Memo to Jeff Lurie:

The Steelers last night won the Super Bowl. It is the sixth time they have done so.

I believe that is what you might refer to as a “gold standard.”
It is not the brass ring (or maybe copper plated) the Eagles fail to grasp each year.

Memo to Donovan McNabb:

Did anything about last night’s game look familiar to you? Let me refresh your memory.

Kurt Warner led the Cardinals on a furious second half rally to erase a 20-7 Steelers lead and put Arizona ahead, 23-20, with 2:37 left to go in the game.

Yes, that’s very similar to what you and the Eagles did two weeks ago on the NFC Championship Game in Phoenix.

What happened next was not.

Ben Roethlisberger responded by driving the Steelers the length of the field and connecting with Santonio Holmes in the corner of the end zone with just 35 seconds left.

That is how greatness is defined. Roethlisberger willed his team to a come-from-behind win. That is the bar by which quarterbacks are measured.

And it remains the bar by which you continue to come up short. No, we have not forgotten those four straight incomplete passes that ended the game in Phoenix.

Donovan McNabb has been a very good quarterback for the Eagles for a very long time. I agree with those who say he very likely is the best QB in Eagles history.

But his legacy will always be that he did not win the big game, and that he consistently failed to drive his team for a winning score at the end of games.

Of course, Donovan may be able to change that image next year. Right now we have six months to think about it.

A tale of two games, and two quarterbacks. Donovan in Phoenix, Big Ben in Tampa.

Donovan is a good quarterback. Ben is a two-time Super Bowl champion.

Enough said.