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Saquon Barkley is the first philadelphia eagle to appear on the cover of the Madden NFL video game from former field marshal Donovan McNabb in 2005.
Unlike McNabb, Barkley is not a local eagle recruited and raised by the organization. For some, Barkley is a deserter, as former member of the rivals of the New York giants.
The giant’s decision to let Barkley leave the organization has been criticized as one of the worst mistakes of recent history after the corridor took the Eagles to the Super Bowl and broke the franchise record.
“They commented a big mistake, and I think it will cost them a little,” McNabb told Pak Gazette Digital to the giants.
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The Philadelphia Eagles corridor, Saquon Barkley (26), runs with the ball against the Carolina Panthers during the first quarter in Lincoln Financial Field. (Images of Bill Streicher/Imagn)
For McNabb, the giants’ decision to let Barkley may not be such a bad decision made by the Eagles more than a decade earlier.
McNabb, who played his entire career at the Eagles under former Philadelphia chief coach and current Kansas City Chiefs Andy Reid coach, believes that his former team made an error by saying goodbye to Reid after the 2012 season. The Eagles exchanged McNabb to the rival Washington Redskins (now the commanders) three years before that.
“There are a couple of mistakes they made. I was first and Andy followed it,” McNabb said. “Now you feel, and you start seeing, and you see how [Reid’s] The race has gone to a different level. “
Reid has won three Super Bowls with the Chiefs and went two more after reaching one and losing it with the Eagles. Reid is also attributed to the writing and development of the field marshal of the Superstar Patrick Mahomes bosses.
For McNabb, the “error” of the Eagles Fairing Reid was larger than that of the giants who let Barkley go.
“To be honest with you, I will say that the Eagles lost Andy,” McNabb said when asked the greatest error between the two.
Eagles Saquon Barkley suggests that NFL retirement will be sudden and will come out “out of nowhere”
Chief coach Andy Reid of the Philadelphia Eagles leaves the field after a match against New York giants on December 30, 2012, at the Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, NJ, NJ (Hunter Martin/Philadelphia Eagles/Getty Images)
“With Saquon, it’s new, it’s fresh. But I come back years ago with the success I had with Andy, and I would say that, after I left, things were a little up and down. It was not as consistent as it was, and he was the fault of that. And you look what Andy has done now and what he could have done if he was still in Philadelfia. decision.
Despite a successful career as a 14 -year -old coach in Philadelphia, Reid has already been achieved more since he took care of the Chiefs in 2013.
Reid took the Eagles to a record 273-146 (.583) in Philadelphia with a 10-9 record (.526) in the playoffs, but never won a Super Bowl there.
In 12 years leading the Chiefs, Reid has a record of 143-53 (.730) with a 18-8 playoff record (.692).
Even so, the Eagles beat the Reid Chiefs in this year’s Super Bowl, avenging their loss of the 2023 Super Bowl against the Chiefs.
The chief coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, Andy Reid, talks to a referee during the first half against New England patriots at the Gillette stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, December 8, 2019. (Paul Rutherford/USA Today Sports)
And Barkley played an important role in that championship season.
“That’s why we only say: ‘Hey, we appreciate you. And good luck for you in the future,'” said McNabb about the giants.
