"Idiot" Dawkins defends Donovan

If Donovan McNabb is clueless, dumb, naive or any other adjective that has been used to describe him ever since he admitted to not knowing an NFL game can end in a tie, than veteran safety Brian Dawkins must be an idiot.

Dawkins didn't know a game could end in a tie when the Eagles played in Baltimore in 1997. That game ended with... you guessed it, the score tied.

"No. I had no idea. I just was lining up to play and they said, I thought the game was over. Matter of fact, I thought the game was over with the Baltimore game and then we lined up for another coin toss and and I'm like 'what's going on?' So, call me an idiot in what was that '99? '98? Call me an idiot, '97. I was an idiot in '97."

Dawkins later was told there was no second overtime coin toss in '97. Big deal, he said. Call him an idiot again.

"See that, now I'm an idiot because I thought we had two [overtimes in '97]. I'm an idiot. It happens, man," Dawkins said. "We're not going to know every do-gone thing all the time. We're human. We make mistakes. Yes, we wear a uniform. Yes, we go out and run faster and jump higher than the average cat, but we make mistakes and we're not knowledgable in every dog-gone thing that happens.

"There are so many different rules and regulations that go on in football about fumbles, about what's not a fumble. If we miss and say we don't know one of those things, now we're an idiot because we don't know what that call specifically is. There are so many different variations, and some of the rules were made up in 1960-something because something happened in 1960-something, but you may not know because it never comes up. So I'm an idiot, thank you."

Nice rant, Dawk. Even more impressive is his strong defense of McNabb, not that it's a surprise. Of all the players in the locker room, Dawkins is the one who appears to have the closest relationship with the Eagles' quarterback. Maybe that's because both of them are idiots.