Reid: "Pretty good chance" Kolb starts Sunday
Andy Reid said "there's a pretty good chance" Kevin Kolb will start Sunday at Tennessee. Michael Vick could not play if the Eagles had a game today.
Reid: "Pretty good chance" Kolb starts Sunday
Jonathan Tamari
Kevin Kolb looks likely to start Sunday at Tennessee. Head coach Andy said it would be a "reach" for Michael Vick to recover enough to play this week.
"There's a pretty good chance Kevin's the guy this week," Reid said.
Vick is still coping with pain and a limited range of motion due to torn cartilage in his ribs.
Vick is "making progress. If he had to play today he wouldn't be able to play," Reid said. "He'd be able to practice a little bit, but he's not obviously full speed yet."
It also sounded almost certain that DeSean Jackson will miss the game against the Titans. Reid said Jackson has "quite a bit" of soreness in his shoulders and neck, and it would be a "real stretch" for him to play Sunday. Jackson could not remember the hit that injured him.
"That wasn't like amnesia. He remembered his touchdowns and the things that happened. He didn't necessarily remember the hit," Reid said. He said the hit that took Jackson and Falcons cornerback Dunta Robinson out of the game was among the worst he has seen.
"This was like a Rocky movie with both guys knocked to the ground."
If Vick is out Sunday, that would buy him two more weeks to recover, because the Eagles have a bye after playing Tennessee. It will also give Kolb a chance to try to continue his strong showing. Reid praised Kolb for his steady attitude through his benching and rise back to a starting role, admitting that Kolb wasn't pleased with his demotion.
"I can't tell you he was real happy with me when I made that move. ... I wasn't like the most popular guy in his life at that particular time. But you would have never known that when he left my office," Reid said.
Kolb, interviewed Monday morning on SportsCenter, said it was "tough" when he was benched, especially because he wanted to wash away the bad feelings of his poor play week one. But he expressed faith in Reid's decision-making and in God.
"My whole deal is I just have trust that God puts me in a certain situation for certain reasons. Sometimes you've got to go down to come back up, and that's my mentality and I think you have to stay that way because if you let it get you down then you won't play well when it is your time," Kolb said. "Obviously my time came pretty quickly after going to the bench and I'm glad that I was ready and the team was ready."
Asked if he had done enough to earn his starting job back, Kolb side-stepped the question.
"I’m not getting into that. I think it's Mike and (my) duty to do our best to make the decision as hard as possible and keep trying to play as good as possible," Kolb said. "Wherever (Reid) goes, that's what we'll believe in."
Reid, already dealing with questions about who should play quarterback, worked to defuse any lingering questions about why Vick was allowed to arrive to Sunday's game later than most players. Reid said Vick would only have played in an emergency, and even then would only go in to hand off. Vick was in the locker room, not on the sidelines, because he was getting treatment, Reid said.
"He was there just to get treatment," he said. "I've done that with less popular players in people's eyes. ... That was an absolute emergency, emergency situation."
Reid's assessment of Vick's recovery was decidedly less optimistic than the quarterback's self evaluation last week. Vick told reporters not to count him out of the game against Atlanta.
In other injury news, Reid said defensive tackle Brodrick Bunkley and left tackle Jason Peters probably couldn't play today if they had to, though he was optimistic about wide receiver Riley Cooper.
Reid had high praise for his team after a 31-17 beating of the Falcons, and in particular praised coordinators Marty Mornhinweg and Sean McDermott.
Rest Vick another week— Gold
Comment removed.- I know this is a blog site ,,but all I read are people hating on Vick Or Kolb, why cant we all just support the EAGLES no matter who is the QB,after all, dont we just want them to win.— caddymike
- These two reporters. Are they for real? Everyone who reads philly.com reads the eagles site or sees clips of Reid on some other site. What are they reporting here, nothing, and then the posters start with the baby-arm or candy-arm. Really, the guy throws for over 300 yards, Dion Sanders calls Kolb his player of the day, and Philly.com allows these strait liners to comment? Kolb will probably win the offensive player of the week award. Enough said.— JACK V
- Let Kolb be the starter and I guarantee by the end of the season we won't have any receivers.— Klobber
Bwahaha! The Kolb haters worst nightmare happened on Sunday. Kolb blew away a good team. The haters are digging deeper than usual, still plying the same stale insults. Up next: Vick starts against a good team and stinks like he did in pre-season. Then they will disappear. And Andy "If he had to play today he wouldn't be able to play / Kolb will gain experience by sitting on the bench" Reid will make sure it happens.- There is actually a lot more Vick haters than Kolb Haters on this forum. If any of you fans can think straight and put your stupid feelings a side, Andy Reid is making a logical choice for starting Kolb next week. Vick needs to heal and he will get 2 weeks to rest with the Bye coming up. Kolb will face another tough team next week. I am not concern about our offense but mostly our defense against Chris Johnson. So for the rest of you stupid idiots trying to slip off the QBs juice, get real. Don't worry about the players.. enjoy the team. Enjoy the win. Can I get an, Amen?— gauwow
- This is all utterly ridiculous. Fact is, the Eagles have two possibly very talented Quarterbacks. Why does someone have to pick one and hate the other? Vick played amazing while in. Kolb has also played extremely well in... ONE.... game. He may have also forced the throw that took out our star wide receiver and also threw a pick... something Vick has not done. Mind you, Vick has played some very soft defenses when he has done amazing... then again.... he came out against a very strong Green Bay Defense, off the bench, and performed very well. It really is a toss up. I don't think Kolb haters or Vick haters have been proven right or wrong yet. Some of you are absolute idiots... taking one game and deciding everything from it. FYI... Detroit is terrible, but if Kolb had been behind that offensive line as opposed to the one he was behind on SUnday, the turn out would be the same?— dmo86
- Enjoy them both while you can. One of them will be gone at the end of the year and no one, not even the FO of the Eagles, knows which one it is. And they say this is a beautiful thing? It has the potential to get ugly. Reid and the FO are lucky neither Kolb or Vick is going public with their unhappiness.— greenflyer
- Well said dmo86! It's a shame they didn't post my first comment, so I'll say it a little better: Bill20 is a flat out racist.... Period!— madaboutit
- I ask myself a simple question: would the Eagles have traded McNabb to make Vick their new quarterback? I don't think so. Why not stay with the original program and start Kolb for the rest of the season?— RichB
- I understand when a deadskin's fan or cowgirl's fan rips the birds but all the negativity from supposed philly fans is what I don't get.
Shout out to philthyhoodlum_22, eaglesman1 and kannonwithak.
All very vocal last week that the eagles would be crushed by the falcons. They were all silent on Monday. We are Eagles fans so for god's sake starting acting like it. Support your team.— section117 - Comment removed.
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- Desean was absolutely led into that hit....ask him if he would prefer Kolb or Vick.— mlr710
