IS TALKIN' SOUL WITH DONOVAN MORGAN
Eagles coach Andy Reid today said that Pro Bowl DE Trent Cole could miss as much as a month, according to reports, with a "significant" strained right calf suffered late in Sunday's loss to the Niners.
Pro Bowl left tackle Jason Peters' strained left hamstring, suffered on the last offensive play Sunday, could cost Peters "significant" time, too.
King Dunlap confirmed that he will start for LT Jason Peters (hamstring) this week, and expects to start next week, too. Peters is expected to return after the bye.
Reid said in bothCole and Peters' cases, "the next couple of days will be very important." He said both players are "very sore today."
Asked about the importance of losing two Pro Bowl players, one on each side of the ball, Reid said, “I expect other guys to step up and play. If somebody goes down, the next guy steps in and let’s go.”
Also, DT Antonio Dixon tore his left triceps and is out for the season. That makes a total of four defensive linemen (Juqua Parker, ankle; Darryl Tapp, pectoral strain) with injury issues.
Reid said Tapp has made "quite a little bit of progress" and should be out on the field for practice Wednesday. He said Tapp is "very close" to returning.
Parker also is "getting better." Reid said it was unknown yet whether Parker would be able to return to practice.
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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
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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
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