Les Bowen: The Bottom Line - Lots of targets, one football

SUDDENLY, ANDY Reid is in the unaccustomed position of having to juggle some big-time offensive talent - and the egos that come with that talent.

Is DeSean Jackson really happy with one catch for 1 yard (from Michael Vick, at that) on Sunday? Are Brian Westbrook and LeSean McCoy really interchangeable parts? Now that Jeremy Maclin has joined the party, where's his niche going forward?

"It's definitely frustrating to go from a situation where you're getting all those catches, and then you have a game with one catch," Jackson said last night on ESPN 950's "DeSean Jackson Show." He has 13 catches for 260 yards in four games. "There's going to be times when the other team is going to try to take me out of the game. It was good to see Jeremy go over the top and make those catches ... Jeremy just came up huge ... As long as we're winning, everybody's happy."

Reid and Donovan McNabb said after Sunday's win that the Bucs rolled their coverage to Jackson, a big part of why rookie Maclin always seemed open, to the tune of six catches for 142 yards and his first two NFL TDs.

"He's a competitive little guy, man ... you're going to run into games like that every once in a while," Reid said yesterday, when asked about Jackson's decoy role against the Bucs. "You work through it. He'll get back at it [tomorrow] and then we'll keep trying to design ways to get him the football."

Jackson said he would never go to McNabb and ask for the ball.

"It'll work out," he said. "It'll work out for the best."

"Those things happen," said Reid, who quoted slot receiver Jason Avant's assertion that "when one of the receivers makes a catch, they all make a catch - it's all for one there."

Westbrook made it clear afterward that eight touches a game is not what he has in mind, now that he feels his ankle is healthy.

Reid said the Eagles would rotate Westbrook and McCoy "as long as we need to, and as long as [Westbrook] feels comfortable with his foot. We can increase things, but right now, that's where we're at, and we'll see how it works this week."