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Eagles running back Brian Westbrook will not play Sunday night against the Giants, coach Andy Reid said Friday.
Westbrook will miss his fourth consecutive game since suffering a second concussion in a three-week stretch against the Chargers, but he did practice this week as a limited participant.
“Every time he touched the ball, and even when he didn’t, he was spreading the length of the field and getting some work in there," Reid said. "When he did have the ball he was trying to make some moves and kind of get back into the swing of playing football. He has a new helmet he’s wearing and he’s testing that out. I think it was good for him and it’s taking baby steps here, but he was able to make it through these days and felt good.”
The new helmet has increased padding for more support on blows to the head.
Asked if he had known all week that Westbrook would not play, Reid said, "I’m just taking it day by day. I just wanted to let him go and see how he was moving and how he felt and just get a feel back out there. I think it is the right thing to do and we’ll take it from there.”
Wide receiver Jeremy Maclin was on the field Friday morning and is listed as questionable with his foot injury. Maclin has been wearing a protective boot. "Maclin should be fine," Reid said.
DeSean Jackson, who missed last week's game following a concusssion suffered against the Redskins, has practiced all week and is probable.
Kevin Curtis is listed as questionable as he continues to recover from knee surgery. He will travel with the team.
Linebacker Akeem Jordan is probable after missing four games with a hyperextended knee. Where Jordan will play and whether he will start remain in question.
"He can play all three spots and he really has done that this week, whether it’s in our regular personnel, or our other personnel, in certain nickels and dimes, all that stuff," Reid said of Jordan. "He’s going to play. Again, we want to see how he does as he goes in the game. He will play though.”
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.
E-mail Domo at PDomo@aol.com and follow
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