Detroit Talk!

[ice grillin you]

for the record i said curtis wouldnt consistently get open against #1 and 2 corners in the nfl...and so far he hasnt

[MadMarchHare]

McNabb played much better today.  He was able to plant and throw, instead of arm throw, and wow, his accuracy improved.
He also had 8-10 sec to throw every ball.

Westbrook finally got utilized, as did the running game.  Amazing how that works.

And Curtis was sitting alone all by himself for both those long TDs, completely broken coverages by a horrible defense yesterday.  Even his other TD he was wide open.

They got plenty of good defenses to face before we start popping the champagne corks.  And "I'm not thinking Superbowl, yet", means you are but don't want to admit it.  Realism is somewhere in the middle.

Encouraging:  McNabb threw with good form for the first time this season, Reid used the running game.
The rest is wait and see (we won't know until after the bye, NYG suck).

[reese125]

yeah, Im proud of Kevie that he got open in zone coverage, but until he does it against good corners that press up and play man, he might change my mind.

I mean, does Reggie Brown suck that bad? You know damn well they had plays drawn up for him

[Rome]

I was interested in reading the Lions' take on the game and came across this on Lions.com.


Lollerskates

[Feva]

Check the replays fellas... on two of Curtis' TD's he was as open as he was because of a move he made on the corners.  Especially the 2nd one where he was all alone (the 40 yarder)... one replay they showed, you could see him put a stop and go on the corner and left him behind.


Note:  NO... I am not saying that Curtis is the best WR the Eagles have ever had... and NO... I'm not saying that the Lions have a pair of shutdown corners out there.  Relax... all I am saying is that it was a little more than "broken coverage".

[ice grillin you]

the stop n go was completely broken coverage...the corner didnt even see curtis' stop n go...he was already coming off him to cover the middle fo the field

[Rome]

Curtis is the greatest wide receiver ever to play the game.

Case closed.

[SD_Eagle5]

Curtis being so wide open was a mix of 3 things: First and foremost the O-line giving McNabb forever to throw the ball, second Curtis dekes ala Stallworth last season, 3rd the Lions DBs biting on every fake and leaving huge holes in coverage allowing a speedy WR to do his thing. Stallworth was effective doing the same thing last season, when he was open deep he was OPEN deep, and it was usually a breakdown in coverage with him making a small move to get open.

[MadMarchHare]

The two deep bombs were effective for one reason.  The Detroit secondary sucks ass.  Hard.  He was wide farging open because no one in their secondary had any idea what their assignments were.  It was embarrasing, really.

It certainly doesn't anoint Curtis the next coming of Jerry Rice.

[ice grillin you]

i didnt see curtis shake anyone....what i saw were perfectly run routes schemed by coaches who knew exactly what the terrible corners/safties would do

they were things of beauty in terms of how the plays were written up and how well curtis ran the routes...but lets not pretend curtis was ankleing people out there like stallworth

[Feva]

the stop n go was completely broken coverage...the corner didnt even see curtis' stop n go...he was already coming off him to cover the middle fo the field

Again... check the replay.  There's one they have from the ground level facing McNabb and you can clearly see the CB stop with Curtis and fail to recover as Curtis ran to the end zone.

they were things of beauty in terms of how the plays were written up and how well curtis ran the routes...but lets not pretend curtis was ankleing people out there like stallworth

I'm inclined to agree with you.  I'm not making Curtis out to be something he's not... I'm just saying that he had a little something to do with making the plays look wide open as well.

[ice grillin you]

we must be talking about different plays

[SD_Eagle5]

i didnt see curtis shake anyone....what i saw were perfectly run routes schemed by coaches who knew exactly what the terrible corners/safties would do

they were things of beauty in terms of how the plays were written up and how well curtis ran the routes...but lets not pretend curtis was ankleing people out there like stallworth

Stallworth never made great moves to get open, it was always one juke then using his speed to get open. It was no different with Curtis, they broke down the replays lastnight and he did nothing different than what Donte was doing last season. Even the play that he was wide open he deked inside the DB broke that way then he turned it outside. Despite the DB misplaying it it was all Curtis and not some magical scheme drawn up by father of the year and his cronie.

[ice grillin you]

stallworth is one of the best in the nfl at coming in and out of cuts...hes almost uncanny at it...its really the reason hes in the nfl...in no way can curtis be compared to him in that way

[Sgt PSN]

Lurie told them to suck for the first 2 weeks so that they could get their first win of the season while wearing the throwback jerseys which will prompt supersticious idiot fans to run out the Modells and buy them. 

I took the liberty of ordering mine online already.   

Fluffy, I am one of those superstitious fans who believes they should wear these the rest of the season.

I am very scared that you called Sarge Fluffy 

I lost a bet.