Jarrett could start for concussed Allen
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Jarrett could start for concussed Allen
Jeff McLane
Nate Allen has yet to undergo testing for the concussion he suffered in the Eagles' 30-24 loss to Chicago on Monday night, leaving his status up in the air for next week.
If Allen can't play against the Cardinals on Sunday, rookie Jaiquawn Jarret will likely get his first career start at safety. Jarrett jumped in for Allen after he went down in the first quarter.
Allen said he was "alright" after leaving the NovaCare Complex Tuesday afternoon. He said he had not yet undergone concussion testing in order to be cleared for practice. He added that he did not believe he ever had a concussion before.
Eagles coach Andy Reid sounded pleased with Jarrett's spot duty against the Bears. Up until that point the Eagles second-round pick had only played on special teams.
“You know what, he did pretty good," Reid said. "He’s got some things he’s got to work on there, but I thought for the most part stepping in with a limited amount of reps, I thought he did a pretty good job."
- In other injury news, Reid said that guard Evan Mathis suffered a "turf toe" in the game and had an MRI on Tuesday. Reid said that he thought Mathis would struggle to practice on Wednesday. Mathis left the Bears game late and was replaced by lineman King Dunlap.
- Reid said that defensive end Juqua Parker, who missed the game with a high ankle sprain, was improving.
- Reid was asked if he needed to replace Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie as the nickel cornerback with Joselio Hanson. "With Dominique, he’s going to continue to get better, and he’s working hard at it," Reid said. "It’s a little different when you move from the outside to the inside, and he’ll keep working on it.”
At least the Eagles didn't wait to the end of the season to break our hearts this year....they put us out of our misery early. We are now technically in a better situation to win the Andrew Luck sweepstakes than to make the playoffs. Sad but true.— mish798798- Not true. This team just needs to tweak a few things. We have receivers that can stretch the field with speed, but we need one that can not only stretch the field but big that can go up and fight for the ball make catches in jump ball situations. Our 5'8 receivers can't do that. We need toughness so when we are down Vick can put it up there and be confident that the receiver will come up with the catch. This has been a rebuilding season, next season we'll be the team the others are chasing. Who knows, we could win out we have a favorable schedule the second half of the season. Falcons and Bears have tough games coming up within their divisions. We finish 11-5 and the Falcons and Bears finish at 10-6 we could get that last wild card spot.
- Jeff: how come you haven't been tasked with writing about the Occupy people yet? Isn't is a mandate that every Inqy reporter turn in at least one puff piece on the nitwits?— jimmymack
Comment removed.- mish798798 - well said, good point. we'll be reading sixers articles on this site come january instead of our usual dreams for football glory.— sore richard
- DRC should go to one corner Nnamdie on the other Hanson in the slot and bench Ashante. Let DRC play where he is most comfortable, scale things back for Nnamdie, let Hanson do what he does and has been doing before those guys got here. Play a more conventional 4-3 to help the limitations the line backers are having with the wide 9. Play more man because we are getting killed in that zone. Vick needs that big receiver that he can go to who will catch anything close to him. Right now we don't have that guy.
- Yawn !— dmanphilly
- Can we give Nnamdi over to the Jets. Can we give DRC back to Cardinals. Can we have FFAR accused of Sandusky stuff to get him out of town? Please, oh Please. I'll be good. This team is lackluster and soft. They have no ability to tackle, cover, catch, throw or block. But other than that they are a very good team. Hogwash.— momzer1812
- 1. jimmymack, you're the nitwit. What country do you live in? Here in the US the Constitution affirms the people's right to assemble when they have grievances. Many people have grievances these days. Maybe anything that smacks of politics should be banned on this site. It's about sports.
2. I think Castillo should go. Yesterday. He has a "system" in place for which he doesn't have the personnel, and can't adapt. Halfway into the season he concocts a totally ridiculous game plan which obviously confused his players.
Rolle is the real deal at LB: maybe B. Graham could work into the MLB spot.— rad205 - can you spell coaching changes? like NOW...— dedhed
- who cares— peteike
- Jarret looked real good on the play where he got carried 8 yards downfield— Luriesucks
