IS BUYING CROSS-COUNTRY SKIS
There is nothing like a hearty postgame meal at the Chesapeake House I-95 rest stop, late on a Sunday night, with the pungent fumes from the cleaning crew wafting past, to clarify one's thinking.
What your Eageltarian is thinking is that Andy Reid is going to try to unring the bell.
Reid is expected to announce at noon whether Donovan McNabb or Kevin Kolb will start Thursday against the Cardinals. The more I think about it, the more I'm pretty sure Reid was laying the groundwork after the game to go back to McNabb. There was that Reid quote about a player sometimes needing to step back in order to go ahead. Before that, there was the mere fact that Reid said he had a decision to make, that he didn't come out and say he was sticking with the decision he made at halftime Sunday, to go with Kolb. Then there is the nearly unprecedented situation of having two real preparation days -- today and tomorrow - before Wednesday's walk-trough and Thursday's game. That would be almost as impossible a situation for Kolb as Sunday was, against a defense that had allowed 43 points in four previous home games.
Of course, even if McNabb starts Thursday's game, that doesn't mean he'll finish it.
By the way, Reid went out of his way Sunday to emphasize how badly this loss reflected on him. It was more than his usual "I didn't put the players in a position to make plays" boilerplate. You almost had to wonder if Reid agrees with many fans, that his time here has passed.
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.
