The bye week is early for the Eagles this season, but it came at the perfect time for a handful of Eagles. Even though he is at the NovaCare Complex rehabbing this week, wide receiver Kevin Curtis wants to heal the knee injury that kept him out of the Week 3 win over Kansas City and get back on the field for the Buccaneers game on Oct. 11.

"Definitely, I'm going to do whatever I can to get on the field sooner than later," Curtis said. "That's the plan."

First-round pick Jeremy Maclin caught four passes for 33 yards, which included an impressive tip-toe grab along the sideline, in Curtis' stead as the Eagles whomped the Chiefs 34-14. As Dave Spadaro reported earlier this week, Maclin played all three wide receiver positions – X (split end),Y (slot) and Z (flanker) - which is impressive for a rookie. With Donovan McNabb and Brian Westbrook also sidelined, the Eagles amassed 420 yards of total offense and quarterback Kevin Kolb was the NFC's Offensive Player of the Week.

"It was really big for us as an offensive unit," said Curtis, who has five catches for 70 yards this year. "We've had some glimpses through this year of doing things right. We haven't really put together a whole game like we did Sunday. It was good to see that. It's something that we can build off of and hopefully just get better and better as the season goes on."

Maclin's emergence further proves the depth of the wide receiver corps.

"I think we're definitely extremely deep. We have guys like Reggie (Brown) and (Brandon) Gibson, who some weeks aren't dressing," Curtis said. "They're incredible receivers. It's good to have that depth. It's only going to help us out."

-- Posted by Chris McPherson, 2:09 p.m., October 1