Vince Young likely to start vs. Seahawks
Looks like a third consecutive start for Vince Young at quarterback for the Eagles when they travel to Seattle on Thursday night.
Vince Young likely to start vs. Seahawks
Les Bowen and Daily News staff
Looks like a third consecutive start for Vince Young at quarterback for the Eagles when they travel to Seattle on Thursday night.
Michael Vick will not practice today, although he will throw on the side and is making progress, coach Andy Reid said today.
Vick "can't put heavy torque on the ball without feeling some pain," Reid said, adding that Vick won't practice until that issue is resolved.
"We'll take it day-by-day," Reid said.
Young will continue to take snaps with the firs team.
"It’s pretty much the same each week; even from Week 1, Week 2, you know it’s just preparation, you never know what goes on and you always have to be prepared," Young said. "So it’s really nothing too different about it; the only thing is when the head coach tells you you have to start. So overall you just want to stay in the book and stay ready.”
Asked about the hardest part of the short turnaround, Young said, "Game planning [and] just making sure that you know everything that’s going on. I know we crammed everything in today but you just have to get a little extra study time in and I feel like everybody should be OK.”
Nnamdi Asomugha and LeSean McCoy will be limited in practice today. McCoy was added to the injury report Monday with a toe sprain.
King Dunlap (concussion), Moise Fokou (knee) and Jeremy Maclin (hamstring, shoulder) will not practice. Reid said it was more the hamstring injury than the shoulder that was holding back Maclin. He said they need to get the tightness in the hamstring out.
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Reid said the spat on the sideline between Jim Washburn and Marty Mornhinweg has been worked out. "They're fine," Reid said, adding that "things happen."
Reid said he has spoken with the two coaches and they have talked to each other.
Reid declined to divulge what led to the verbal dispute, in which the two men had to be separated. He said such occurrences are part of the intense gameday atmosphere.
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DeSean Jackson will start this week after he was benched in the second half against the Patriots. Reid said DeSean needs to move forward off the last game and have a good game this week.
Jackson spoke to reporters yesterday. Here is what he said.
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Reid said Nate Allen will start at safety and he does not believe Allen is being hampered by his knee injury.
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Today is the Eagles' only real practice before the Seattle game. Preparation will be more mental than physical, with the extremely short week so late in the season. Reid said one objective is to use stuff from the previous week's gameplan that you practiced but didn't employ. (The running plays should be available, right?)
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conVicktim not be fillin' it? Romo keeps playing. And winning.— autolykos- @DJ Reid sux . Get him outta here and Castillio (I work hard, I can do this) has to go. Reid cannpot evaluate talent or coaches (Castillio) obviously. Suppossedly many teams will hire him (please!). Plenty of qualified candidiates for here. Chucky!!!! And @ Bobby V your Cowgirls are going nowhere. If they should happen to win this Division (2nd worst in football) they will be 1 & done! Romo ..Playoffs...LOL Don't make me laugh! He is the biggest playoff choke in football, along with the rest of his playgirls, Cowgirls.— PHAZED
Hey Tyronne, if you are not already married to Charmaine, you might want to consider it over the holiday season. Instead of a Christmas tree you and her can put christmas lights around a framed Mike Vick picture.— Kioto- I guess you just couldn't think of anything else to say huh? — charmaine
- Hey Andy, If you can't hear us then read this...FIRE ANDY! We are stuck with Vick for 2 more years. Start Kafka! Get him experience. After the season is over (it is already) hire a new Head Coach, dump the staff! Draft a top QB this year. Make sure the new coach can eveluate talent, understands how to use the best RB in football, hires a quality def coordinator and a smart off coordinator, gets a couple of BIG linebackers and gets a secondary that can hit & tackle!— PHAZED
birds will win divsion and play packers in nfc championship..all will be forgiven..you will see..wolf.— wolf 4- VY is a one year rental, so when the eagles lose their 8th game my guess is Kafka 2011 will begin. AR would have no incentive to play VY once they're out of contention. Of course, logic doesn't necessarily apply to the Eagles, does it?— dlivesay
- Kafka is not the future for this team. He has no arm. VY is their best chance of winning. Comparing Vick's ribs to Romo's--what are you, an MD? My hat's off to Washburn for exposing MM for what he is: a poor OC, and as lousy as AR on game day. This team needs 2 new coordinators and a head coach.— rad205
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- If VY won't be back next year and Reid still is playing VY, that likely means Reid has written off Kafka as the backup QB next year. It also might indicate that the Eagles will draft a top QB to sit behind Vick for a year. Andrew Luck may not be possible but Barkely from USC may be doable. Vick gone after next year and Barkely takes over. Of course that can't happen as long as the idiot Reid is around. Reid must have a black QB.— Kioto
- Agree with your last sentence---AR needs to go on the Dr.Drew rehab show for his perversion, addiction,obsession with afro-american QB's. lst Garcia saved the one season but right back to BOZO when playoffs started--2ond-Kolb lost his starting position to a injury and never given a chance when healthy, so now we have PEE WEE league size injury prone Vick and Mental Miget Young to feed Reids addiction. — jwatson
- That black qb is your problem isn't it? Searchin to find that great white hope. — charmaine
- UNBLOCKED pass rushers killed this offense early-on [No time to find a receiver]. Vick's broken ribs play was because of this. Injured QB's are ineffective. Remember when Brady got knocked out for the season? How about Peyton Manning out all season and maybe forever? Someone needs to GLUE that Kevlar rib vest onto Vick.
— saunhi -
Romo's different - he had broken ribs, a collapsed lung, Ebola virus, and open heart surgery at halftime.
Of course most of his good plays are a 5-yard shovel pass that turns into a 5000 yard gain.— saunhi
