Les Bowen: Further review: Eagles' wideout corps looking thin

December 01, 2009|by Les Bowen
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There will be an extra layer of hoopla this week surrounding Michael Vick's return to Atlanta. Vick probably wishes he was coming off last week's game, when he could point to a 34-yard run and a third-down conversion on a handoff to LeSean McCoy as his most recent work. As meager as those accomplishments might seem for a three-time Pro Bowl quarterback, they're way better than Sunday's two carries for 4 yards and one incomplete pass.

The problem with the way the Eagles try to use Vick is, he comes in for one snap, leaves, then might or might not show up again at some point way down the line. The pass play against the Redskins, my recollection is he play-faked, then rolled left before missing a wide-open Brent Celek. It was a sequence that required really precise timing.

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Awful miss, yes, but how easy is it to do something like that, coming in cold? I've talked to Vick about this a couple times. He knows anything he says sounds like an excuse, but it's a fact - as rusty as he is, the Eagles manage to make him look even rustier by the way they use him.

"In between series he continues to throw, both he and Kevin [Kolb]," Andy Reid said yesterday. "Is it tough? It shouldn't be too tough. He'll be fine. We'll get him a few more reps in there and he'll be fine."

A few more reps - that would be the issue.

 

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