I think there is some resentment towards quarterbacks league wide. I don't think it's something that has to do with McNabb alone. In fact, I think when TO attacks quarterbacks, it's because he resents the value that is placed on them. He finds other reasons to go after them, but the resentment comes from money/value issues.
I don't think the team resents McNabb's performance in big games, but I do think TO held that against him. Trotter, Kearse and even Dawkins (plus some others) essentially disappeared against the Patriots as well... so it would be very selfish of them to put it all on Donovan's shoulders. In my mind the whole team choked including McNabb... yet I also think the better team won, so is that a choke? I still say yes it is because the Eagles were capable of being the better team that day and the Patriots gave them some chances to grasp that game.
The whole leadership issue is really a thread of it's own. After reading the numerous interviews, and things that have come out in years prior, I think McNabb IS a key leader of the Eagles. I just don't think he's a certain type of leader, the type that leads through aggression and being loud. Maybe the Eagles need that type of leader as well, but I don't think it has to be McNabb. Maybe Dawkins needs to step up, or Runyan, or Hugh, or one of the young guys. Or maybe McNabb should grow as a leader and embrace that "role" a little bit more.
McNabb is actually alot younger than most of the Eagles "core". I don't think he should have been expected to jump in to a more veteran group and assert himself over them. Sure, he should be a leader as the quarterback, but I don't know how successful it would have been if he tried to trump guys like Dawkins, Vincent, Douglas, Emmons - guys who were in the league before he was drafted.
