PREFERS TEMPLE'S OFFENSE TO PRINCETON'S
BRIAN WESTBROOK
Satisfied with the offseason additions: Me being satisfied doesn't mean too much. The guys that we have, everybody's got to step up and play a little bit better. I think we have players here who can get the job done.
Do you want as many touches as last year?: I wouldn't mind it being the same. I think I've been very productive with the ball in my hands with that many touches. I think I can continue to do that.
What about your contract situation? Are you paid enough?: I'm paid. I signed a contract a little while ago. There's no sense in me crying about it now.
Lito's situation: It's tough watching him go through this type of thing. It's definitely awkward to watch that.
Andy Reid's quote about the gun being fully loaded and having enough firepower to compete for a championship: I would agree. Last year, we didn't play well early, which took away from the things we were able to do at the end. We added playmakers to a certain extent. The holdovers, everybody's got to come back and make some big plays and help this team win.
Importance of having a healthy McNabb: Everything goes through him. We have a lot of confidence in him. If we have him for 16 weeks, we'll be a team to be reckoned with.
Addition of Lorenzo Booker: I think he'll do a good job when he gets the opportunity. My job is to keep him off the field. That's what I'm gonna go into the season trying to do.
Reid saying he wanted to use both you and Booker in same backfield: We (he and Reid) talked briefly about using both of us in the passing game. If you put Reggie and Kevin and DeSean in at the wide receiving position and both of us in the backfield, it will be tough for any defense to match up with the speed we could put on the field.
On Eagles organization: This organization is a very good organization. They try to do things the right way. That doesn't necessarily mean that it ends up the right way all the time.
Les Bowen has covered the Eagles for the Daily News since 2002. Before that, he spent nearly 13 years covering the Flyers. It took Les only a few seasons after the switch to figure out that there was no penalty box at the Linc, and that the time really wasn't his, despite what Andy Reid kept saying. Les came to Philadelphia and the Daily News from Charlotte in 1983. In the intervening years, he has pretty much lost track of NASCAR, and his accent. He, his wife Barbara, and their two sons live in Haddon Township, New Jersey.
Paul Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982. He has spent most of his 27 years at the paper covering the Eagles and pro football. For the last 10 years, he’s been a selector for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A native of Wilkes-Barre and a graduate of Wilkes University, Domo came to the Daily News from the Fort Worth (Tx.) Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually wa s boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose two sports coats to blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley, a University of Oklahoma grad and very dangerous to be around following a Sooner loss, have been married 29 years and have raised 2 terrific daughters – Allison, 26, a lawyer and graduate of Boston University School of Law; and Amy, 23, who graduated from Clemson and works in marketing and sales for a professional baseball team.
