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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More

Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.
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CHHF on Monday Night

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sep 17 2008, 11:12 AM ET Comment

Re: the whole debate about McNabb, dig this:

McNabb threw another 37 passes Monday night without putting one on the hands of a Dallas defender. He's now thrown just 79 picks in 3,802 career attempts (2.08 interception percentage).
 
He began the season second on the all-time least intercepted list, just a shade behind Neil O'Donnell's 68 picks in 3,229 attempts (2.11 percent)
 
To put McNabb's 79 career INTs into perspective, consider that future Hall of Famer Brett Favre threw 79 picks from 2004 to 2007 alone. McNabb has thrown 79 picks in a decade.
Man if this dude had ever had a stable, real receiving group.



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