IS TAKING DOC TO SEE THE DOC
As Paul Domowitch reported yesterday from Giants training camp in Albany, the reaction to Michael Vick's signing was greeted positively by the Eagles' NFC East rivals.
Said All-Pro defensive lineman Osi Umenyiora: "Anytime you add a player like that to a football team, you have no choice but to get better. He's a phenomenal football player. It will be interesting to see if he's the same football player he was [before he went to jail]. I think he will be. But right now, we don't even know for sure if that's how they're going to use him."
Elsewhere in the NFC East ...
In Washington, Redskins coach Jim Zorn gave the Eagles credit for taking a second chance on Vick.
"He's earned his way back for an opportunity," Zorn told the Washington Post's Jason Reid. "This is going to be tremendous for a guy like Michael Vick. To be hanging out with [Eagles quarterback] Donovan McNabb, and some of the guys on that football team that are seasoned veterans, [who] can speak into his life. It's going to be a long road back, but at least he's on the road."
In Dallas, owner Jerry Jones had this to say to the Dallas Morning News' Jean-Jacques Taylor: "I'm not surprised he signed with them, though I didn't necessarily expect it. I'd rather he had gone somewhere else other than in our division. I could've picked a better place for him to land."
In Dallas, noted NFL writer Rick Gossellin, of the Dallas Morning News, began his column this way: The Philadelphia Eagles do not fear controversy. Now their rivals in the NFC East must fear the Eagles.
And ends its by saying: Three NFC East teams did not want Vick. Now they must play against him. The Eagles are a better team with Michael Vick than without him.
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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