Eagles Notes: Birds' Curtis eager but patient

Eagles Notes Kevin Curtis  wants to be back as soon as possible. The problem is, there's no way of knowing how soon that will be. Making his first locker-room appearance since undergoing surgery last week to repair a sports hernia, the Eagles' leading receiver last season said yesterday that his surgery was not as extensive as similar procedures performed by  William Meyers  on quarterback  Donovan McNabb  in 2005 and tight end  L.J.

Smith  a year ago. "Donovan and L.J.'s were both more extensive, and a lot more damage was going on down there, so I wouldn't expect to take as long to get back as they took," Curtis said. Meyers "definitely said it was smart that we went in there and did it," he said. "He was able to fix what was going on down there, and he's pretty optimistic I should have a speedy recovery." "I don't think there's ...