Hobbs Heads to IR; Reid on Childress
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Hobbs Heads to IR; Reid on Childress
Daily News staff and Les Bowen
Updated: Kevin Omell, agent for Ellis Hobbs, said the Eagles cornerback will go on IR with a neck injury for the second year in a row.
Asked what this might mean for Hobbs' career, Omell wrote in an email: "can't speak to that at the moment. Have to see what doctors say and how he feels in the coming months physically and mentally... Right now, he just feels fortunate to be walking."
Hobbs, 27, is playing on a one-year restricted free agent tender.
Earlier: Andy Reid, at his day-after news conference today, said an MRI exam on cornerback Ellis Hobbs' neck "showed some damage in there to another disk." Hobbs was injured when he returned the second-half kickoff against the Giants. His season ended after eight games last year because of a neck disk injury.
"We'll keep an eye on him, evaluate him," Reid said, who also said he did not yet know if Hobbs will need surgery, or is done for the year. "Hobbs' was a little bit of a bang-bang thing . . . the kickoff is a crazy deal. There have been a lot of injuries on kickoffs."
Reid said Hobbs would not play Sunday at Chicago. He also said cornerback Asante Samuel had a knee strain that he did not feel was serious.
As Reid was speaking, news broke about the Vikings firing their head coach, former Eagles offensive coordinator Brad Childress. Childress has been replaced by another former Eagles assistant, Vikings defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier.
"I think Brad's record, collectively, has been unbelivable," Reid said. Childress took the Vikings to the NFC Championship game last year. Overall he was 40-37 but just 3-7 this year, with Minnesota again expected to be among the NFC elite. "Sometimes situations get a little crazy. But I know he's a heckuva football coach, tremendous football coach, and again, just look at the teams he's put out. They've been very, very good."
The Vikings visit the Eagles Dec. 26 and the Childress and Reid families had been planning to spend Christmas together, Reid said. He said he is proud to see Frazier, who got his NFL coaching start under Jim Johnson, get a head coaching job, but wishes it had not come at Childress' expense.
"Leslie is just a top-quality guy, man, and a sharp, sharp football man," Reid said. "He's been interviewed for a lot of head coaching jobs, because of the success he's had with the Vikings. I'm sure he'll do a nice job for 'em."
About the 27-17 win over Giants, Reid said: "Good win, tough win. We overcame some things. We need to overcome penalties. We need to be smart at times and maintain our focus. We need to know who is around us."
Reid was very happy with the lines. "I thought our defensive line and offensive line did well," he said. "Our defensive tackles played well, all four of them. They controlled the line. Our offensive line did a nice job. They threw all kinds of things at us and they did a good job. Michael [Vick] sorted it out and threw to the right guy. When they blitz like that, you have to maintain your composure and technique and 'want-to'. [LeSean] McCoy played a nice game. [Jeremy] Maclin played a nice game. And Jason Avant, had the drop, then came back and made two beautiful plays."
Reid was asked about backup QB Kevin Kolb warming up in the second half. "He [Vick] came up limping that one time," he said. "You have to be a tough nut to play that position. No matter how you cut it, your quarterback has to be one of the toughest guys on your team. And the way he plays, his style, you have to wired right."
Reid was asked about Vick taking a lot of hits against the Giants: "There are certain ones he needs to get down on," Reid said about quarterback running and not getting out of bounds or not sliding.
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so how was that hit different than the Collie hit? where was the helmet to helmet penalty? dude led with his head now hobbs has disk damage. isn't this what the nfl was talking about?— FDRomanowski- The biggest embarrassment was when Cris Collinsworth was like "anyone that questions these new rules needs to shut up" or something to that effect, WHEN THE PLAY IN QUESTION WHERE HOBBS WAS KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS DIDN'T EVEN DRAW A FLAG. THE SAMUEL HIT WAS ALSO A JOKE OF A CALL. IF ROGER GODELL WERE NEAR ME I'D SPIT IN HIS SELLOUT FACE.— brmorgen81
- haha! chilly is coming back to philly! now him and marty can argue with each other about who has the most hair. and then in the offseason we can trade vick to minny for favre straight up. oh happy days. the king has spoken.— iamkingdunlap
- the rule that has been the hot topic in the NFL lately has to do with hitting "defenseless" receivers, i.e. helmet-to-helmet hits to receivers in the process of making a catch. there's nothing against hitting a guy helemt-to-helmet if he's got possession of the ball and running with a full head of steam. Don't say I agree with it, or that it makes any sense, but apparently those are the rules. Same thing happened to Detroit's Zach Follet on a kick-off during the Lions/Giants game in week 6...no foul on the play, not an "illegal" hit.— bigdrij79
Comment removed.- do not even think of hiring chili in some capacity fat andy! he's even smugger than you fat andy!— RoboHobo
- Do a quick search on Foxsports.com for Miek Pereira's comments on the matter...he was the NFL's vice president of officiating until he retired last year. He's doing consulting work for Fox now during games...he explains the difference between the hits.— bigdrij79
- @brmorgen81...Collinsworth's comments were directed to people speaking out AGAINST the new rules, NOT for the new rules...he even said "this is why these new rules were put into place". granted, they didn't apply to the situation, but the point was made— bigdrij79
- Learn the rules, people. No rule against helmet-to-helmet on kickoffs once the ball is being returned.— Echo
- On Samuel's hit, the receiver was not "defenseless". He had caught the ball and was in total control. Where they came up with that penalty is beyond my comprehension if the hit on Hobbs was not also a penalty.— SteveS11
- Seems like Brad and Marty could end up switching former coach/offensive coordinator roles in the offseason.— s
- Watching Eli Manning make the same mistake he made last year by diving forward rather than sliding, I couldn't help but be reminded of the utter incompetence of the Bush Administration, who made the same mistakes over and over again, without accountability, and ended up with Bush being the worst President in the history of this country. Plus, when I saw Ellis Hobbs on the ground, I couldn't help but think that we are lucky ObamaCare is becoming law because African-Americans like Hobbs but did not play football would never get decent health care thanks to the Republicans, who care nothing about the plight of minorities. Republicans have oppressed minorities since the day the party was invented. All of the Republicans I know didn't want to give Vick another chance, they wanted him in jail for life because he happened to be there when a few animals got hurt. of course, Republicans are gun nuts that are owned by the criminals at the NRA, and never complain about the wholesale suffering of animals in the wild thanks to gun-toting Republicans shooting them for sport.
Go Eagles!— eldiablodelsol2009 - eldiablo....WTF you talkin''bout??? another lefty rant inside a football blog....c'mon man!!
— dmat - eldiablo - you do realize that Abraham Lincoln - you know, the guy who ended slavery - was a Republican, right?
Can't say today's Republicans are nearly as honest or morally straight, however we shouldn't be loose with our facts.— Daniel S - It makes no sense whatsoever that you're not allowed to hit a receiver or QB helmet-to-helmet, but that it's OK to do it to anybody else. That was a dirty hit against Hobbs and should have been penalized. That was not clean whatsoever. It was unnecessary roughness and should have been flagged. Hobbs' neck could have been broken. How in the world could that be legal? It makes no sense whatsoever. Every week anymore somebody on the Eagles is getting taken out of the game because of dirty hits. That hit on Hobbs was as dirty as they get. I don't care what anybody says.— jimqk
