The entirety of Donovan McNabb's career with the Eagles has been on display these last three weeks. The passes that sail high and wide like Mitch Williams' fastballs, and the passes that drop into the hands of the Eagles' receivers, so perfect and pretty.

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Donovan McNabb's season, and perhaps his football career in Philadelphia, clings to a clich now, to his coach's honoring a sports tradition that says a pro athlete should never lose his starting job because of an injury.

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You start with the quarterback. When a football team is supposed to be winning and isn't, you always start with the quarterback, and so it goes for the Eagles.

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The assumption that the Eagles are just marking time with Donovan McNabb, just waiting to turn the franchise's fortunes over to Kevin Kolb, has swelled like a wave since this season's beginning.

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At first, everything seemed so certain. The football skidded past Bears quarterback Brian Griese on a bad snap by center Olin Kreutz, and there was Eagles safety Sean Considine swooping in to scoop up the ball and take it for a tie-breaking touchdown in the fourth quarter Sunday.

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There is what Jevon Kearse has said, and there is what he has done. Kearse still speaks as if he's an All-Pro defensive end, as if the sprains he suffered in September to all those collateral ligaments in his left knee derailed a singular season.

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In the NFL, there is the Eagles' view of linebackers, and there is recent history.

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For a moment, put aside the expediency with which the Eagles said goodbye to Jeff Garcia. Put aside that there was really no reason for team president Joe Banner and general manager Tom Heckert to move with all deliberate speed in extending A.J.

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