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In a blog posting earlier this week, listing things he is thankful for, Donovan McNabb announced he and his wife Roxie have become parents again. Their fourth child, Devin James McNabb, was born a week ago today, McNabb said.
After practice Friday, McNabb said everyone is doing well, and he said he won't be attempting to field a McNabb family basketball team of youngsters. 'That's it -- that's all for us," said McNabb, who turned 33 Wednesday.
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Corners Asante Samuel (neck) and Sheldon Brown (hamstring) were full practice participants Friday, though Samuel is listed as "questionable" for Sunday's game. Samuel and Eagles coach Andy Reid indicated he will play.
Also questionable, after sitting out to calm down some knee swelling Friday, was Jeremiah Trotter. Again, both Reid and Trotter said Trot will play against the Redskins, but the swelling is a little concerning, given that Reid listed starting weakside linebacker Akeem Jordan as "out" again this week with his knee hyperextension. The plan is to again split the middle between Trotter and Joe Mays, with Will Witherspoon taking Jordan's place, a configuration that worked reasonably well last week in Chicago.
Reid said right tackle Shawn Andrews is in Dallas, getting a second opinion on the need for more back surgery. Reid 
said Dr. Robert Watkins, the California specialist caring for Andrews, asked that he get another view. Apparently, Watkins feels Andrews needs work on two discs if he intends to play football again. Andrews has essentially missed the last two seasons with back trouble.
"He just hasn't made progress from the rehab, and it's not from lack of effort," Reid said.
Reid said Andrews' setback was not connected to the team's decision to give replacement Winston Justice a four-year contract extension this week.
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
and follow
him on Twitter.
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
him on Twitter.
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