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The Eagles are heading to the playoffs for the eighth time in Andy Reid’s 11 seasons, but the coach wasn’t ready to talk about that in the aftermath of a victory over San Francisco.
“I haven’t really thought about the playoffs,” he said. “I’m not there yet. I’m proud of our guys the way they worked through a bunch of different situations. They’ve stayed focused, the coaches and players.”
Asked why he seemed to be de-emphasizing clinching a playoff berth, Reid said, “We’re grateful for having that opportunity. However, it’s important that we don’t get caught up in it. That’s going to happen down the road. We have the Denver Broncos coming in and we have to be ready for that.”
Some other issues from Reid’s postgame news conference:
* On the four takeaways: “Any time you get that many takeaways it’s a big thing.”
* On DeSean Jackson: “I think the thing that sums him up the best is he loves to play the game … He just has a good time, and he’s doing it in the National Football League.”
* On the impact of the young players: “They give us all a little lift. It’s fun to watch. They’re going to make some mistakes here and there but they’re going to do it 100 miles per hour.”
* On the two long scoring drives: “You’re only as a good as your last game, we understand that. Those were important drives. We needed that tonight. I’m proud of the guys limiting the mistakes and executing and kept it all together there.”
* On the defense’s rebound: “We still have to do a better job of blocking and tackling, blocking on offense and tackling on defense. We’ve got to be consistent and keep it going. Sean [McDermott] did a nice job schematically and the players executed it very well.”
* On Kevin Curtis’ return: “We wanted to ease him in. He’ll be fine down the road.”
* On the snowballs that were thrown: “One got close. We are a classy crew here in Philadelphia. We don’t need to throw snowballs. Save that for the parking lot.”
Reid said Michael Vick has a quad contusion. “We’ll see how does this week,” he said. He also said Sheldon Brown tweaked his ankle.
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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