Hobbs Heads to IR; Reid on Childress
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.
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 Childress has been replaced by another former Eagles assistant, Vikings defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier.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
- Eli Manning, the Bush Administration, ObamaCare, Ellis Hobbs, Republicans and the NRA all in the same paragraph. What? No Sarah Palin or Howard Stern? Only on Philly.com. Amazing.............— craig123
- @eldiablodelsol2009 I'd classify myself as a conservative but am still a Vick guy. Have been since we got him. And what does Obamacare have to do with Football? Go to the Huffington Post and take your garbage comments and philosophy with you.— mundiff
- Andy is an incredible dumb*ss for having Hobbs back there, but knowing him he doesn't feel guilty about it today. The same thing will happen to Jackson if Andy keeps putting him back there, but then he'll say that's football, or we didn't know this would happen. I'm surprised the sportswriters didn't rake him over the coals for such stupidity.— jimmyj
- its class not party
- @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" - it's always the biggest idiots who are defending this atrocious officiating. Dude, you are a moron. Read my post again. I'm saying Collinsworth is defending the new rules, even though the hit that almost paralyzed Hobbes WASN'T FLAGGED, and he sounds like an idiot trying to defend them when the hit on Hobbes was legal. You must be the biggest idiot alive. That is all.— brmorgen81 - Off the meds again, huh el baby? I suppose you thought OJ was innocent too? Football analysis? None. Sort of like leftist brain deaders. At least we saw Samuels tackling and intercepting as he said he could do. He, Graham, and Bradley looked like real....Wild Man Willey types.— Koons
The guy's career is probably over. It looks like he has some cervical damage, which could probably effect his long term health - neck pain for life at the least. Yet we have losers in philly still arguing about helmet to helmet collisions. The intent of the rules change by goodell and the nfl was the right thing to do. Collingsworth was correct.
I love the idea of the coaches' families sharing Christmas. I wish I could be a fly on the wall. The word "heckuva" will be used in every other sentence. Mustaches will be bristling.— gho_matt
eldiablodelsol2009 - you're a loser, seriously. i'm a liberal and an obama supporter, but these message boards are for sports fan commentary, not your crackpot political propaganda.— CosmoK
CosmoK -- cosign. its no room for politics on sports blogs- Comment removed.
- The rules need to be changed to include: If a ball carrier in wrapped up by, or engaged by another player, a helmet to helmet hit is illegal. A player wrapped up is as defenseless as a receiver going up for a ball.— PhillyfanstuckinVa
Enough politics on here. And how can you all cry that the Hobbs hit was dirty? How was it different than the one that Coleman did a couple of weeks ago? The guy was coming down full speed and made a hit while Hobbs was moving. It's a football play, he wasn't trying to hurt him. The reason there is a difference between this hit and Samuels, is that the receiver/back needs to have a chance to make a move before getting hit in the head. With Hobbs or a ball carrier in the open field, the theory is that they can see the hit coming and prepare for it. Right or wrong, those are the current rules.- All helmet to helmet tackles need to be banned from the sport, not just the infamous "defenseless receiver rule". But, it'll take years of retraining on tackling, from Pop Warner to College until good fundamental tackling is back in the NFL. @eldiablo: Stop it. Can we stick to sports talk only on the boards, please?— Phront_Runner
- @brmorgen81
Why should the hit have been flagged? It was a LEGAL hit, completely within the rules. You can cry "foul" all you want, but there was no reason for the ref to throw the flag. you don't know the rules, and that makes ME an idiot? I love that logic. Moron.— bigdrij79 - bigdrij79, sorry dude, you're an idiot! read the rules! http://www.nfl.com/rulebook/penaltysummaries— mosquito killer
- the rule was instituted in 1996 and reads as follows: Hits with the helmet or to the head by the defender will be flagged as personal fouls and subject to fines.— mosquito killer
- sameul didn't initiate the helmet-to-helmet contact, the receiver did. go look at the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz9HH5Uo7SQ. samuel launches himself at the receiver while his back was turned. if the receiver hadn't turned around, samuel would have hit him in the back with his shoulder pads.
— mosquito killer - With the Childresses cancelling for Chirstmas, it looks like more food for Andy. He has to be salivating now.— Bob1
- Andy: Do Not Bring Brad Childress here.— Don Cornelius
- Stupid website not posting my comments....— bigdrij79
- no worries, bigdrij79, there's nothing meaningful u can add. using the helmet to hit an offensive player should ALWAYS draw a flag, whether you hit them in their helmet, back, leg, or toes. using the helmet is prohibited, period!!!!— mosquito killer
- Do a little research mosquito killer...not just that "digest" on NFL.com...you'll be surprised with what you find...like, surprisingly, it's NOT always going to be called.— bigdrij79
Talk Eagles on this sight, not political 'smack' johnnyu- Hobbs' career as an Eagle is over. They won't bring him back after serious neck injuries two years in a row (not to mention mediocre play).
Best of luck to him wherever he goes or whatever he does with his life.— SteveS11 - FDRomanowski completely agreed. I never saw these helmet to helmet hits back in the 90's, or even earlier, never was taught them back in the old days in high school or college ball. That hit's designed for the knockout only. It should be outlawed completely. No helmet-to-helmets.
eldiablodelsol2009..............zzzzzzz
Here's hoping Brad Childress makes his way back here somehow...- bigdrij79
@brmorgen81
Why should the hit have been flagged? It was a LEGAL hit, completely within the rules. You can cry "foul" all you want, but there was no reason for the ref to throw the flag. you don't know the rules, and that makes ME an idiot? I love that logic. Moron. --------------- Buddy, in the past 50 years alone, society has made tremendous advancements on dealing with and educating learning disabled folks, such as yourself. COLLINSWORTH IS DEFENDING THE NEW RULES AND SOUNDS LIKE A MORON. LET ME EXPLAIN. THE HIT WHICH ALMOST PARALYZED ELLIS HOBBES WAS NOT FLAGGED. IT WAS A LEGAL HIT. IT WAS A LEGAL HIT WHICH ALMOST PARALYZED ELLIS HOBBES. IT WAS AN ILLEGAL HIT WHEN TRENT COLE BRUSHED HIS PINKY ACROSS PEYTON MANNING'S HEAD. I PATTED MY 3 YEAR OLD NEPHEW ON THE HEAD HARDER THAN TRENT COLE HIT MANNING. THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG HERE WHEN ONE HIT WHERE A MAN IS NEARLY PARALYZED IS LEGAL, AND THE MANNING HIT IS A 15 YARD FLAG. NOW DO YOU UNDERSTAND, MY LEARNING DISABLED FRIEND? THERE ARE GREAT GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS TO HELP YOU OUT, MAN. SIGN UP FOR THEM.— brmorgen81
