Oakland Raiders haven’t, in no shape or form, done better than the Washington Redskins. In fact, from all those years Campbell played for the Redskins, the Raiders have been worse.

Still, Campbell believes getting traded to the Oakland Raiders will give him a fresh start. Of course, we all know he could care less at this point as long as he gets paid by Al Davis handsomely. And for all ya’ll wondering, the Raiders added a year on the existing contract he had with the Redskins, letting him make $4.5 million in 2011.

”I look at this as getting to start over,” Jason Campbell said in a phone interview…

At least that’s what Eagles coach Andy Reid feels.

Yes, Kevin Kolb will be starting for the Philadelphia Eagles once the 2010 NFL football season gets here. That’s right, Kolb will finally get the opportunity to show Eagles fans why their team drafted him three years ago.

And as far as Kevin Kolb is concerned, he’s ready for the challenge ahead. Andy Reid has already talked about how much confidence he has in Kolb and the command his young quarterback has over the Philadelphia Eagles offense. Kolb feels it’s his time to show the rest of the world that he is a star in the NFL.

”Everything I’ve done in my life has led to this,” Kevin Kolb said. ”I’m ready to roll and lead this team.”

”I didn’t even blink when Andy told me. I really didn’t,” Kolb said, referring to him being promoted to the starting role. ”I’m excited about it. I’m sure it will have a little drama, but it will be a fun ride. I truly have that outlook on it. I think this team will surprise some people.”

”I trusted the organization, I trusted Andy to get me here one day,” Kolb added. ”The times last year when I started that I felt I was ready, but the team wasn’t ready, maybe the city wasn’t ready. I knew Andy would put me in the situation to be the starter.”

Of course, you can’t blame some people who feel Kolb shouldn’t be…

WOW. Now that could be the biggest deal made in the NFL for quite a while.

Looks like the Philadelphia Eagles will have a brand new look for the 2010 NFL football season with the departure of the two huge pieces that ran the team for the past few years. In case you haven’t heard, the team parted ways with star running back Brian Westbrook, and now, just a few hours ago, they sent star quarterback Donovan McNabb to Washington.

You read it, Donovan McNabb was traded to the Washington Redskins for a pair of draft picks Sunday night. Football fans saw this coming a mile away but McNabb and the entire Eagles organization denied it, sort of.

With McNabb now in D.C., that should ”hopefully” give the Washington Redskins a solid threat at the QB spot. Something Jason Campbell failed at, miserably, the last couple of seasons.

As for the Philadelphia Eagles, I have no idea why they thought trading McNabb away was the right way to go in their quest for a Super Bowl championship. Sure, McNabb is probably in the twilight of his career but c’mon, the guy is still a whole lot better than most guys in the NFL.

”Donovan McNabb was more than a franchise quarterback for this team,” Eagles…

They shouldn’t, but they sure are heavily talking about it these days.

The Philadelphia Eagles have a lot of things to decide on before starting the 2010 NFL football season. One of which is whether they will trade quarterback Donovan McNabb. As rumors begin to circulate regarding the future of McNabb, the Eagles have been reluctant to do any moves for now.

Donovan McNabb has been the heart and soul of the Philadelphia Eagles for years. McNabb has proven to be a solid NFL quarterback but has never won the ”Big One” despite being in NFC championship games five times including a consistent four-year run from 2001 to 2004.

While Donovan McNabb has shown above-average statistics, he has no Super Bowl wins and has only won the NFC championship game once in those five attempts. This lack of success has caused controversy among Philadelphia football fans and across the NFL.

McNabb is certainly no stranger to controversy. When he was selected with the second pick in the 1999 NFL Draft, Philadelphia fans were disappointed because they wanted University of Texas running back Rickey Williams.

In 2003, McNabb was the subject of controversial comments made by…

They should, because, I don’t know about you but, I’m sick and tired of coin tosses deciding the outcome of an NFL game.

A standard NFL game consists of four quarters each with 15 minutes. The clock stops after certain plays. If an NFL game is tied after four quarters, the teams play an additional period called overtime game lasting up to 15 minutes.

NFL overtime rules say that in an NFL overtime game, the first team that scores wins, even if the other team does not get a possession. This is known as the sudden death. On the other hand, if neither team scores during the overtime, then the game is considered as a tie. In an NFL playoff game, additional overtime periods are played, as needed, to determine a winner.

The sudden death overtime rules call for a 15 minute period to follow the end of regulation. The first team to score wins. During the regular season, if after the end of the overtime period, no team scores, the game is recorded as a tie.

Playoff games will continue with multiple overtime periods until somebody does end up scoring. At the end of regulation time the referee will immediately toss a coin at the center of the field in accordance with the rules pertaining to the usual pregame toss. Unfortunately, the key to the game often rests on the flip of the coin.

There has been a public clamor to change the rules of the overtime for the longest time because of the problems the teams face. Some of the problems with the current system include; only three, or in rare cases, two points are required to…

For the first time since 1980, the Pro Bowl will be played somewhere other than Honolulu.

That’s right, the 2010 NFL Pro Bowl between the AFC’s and NFC’s best will take place Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010, at Dolphin Stadium in South Florida. It will feature some intriguing match ups too. Nowhere will that be more evident than when the NFC wide receivers try to shed the AFC’s starting cornerbacks.

With the Jets’ Darrelle Revis and the Raiders’ Nnamdi Asomugha pestering and shadowing DeSean Jackson, Miles Austin, and Sidney Rice, the NFC may find it difficult to get any sort of big play in the passing game. Throw in Ed Reed at free safety and Brian Dawkins at strong safety, and the NFC’s offensive coordinator Jason Garrett may want to consider calling Barry Switzer to get some quick pointers on the wishbone.

On the contrary, you have to like the NFC stable of quarterbacks over what the AFC is running out there. Matt Schaub will start for the AFC and will be backed up and at some point, replaced by Vince Young and David Garrard.

Meanwhile, the NFC is running Aaron Rodgers onto the field first, and then Donovan McNabb, and eventually Tony Romo. The NFC quarterbacks should be able to carry the day, providing they have any open receivers.

The running back duel will be the other place of greatest intrigue. The AFC’s Chris Johnson, the guy who makes greased lightning look like a lumbering lineman, was the first…

Can the Cowboys beat a very good NFC East rival for the second straight week?

That is what the Dallas Cowboys need to do if they have hopes of reaching the divisional round of the 2010 NFL playoffs.

The Dallas Cowboys already held the Philadelphia Eagles scoreless in their last meeting last Sunday. Yes, the Eagles were outplayed in just about every phase of the game in Sunday’s 24-0 loss to the Cowboys that cost them a first-round bye and the NFC East title.

The Philadelphia Eagles offense was shut out for the first time since 2005 and their defense couldn’t get off the field against a Cowboys team that piled up 474 total yards, including 179 on the ground.

”They played better than we played,” Eagles coach Andy Reid said. ”They coached better than we coached. You get back to business and you do it in a very matter-of-fact way. If you get caught up in all the what ifs and this and that, then you’re making a mistake.”

”We don’t have time for that. It’s a hurried-up week and you have to get right back on the horse and figure out how to not get bucked off again.”

Can the Cowboys beat Donovan McNabb and the rest of the Eagles for the second straight week? Well, if you’re a Cowboys fan, you would be happy to know that the Eagles lost both regular-season meetings with the Cowboys. The first one, a 20-16 defeat in early November, was considerably closer than Sunday’s rout.

History isn’t on the Eagles’ side either, since 1970…

Because that’s exactly where they’re headed again in December, THE WRONG WAY.

After posting the best record in the NFC East this 2009 NFL football season, the Dallas Cowboys welcomed December the way they welcomed the month last season and the season before that, losing.

Yes, the Dallas Cowboys are struggling again in December, dropping the first two games of the month to relinquish the division lead to Philadelphia and possibly their hopes of a playoff spot. And since six new ”wrong way” signs were placed along the Dallas North Tollway as part of an effort to prevent more deaths and injuries from motorists going in the wrong direction, maybe somebody needs to put up one more inside the Cowboys locker room.

Well, at least Tony Romo and the rest of the Cowboys are consistent. They have always struggled during the month of December and with the teams these guys would have to play in the next three weeks, I’m not expecting ”America’s team” to finally put an end to what is turning out to be their very own ”Holiday curse.”

Next weekend, the Cowboys travel to the Superdome to face the undefeated New Orleans Saints. The Saints are just on a different level this season and I don’t see the Cowboys coming up with an upset in New Orleans.

After that, these ‘Boys will go back on the road again, this time to visit the Washington Redskins at FedEx Field. The Redskins are finally playing good football, probably because they know they don’t have anywhere to go now but up. They don’t have anything to lose at this point of the season and taking the Cowboys down with them to finish the year will just be too sweet to resist.

Then finally, the Cowboys end the regular season with…