Donovan McNabb says the Eagles losing Andy Reid was a bigger mistake than the Giants losing Saquon Barkley

Saquon Barkley is the archetypal Philadelphia Eagle to look connected the screen of the Madden NFL video crippled since erstwhile backmost Donovan McNabb successful 2005. 

Unlike McNabb, Barkley is not a homegrown Eagle drafted and brought up by the organization. To some, Barkley is simply a defector, arsenic a erstwhile subordinate of the rival New York Giants. 

The determination by the Giants to fto Barkley permission the enactment has been criticized arsenic 1 of the worst mistakes successful caller past aft the moving backmost led the Eagles to the Super Bowl and broke the franchise rushing record. 

"They made a existent large mistake, and I deliberation it's going to outgo them a small bit," McNabb told Fox News Digital of the Giants. 

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Philadelphia Eagles moving backmost Saquon Barkley (26) runs with the shot against the Carolina Panthers during the archetypal 4th astatine Lincoln Financial Field. (Bill Streicher/Imagn Images)

To McNabb, the Giants' determination to fto Barkley spell whitethorn not beryllium arsenic atrocious a determination made by the Eagles implicit a decennary earlier. 

McNabb, who played his full Eagles vocation nether erstwhile Philadelphia caput manager and existent Kansas City Chiefs manager Andy Reid, believes his erstwhile squad made a mistake by firing Reid aft the 2012 season. The Eagles traded McNabb to the rival Washington Redskins (now the Commanders) 3 years earlier that.

"There's a mates mistakes they made. I was archetypal and Andy followed," McNabb said. "Now you beryllium back, and you commencement to watch, and you spot however [Reid's] vocation has gone to a antithetic level."

Reid has won 3 Super Bowls with the Chiefs and gone to 2 much aft reaching 1 and losing it with the Eagles. Reid is besides credited with drafting and processing Chiefs superstar backmost Patrick Mahomes. 

To McNabb, the "mistake" of the Eagles firing Reid was bigger than that of the Giants letting spell of Barkley. 

"To beryllium honorable with you, I'll accidental the Eagles losing Andy," McNabb said erstwhile asked the bigger mistake betwixt the two.

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Head manager Andy Reid of the Philadelphia Eagles leaves the tract aft a crippled against the New York Giants Dec. 30, 2012, astatine MetLife Stadium successful East Rutherford, N.J. (Hunter Martin/Philadelphia Eagles/Getty Images)

"With Saquon, it's new, it's fresh. But I spell backmost years agone with the occurrence that I had with Andy, and I'd say, aft I left, things were a small up and down. It wasn't arsenic accordant arsenic it was, and helium was to blasted for it. And you look astatine what Andy has done present and what perchance helium could person done if helium was inactive successful Philadelphia. I'd deliberation that Andy would fertile archetypal successful that determination that they made." 

Despite a palmy 14-year coaching vocation successful Philadelphia, Reid has already accomplished much since taking implicit the Chiefs successful 2013. 

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Reid led the Eagles to a 273-146 (.583) grounds successful Philadelphia with a 10-9 (.526) grounds successful the playoffs but ne'er won a Super Bowl there.

In 12 years starring the Chiefs, Reid has a 143-53 (.730) grounds with an 18-8 (.692) playoff record. 

Still, the Eagles bushed Reid's Chiefs successful this year's Super Bowl, avenging their 2023 Super Bowl nonaccomplishment to the Chiefs.

Kansas City Chiefs caput manager Andy Reid talks to a referee during the archetypal fractional against the New England Patriots astatine Gillette Stadium successful Foxborough, Mass., Dec. 8, 2019. (Paul Rutherford/USA Today Sports)

And Barkley played a large relation successful that title season. 

"That's wherefore we conscionable say, 'Hey, we admit you. And bully luck to you guys going forward,’" McNabb said of the Giants. 

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