McCoy breaks rib; Vick does not
The Philadelphia Daily News - Eagletarian
McCoy breaks rib; Vick does not
Daily News staff and Les Bowen
Eagles quarterback Michael Vick does not have any broken ribs, but was diagnosed with a rib cartilage injury. Coach Andy Reid said the injury is "up high in the second and third ribs," connecting to the sternum.
"We’ll see how he feels," Reid said. "This is going to be one of those day-to-day, week-to-week things … Rick [Burkholder] and our docs will keep a close eye on it."
Reid said Vick is "sore" today.
“We’ll see how Michael does here," Reid said. "If he is as sore as he is today, then Kevin will take the snaps [Wednesday].”
Vick at least was not grimacing as he walked from the NovaCare cafeteria to a meeting. Walking seemed painful for him yesterday. "Better," Vick said when asked how he felt.
Meanwhile, running back LeSean McCoy has a broken rib suffered in the second quarter. "He played through it," Reid said. "He’s a pretty tough kid. We have to see. It’s a comfort thing. They are doing a couple of other things."
Riley Cooper and Asante Samuel have concussions. Reid said "their concussions seem to be mild."
As for Kevin Kolb, Reid said, "He did some good things and he has some things he needs to work on. He put us in a position where we can win the football game.” He also said everyone has confidence in Kolb should he need to be the starter.
Reid, as usual, didn't commit to making or not making roster moves in the wake of the Vick and Cooper injuries. The Eagles have only rookie Mike Kafka behind Kolb, and Cooper is one of only four wideouts on the 53-man roster. Reid said he would meet with general manager Howie Roseman.
Jeff Garcia, twice called upon by the Eagles in the past, is quartebacking for Omaha of the United Football League, but apparently can get out of his deal if someone pays Omaha $150,000. Agent Doug Hendrickson has not responded to a message from the Daily News.
Reid was also asked about time management and the play at the end of the first half. "I’d like to tell you everything on that, but that would be an expensive answer.” He again took the blame. "That was my fault."
Reid was asked if he has ever considered designating someone on the coaching staff to be primarily concerned with the clock during games.
"Yes," he said. "We do make sure we look at the clock."
He then ended his news conference with no further explanation.
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what the hell is "out of balance" wolf...come on!!!! smh. This aint street football, this is real football. It's out of bounds. But it was a "McNabb" play anyway so it was good for us.— salt
or as andy reid said- gasp, wheeze- this is a win win situation - wheeze- kolb is the team of today and - wheeze, gasp- Vick is the team of tomorrow-wheeze- all this talk of ribs has made me hungry.— Graves- Say what you want about Kolb. He threw a nice pass at the end that any other teams WRs could have caught, but not cement-hands Avant. I agree with the other posters here - need to fire Reid. I'm done with this team until they do - no merchandise, no live games, nothing.— Tim R
- Smaller is cheaper. Ask Joe Bannah.— Rabe56
- Why are people ripping Samuel? Yeah, not a great tackler, but he cuts the field in half since QB's usually don't even look in his direction.— auntesther
- I hope they keep McCoy out at least this week. That kind of injury needs it. You know Andy won't say who the starter is until Friday so as to keep them guessing. He may even say it's a game time decisios.— jimmyj
- Tim r wrote:
"Say what you want about Kolb. He threw a nice pass at the end that any other teams WRs could have caught, but not cement-hands Avant. I agree with the other posters here - need to fire Reid. I'm done with this team until they do - no merchandise, no live games, nothing." Your comment about Avant indicates that your insightful analysis will be missed. OH, PLEASE DON'T STOP POSTING TOO!
— jimmyj - To Rustypop58Idiot: "A cause for many of these injuries is because the Eagles are small" Let's break that down some shall we: Vick: 6' 215Lbs - ok a bit on short side but Drew Brees is smaller and he just won a superbowl. Lesean Mccoy: 5'11" 208 - a little bigger than Chris Johnson, didn't he run for 2000 yds last year? Riley cooper: 6'3" 215lbs - hmmm, small for WR?? Not. Asante Samuel - ok he is small but so are half the CB's out there. They got hurt because they are playing in the NFL moron.— XPHAT
1980 thank you for the laugh......Reid is a putz can't make a fast enough decision and get the players to hustle on and off the field - at this point in his coaching career to STILL be mishandling the clock - booooooo- unacceptable - way to learn from your mistakes Andy -- Can't you people just be fans of the team. Always trying to tear down the coach, or the QB or anyone that some how makes a mistake. If I was great player and had the choice of coming to Philly to play, I'd have to seriously weigh my options. I know it's jsut a hand full of fools, but they are some loud fools.— PhillyFanSouth
- Anybody know how long the Breast Cancer awareness pink on the uniforms is supposed to last?— MilkBoy
- Igles fans
1. What Kevin K was doing yesterday was the West Coast offense. Dink and Dunk for the entire game, What yesterday proves is the the West Coast offense doesn't work in today's NFL.
2.Time management doesn't matter if the team scores points. Instead of worrying about team management worry about the bad offense.
3 For those of you who thought that the defense would improve with Stewart Bradley got a taste of reality. SR can't cover TE's coming of the line this tear any better than he could two years ago. And the defense looks terrible.
4. Apparently the Eagles got lucky against Jacksonville
5. If you are saving money for play off tickets this year, you can use it for something else.— angrybear - what about that underhanded pass korn on the kolb made? wolf4 must've coached him up on that?— phillyfansrdumb
- Great question at the end of the Press Conference Les, classic!— Reluctantbob
- Boycott the Eagles until Reid is gone. And I'll take a rack of sticky ribs to go.— Don Cornelius
