Veteran QB McNabb may get contract extension from new team

While he was traded away by his former team Philadelphia Eagles, veteran quarterback Donovan McNabb received much better treatment from his new team Washington Redskins. At age 34, he is now facing a big chance to receive contract extension from the Redskins. Now he may have changed him mind from putting on a Vikings jersey after the 2010 season to retire as a Redskin.

"We really haven’t started (talks)," Redskins GM Bruce Allen told Comcast SportsNet. "Donovan is so excited about this new opportunity—the team has embraced him, our fans clearly have embraced him. We’ll have plenty of time to get something done with him. We see him as part of our future. We would not have made the trade unless we see it that way, and he knows it.”

Unlike the high-profile 41-year-old quarterback wearing No.4 Brett Favre jersey, McNabb may not be able to play as well as he used to play when he was younger. What’s good with McNabb was that he has been calm with the changes and knows well that his value dropped as he grew old. If a contract extension is offered by the Redskins, he will just do his best to help the team, just to show his gratitude for being treated still as a key role.

Donovan McNabb wished young Eagles to handle criticism well

Although being traded to the Washington Redskins after playing for the Philadelphia Eagles for 11 seasons, quarterback Donovan McNabb still has an attachment to the Philadelphia city. He is now working for a different team but still sent some good wishes to his former teammates.

While holding a charity work for 320 Philadelphia kids, McNabb was asked by some reporters about his opinions on his former team, Eagles. McNabb, the former long-time starting quarterback of the Eagles, said that he hoped young Eagles should learn how to handle with criticism. He said that a leading role always draws criticism for team’s bad performance and his being trade will cause the critics to change their target to successor leader or starters at other positions. Starting quarterbacks are always the targets, but starting receivers could also face boos. So Eagles new starters like Kevin Kolb and DeSean Jackson should get ready to deal with embarrassing moments for failing to win.

Actually, McNabb did not name any of his former teammates; instead he took quarterbacks for other teams as examples. He especially pointed out that a starting quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings is most likely to draw the most criticisms, but fortunately they have a starting quarterback in No. 4 Brett Favre jersey and the 40-year old quarterback does not care much what others think or talk about him, so criticism seldom affects him, but for young Eagles players, they have been used to get credits and let McNabb deal with the problem. Now McNabb is no long there, they may have to face the criticism themselves.

Rams Coach Spagnuolo believes that McNabb won’t come to St. Louis

As there have been all kinds of speculations on whether the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb will join the St. Louis Rams, the Rams Coach Steve Spagnuolo feels that he has to come out to make things clear, and he said on Thursday that the Rams have no intension to bring McNabb into the Rams jersey.

While visiting the Arizona Cardinals spring training camp, Spagnuolo said that there is nothing to that trade.

“At this time of the year, there are going to be all kinds of things. But no, there’s nothing there.” The coach said, ruling out the possibility of the Rams to trade for McNabb with a second-round pick and safety O.J. Atogwe.

Spagnuolo was at Cardinals camp in Jupiter, Fla., following the NFL owners meetings in Orlando. He visited manager Tony La Russa and will watch some spring training games. He just does not believe that the Rams would like to trade Atogwe for McNabb, and with a he first pick of the draft in hand, the Rams can just get a much younger quarterback from the draft.