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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WewantaSBRing Bro, Westbrook was our ONLY OFFENSE for at least 3 years. He carried this team. He was the heart of this team. You are so dumb. Just flat out dumb. Why are Eagles fans so stupid? I am an Eagles fan my whole life but really Eagles fans are the dumbest people in sports.— iverson157- WewantaSBRing: You're a loser.— p-diddy
- Don't forget that "Concussion" is a nice way to sugarcoat a "Traumatic Brain Injury" and they take a long time to recover from (assuming a full recovery is possible). In my opinion, he should not risk his long term physical and mental health to return this season. The Eagles should put him on IR for the rest of the season and revisit this before training camp next summer. If they can put Shawn Andrews on IR for back pain / lack of heart, so they owe it to Brian Westbrook to give him the rest of the year off also.— Rob
- I don't understand why anyone would say that Westbrook is soft. He was our entire offense for years and was a huge part of the team's turnaround. Maybe these are the same people who say a guy who plays on a broken ankle and faces 300 pound men with a broken rib has no heart. I'd like to see some of these guys do a fraction of what these players do.— kingsolomonsmind
- Football is not a game where you can have two concussions in a month. Hang up the spikes Brian. You don't want to end up like Andre Waters.— Moviejunkie
- The important thing is that BWest is going to be okay in the future....Macho idiots can be haters and show their ignorance but Brian's future is far more important than the game.....Get a life folks...— nuggett
- why wasnt mccoy utilized more early on? another horrid coaching decision. sorry brian, ur screen pass td with merrils call will forever be in my memory card.— Onlineps2beast
- the team is SOFT!! just like the coaches belly...defense has no heart and mcrib and the chokies get all frustrated if they havent put up 21 pts before the 1st half!! htey will not and cannot win close games..NO HEART!!— flip77
- wewant is totally cluless— dpitone
- put a folk in him-he's done! Brian-take the money and run,you earned it for many years of saving donnie boy from the critics. No use ending up like a Joe Frazier or some other punch drunk. As for the great head coach and the star QB going to correct it, going to commnuncate better, going to fix it, going to take a look at it, going to watch films today(probably the food channel film special for Andy and Bozo the clown goes to Hollywood for McNabb),then going to prepare for the big homecoming in Chicago-HA-Same old, Same old.— jwatson
- one step at a tme, see if the events are absolutely related let's wait for real info— robinlupe
- "There was a chance he could have played the week before, but we held him out," he said. "He was symptom free." Yeah, he was symptom free from the concussion, but not from the minor ankle work he had done, for swelling!— schwerveness
- Time to consider other available RB's. McCoy is getting better, but he needs time to mature. But the real problem is play selection that includes use of RB and FB. Time to adjust the play calls.— Seed
- I think westbrook is going 2 be able 2 play again but that just me...........................
