HOW do you not know that?

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 | Sports | No Comments

Sunday’s Eagles-Bengals game ended in a 13-13 tie - and quarterback Donovan McNabb didn’t even know a tie was possible in the NFL.

Now, it doesn’t happen that often, I’ll give him that. However, it happened six years ago when the Falcons and Steelers played to a 34-34 tie in 2002. And McNabb’s Eagles ended up playing the Falcons later that season in the playoffs. Did he just not notice the Falcons had a third number attached to the end of their record?

I might expect this from a rookie. But this is McNabb’s 10th season in the NFL.

Maybe his coach, Andy Reid, didn’t know ties were possibly either. Or maybe he did, and he just figured it was not an option he wanted his players to even think about.

Nevertheless, players should know the rules. And this seems like a big one, especially if it affected McNabb’s play. He was undoubtedly expecting a second overtime, so he could have been holding back. If he knew once the overtime clock hit 00:00 the game was over, he might have pushed his team harder to try and get some points.

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