Donovan McNabb is now working for NFL.com and the subject of McNabb’s time in Minnesota came up on the “Double Coverage Podcast.”
The reasons for the Vikings’ bad 2011 were myriad, according to McNabb.
In no particular order. . .
-The Vikings got rid of Sidney Rice and weren’t sure about how to use Percy Harvin
-The Vikings were a running team (Gee, a team with Adrian Peterson wants to run the ball. The nerve.)
-The Vikings were under pressure to play Ponder sooner rather than later
-The Vikings had a lot of holes on defense
Apparently, even Brett Favre felt bad for Donovan McNabb when he wound up in Minnesota.
“He said, ‘I felt bad that you went over there’ and I kind of understood where he was going, what he meant,” McNabb said. “You know, I asked him why, because they went to the NFC Championship two years prior to when I got there. And he felt like they gave all that they had in order to achieve everything that they achieved.
Noticeably absent from Donovan McNabb’s list of why the Vikings were bad when Donovan McNabb was their quarterback is the fact that Donovan McNabb was their quarterback. As I mentioned, the Vikings went 1-5 in McNabb’s six starts, and the one win came in a game against the Arizona Cardinals. In that game, the team scored 28 points in the first quarter thanks to Kevin Kolb continuously turning the ball over (in the final three quarters of that game, they scored six points).
McNabb also played a big role in the team setting an NFL record by blowing double-digit leads in their first three ball games of the year. How? Well, McNabb was unable to keep the team on the field in the second half. Five minutes into the third quarter of the season opener, McNabb converted a third down with his legs. Following that. . .
-The Vikings didn’t convert a third down in the rest of the second half against San Diego, and lost 24-17.
-The Vikings didn’t convert a third down in the second half in the game against Tampa Bay, and lost 24-20.
-The Vikings didn’t convert a third down in the second half in the game against Detroit, and lost 26-23 in overtime.
-The Vikings didn’t convert a third down in the second half in the game against Kansas City, and lost 19-14. (Yes, there was a fourth down conversion in the fourth quarter. . .but you don’t get to fourth down without failing on third down.)
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