DIDN'T KNOW DOC WAS ALSO A MECHANIC
Eagles coach Andy Reid confirmed tonight that running back Brian Westbrook suffered a concussion during a 27-17 victory over the Washington Redskins in Landover, Md.
Westbrook left the game at the end of the first quarter after his helmet collided with the knee of Redskins linebacker London Fletcher. Westbrook did not return to the game.
"We saw the knee hit the head," Reid said at his postgame news conference. "I think he's going to be all right. DeSean [Jackson] has a foot sprain. He's going to be all right. He came back and played.
"We have to see how Westbrook does with the concussion. He's feeling pretty good right now. ... I know he was looking forward to this game here, what we had planned for him,” Reid said of Westbrook, whose brother Byron is a cornerback for the Redskins.
Reid expressed confidence in rookie running back LeSean McCoy, if Westbrook can’t play Sunday against the Giants.
Reid was asked the Eagles' consistency on offense. “I’m trying to feel like we won a game,” Reid said. “Twenty-seven points. I don’t think that’s a bad night. Should we have scored more points? Aboslutely. Should we have played better? Absolutely. But I’m going to enjoy this one.”
Eagles linebacker Will Witherspoon, who was acquired in a trade with St. Louis just last week, said he felt comfortable with his new team. “It’s going to be better next week and better after that,” said Witherspoon, who returned an interception 9 yards for a touchdown to give the Eagles a 14-0 lead. “It’s great to get a ‘W’ again.”
Witherspoon talked about his defensive teammates. “They’re great. We want to bring a presence. We want to put pressure on you. We’re going to be ready to play.”
Witherspoon came to the Eagles from the 0-7 Rams. “Getting a win is a great start,” he said. “Getting back out here is only going to make it better. For me, it’s like starting the season over again. I have to make sure I have to do exactly what has to be done.”
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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