IS GLAD SPRING TRAINING IS FINALLY HERE
The Eagles announced they have released defensive end Darren Howard and wide receiver Kevin Curtis.
Neither moves comes as a huge shock, because the expiration of the salary cap makes these moves feasible.
Curtis was due $4.5 million next season, more than $5.3 million in 2011 and more than $7 million in 2012.
Curtis signed as an unrestricted free agent in 2007 and caught 116 passes for 1,577 yards and eight touchdowns in 28 games. He missed most of this past season following knee surgery.
"Kevin is one of the classiest players I have ever been around. He's the type of player and person we like to build our team with," coach Andy Reid said. "We just feel good about the young core of receivers we have on our team at this point."
Howard joined the Eagles as an unrestricted free agent in 2006 and played in all 64 regular season games and six postseason contests. During his four-year tenure in Philadelphia, he registered 22.5 sacks among his 122 tackles.
Howard was due to make $4.5 million next season and in 2011. He was due a $4 million base plus a $4 million roster bonus in 2012.
"Darren Howard has been one of our most productive and versatile members of our defense in the last couple of years,” Reid said. “He is nothing but a solid player, leader and person on and off the field."
Les
Bowen has covered the Eagles for the Daily News
since 2002.
Before that, he spent nearly 13 years covering the Flyers. It took Les
only a few seasons after the switch to figure out that there was no
penalty box at the Linc, and that the time really wasn't his, despite
what Andy Reid kept saying. Les came to Philadelphia and the Daily News
from Charlotte in 1983. In the intervening years, he has pretty much
lost track of NASCAR, and his accent. He, his wife Barbara, and their
two sons live in Haddon Township, New Jersey.
E-mail Les at bowenl@phillynews.com
and follow
him on Twitter.
Paul
Domowitch has been with the Daily News since 1982.
He has spent most of his nearly 3 decades with the paper covering the
Eagles and pro football. For the last 10 years, he’s been a
selector for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. A native of Wilkes-Barre
and a graduate of Wilkes University, Domo started his career in Texas,
working first for the Midland Reporter-Telegram (1976-78), and then for
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he covered some god-awful Texas
Ranger baseball teams. His first beat at the Daily News actually was
boxing, which he covered just long enough to lose 2 sports coats to
blood spatter before moving on to football. Domo and his wife Shelley,
a University of Oklahoma grad who still hasn’t gotten over
that Fiesta Bowl loss to Boise State 5 years ago, have 2 terrific
daughters -- Allison, 28, who is an attorney in South Jersey, and Amy,
25, who works in administration for a professional baseball team.
E-mail Domo at PDomo@aol.com and follow
him on Twitter.
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