The Friday debridement of running back Brian Westbrook’s ankle has been characterized by agent Todd France as a “minor procedure.”

Per Bob Brookover of the Philadelphia Inquirer, it’s anything but.

“I’m just concerned that it is being underplayed,” an unnamed source close to the situation told Brookover.  “It’s a lot more than a little spur and it’s much more than the knee arthroscopy he had [in February].”

Still, a team source told Brookover that it’s not a “major procedure.”

The deeper concern should be, in our view, that the needle on Westbrook’s football gas tank is getting dangerously close to “E”.  It’s one of the basic realities of playing running back in the NFL, where the fame and the glory comes with less money than players at most other positions and a shortened career.

The third-round pick in the 2002 draft will be 30 when the next NFL season starts, and it would be wise for the Eagles to begin reducing their expectations when it comes to Westbrook’s contributions, both in the short-term and down the road. -profootballtalk.com

Typically I would chime in here and say don’t worry about this it’s nothing but maybe it is something.  I had clean up surgery like this 2 times before another doctor got in there and said your ankle is a lot worse then what we expected.  And was he ever right.  It went from a partial tear with my other doctor, who operated on me 2 times for minor scar tissue removal and clean up.  To blown out for reconstruction surgery.  And how that sucked I was down and out for a good 6 months, and I could not run normal for a good year.  And I was a fast healer said my doctor.  Hopefully its not all that serious.

On another note due to this I hope the Eagles don’t go out there and sign some washed up old player like Duece.  Who knows maybe they will and maybe I will eat my own words.  We shall see.