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Brian Westbrook is keeping to himself, but that has nothing to do with his contract discussions with the Eagles.
Westbrook missed Friday's practice with what the team described as a viral infection. He missed today's session as well, and coach Andy Reid said Westbrook is suffering from flu symptoms.
"We’ve tried to quarantine him a little bit up there where he’s not around the other players," Reid said. "He’s got strep throat along with it, and he’s not feeling very good. Both are highly contagious things, so we’ve put him in a separate room and just kind of kept him away from everything.”
In other injury news, Reid said cornerback Asante Samuel remains day-to-day with a hamstring strain, although his condition is improving.
“I want to get him back in, but I want to make sure he’s healthy at the same time," Reid said. "I’m anxious to get him back in there and going. Could it be the next couple of days? Possibly. We’ll just have to see how this rehab goes and how he’s doing.”
Tight end L.J. Smith was back for the afternoon 10-10-10 practice. "It was good to get him back out there," Reid said. "He’s had a calf strain and it looks like it’s healed up. He had an MRI and the MRI showed that it looked like it was healed up and ready to go. He came out and did a nice job. Again, I look forward to seeing him with the pads on [Sunday].”
And for those of you heading out to Lehigh on Sunday, it will no longer be a day off for the 30-Plus Club players, because the entire team had the morning off following a water main break. "I thought it was good that they could all feel like they were 30-plus today,” Reid said.
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.
Paul 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.
