IS TALKIN' SOUL WITH DONOVAN MORGAN
Ravens coach John Harbaugh knows Brian Westbrook well from Harbaugh's years with the Eagles. Harbaugh told reporters at the NFL Scouting Combine Saturday that he thinks Westbrook has mileage left, and that the Ravens will be interested in signing him, when Westbrook's release becomes official on Friday.
"To me, Brian Westbrook definitely has a lot left," Harbaugh said. "I think probably the Eagles know that and everybody else knows it. He's going to have plenty of opportunities to play ... We'd be interested in Brian Westbrook; I guess I can say that, he's free.We'll just have to see what happens."
Earlier, Harbaugh said he had no thoughts on the Eagles' quarterbacking situation, other than that he trusts Andy Reid will do whatever is right for the Birds.
Harbaugh, desperate for wideout help, also expressed interest in former Eagle Terrell Owens. "We're interested in all the guys that can make our team better," Harbaugh said. He said he recalled T.O. as "a good guy and a good player" who was "respectful of the coaches and worked hard."
It's unclear if Harbaugh has suffered some sort of terrible injury to the part of his brain that controls the memory, or if he really is that bad off for somebody who can catch the ball. While he's in Indy, Harbs might want to brush up with Brad Childress on that "respectful of the coaches" business. Or, perhaps when Owens ordered Childress not to speak to him, he did it with the utmost respect.
New Cleveland GM Tom Heckert, who just left the Eagles' organization last month, didn't want to talk about the Birds' QBs or about Westbrook.
"I'd rather not say," Heckert said, when asked if he had spoken with the Eagles about any of their three quarterbacks. "I can't talk about guys under contract ... I don't have any idea what they're going to do. I really don't."
" Brian's a really good football player," Heckert said, when asked about Westbrook. Then he invoked the "under contract" argument, even though the Eagles have announced Westbrook is being released and have given his agent, Todd France, permission to speak with other teams.
"I didn't ask for permission," Heckert said, in explaining his reluctance to speak.
Earlier, Heckert was asked if he thought Kevin Kolb was ready to be a starting NFL quarterback.
"We drafted him thinking that," Heckert said. "I think you'd have to ask Philadelphia about that."
Heckert said he will have total personnel control in his new job, under team president Mike Holmgren.
"Coach Holmgren's going to be the voice of the team, and I think he's going to leave all the personnel stuff up to me," Heckert said. He said he will be involved in talking to agents about contracts, something Heckert didn't really do in Philadelphia.
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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