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Some updates from the NovaCare Complex:
* Eagles cornerback Asante Samuel was excused from Friday's practice for personal reasons, but is expected to play Sunday against Miami.
* Cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie is listed as questionable for the game, but will make the trip, coach Andy Reid said. He took reps with the scout team. He told reporters that he intends to play.
*Corner Nnamdi Asomugha told reporters his knee problem is a mild MCL sprain. Asomugha, expected to play a role in the coverage of big, physical Miami wideout Brandon Marshall, said he often lined up against Marshall when Asomugha was a Raider and Marshall was a Bronco.
"We went at it a lot when we were both in the AFC West. I would just follow him across the field," Asomugha recalled. "He's a really good player, big challenge ... He likes to grab at the line; they never call it. You see it on film. I used to hate that ... He gets away with it sometimes, but that's his thing, to be physical, like a (Larry) Fitzgerald."
* Reid said Michael Vick took every snap in practice this week.
* Reid said Casey Matthews has earned the right to be on the field in the nickel. He said the linebackers are a young group that is getting better. Asked to delineate their improvement, he said it was mainly in pass defense.
* Guard Danny Watkins, who was listed as a limited practice participant Thursday, took part in practice today and is fine for the game, Reid said.
* Reid said he was happy with the team's week of preparation.
* On the injury report, all these players are listed as probable: Asomugha (concussion, knee), DE Trent Cole (hand), T King Dunlap (concussion), T Todd Herremans (biceps), DT Cullen Jenkins (thumb), DT Trevor Laws (knee), WR Jeremy Maclin (hamstring, shoulder), LB Brian Rolle (neck), QB Michael Vick (ribs), G Danny Watkins (ankle).
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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
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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.
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