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Monday, September 22, 2008
Westbrook Walking Normally, but Gingerly

Should the Eagles sit Brian Westbrook or play him Sunday against the Bears?
Play him. They're just not the same team without him.
Sit him. It's a long season, why risk further injury?
Wait and see how he feels later in the week.
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     Brian Westbrook walked more or less normally from the back of a silver Lincoln TownCar to the back door of the Stone Grill in Clementon, N.J., for his weekly ESPN 950 AM radio show Monday evening. He didn't run, skip or jump, however, and his description of his injury -- "closer to being a high ankle sprain than anything else" -- made it seem very unlikely that Westbrook will play on Sunday when the Eagles visit the Chicago Bears, though Westbrook repeatedly vowed to do everything possible to be ready as quickly as possible.

   "If I can run, then I'm going to be out there," Westbrook said. When cohost Brian Seltzer asked Westbrook what his "gut feeling" was about the injury, Westbrook said his gut feeling was that he was going to rehab as hard as he could.

   After the show, when your Eagletarian asked Westbrook if he would say playing this week was likely, Westbrook ignored the question.

   The bottom line Monday night looks like this: The bleaker scenarios -- surgery and casts and months on the sideline -- seem to have been avoided. But though the Eagles will spin this recovery as optimistically as possible, to try to keep the Bears guessing, it would be just short of a miracle, not to mention very possibly unwise in the long run, for Westbrook to play this week.

   To read Andy Reid's view on Westbrook and other Eagles inury updates, click here for earlier Eagletarian posts.

  

   

Posted by Les Bowen @ 9:16 PM  Permalink | 3 comments
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Posted by elbinkogrande 10:07 PM, 09/22/2008
I, for one, definitely DO NOT want to see Westbrook on the field against the Bears. The season is too long to risk further injury. I suspect the Eagles see it the same way.
Posted by shoeshineboy 10:43 PM, 09/22/2008
Les - how were the wings at the Stone Grill?
Posted by mikechris 11:34 PM, 09/22/2008
With or without #36, the Eagles should handle the Bears.
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Les BowenLes 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.

Paul DomowitchPaul Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982. He has spent most of his 27 years at 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 came to the Daily News from the Fort Worth (Tx.) Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually wa s boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose two sports coats to blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley, a University of Oklahoma grad and very dangerous to be around following a Sooner loss, have been married 29 years and have raised 2 terrific daughters – Allison, 26, a lawyer and graduate of Boston University School of Law; and Amy, 23, who graduated from Clemson and works in marketing and sales for a professional baseball team.

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