You looked up a list and didn’t watch the games or follow the team during that period. You don’t know what you are talking about. You are spinning and bs’ing now. For the record, I think Eli is a HOF caliber QB and Donovan is borderline only because the lack of a SB title.
What's your malfunction? I responded to mikebal9 who said:
Go back and look at the weapons he had at WR. Most of his career, he was throwing to James Thrash and Todd Pinkston.
That didn't look fair to me.. so I looked up a list of his favorite targets.. and put that list here. And for some reason.. likely being a Philly fan.. you decide that I am being disingenuous. I hadn't taken a stand either way other than to suggest it goes deeper than looking at Thrash and Pinkston. If McNabb never threw to any WRs but everything else about him screamed HoF I wouldn't care a lick. I am not arguing for or against McNabb in the HoF.. I am saying listing only Pinkston and Thrash was wrong and misleading.
As I first suggested.. McNabb threw to RBs fairly often. Was that because the WRs weren't open? Was that because he had no protection? Was that because he was inaccurate downfield? Was that because he was running round looking to run too often? Was that because that was the plan?
I could very well be that it looked like McNabb had no one to throw to because his QB skills did not allow a WR to excel. As he got older and less likely to run.. McNabb got better. Terrel Owens did pretty well in his games with McNabb.. more or less what his age should allow.. though he later did somewhat better with Romo throwing to him in Dallas.
You talk about WRs and lack of them.. Desean Jackson did better with Nick Foles in Philly than he did with McNabb or Vick.
Essentially, you guys are saying McNabb would have had more HoF-worthy stats if he had star WRs on the team. That is an unprovable assumption.
You think McNabb is HoF-worthy.. fine. McNabb agrees. It is not something that can be proven.. certainly not by imagining what he could have done with better WRs. Tom Brady is the GOAT... are Welker or Edleman HoF WRs? Are they HoF worthy because of Brady and the system New England runs? Was Montana as good as he looked in that system in SF? Was Young? Or was it the system and the surrounding cast and the games SF management played with the salary cap?
Bottom line to me is that you cannot make a statistical argument in favor of McNabb... so you just have to go on gut feeling. I don't care either way.. so I cannot possible "lose" this squabble.