Posted by ESPN.com's Matt Mosley
I've been reading over the transcript of what Andy Reid told reporters in Philly today and thought I'd share some of it with you:
- Reid explained at length why he was comfortable bringing back linebacker Jeremiah Trotter after two years away from the team: "I go right to his knee," Reid said. "I wanted that looked at, observed by our doctors. He had it cleaned out and before he left here he had a lot of swelling. He couldn’t straighten his leg and therefore his quads went, his glutes went and he wasn’t able to explode like he had been in the past. He had told me that the swelling had gone down; he had been working on it and the swelling hadn’t come back. But again, he wasn’t doing football. I thought it was important to bring him in here and see where he was at. We hammered him pretty good and the swelling stayed out of the knee, his change of direction was better where he couldn’t do that before, to where I thought he could help us. It looked like it was back and throughout the whole week the swelling stayed out of there and there were no signs of him not being able to fire his quad and extend his knee. We’ll see. We’ll take it week by week here and see how he does.”
- On how the team has reacted to Donovan McNabb's return: "I think everybody is excited to have Donovan back. I think they brought Kevin Kolb in, I thought Kevin handled himself great and I think the players really responded to him. It’s always good to have all of your starters back in there and playing. You’re talking about one of the all-time greats playing quarterback there. Somebody who has been here a long time and when it’s all said and done will be one of all-time greatest to play that position, so it’s always good to get that kind of a player back in there."
- On how much he plans to play Michael Vick in this game: "We’ll see how it all works out. He’ll be in there somewhere this week. We’ll just see how the numbers go there. We don’t have a set number, just have to play it by ear and see how things go."
- On whether or not guard Stacy Andrews will start against the Bucs: "Yes he is. We rotated him the last game and I have three guys in there where I feel comfortable doing that. They’ll do the same thing this week. Max [Jean-Gilles] will probably get a little more time at both sides. Last time he and Stacy rotated, but we have a good little thing there where we can give those guys a blow if needed."
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Mosley, an award-winning writer for The Dallas Morning News for seven years, joined ESPN.com in January 2007. Mosley, a Baylor graduate, writes columns, features and blogs for ESPN.com.