Eagles Notes: Ankle injury knocks Jean-Gilles out for the season

November 28, 2008|By Bob Brookover and Ray Parrillo, Inquirer Staff Writers
  • Donovan McNabb consoles injured guard Max Jean-Gilles, who suffered an injury that will keep him out for the rest of the season. Nick Cole took Jean-Gilles' spot on the line.

The Eagles' already depleted guard rotation got even thinner last night when Max Jean-Gilles had to leave the game against the Arizona Cardinals late in the first half with a broken right ankle.

Jean-Gilles is done for the season.

As Jean-Gilles engaged in pass protection along with center Jamaal Jackson, his knees were taken out from beneath him by Arizona Cardinals linebacker Chike Okeafor, who whiffed on a tackle attempt of quarterback Donovan McNabb.

Jean-Gilles, who has filled in for the injured Shawn Andrews in every game since Week 2 of the season, was placed in an air cast and carted from the field with 12 seconds left in the first half.

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Nick Cole took over at right guard.

Prime Time rips fans. Deion Sanders had some not-so-nice things to say about Eagles fans after the team's 48-20 win over Arizona.

McNabb arrived at the NFL Network's set at Lincoln Financial Field for a postgame interview. Many fans stayed in the stands to applaud McNabb, who threw four touchdowns in the victory.

As fans chanted McNabb's name, Sanders interrupted.

"Can I tell them something for you?" he said. "First of all, I would like to tell all these idiotic fans to shut up. Don't get on his bandwagon now. You're the same guys who booed him on his first incompletion."

Host Rich Eisen then asked Sanders what he thought of the Philadelphia fans.

"I can't stand them. I really can't," Sanders said. "It's not because I was a former Cowboy, because I didn't give a darn about any fans. They all hated me because I performed well.

"But the way they treated this man from day one, it's not justifiable. They will not treat any other quarterback in the NFL, like we said, Peyton Manning don't get treated like that. Tom Brady. And I know you [McNabb] can't say it . . ."

Success at last. It may have been the first 2-yard gain in NFL history to be followed by a standing ovation.

With the Eagles in one of those pesky third-and-1 situations during the game's first possession at Lincoln Financial Field, coach Andy Reid called for a backfield tandem of locals that no one could have ever imagined when the season began.

Lined up to the left of McNabb was fullback Dan Klecko, the former Temple star who was still a defensive tackle two months ago.

Lined up to the quarterback's right was Kyle Eckel, the former Episcopal Academy and Navy star who dressed for the first time since joining the Eagles last month.

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