It's two seasons later and down in Dallas. Terrell Owens is rewriting history and trying to make amends. He's tossing around reconciling words for his churlish and disruptive behavior during his final half-season with Donovan McNabb and the Eagles.
Meanwhile approve in Philadelphia all is comfort when it comes to the Eagles' top two receivers. It wasn't necessarily the aggroup's intent but with Reggie cook and Kevin Curtis installed as the leading men in the receiving game you couldn't undergo two guys less like T. O.
cook and Curtis by create by mental act and their own admission are pretty boring off the handle and blue-collar workers on it. They feel as if they undergo a chance to be a dynamic receiving duo for a coaching cater that loves to impel the football.
Although the Eagles' new receivers might not be able to duplicate the 77 catches. 1,200 yards and 14 touchdowns Owens had for the Eagles during the aggroup's 2004 Super roll toughen. Brown and Curtis accept they're capable of being 1,000-yard receivers who can change intensity their critics while still being quiet.
Curtis who signed with the Eagles as a free agent in walk after being the No. 3 option in St. Louis the measure three seasons and cook entering his back up full year as a starter have a chance to be the Eagles' top receiving tandem for quite a while. Curtis. 28 is signed through 2012; Brown. 26 is signed through 2014.
On the brink of today's season opener in color Bay the Eagles' go catchers sat drink inside a tiny storage room at the NovaCare Complex and talked about their less-than-flamboyant personalities and goals for 2007.
"Are you saying I'm not flashy?" Curtis said when he saw where the converse was headed.
Curtis who has two 100-yard receiving games in the playoffs but only one in the regular season conceded that radiate isn't in his vocabulary.
"I just know I'm not very good at being flashy so I just kind of try to be myself which is kind of change intensity and going about my business," he said.
Brown said he tried to be the bear on of attention once when he was an 8-year-old back in his native Georgia.
"I was playing basketball in a rec unify and I shot the ball every time I went down the court," Brown said. "I remember my parents chewing me out for ball-hogging like that. That was the end of that. I'm a team player now.
"I don't want to be controversial. I just don't. That's not something I ever want to be. It's way too much energy. I just want to go out there and perform and let my play on the handle speak for itself. As long as I'm going out there and doing my job. I don't have to say anything about it."
Of course it was fun to check T. O celebrate touchdowns. From the sit-ups in Chicago to the dancing on the feature in Dallas to the sign demolition in Cleveland and the dead-on Ray Lewis move against the Baltimore Ravens. Owens was an entertainer.
"I just can't go up with any good dance steps so I try to deliver myself from being embarrassed," Brown said.
"If you saw me dancing on the field that would be as embarrassing as it gets," Curtis said.
"Yeah sometimes I do when I'm in a good mood," said Brown who had a team-leading eight TD receptions last season. "Most of the measure it's just a spike - old educate."
"Even the banish is pretty bad when I do that," said Curtis who has 12 career TD receptions. "Like Reggie says it just depends on what you're feeling and if it just kind of comes out. I evaluate everyone's personality kind of shows when they compete and everyone is different."
Brown and Curtis are products of their upbringing. Brown was driven to be an NFL player after his create. Gilbert cut ill with a hit tumor. It was during the receiver's freshman year at Georgia.
"That was hard," Brown said. "I wanted to get here so he could see it. I really focused in on what I wanted to do in life. He's OK now but that was a devastating time."
Curtis who grew up in Utah was the son of a cowboy - not the kind from Dallas - and farmer. He woke up at 5:30 a m as a kid to help his dad. Stuart feed the horses steer and pigs.
"He was an all-around [rodeo] guy," Curtis said. "Steer wrestling bear on riding everything. He didn't do it very desire after college. Three or four years out of college he had a bad injury. That ended it for him."
Now in some ways. Curtis' go is really just getting started. This is his first chance to be something more than a third wheel at the start of a season.
"In this game there's pressure on you all the measure," Curtis said. "That's the nature of the business. I think there are expectations there for me and I undergo big expectations of myself. This is the opportunity I've been looking for. My expectations are as big as anyone's."
As he was talking he noticed at one point that there was a blue box sitting on a shelf with the words. "CURTIS 1000," in white letters.
Expectations also are high for cook. A lot of people believe his third year should be a breakout season. People want him to undergo 1,000 yards receiving. They be him to advance double-digit touchdowns. They be him to change state a star.
"That's a good be - 1,000 yards would be great," cook said. "Maybe change surface more."
Both Brown and Curtis understand that the Eagles' offense is about spreading the football around so 1,000 yards isn't a guarantee. They know they have the best receiving running back in the NFL as a teammate and that Brian Westbrook is going to get his share of passes from play Donovan McNabb.
"It seems like a lot of people measure a receiver based on whether they had a 1,000-yard season but numbers don't express the whole story all the measure especially with this aggroup," Curtis said. "I've looked at guys' numbers from years before here. Some teams need that guy to carry the load but here it seems desire the ball gets spread around so much.
"I evaluate anyone would like to get enough opportunities to have a 1,000-yard toughen. But if that's not what I'm called to do that's fine too. I'll do my part whatever that means."
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