Donovan McNabb: Thoughts on His New Contract Extension

November 15, 2010   ·   Matt Goldberg   ·   Jump to comments

As if tonight's Monday Night Football clash needed another subplot to make it compelling, ESPN's Michael Smith has reported that the Redskins and quarterback Donovan McNabb have agreed on a contract extension that will pay the (soon-to-be) 34 year-old quarterback $78 million over the next 5 years, with $40 million guaranteed.  The next five years can earn McNabb a total of $88 million, if certain unspecified incentives are reached.
Okay, let's take a collective deep breath.  Wasn't it just a couple days ago that Mike Shanahan quite infamously and unceremoniously benched McNabb with fewer than two minutes remaining at Detroit, with the Skins down  by only five points? And wasn't it just yesterday that coach Shanahan kept inserting his footwear into his pie hatch while trying to excuse the benching--perhaps taking some bad public relations advice from LeBron James, Brett Favre and Tiger Woods in the process?
While an extension was not totally out of the question,...

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