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Curtis catches 11 passes for 221 yards in Eagles win
By RANDY PENNELL, Associated Press Writer
September 23, 2007

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- It took three weeks, but Kevin Curtis finally proved to be the big-play threat the Eagles thought he would be.

Curtis needed just a quarter to set a career high for yards receiving and finished with 221 yards on 11 catches and three touchdowns Sunday in Philadelphia's 56-21 win over the Detroit Lions.

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"We definitely had some room out there to run around in the secondary," Curtis said. "We were able to just kind of exploit that with the way the line blocked up front."

Curtis' 205 yards receiving in the first half were the most in a single half since Buffalo's Lee Evans posted the same total last year against Houston.

The Eagles initially announced that Curtis' performance had tied Evans' record for a first-half performance, with records only available as far back as 1991. Steve Largent had 224 yards in the first half of an Oct. 18, 1987, replacement game for Seattle against Detroit.

The Lions' Roy Williams had nine catches for 204 yards, making this the first time in NFL history that two players had more than 200 yards receiving in the same game.

"They were playing off coverage on a couple of those (plays), and on a couple of them they came up and tried to bang him around and he was a little quicker than they were," Eagles coach Andy Reid said.

Curtis was approaching the Eagles single-game record for receiving yards but dropped a pass late in the game that would have put him close to Tommy McDonald's mark of 237 yards set in 1961.

"I know I had a drop at the end that would've helped my cause," Curtis said.

After signing a free-agent contract with the Eagles in the offseason, Curtis was expected to provide Philadelphia with a reliable big-play threat after the team decided not to re-sign speedster Donte' Stallworth.

But through his first two games, Curtis -- like the rest of the Eagles offense -- was a disappointment, catching six passes for 81 yards.

That changed fast on Sunday.

Curtis caught touchdown passes of 68, 12 and 43 yards from Donovan McNabb as the Eagles built a 42-21 lead in the first half.

McNabb hit Curtis on a post for the 68-yard TD in the first quarter and found Curtis open after a play-action fake for the 12-yarder in the second. Then, following a Detroit punt, Curtis got loose down the left sideline for an easy touchdown catch that gave the Eagles a 35-7 lead.

"When you get in a situation like that where a guy's hot like that versus a defender you continue to stay with him," McNabb said.

Curtis caught six passes for 132 yards in the first quarter. His previous single-game best was 105 yards in 2005.
 

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Receptions for Curtis:

Game 1:1
Game 2:2
Game 3:2
Dodovan cries about being black.
Game 4:11

The world is a stage.
 

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C Darwin said:
Receptions for Curtis:

Game 1:1
Game 2:2
Game 3:2
Dodovan cries about being black.
Game 4:11

The world is a stage.

Uh, wasn't yesterday's game the Eagles' third regular season tilt of 2007?

John
 

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foreverfree said:
C Darwin said:
Receptions for Curtis:

Game 1:1
Game 2:2

Dodovan cries about being black.
Game 3:11

The world is a stage.

Uh, wasn't yesterday's game the Eagles' third regular season tilt of 2007?

John

You got it right. I hope my point isn't lost. It seems contrived to have Donovan piss an moan about being black, and a few days later, have an underutilized white receiver be his primary target.
 

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C Darwin said:
foreverfree said:
C Darwin said:
Receptions for Curtis:

Game 1:1
Game 2:2

Dodovan cries about being black.
Game 3:11

The world is a stage.

Uh, wasn't yesterday's game the Eagles' third regular season tilt of 2007?

John

You got it right. I hope my point isn't lost. It seems contrived to have Donovan piss an moan about being black, and a few days later, have an underutilized white receiver be his primary target.

well, he is their number 1 receiver... Brown is a joke, really.
 
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Brown had 2 receptions for 23 yards in that game.
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The philly fans kept mentioning that Brown hasn't been doing much lately.
 

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One Detroit paper mentioned the Lions defense finally got exposed because they played a team that has a QB that can throw and a speedy deepthreat (Curtis).
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The Philadelphia Daily News had Curtis all over it's back page today, all by himself, and all triumphant.

And from the Wilmington News Journal is this writ from another white Kevin, last name Noonan...

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200 70924/SPORTS13/709240322/1034/SPORTS


http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=200 70924&Category=SPORTS13&ArtNo=709240322&SectionCat=SPORTS&Te mplate=printart

With cash in his pocket, Curtis goes for broke
Posted Monday, September 24, 2007
PHILADELPHIA -- This is why Kevin Curtis wanted to play for the Eagles, why any wide receiver in his right mind would want to play for the Eagles.

With the possible exception of sharing a huddle with Peyton Manning, there's no better place for an NFL receiver than South Philly, home to a team with a Pro Bowl quarterback, one of the best offensive lines in the business and a coach who loves to throw the ball.

That's why Curtis was able to catch more passes (nine) for more yards (205) and more touchdowns (three) in one half than he had ever caught in an entire game.

That's why he was able to come within 16 yards of the Eagles' all-time record for receiving yardage for a game -- Curtis finished with 11 catches for 221 yards. The record is 237 yards, set by Hall of Famer Tommy McDonald against the New York Giants in 1961.

The Eagles have had a lot of great receivers since then -- Harold Jackson, Harold Carmichael, Mike Quick, Fred Barnett, Irving Fryar and, yes, Terrell Owens -- and none of them had a day like Curtis did on Sunday, as he helped the Eagles torch the Detroit Lions 56-21 at Lincoln Financial Field.

"He lit it up,'' Eagles guard Shawn Andrews said. "He just absolutely lit it up.''

Curtis has been waiting a long time to shine like this. In St. Louis, he was the No. 3 receiver on a team that starts Torry Holt and Isaac Bruce. So when he got a chance to join a good team -- a good passing team -- and become the No. 1 receiver, he jumped at it, although he did almost sign with another team (ironically, Detroit).

"There are a lot of things that go into that decision,'' he said. "I wanted to win and I wanted to have a part in it and contribute. I felt like Philadelphia was a great place to be for that.

"As a free agent, you're kind of looking at the teams you [could] go to,'' Curtis added, "and this is the kind of stuff the Eagles have done in the past.''

But one thing has changed, something the Eagles haven't done in the past -- they gave good money to a good receiver. The Eagles signed Curtis to a six-year deal worth $32 million, with about $9 million guaranteed.

In the past, the Eagles haven't spent much money on receivers. They pay the quarterback and the people who protect the quarterback, but for the most part, the guys who catch the quarterback's passes have been a patchwork quilt of has-beens and never-wases.

Since Andy Reid became coach in 1999, the Eagles have had just one receiver make it to the Pro Bowl -- Owens. And he didn't make much money with the Eagles; it was his demand for more that caused the rift between him and the team.

Other than that, Reid has been content with journeymen like Charles Johnson and Torrance Small and Todd Pinkston and James Thrash, and drafted forgettable receivers such as Na Brown and Freddie Mitchell and Billy McMullen and (so far) Reggie Brown.

And after the first two games, it looked like Curtis was just another warm body, with six catches for 81 yards and no touchdowns -- statistics he matched or surpassed in the first quarter alone on Sunday, when he had six catches for 132 yards and a TD in less.

"After struggling the first two weeks, it felt great just to come out and kind of explode and go off like we did,'' Curtis said.

It's debatable whether that explosion came from the Eagles' offense or the trick cigar the Lions' defense was puffing on. Curtis ran past them for a 68-yard TD in the first quarter and the Lions busted the coverage on his 43-yard touchdown.

But it doesn't matter whether it was him or them. For one day at least, Kevin Curtis was in the right place at the right time with the right team.

OTOH Curtis did not make either the front page or the back page of the Delaware County Daily Times. Westbrook made one side and McDrab IIRC the other.
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C Darwin said:
foreverfree said:
C Darwin said:
Receptions for Curtis:

Game 1:1
Game 2:2

Dodovan cries about being black.
Game 3:11

The world is a stage.

Uh, wasn't yesterday's game the Eagles' third regular season tilt of 2007?

John

You got it right. I hope my point isn't lost. It seems contrived to have Donovan piss an moan about being black, and a few days later, have an underutilized white receiver be his primary target.
I love the irony.
 

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Curtis is a little off my pace for 80 catches for 1400 yards and 10 TDs, but it's still a hell of a season. Especially with the way McNabb has appeared to be afraid to throw the ball down field this year. McNabb hasn't looked too good this year with the exception of two games, he looks tentative or something; I can't really put a handle on it. All I can tell you is, living in NJ and seeing the Eagles a lot this season, McNabb doesn't look the same as in years past.
 

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DraftDaddy linked an interesting column that denounces the fools who are blaming the Eagle wide receivers as the "big problem" with the team's lack of success. it also has some interesting numbers about Kevin Curtis...
Paul Domowitch | Birds' wideouts receiving unfair knocks
by Paul Domowitch
Philadelphia Daily News

THERE ARE plenty of things to criticize the Eagles for right now without making stuff up.
Want to rip them for blowing all that free-agent money on underachievers Jevon Kearse and Darren Howard? Be my guest.

Want to call them out for wasting high-round draft picks on stiffs like Jerome McDougle, Matt McCoy, Matt Ware, Ryan Moats and Billy McMullen? Go for it.

But the popular talk-show notion that the problem with the 3-5 Eagles right now is that they don't have good enough wide receivers, well, that one I'm not buying.

Would it be great to have Randy Moss or Chad Johnson or Larry Fitzgerald or Plaxico Burress or that guy down in Dallas? Absolutely. But there are only about a dozen legitimate No. 1 receivers in the league.

The reason the Eagles have plummeted from third to 11th in the league in passing and from sixth to 18th in scoring is not because of Reggie Brown and Kevin Curtis.

When Brown was averaging 17.7 yards per catch and hauling in a team-high eight touchdown passes last season, I don't recall anyone in radioland suggesting he wasn't good enough. And the difference between last year's other starting wideout, Donté Stallworth, and his replacement this year, Curtis, is, well, there isn't really a difference.

"It's a wash," said a personnel man for an NFC North team.

There is a perception that Stallworth is night-and-day faster than Curtis. The truth is, the speed difference between them is negligible. In his workout for scouts before the '02 NFL draft, Stallworth ran a 4.32 40. A year later, before the '03 draft, Curtis ran a 4.41.

Last year, Stallworth averaged 3.2 receptions per game for the Eagles. Curtis is averaging 4.6. Last year, Stallworth averaged 60.4 receiving yards per game. Curtis is averaging 79.1. Last year, Stallworth averaged .42 touchdowns per game. Curtis is averaging .50. The only category Stallworth outproduced Curtis is yards per catch. He averaged 19.1 last year, while Curtis is averaging a slightly lower, but still impressive 17.1.

Right now, Curtis is on a 74-catch, 1,266-yard, eight-touchdown pace. That second figure would be the third-highest in Eagles history, behind only Mike Quick's 1,409 yard in '83 and Irving Fryar's 1,316 yards in '97.

Not good enough? Not quite.

the original link here
 

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Beat me to it, I was just about to post that!

Also, Love how draftdaddy makes a cynical comment about Kornheiser's lack of commentary skills! We all at this site know how much of an anti-white prick he is!

DD.comment: Doesn't surprise us at all that the "rowdy" Philly fans are scapegoating Kevin Curtis, despite his fine stats and solid play, as they seem to be following the lead of the brilliant Tony Kornheiser, who basically dubbed Curtis a total scrub earlier in the season. If he said it, it must be correct?

Edited to add: They are certainly right about Phili fans being rowdy. I'd go a step further; how about stupid and nuts! One of my friends almost got literally killed there when he was cheering for the Packers at a game in Phili!Edited by: ToughJ.Riggins
 

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I hope KC keeps it up. I mentioned him in the stands last night after a black Texas Christian player made a Kevin Curtis like grab and some other students behind me said it looked like a Randy Moss catch. I like using white examples of good play as opposed to black examples, as it sometimes gets people to thinking.
 

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ToughJ.Riggins said:
Curtis is a little off my pace for 80 catches for 1400 yards and 10 TDs, but it's still a hell of a season. Especially with the way McNabb has appeared to be afraid to throw the ball down field this year. McNabb hasn't looked too good this year with the exception of two games, he looks tentative or something; I can't really put a handle on it. All I can tell you is, living in NJ and seeing the Eagles a lot this season, McNabb doesn't look the same as in years past.


Curtis's outstanding pace isn't nearly good enough for the drunk white fans in Philly. In this articleCurtis isactually defended by a member of the Caste media. And you gotta love Draft Daddy's comment, too: "DD.comment: Doesn't surprise us at all that the "rowdy" Philly fans are scapegoating Kevin Curtis, despite his fine stats and solid play, as they seem to be following the lead of the brilliant Tony Kornheiser, who basically dubbed Curtis a total scrub earlier in the season. If he said it, it must be correct?"


http://www.philly.com/dailynews/columnists/20071109_Paul_Dom owitch___Birds_wideouts_receiving_unfair_knocks.html Edited by: Don Wassall
 

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*pokes Don for skimming*

that article was linked about three posts above yours, mate.
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c'mon! i'm more than just a pretty face around here, Don!
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I should have known that if it was in Draft Daddy you'd beat me to the punch, JC.
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Believe me I don't do a lot of skimming. Too many trolls around, not to mention the self-appointedsheriffs who carry on when Caste Footballdoesn't fit exactly into their unique perspective, to allow for much of that.
 

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from rotoworld.com

"Kevin Curtis-WR- Eagles Dec. 9 - 6:25 pm et

Kevin Curtis caught three passes for 26 yards in Week 14.

Perhaps no receiver has been hurt more by Donovan McNabb's inability to produce consistently down the field than Curtis, who was held to less than 30 receiving yards for the fourth time this season. Consider him an upside play against a spotty Cowboys secondary in Week 14"
 

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In spite of Donovan McNabb's struggles, Kevin Curtis has 64 receptions for 970 yards, a solid 15.2 yards per catch average, to go with 5 TDs. He should finish with over 70 catches and 1,100 yards, very nice totals indeed. He's currently 10th in the NFC in yards and 19th overall in the league. Brian Westbrook and Curtis are the two stars on the Eagles offense in 2007.


Yet guess what the Eagles' main weakness is, according to an AP article by one Dave Goldberg on the NFL's most disappointing teams? The Eagles "are probably as good as the Giants and Redskins, division opponents in playoff contention," confides Goldberg, however, "The one major weakness [on the Eagles] is the lack of a No. 1 wide receiver." And here I had ignorantly thought it was Curtis' fellow starter at WR, Reggie Brown (50/624/3) who has been the disappointment. Silly me.


This mantra about the Eagles lacking a No. 1 receiver has been repeated all season andit will onlybe repeated more often and more hystericallyover the off-season, replete with cries demanding that the organization take a wideout in the first round of the '08 draft. McNabb may be done in Philly, but expect Curtis to be demoted following his very successful season no matter who the starting QB is next season.
 

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Maybe we should invent a new verb to describe the inexplicable demotion of a successful Wide Receiver.
How about "Furried"
 

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Congrats to Curtis, who despite EVERY possible obstacle, has put together a 1,000+ yard season and finally won a little respect.

Hopefully Donnovan McInconsistent will be gone next season. The Eagles could be fun to watch, with Curtis, Michael Gasperson (who got some PT yesterday after being cut!), and Brent Celek (who should be the starting TE or at least get lots of PT) tear it up next season with Kolb at QB.

Can you imagine the season Curtis could put together with Brady, Manning, Palmer, Favre, Bulger, or Kitna?
 
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