EAGLES NEWS

The Eagles made another interesting move today releasing TE Tony Curtis and acquiring free agent TE Alex Smith, formerly of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. So it will be Smith who backs up Brent Celek this season and not Curtis. The Buccaneers played a west coast style offense when Smith was there and Apparently the Eagles think he'll be able to fit in to their offense more easily than Curtis would have. Much was expected of Smith when Tampa Bay drafted him 4 years ago. So far he has not lived up to his potential but perhaps with Eagles in a familiar offense and with no pressure on him, he'll finally start to show what he is capable of. At any rate he at least provides a little more size than Curtis, so perhaps if nothing else he can be a pretty good blocker.