No OL Change; Vick Says He Didn't Sweat Bye
The Eagles reconvened from their bye week Monday, and though practice was closed, indications are nothing changed on the team's offensive line, which is a mild surprise, in the wake of a dreadful performance against the Lions in the last outing.
No OL Change; Vick Says He Didn't Sweat Bye
Les Bowen, Daily News Staff Writer
The Eagles reconvened from their bye week Monday, and though practice was closed, indications are nothing changed on the team's offensive line, which is a mild surprise, in the wake of a dreadful performance against the Lions in the last outing.
Eagles quarterback Michael Vick, who remains the starter despite 13 turnovers in six games, said he never thought he might be replaced by rookie Nick Foles during Eagles coach Andy Reid's bye week review.
"It was never a time when I didn't know exactly if I was going to be the starter or not," said Vick, who said he neither expected nor got a call from Reid affirming he remained in that role. "Quite frankly, I know what I can do when I'm out there and I know what has to happen when I'm out there on the football field. That's just my approach now, to go out and get the job done, and we'll see what happens."
Vick was pressed on having certainly been aware of speculation during the bye.
"You just gotta stand tall," he said. "It's not the first time I've been in this situation. I understand the most important thing is for me to go out there and continue to do my job, and try to help this football team by winning games."
During the bye week, Vick said, he "thought about a lot of what-ifs -- what could have happened, what should have happened, what didnt happen. A lot of things you have no control over. You just gotta keep pushing in this game, keep pushing and keep playing."
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Eagles defensive tackle Mike Patterson got two phone calls Friday, one from Andy Reid and another from general manager Howie Roseman, telling Patterson the NFL had cleared him to start practicing.
Patterson said he's hoping to be game-ready in "a week and a half, maybe two weeks." The Eagles have three weeks to either add Patterson to the 53-man roster or put him on IR for the season. Unless he has a setback, Patterson seems very likely to play. He underwent surgery in January to untangle blood vessels in his brain that had caused a seizure.
Patterson said he did scout team work Monday.
"I'm just happy to put a helmet on, to not be out the whole season, to get to play with these guys," Patterson said.
the defence is not a problem it the offence of line and for someone to say rip vivk and reid shame on you, with out protection what are you suppose to do. the man been hit how many times, you look at the game and tell me or reid what needs to change. offence and defence need a lot of work— aliha7- With Andy Reid on the hot seat, he has to play Vick in order to try to keep his job. If they lose to Atlanta and New Orleans and are 3-5 going into the first Dallas game, do they start Foles? How bad does it have to get before Foles starts and it's wait until 2013 time? If the Eagles go 1-3 in the next four games or lose all four, I'd hope that they would start Foles the last six games and get him some experience going into next season (while dumping Vick in the offseason). If Reid decides to play Vick for the rest of the season no matter what (barring injury) and they go 8-8 or worse, then we are looking at tough times for 2013 with Foles having no experience. I'm not ready to write off the season but they probably have to go 7-3 or better the rest of the way to make the playoffs and probably looking at a loss this week and possibly the next which would mean they would pretty much have to run the table. I don't think 9-7 would be good enough for Reid to come back, but you never know how the Eagles can spin it.— sjuhawk416
- Ask not for whom the bell tolls, Andy...it tolls for thee!!!
(Same to you, Michael)— warreninrochester - No just get rid of Reid now!— lost eagle
- Of course he is not worried, just look at his amazing stats! 8 TD's with just 8 INTs. 9 fumbles, 5 lost. 13 turnovers! 77.7 quarter back rating. Completing 58% of his passes! 7 yards a pass! Do you think you can find a QB with stats like that just anywhere.— AreaMan
Proof positive that Andy Reid is dysfunctionally stubborn. In a logical world, King Dunlap returns to his guard position for Danny Watkins, who is terrible. Demetress Bell starts at left tackle.
He shouldn't have cut Jaiquan Jarrett or Brian Rolle. Sims is no better, and neither is Jason Williams. Bury them on the depth chart if you aren't happy with them.
DION LEWIS needs to get traded or released, opening a roster spot for another Tight End. Bryce Brown is the 2nd RB, period. TE Cooley was available, but the Redskins just scooped him up.
I used to make excuses for Andy Reid, because I honestly believed he had the 2004 team prepared to win that Super Bowl, but McBarf & Co. screwed it up. But now, I think he's at the end of his rope. We could trade Reid to the Chargers for a 2nd round pick...Gruden-style !— EmanuelP- The O-line has struggled about 80% of the time this season....QB is taking excessive hits....Mccoy has to run backwards to create his own running lanes...need some big hogs to blow people off the line of scrimmage!— Big Jeff
- For those who want Andy fired now, who do you promote? Marty? I doubt any big name coach is going to want to come in mid-season.
As far as the QB, Foles starts if 1) Vick is hurt, 2)they continue to lose and Andy thinks Vick is the main cause (TO's) or 3) they are out of the playoff picture and Jeff wants to see what the rookie can do so the next coach will have some game tape to look at.— John Klink 
I saw Vick went onto Legal Zoom.com to fill out his last will and testament- News Flash- the Lions have one of the best D-Lines in the league. The biggest problem is at QB and play calling.— John Dealoni
- Vick's too cocky for his own good now. He was humble when he got his first chance here and he performed great. Now he has a huge head and thinks he is much better then he is playing. He might be as good as he thinks he is but we haven't seen it this year and seems he doesn't really take any accountability for his turnovers and acts like this is something that will get fixed but it drags on and on. Bench him for a half and maybe he'll get the message— connorjr
- Can't wait for the last Reid press conference ever. It shouldn't be long now.— dasher
- Reid is determined to go down with Vick. I believe he is burned out, to be honest. If Foles starts, then we get what is best for the Birds- 25-30 touches a game for Shady. It's going to happen, I guess the only question is who becomes Foles' coaching mentor?— kjuggs77
