IS TAKING DOC TO SEE THE DOC
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.
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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