SCORES TWICE AFTER A PUCK TO THE FACE
Reggie Brown took part Saturday in the Eagles' final substantive workout before their Monday Night date in Dallas with the Cowboys. Eagles coach Andy Reid said Brown is still listed as "questionable" with his monthlong hamstring injury and will not play the entire game, but Reid left open the possibility of a limited role for the starting wideout.
"He wouldn't play every play," Reid said. "That's not what we would do there. We would, obviously, rotate him."
Here's a thought: You activate Brown as a fifth receiver. Last week you only had four WRs active, and three tight ends. Matt Schobel, the third TE, barely got on the field, seemed to play no special teams role. Do you need three active tight ends? Activate Brown instead, and even if he's on for a half-dozen snaps, you give the Cowboys something to think about. That's assuming, of course, Brown can participate without reinjuring himself. If that's a big risk, then you sit him again.
In other news, Reid said he felt like there would be no Hurricane Ike-related problems by the time the Eagles are scheduled to fly to Dallas, Sunday afternoon.
Speaking of Dallas: Perhaps you witnessed the discussion on Friday’s Daily News Live of the ad purchased in the Daily News this week by a Dallas “gentlemen’s club,” presumably hoping to draw the attention of Eagles fans headed to that Texas city for Monday’s game.
Your Eagletarian doesn’t understand what the big fuss is about.
Undoubtedly, traveling Bird-watchers would be equally well-served by ads touting the symphonies, ballets, poetry-readings and cotillions taking place in Dallas this weekend, but let us not look askance at our rougher-hewn southwestern cousins. Given that their young city only recently – perhaps within the past fortnight – banished wandering livestock and blowing tumbleweeds from its dusty boulevards, one cannot expect to enjoy all of the familiar trappings of civilization.
If they have indeed managed to carve a “gentlemen’s club” out of the windswept prairie, I, for one, shout “Huzzah!” I’m not sure exactly what charms said establishment is proffering, but I surmise it will be something like the Union League – a place for jolly fellows of the right sort to convene and enjoy enlightened conversation, perhaps some brandy, and a bit of manly japery.
I am certain traveling Eagles followers will welcome this opportunity for fellowship. In fact, I am hoping one of them will have packed an extra tux for your Eagletarian, who stupidly neglected to include black-tie accoutrements among his kit.
Usually it is not difficult to identify Eagles fans in foreign cities -- they tend to be the ones wearing the midnight green cummerbunds.
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
and follow
him on Twitter.
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
him on Twitter.
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