Donovan McNabb is ready to make an apologies. He is ready to start blogging, however. McNabb has joined the growing list of athletes with blogs over at Yardbarker and had this to say today:
First, the interview took place in August before the season started so for those who think I "played the race card" because we are 0-2 are dead wrong.
I did not say that Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Carson Palmer are not criticized when they don't play well. They have been criticized when they throw interceptions, when the throw incompletions, and when their teams don't win. They are criticized and so is every other quarterback for that matter. And that type of criticism may, in fact, be warranted. But that's not the type of criticism that we discussed.
Black quarterbacks have to deal with different things than white
quarterbacks. If you don't think that's true than you are naïve. Peyton, Tom and Carson to name a few, have never been asked what it's like to be a white quarterback. They probably have not been told that they should have scrambled more. I bet Fran Tarkenton, Steve Young, Jake Plummer, and Doug Flutie have never been told by a member of any racial consciousness organization that they don't play the quarterback position white enough.
All I really have to add to this McNabb situation is -- just win more. All problems solved.
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