Is Brian Westbrook still injured?

by JasonB on Nov 11, 2008 4:01 PM EST in News Comment 8 comments

I said in my game recap that the only man that can shut down Brian Westbrook is Andy Reid. During Reid's day after press conference reporters tried to pry out of Andy the reason Westbrook was only given 13 carries.

"I'm not going to say he's 100 percent," Reid said. "But at the same time, he's good enough to where he can be effective as long as we take care of business up front."

So exactly how far under 100 percent is Westbrook?

"It's tough to say what your percentage of health is," Westbrook said when asked about Reid's assessment during Westbrook's ESPN 950-AM radio show last night. "As a player, you go into every game ready to play, but of course, you're never going to be quite 100 percent during the season. Once you get injured once in the football season, it takes a long time to get completely healthy. For me, I'm still fighting the injury bug, trying to get completely healthy. There's no question I'm not 100 percent. My goal is to be out there and try to help this team. I want to be out there until coach feels I'm not able to help this team anymore. I think I'm still able to help this team win football games."

Andy Reid offered as many excuses for the poor running game on Sunday as he did explanations

Reid called the Eagles' running woes "a combination of things" and said, "There's no reason we should be stopped in the running game like that."

Andy, we weren't stopped... we never even tried to run it. When you hand the ball off to a back 15 times you didn't try to run the ball. That's the problem.

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Jason, gotta disagree with you on the “trying” part of it… that 15 carries is in any way an insufficient attempt.

The Eagles were having trouble sustaining drives. The problem wasn’t that they weren’t trying to run, the problem was that neither the run nor the pass were consistent, they weren’t getting a lot of first downs.

When you don’t have the ball you can’t run a lot of plays, run or pass.

Before the final two drives, McNabb had thrown 26 passes, Westbrook had run the ball 10 times, Buckhalter and Jackson 4 additional times.

It’s not balanced, but it’s tough to be totally balanced when you’re running game can’t get consistent yardage.

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by BFH on Nov 11, 2008 4:24 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Andy, we weren’t stopped… we never even tried to run it. When you hand the ball off to a back 15 times you didn’t try to run the ball. That’s the problem.

I can’t watch our running game anymore. I don’t want to see it.
I propose a new style of offense: Abandon the run.
At least don’t run the football from anything remotely resembling a power set. I only want to see at most 1 TE (or Buckhalter) on the field and Westbrook teamed with 3 or 4 wide recievers (any combination of Reggie, DeSean, Curtis, Baskett and Avant)
So what if the clock stops after an incomplete pass – we’ll just run more plays…
Fling the ball around like Don Coryell did with Dan Fouts..

by cavortingEagle on Nov 11, 2008 4:29 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

no absolutely not 100%. he doesnt look as fast or as shifty

by Joe_D on Nov 11, 2008 5:10 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

+1. and he looks like he gives up on plays way too easy for him to be 100%

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by Remis on Nov 11, 2008 7:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Didn’t look like that against the Falcons.

by Nah_Roots on Nov 11, 2008 7:42 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

it actually did

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by Remis on Nov 11, 2008 8:05 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

? for jasonb

i have been trying to follow the the rookie WR stats for the season to see who gets the best in the end , for some reason every site i go to stats are slightly differrent most got EDDIE ROYAL in the lead , JACKSON # 2 and DONNIE AVERY #7 on so on but they say JACKSON only has one TD , maybe punt returns /rushing yards dont factor in , if i try to look up total yards , JACKSON seems to have the most total yards out of all. is this because he is versatile and plays different positions ? help please- stats anyone on this

i was about to jump off of wachovia center but one of akers’ kicks smacked me right in the face and knocked me backwards…

by EAGLE_MAN71 on Nov 12, 2008 3:28 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

BWest is talented and has done so much but sometimes I think the birds would be better off with a big indestructable back. I’m not saying he has to have a ton of talent just a reliable four yards and a puff of smoke every time. At this point I’d rather see BW lined up in the slot more than the backfield. We need to find someone in the offseason that can put his head down and knock a tackle or LB on his butt and not get hurt doing it. We need to start controlling the game rather than pushing injuries.

by strikeeagle on Nov 13, 2008 1:55 PM EST reply actions 0 recs