Just finished with the afternoon session of interviews at Winter Park, including Donovan McNabb's weekly self-assessment, which goes something like this:
``I'm fine. We're fine. Why are you bothering me with these questions?"
His verbatim quote on questions about his accuracy: ``Well, I guess according to y'all, I've always been inaccurate."
Which is a particularly self-pitying thing to say.
McNabb recommended Uno's deep dish pizza in his hometown of Chicago. I prefer Geno's. But it's telling that McNabb is more forthcoming on the subject of food than on his play at the most important position in sports.
One thing you learn as a longtime sportswriter is there are three kinds of athletes who almost never admit to a mistake: Golfers, pitchers and quarterbacks. All three categories produce athletes who find confidence and self-assurance so crucial that they rarely want to go down the path of public self-analysis. They teach themselves not to second-guess themselves because if they start, they may feel doubt in the heat of action.
That's where we find Donovan McNabb these days. I don't know if I've ever seen a less-accurate quarterback, and yet McNabb on Wednesday fought off questions about his mechanics and inaccuracy.
He told Sports Illustrated lately that he finds talk of him being replaced ``hilarious," and Tom Pelissero of 1500espn found similar quotes from him last season before he was benched by the Redskins.
