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Here on Eagletarian, the question was asked should Michael Vick be cheered or booed when he makes his debut with the Eagles on Thursday night against Jacksonville.
Of the nearly 1,700 votes at this hour, 60.5 percent said cheered and 39.5 said booed.
Two former Eagles now with the Jaguars weighed in on what they are expecting from the Eagles fans at the Linc in today's editions of the Florida Times-Union.
Said safety Sean Considine: "Those fans up there are very knowledgeable about the game. I think they're really gong to embrace him."
Added left tackle Tra Thomas: "I think they [fans] are going to be high energized. With Vick making his debut, the stadium is definitely going to be packed, and they're going to be riled up and ready to go."
A few other views from Jacksonville:
Wide receiver Troy Williamson: "I just feel like everyone needs to leave him alone and let him play."
Quarterback David Garrard: "I just want to see his ability to break the pocket and outrun everybody. I just want to see if he even has that same kind of speed. I'm sure he'll be a little nervous. But whenever you're nervous, you use your legs, and that's a good thing for a quarterback."
Defensive end Reggie Howard: "I think it's going to be great. He needs to get his feet wet back in the NFL. He needs to get acclimated to playing fast-paced football. I'm glad to see he's back in the league and he's comfortable with a team and that he's showing a lot of remorse for that, and now it's time to focus on football. It's time for him to get back into the groove of doing some of the great things that he did before all this dogfighting stuff went down. I wish him much success. I don't wish him any success against us, of course, but it's a good story and a good learning lesson that he went through. Hopefully, the rest of the world can learn from it."
As for on the field, the Jaguars are playing their third game in 11 days so the starters might not be in for very long. Starting linebackers, Justin Durant, Clint Ingram and Daryl Smith sat out practice Tuesday. Their status is unknown.
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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