THINKS THE EAGLES STOLE ONE
The Eagles announced that guard Shawn Andrews has reported to the team's Lehigh University training camp. He apparently arrived sometime early Sunday afternoon. It's still unclear when Andrews, who is battling depression and has missed the first three weeks of camp, will practice with the team.
``Still no idea,'' said club spokesman Derek Boyko. ``We're taking it day by day here.''
Andrews was taken off the team's reserve-did not report list and was placed on the active-physically unable to perform list. He will be taken off the list when he returns to practice. To make room on the team's 80-man training camp roster, the Eagles released offensive lineman Franklin Dunbar, who was waived-injured with a lower back injury.
Earlier in the day, head coach Andy Reid said Andrews would not practice with the team on Monday.
``I just want to sit down and talk with him face to face and make sure everything's set up for him here so he can be successful,'' Reid said. ``I'm going to gradually feed him back in. But I want to see how he's doing. That's my primary focus right now.
``I'm sure there's some apprehension there. But I know he wants to get back going, get back with the guys.''
Here is more from Reid on the Andrews situation.
Also, cornerback Asante Samuel, who returned to practice Sunday morning after missing the last three weeks with a hamstring injury, then took himself out an hour and 15 minutes in when he appeared to tweak the injury, did participate in the Eagles' afternoon workout Sunday. But because of poor weather, it was conducted indoors at about one-quarter speed.
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.
Paul Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982. He has spent most of his 27 years at 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 came to the Daily News from the Fort Worth (Tx.) Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually wa s boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose two sports coats to blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley, a University of Oklahoma grad and very dangerous to be around following a Sooner loss, have been married 29 years and have raised 2 terrific daughters – Allison, 26, a lawyer and graduate of Boston University School of Law; and Amy, 23, who graduated from Clemson and works in marketing and sales for a professional baseball team.
