Andy Reid has spoken.

He hasn’t said much, but Big Red has weighed in on the great quarterback debate.
Reid says there isn’t one. Controversy, that is.

That makes him a decided minority in Eagles nation. Most watched the way the Eagles offense operated Sunday night against the vaunted Patriots and immediately cast their vote for Feeley to be the Birds’ new starting QB.
Reid isn’t having any of it. He’s sticking with his stock statement, that if Donovan McNabb is healthy, he’s the starter.

Of course, the key to that statement lies in the “if.”
“If” Donovan is healthy.

That gives Reid a huge out. The guess here is that sometime this week, the team announces McNabb is in fact not 100 percent, and that Feeley will start Sunday at the Linc against the Seahawks.

Reid’s stance also brings up another – possibly even more important – question.
If McNabb’s status as the starter depends on him being 100 percent healthy, how does the coach and the team defend their decisions in the offseason that led them to start the year with McNabb behind center, when it was clear he was not yet fully recovered from major knee surgery.

When the Eagles decided they were not going to pay starter’s money to Jeff Garcia --- last year’s savior – to basically be McNabb’s backup, they were in effect telling Donovan and everyone else, “Hey, you better be ready because you’re going to be our starter.”

McNabb wasn’t ready. The Eagles struggled.

Now Donovan’s health is the key to him playing.

Sounds like that decision came about three months too late.