Feinstein: Shanahan pulled McNabb over race, should be fired

This is just bizarre. John Feinstein of all people dropping a grenade like this?

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/2010/11/feinstein_suggests_shanahan_sh.html

Reilly has already gone after Junior.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5795495

 

Feinstein is an idiot.

Reilly is an idiot who sold his soul to the devil.

 

Bill Rhoden on vacation?

 

I liked Reilly's column. I'm a huge Feinstein fan, but he's just wrong on so many different levels.

 

I'm not going to say Feinstein's right about this. I think he's probably off-base. But I'm not sure what he's suggesting is wildly off the mark, and if I'm a Redskins fan Shanahan scares the hell out of me long-term.

Shanahan seems happy to humiliate players at the expense of the team. It's not just that he benched McNabb with two minutes left -- he benched him for Rex Grossman. Show of hands -- anyone think Grossman gave them a better chance to win? I don't think the Shanahans genuinely believed it either. They followed that up by explaining that McNabb was just too dumb to grasp their offense... then changed it to lazy... then went back to dumb. Did anyone think that race wouldn't come up after that?

That comes after the Albert Haynesworth battle, when Shanahan did everything he could to humiliate the guy and kept him off the field. I'm not suggesting Haynesworth was innocent in that, but the fact is, the team is better when Haynesworth is playing.

Again, I seriously doubt it's a racial thing, but it would concern me to have a coach who seems much more intent on proving what a badass he is than in actually winning games.

 

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/Donovan-McNabb-Mike-Shanahan-benching-Washington-Redskins-110210

 

Nothing burns me more in this business than when columnists write from their couches about how coaches and athletes should say less.

Almost gives credence to LeBatard's column a few months ago.

 

This is so freaking stupid. Years ago, when Doug Williams was benched, racism may have played a part. In this case, it's Feinstein stirring up shit.

 

Plenty of fat, lazy and stupid white guys in the world, too.

I cannot see a pro coach lessening his chance to win over skin color. Kentucky and UTEP was a long, long time ago.

This isn't small school prep football.

 

Shanahan and his moronic son should be fired because they're incompetent. They should be on the hot seat for signing Rex Grossman, let alone putting him on a field for anything except mowing it.