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Eagles wide receiver DeSean Jackson suffered a concussion, coach Andy Reid said after the 27-24 victory over the Redskins.
Jackson left the game midway through the third quarter with what initially was termed a head and neck injury. He was looked at on the sideline and then taken into the locker room.
"We will just see how he does and do the tests here," Reid said. "He just was a little groggy, “but he was able to get up and get off the field and all that fairly quick.”
Reid said Jackson did not lose consciousness, unlike Brian Westbrook, who suffered the first of his two concussions in the first meeting against Washington. Westbrook was concussed against San Diego and has not returned.
Running back LeSean McCoy said he spoke with Jackson after the game. "He's fine. He's smiling. He'll be back." However, McCoy said he did not know if Jackson would be able to play next week against Atlanta.
Asked about Jackson, Donovan McNabb said, "I’m not a doctor. I don’t know much about it, but I do know it takes time … He’s a big-time talent who has come into his own this year. We are just going to have to spread it around."
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As for the game, Reid started with saying he "shot himself in the foot" with the onside kick to begin the game.
"Obviously, not the right thing," Reid said, when asked what he saw that led him to try to an onside kick to start the game. "They played a five-man line. I thought we could sneak one in there. That was wrong. Although it looked that way, it was not pulling it out of the sky. If I think it’s there, we’re going to go for it. Sometimes you’re going to make it and sometimes you’re not."
The Eagles struggled at the start of the second half and then rebounded with a fourth-quarter comeback for the second consecutive game.
"We started the game decent," Reid said. "Offensively, we didn’t start the second half very well. Guys ended up making some plays and we pushed through."
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To read Les Bowen's in-game observations, click here.
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.
E-mail Les at bowenl@phillynews.com
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Paul
Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982.
He has spent most of his nearly 3 decades with 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 started his career in Texas,
working first for the Midland Reporter-Telegram (1976-78), and then for
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas
Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually was
boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose 2 sports coats to
blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley,
a University of Oklahoma grad who still hasn’t gotten over
that Fiesta Bowl loss to Boise State 5 years ago, have 2 terrific
daughters -- Allison, 28, who is an attorney in South Jersey, and Amy,
25, who works in administration for a professional baseball team.
E-mail Domo at PDomo@aol.com and follow
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