Think he could be had for our 2nd round pick?

If the Bills even consider trading a high pick for him, they are nuts. IMO, McNabb can only get a team so far, as we’ve all seen. He can have some great games but then throw some totally uncalled for stinkers up against terrible teams. He’s worth pursuing, but only at the right price.

It would be an interesting scenario too, because McNabb is loved throughout much of upstate NY. With his age and weaknesses, I still wouldn’t give up more than a 3rd and some change. If a trade did occur, that’s the ticket-selling big splash that may be necessary…

His team goes to the playoffs every year. Plus he would give the O some much needed leadership.

I kinda like the idea of McNabb for a few reasons.

1) He will be a good mentor to any young QB that the Bills have behind him.

2) He would add some stability to the QB position, which is something the Bills haven’t had for quite some time.

3) He would be a good draw. Like K said, because of his days at Syracuse he is still pretty well loved in upstate NY and he would be a nice gate draw.

A 2nd rounder? 3rd and a 5th?

I would be all for it. I think he would immediately upgrade the Bills and most importantly provide the kind of leadership by example that would elevate the entire offense. I just don’t like the rookie QB class at all. I think finding a stop gap is a better route and upgrading the defense as much as possible.

I mean seriously,he’s an older guy let him go to a contender that needs a QB. Not a rebuilding team. Just my 2 cents.

is McNabb would have to embrace the move. Coming to a young team, new coaching staff, and a decade of futility would be a tough pill to swallow for one of the NFL’s best QB’s over the last decade. He would have to find the motivation and see it as a good fit to come to a place like Buffalo. There is no question that this regime, like all of the past ones, will reach success or failure based on how they fix the QB position.

Unless you think a quarterback is the difference between the team as it stands now and a playoff team, you just can’t give up more than a 3rd rounder or so. I think this team has too many other holes on both sides of the ball to justify packaging picks for a 33 year old QB. And I say that as a big believer in mcnabb who thought he always got a bit of an unfair rap. It’s not him that’s the problem, it’s giving up young players (in this case draft picks) for a guy who I don’t think will be a good quarterback the next time the bills are a good football team. I wouldn’t do it.

We don’t give up more than a 3rd… and we draft someone with long-term potential (eh em Tebow). Honestly there’s no better scenario in which to bring Tebow in is behind a pretty reliable and effective vet like McNabb. McNabb just might even be more effective on team that is committed to the run.

Is McNabb injury prone?

and draft tebow….but not gonna re-has that all over again. but regardless id rather have vick than mcnabb.

First of all, there is absolutely no way Donovan McNabb is going anywhere this offseason. Philadelphia is in the ideal position to let McNabb take one more stab at a title with a talented team and still have their heir apparent ready to takeover following the 2011 lockout. The Eagles gave McNabb more money a year ago without extending his contract and in return McNabb is willing to play out his final year before hitting free agency.

I wouldn’t want McNabb anyway as his Hamlet-esque personality has always prevented him from being a champion in his prime and now that he’s getting older, he’d be even less of a solution. Nix needs to find a quarterback capable of winning a Super Bowl in Buffalo. That QB is NOT an aging, Donovan McNabb.

McNabb right now would be the best QB we have had since Jim Kelly. Hands down. I would be ok with giving up a 3rd round pick and maybe a few small pieces.

I wouldn’t make this trade for the simple reason that the guy is a short-term fix and even if we did acquire McNabb, which I don’t believe we’ll, our defense’s transition from 4-3 to 3-4 would probably make up for the offensive improvement and we’ll be a 7-9 football team and have traded away costly draft picks that could have helped improve the team. I get that we’re all impatient as hell, as we all rightfully should, because we have been given a decade of pure, disgusting futility. That being said, let’s not get ahead of ourselves. If I know Andy Reid right, which I think I do, he’ll demand no less than a first-round pick for McNabb (just last year they reportedly wanted two first round picks for him), which there’s obviously no way in hell Buddy Nix will give away for a 33-year-old QB with 2-3 years left.
I want success now, too, but not at any cost. We need to be extremely clever with our usage of picks.

That said, I’d love the move if Buffalo got McNabb. For everything that’s been stated about McNabb, here’s the big one:

McNabb lifetime record: 82-45-1

Regardless of anything else said (injuries, personality, etc), the man wins more football games than he loses, almsot by a 2-1 ratio.

And those Eagles’ offenses weren’t always so talented as the current version. After TO left, the vaunted Reggie Brown was McNabb’s “#1 receiver.” Before TO, McNabb was throwing to Todd Pinkston, James Thrash, etc. He threw more to Chad Lewis and the RB’s during that time, because his receivers were so average.

Before we go trashing the guy, remember that he’s played at a high level for a while. A lot higher than Buffalo QB’s with lesser receivers.

What defense do the Eagles run? Can we dangle any combination of Kyle, Marshawn, Roscoe or mid to late picks in front of the Eagles? Do the Bills make trades?

so they probably dont need anyone from ours…

If McNabb comes here. Watch out for Nelson to blow up. He made JR Smith into a decent weapon on O and hes turned Celek into their 2nd option behind D-Jax. And Nelsons more athletic than those two players.