SCORES TWICE AFTER A PUCK TO THE FACE
Here is a sampling of what Eagles coach Andy Reid had to say after the game:
"There were some good things and some bad things. There were some things that were close that could have gone on either way and didn't go our way.
On the challenges: Hindsight is 20-20. You probably would like to have those back. They didn't go the way I anticipated . I can't go into the challenges unless you are willing to pay for it. I'm seeing there and then have feedback upstairs.
On the mistakes: We had too many penalties period. We need to do a better job ... We had too many mistakes. We'll get back on the horse.
On DeSean Jackson being contained: "They did a good job of rolling the coverage to him."
On kicking the late field goal: "Listen I thought we could hold them with four minutes left and come back and win the game, but it didn't work out that way.
On the Cowboys: "We knew it was going to be two heavyweights swinging at each other and that's what it was. tough hard-fought game ... They got the better of us today."
On the offense: "I thought they did a decent job of covering us down the field. That's going to happen. You have to work your way through the progression. With their skill up front you have to do that quickly. We could have better plays in there from my standpoint. Everybody had a little peice of it. That's the way it happens in games like this. You gotta keep battling through it."
On Miles Austin's TD: "They had a double move there. Sheldon played a heck of a game, but they got him a with a double move there. It happens."
On Westbrook: "He felt good during the week. He practiced during the week. It's a crazy deal. I know this. If he has those, I'm going to go more on the conversative side and take every precautionary measure possible. I'm not going to stick him out there, even if the tests are positive."
Asked if he felt one got away, he said: "One did get away, but it's not the end of the season." He said the Eagles have to refocus to go to the West Coast next week against San Diego and do better than they did at Oakland."
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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