Eagles’ Quintin Demps Is Not a Starter

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Published: August 28, 2009

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... turn into a starting-caliber player. However, Thursday's preseason game against the Jaguars has me thinking a bit differently.

Overall, Demps didn't play a terrible game. However, one particular play really sticks out from that game, and has me 100 percent convinced that Demps is not ready to start this year, and may never be the starter that the Eagles want and expect him to be.

Without going back and looking, I don't remember the exact situation of the play.

From what I recall, the Jaguars were headed into the redzone from about the Eagles 25 yard line (or so). David Garrard used the play-fake to freeze the linebackers and hit Marcedes Lewis about ten yards down the field on what I believe was just an out pattern.

Demps comes flying into the screen, lunges at Lewis and simply bounces off of him. That doesn't sound so bad, but it gets a whole lot worse when you see that he bounces off because at no point does he extend his arms to wrap ...

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