Post by EagleGene on Nov 7, 2005 13:05:45 GMT -5
BROWN DELIVERS SCORE AND MORE
November 6, 2005
By CHRIS McPHERSON
LANDOVER, Md. -- Wide receiver Reggie Brown walked out of the Eagles locker room Sunday night wearing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles T-shirt that you would see a young kid wearing. However, Brown is much more mature than his clothing would suggest.
An immature player would revel in his breakout performance. Not Reggie. Starting in place of Terrell Owens, Brown tied for a team-high five receptions for a game-high 94 yards. He even got to enjoy his first taste of the endzone as a pro.
But that didn't matter, because of end result.
"It all boils down to winning and losing, and we lost," Brown said.
The Eagles had struggled early in games on the road this season. Entering Sunday night's game, the Eagles were outscored 55-0 in the first quarter away from Lincoln Financial Field.
Brown, who now has 14 catches for 202 yards this season, didn't allow that trend to continue. On the team's second drive, Brown ran a post route that allowed quarterback Donovan McNabb to feed him the ball at the 35-yard line. Brown raced across the field and into the end zone for his first career score.
"It reminds me," said Brown, thinking about the 56-yard scoring reception. "I have to get that football. It was the first one and hopefully, there are many more to come."
That wasn't the first time quarterback Donovan McNabb went to Brown on Sunday night. McNabb threw the ball Brown's way eight times total. In the second quarter, McNabb lofted a pass a little too far that could have resulted in yet another score for Brown.
Despite the hype of the national spotlight and the pressure of a divisional game, Brown treated the game just like the many he has played before.
"I just went in there and took it like a normal game," Brown said. "If a ball is thrown to me, I'm going to try and make a play and get in the end zone. I had a lot more opportunties to do that in tonight's game, to show what I can do."
The biggest difference for Brown on Sunday night was having the ball thrown to him the amount of times it was.
"You get reps in practice and of course the game is different because of the opponent," Brown said. "I'm a rookie but I've been playing for a long time. All I have to do is go out there and catch balls, you just have to do it. I'm doing what people picked me to do."
As young as Brown is, he knows the team has to take what happened Sunday and find the silver lining in it.
"You gotta have that point of view," Brown said. "Granted, we lost. But you can always take good things out of a loss. You have to learn from it. We saw some improvement in the running game. That's a bright spot."
November 6, 2005
By CHRIS McPHERSON
LANDOVER, Md. -- Wide receiver Reggie Brown walked out of the Eagles locker room Sunday night wearing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles T-shirt that you would see a young kid wearing. However, Brown is much more mature than his clothing would suggest.
An immature player would revel in his breakout performance. Not Reggie. Starting in place of Terrell Owens, Brown tied for a team-high five receptions for a game-high 94 yards. He even got to enjoy his first taste of the endzone as a pro.
But that didn't matter, because of end result.
"It all boils down to winning and losing, and we lost," Brown said.
The Eagles had struggled early in games on the road this season. Entering Sunday night's game, the Eagles were outscored 55-0 in the first quarter away from Lincoln Financial Field.
Brown, who now has 14 catches for 202 yards this season, didn't allow that trend to continue. On the team's second drive, Brown ran a post route that allowed quarterback Donovan McNabb to feed him the ball at the 35-yard line. Brown raced across the field and into the end zone for his first career score.
"It reminds me," said Brown, thinking about the 56-yard scoring reception. "I have to get that football. It was the first one and hopefully, there are many more to come."
That wasn't the first time quarterback Donovan McNabb went to Brown on Sunday night. McNabb threw the ball Brown's way eight times total. In the second quarter, McNabb lofted a pass a little too far that could have resulted in yet another score for Brown.
Despite the hype of the national spotlight and the pressure of a divisional game, Brown treated the game just like the many he has played before.
"I just went in there and took it like a normal game," Brown said. "If a ball is thrown to me, I'm going to try and make a play and get in the end zone. I had a lot more opportunties to do that in tonight's game, to show what I can do."
The biggest difference for Brown on Sunday night was having the ball thrown to him the amount of times it was.
"You get reps in practice and of course the game is different because of the opponent," Brown said. "I'm a rookie but I've been playing for a long time. All I have to do is go out there and catch balls, you just have to do it. I'm doing what people picked me to do."
As young as Brown is, he knows the team has to take what happened Sunday and find the silver lining in it.
"You gotta have that point of view," Brown said. "Granted, we lost. But you can always take good things out of a loss. You have to learn from it. We saw some improvement in the running game. That's a bright spot."