Reid: Too early to decide on Westbrook
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Reid: Too early to decide on Westbrook
Jeff McLane, Inquirer Staff Writer
Eagles coach Andy Reid said that it was "too early" to decide if Brian Westbrook, who suffered his second concussion in three weeks yesterday, was done for the season.
"The important thing is that we get him analyzed, tested and taken care of," Reid said. "And we'll go from there. Not that we didn't do that before."
The Eagles running back got injured in the third quarter of the Eagles' 31-23 loss at San Diego. It occured on a screen play in which he was sandwiched in between a block by Jason Avant and a Chargers defender. "It was another big hit," Reid said.
Replays showed Westbrook getting up normally and casually tossing the football to the officials. Reid said that Westbrook didn't suffer any memory loss.
"He was foggy," Reid said. "He stood up and walked off the field, but you could sense that there was something wrong there."
Westbrook has now suffered two concussions over the last three weeks. The first one occured at Washington when the running back was knocked unconscious for close to a minute. Reid was asked about the severity of a second concussion.
"It's obviously not a good thing that the second one happened there," he said.
Reid said that he had no regrets about letting Westbrook play because doctors had cleared him to play.
"There was a chance he could have played the week before, but we held him out," he said. "He was symptom free."
As for other injury-related news, cornerback Sheldon Brown has a hamstring strain and was getting an MRI today. His status for Sunday's game at Chicago is up in the air. Tackle Jason Peters was held out of the game with an ankle sprain. He had an MRI that revealed the sprain as just mild, Reid said.
"He should be able to get back out there," Reid said.
Safety Quintin Demps missed the Chargers game with an ankle sprain. Reid, for the first time, called it the dreaded "high ankle sprain." Reid said that wide receiver Kevin Curtis (knee) is continuing to improve.
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Agree or not, this is why they do no like to re-work contracts. Yes he was underpaid for what he had done, but now he will be way overpaid for what he will be able to do. So maybe it all works out in the end anyway.— The Truth Hurts- BWest should take the rest of the year off. This team is toast this year anyway. Too many injuries. Let the rookies get seasoned a year, let the injuries heal, let McNabb go & look forward to next year. There will be enough talent as long as the birdbrained coaching calls don't get in the way. I liked watching the clock tick off again yesterday with no time-outs.....didn't something similar to that happen recently? Same mistakes, week-in & week-out. Poor play balance, poor clock management, etc. etc. etc. They have done a decent job of picking talent lately.— bonnerlou
Getting another running back for this team would be like buying a car so you can continue to take the bus to work.— Mabus- Eagles suck...Reid MUST go!!! McDork shouldn't be that far behind. So many good coaches out there they could get right now after the season but stupid Lurie and co. won't do it as long as the birds are competitive...lol...give me a break! It was so nice watching a real football game last night between the Colts and Pats. Coach took a chance and they lost, Colts could have gotten the ball back at their own 1 and they still would have drove down the field to score. Nice to see a head coach with those kind of guts something you will never see out of fat boy Reid. He would probably be thinking of how many burgers he will be downing after the game since all his timeouts were already used up!!! Thanks for the memories #36 but concussions are no joke. Ride off in the sunset as healthy as you can and enjoy your millions.— tralala
- How can Reid be hesitant to say Brian's season is over? The guy sustained 2 concussions in a month!! His season is over for the sake of his own health. They rushed him back too quickly the first time and now his career is in serious jeopardy.— camtheman
- i think he will but it will be the last 2 games of the season & thats only if they are in playoff contention— scrap32
- "probably the food channel film special for Andy and Bozo the clown goes to Hollywood for McNabb" LOL i love mcnabb but that stuck my funny cord, nice
- I don't understand why the Big Redhead hasn't been making better use of Weaver. I guess he'll have to now.— schwerveness
- he's done— eagles84
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- WewantaSBRing you are a jerk. But worse, you know diddly about football. Good of you to kick a someone who is down though. Shows class with a capital 'A'.— jjk3
- jjk3 your comments are correct, except you made one mistake....in the case of WenamtaSBRing there is no cl in class.— bonnerlou
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