Eagles coach Andy Reid looks like a guy who might know a thing or two about ribs.
So who are we to question his use of the word “sticky” when describing the progress Philly needs to see from Donovan McNabb’s ribcage?
According to Les Bowen’s blog on Philly.com, Reid means that McNabb’s injured rib needs to stop “moving up and down before he plays.” Hence, sticky.
Meanwhile, McNabb’s backup Kevin Kolb will take all the first-team reps in practice with Michael Vick and newly-acquired Jeff Garcia running the scout team. Still, Reid isn’t ruling McNabb out for Sunday’s game with the Saints.
“I’m taking it day-by-day, literally,” he said. “That’s kind of what you do with rib injuries. You just kind of see how the thing heals up. It was fractured so it takes a little bit of time. It wasn’t fractured all the way through. It was a stress fracture.”
Given Reid’s very refreshing openness about injuries, we will now drop the “sticky rib” business. Unless in the near future he refers to any defenders having been “lightly braised” in coverage.
Mick Vick is gonna be the new Tom Brady. Vick comes in a fills in and takes over the Eagles to the Super Bowl this year, while McNabb is off released in the offseason have after having trade talks stalled with several unnamed teams.
Bring back the McRib!
Classic. I’m now going to use the term “lightly braised” whenever someone gets beat in coverage.
Is this supposed to say it was or was not fractured all the way through because I thought a stress fracture was the kind that was NOT all the way through to the other side?
Everyone knows that dry rub is the way to go. Don’t sauce the ribs.
So it’s officially time to start calling Donovan ‘McRib’ then?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Wow, a fat guy that might like ribs. This is genius writing. What happened to this site?
Seriously, being an Eagles fan, I find it quite annoying that everyone keeps joking about Andy Reid and his weight problem. It has been ongoing since ’99. Same jokes, over and over.
McNabb….. is a Hawg in the Game!
I wonder if he calls the locker room sauna “the smokehouse”?
Its funny because its true.
“Sticky” is he referring to his sons hands
@gnop05, get over it. that’s how it works. think the pats fans are tired of the cheating comments? how about the romo-homo comments?
if you’re so thin-skinned, stay at home and cry in your basement.
I want my baby back, baby back, baby back, baby back…
jkidd’s right. Stress fractures and “all the way through” (compound) fractures are two completely different things. Andy needs to clarify.
Andy prefers cheeseburgers with mayo
This would have been really hillarious if Childress was still with the Eagles then we could have said “Chilly’s baby back ribs…bbq sauce…” LOL
ShawshankReception says:
September 16, 2009 2:30 PM
I want my baby back, baby back, baby back, baby back…
southernboi727 says: “Mick Vick is gonna be the new Tom Brady. Vick comes in a fills in and takes over the Eagles to the Super Bowl this year, while McNabb is off released in the offseason have after having trade talks stalled with several unnamed teams”
Clearly you missed Vick’s performance in the preseason. At this point, Garcia is Philly’s best bet. He can actually complete a pass which puts him miles ahead of Vick.
compound means all the way through all right… all the way through the skin and pokin out all scary… think Joe Theisman with his shin stickin out of his sock, yeah, thats compound. take a look at this link: http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=8083
that’s just a very homo punchline!!!
Well, Reid DID lose like 75lbs this off season…. if he loses another 30-40lbs, what will people say then?
Lovie Smith used to be a pretty big dude tooo.
It is all very, very funny. If you can’t poke fun at yourself or those you love, what good is life?
McRibb being replaced by Cherry Garcia, now that is not funny!
Eagles best chance of winning is with McNabb, we need a speedy recovery!
Wow…a fat joke…clever…
His ribs shouldn’t even be broken. Those fat pieces of shit jumped on him after he was already in the endzone.
At least he did’nt call his ribs succulent. We would have lost Andy there for awhile.
Every single one of you that is trying to differentiate between what YOU think Andy Reid said during his press conference and trying to be a medical hero.
Andy said it is “was’nt” a stress fracture, it was fractured all the way through. Maybe you Mr. Jump the Tom Curran can have your ears cleaned out and watch the press conference again and get your dang quote right. Put your hearing aid in this time Curran.
Even though Reid said the term “Sticky”, he did state that the doctor’s used this term.
http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/multimedia/index.html?mm_file_id=7654&play_clip=y
Guess I have to add another notable errors in reporting post to profootballtalk.com’s wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profootballtalk.com
The link is bad.. they keep changing it. Click on Press Conferences and Sep16. Andy Reid
southernboi727 = MORON
..and, his name is Mike….not Mick!
Funniest Andy Reid line since I’ve been reading PFT.
Anti-Eagles trolls, take notes.
I would have also accepted a joke about the McRib Sandwich, only this one was served up between two Panthers defenders.
“I want my choker back choker back choker back McRibs… with loser sauce”
“Well, Reid DID lose like 75lbs this off season…. if he loses another 30-40lbs, what will people say then?”
That he’s still morbidly obese.
I think I was censored.
Well so you dopn’t think less of me, here goes.
Philly fans could give a flyin flip what other teams fans think of us.
we are guilty of all the crap you guys can dig up, the holocaust, columbine, the manson murders and yes snowballs at that fat ass Santa. Whatcha gonna do.
hey to everybody making stupid comments: (especially VOX the “pink box” and the penguin bondage guy who wishes he had the pens on his side of the state). come to realize that your teams suck, or choke.
Yous guys are always doing something to make yourselves seem really stupid, topping it off with your idiotic ramblings and antics that you would just get your ass kicked for. (if you ever leave your mommas house).
WIN A SUPERBOWL OR STANLEY…please… that will help you with your inner aggressions. And THEN you will KNOW your teams are actually better than everybody else like you ALL claim.
Jerkoff’s!
Love, Myron Cope
ps. here’s a towel wipe your eye.
Obviously no one here actually listened to the press conference. Sticky is a very common phrase in orthopedics, it is slang. However, it means there is enough callous built up at the fracture site so the bone affected sticks together and doesn’t move. The fracture has started to heal but is not completely healed. Andy is no idiot apparently most of you are.
Don’t the Pirates now hold the record for the longest consecutive streak of losing seasons out of all the major sports?
Didn’t the Eagles beat the Steelers the last time the two played?
Am I envious of the 6 rings as an Eagles fan? Hell yes. Are the jokes funny even if repetitive? Sometimes, although clearly at this point it just shows a lack of creativity for the most part. But it’s 2009, not 2008, so I’ll focus on this year, not the glory of past years, and certainly not the glory of teams that played before most of the readers of PFT were born.
Today, September 16, 2009 Pittsburgh and Philadelphia’s football teams are both 1-0, and Pittsburgh actively has the worst professional sports team in the history of professional sports.