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Westbrook Rumors: Is Les Bowen calling Howard Eskin an Eagles shill?
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Westbrook Rumors: Is Les Bowen calling Howard Eskin an Eagles shill?
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We saw, briefly in two games before the first concussion, that a sharp, nonrusty Westbrook could still function very effectively. His left knee did not prevent that.
Also, I'm pretty sure this didn't come from Westbrook directly, because there is no one in the local media he is really tight with. That's just the way he is; I've never quite understood it, and at this point, I doubt I ever will. But if Brian Westbrook is thinking about hanging it up, he is the most unlikely player on the team to blab that around to anybody.
The report sounded to me like maybe what Eagles management HOPES will happen -- though an Eagles spokesman told me Monday that he is unaware of Westbrook seeking medical opinions on his knee, or contemplating retirement. If the Eagles have a role for Westbrook in 2010, it is as a complement to an emerging LeSean McCoy.
There are commenters on the article suggesting that Eskin's a mouthpiece for the Eagles (and Bowen certainly leaves the door to that interpretaion wide open). And it's reasonable to think that after last year's Brian Dawkins debacle, if the Birds again plan on unceremoniously parting ways with their most popular player in the off season, they would do well to plant a few seeds of doubt early (which would be, yes, duplicitous, but also not un-smart from a strategy standpoint).
Then again, Westbrook's very fair ponderings about his future health after sustaining two concussions do at least give this report the air of believability, though, as Bowen rightly points out, Westbrook had no specific complaints about his knee this season.
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