Predictions Pouring In For Eagles Win
September 27th, 2024
“Greeny, they’re turning on us.”
Everywhere Joe turns the Bucs are being shunned by analysts, even guys who picked Tampa Bay to win the NFC South and more.
For example, Mike Florio of NBC and ProFootballTalk.com, who picked the Bucs to reach the NFC Championship game, sees a Bucs loss to the Eagles on the Sunday at The Licht House. Prickly Pete Prisco of CBS, firmly in the Bucs’ corner all offseason, also sees the Eagles beating Tampa Bay.
Prisco is leery of the Bucs overcoming all their defensive injuries. Florio is now in prove-it mode after the Bucs got humiliated by the Broncos.
Former players Kyle Long of CBS and ex-Bucs QB Chris Simms also don’t think the Bucs will have enough juice on Sunday.
Joe could reel off more media names but doesn’t want to get depressed. Joe (both Joes) picked the Bucs to win Sunday on the recent Ira Kaufman Podcast. Some guy named Kaufman did not.
If the Bucs lose at home to the Eagles without stud receivers A.J. Brown and Devonta Smith, and All-Pro right tackle Lane Johnson — none have practiced this week — then Joe will be sad and nearly speechless.
Remember, Todd Bowles owns Jalen Hurts.
September 27th, 2024 at 9:58 am
The Bucs will beat the Eagles
And win the NFC South
September 27th, 2024 at 10:20 am
The only prediction I will make is if the Iggles beat the once again flat Bucs, injuries or not. The wheels will come off, and in less than a month, we will start chatting about the draft and probably a new coach.
I’m pretty sure casuals don’t see what an unmitigated disaster that rotten egg laid against Denver was.
Liam Coen should be mortally embarrassed. Is it possible he’s WORSE than Canales?
It’s one thing to get your ass beaten by a good team, like KC or NO (who has that history.) It is something else to go flat against a much less talented team…at home. There are no excuses I will accept.
I knew it was a trap game; I just didn’t know what a train wreck it would become.
September 27th, 2024 at 10:20 am
We do better when favored to lose, I now feel good about this game
September 27th, 2024 at 10:26 am
Bucs play 10 yards off the line of scrimmage anyway so forget who’s playing receiver for the eagles it won’t matter just like last week. Bucs love to embarrass their fans at home so Bucs lose!
Do not trust Bowles, do not trust our team captains. Is getting embarrassed week three gonna propel us through well 17 or do we have to get embarrassed every few games to stay motivated
September 27th, 2024 at 10:29 am
It’s early but this game is a big moment in the Bucs season. How that effort vs Denver happens in the first place is a problem but a strong response and win this week will help assure everyone that this team is still for real. Another poor effort and unfortunately I lean to agreeing with these other comments that the wheels could come off.
Show us what you are made of Bucs.
September 27th, 2024 at 10:34 am
I think they’re going to get crushed.
Our DL is awful. Mauch and Britt got exposed. Bowles doesn’t pivot. Bucs are easy to beat.
September 27th, 2024 at 10:43 am
I’m with you Lakeland. I believe the Bucs will beat the eagles, and make the playoffs. Why is it that every time the Bucs play so called strong teams we never get any respect ? Even after we win ? I know our recent loss doesn’t help us in their evaluations, but obviously that loss was a fluke! We have tremendous talent in Evans, Godwin, Mayfield, Irving, White, great tight ends, a very talented o line ,d line and backfield. I believe in our coaches as well and look forward to seeing our Bucs well prepared to protect our turf and beat the birds ! Go Bucs !!!! L G !!!
September 27th, 2024 at 10:54 am
The game is played at the line, especially the middle of the line.
This is one of the glaring weaknesses of this team.
Barton has potential, but so far the middle of the OL has gotten stoned.
With Vea and Glass-Calf Kancey out, the middle of the DL may be the softest in the NFL.
If this does not change, this team is doomed.
September 27th, 2024 at 11:04 am
The Bucs were indeed humiliated at home. The team has proven its only consistencies are being inconsistent, undisciplined, and soft. A team is the reflection of its head coach.
The Bucs have a guy who used to be a defensive coordinator masquerading as a head coach. He is now neither.
Jason is developing his lists.
But, final analysis, Todd is great.
September 27th, 2024 at 11:06 am
If the Bucs (injuries or not on defense) cannot beat the Eagles without their top WRs, it will be a long season.
September 27th, 2024 at 11:13 am
Another winnable game for us. But will we? This one is a gut check for us. Come on, y’all, get behind your team! Don’t let the storm keep you down.
Go Bucs! You can do it!
September 27th, 2024 at 11:33 am
Look, it’s the Denver game all over again. We know what they’re going to try to do – run, run, run. The question is can they get it right this time while having Vea and Goedke back on the field.
In spite of the injuries the defense hasn’t been the problem on the team. The struggles are firmly on the offensive line and the turnstyle that’s shown up in the last two games. If they can’t protect Mayfield then they won’t score. It’s that simple. The Eagles are vastly superior to the Broncos on paper, so it should be a tougher game even if they do play well.
Honestly I’d like to say they’ll win. But until the O-line shows up for a complete game against solid competition it’s hard to imagine the offense getting far. Defensively I think the Eagles injuries and Bucs injuries are a wash. There’s a lot Hurts can do with his legs and Barkley can do with his that the Bucs are going to struggle with. The goal is getting the Eagles into 2nd and long and dictate the situation. If it turns into game where the Eagles have first down success running it they’ll grind the Bucs into dust.
I say Eagles 17-13 unless the Bucs O-line can close the door on the Eagles pass rush. If that happens, then the Bucs win going away.
September 27th, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Cobraboy … ‘The game is played at the line, especially the middle of the line. This is one of the glaring weaknesses of this team.’
Nailed it Cobra. Injuries are a fact of life in football, but that’s what depth is for. From what I can see, we have woefully little. Back in 2020 & 2021, we had D Smith, Marpet, Jensen, Cappa & Wirfs manning our OLine. We had Vea, Suh, RNR, Gholston, JPP & Shaq on the DLine. Compare that to the OLine & DLine that we’re fielding today. Talent counts … you gotta have the horses to pull the wagon.
JL gambled & put all our salary CAP into our starters (re-signing Evans, Mayfield, Winfield, LVD, Wirfs, McLaughlin). Workable strategy as long as those starters stay healthy. We’re the 3rd youngest team in the NFL for a reason: we haven’t signed very many quality veteran FAs (beyond re-signing our own) and have back-filled numerous non-starting backup positions with inexpensive youngsters.
Not a big deal until multiple guys like Greene & Brewer & Skule have to start, then everyone yells that the wheels are coming off. Not to worry; without our starters, the wheels were never on.
September 27th, 2024 at 12:11 pm
If they play like last Sunday, they wouldn’t beat a team of JBF keyboard warriors.
September 27th, 2024 at 12:18 pm
Win? Against Philly? Oh man what a laugh.
September 27th, 2024 at 12:55 pm
W got this win in the bag
September 27th, 2024 at 1:09 pm
It really is hard to imagine a healthy Bucs team losing to a Philly team without Brown, Smith and Johnson. Problem is we ate NOT healthy. We are in fact the opposite of healthy. Im honestly not sure we win last week with no injuries because Dean was still the starter and most of the pressure against Baker came from the interior. Philly’s defense still held the high flying Saints team to 12 points. As hard as it is to imagine, Im with the wheels falling off less than 2 weeks removed from feeling like a true SB window was opening.
We will see what they are made of, but I agree the horses look like ponies right now.
September 27th, 2024 at 1:22 pm
If Bake can get us within field goal range every possession, we might have a chance.
September 27th, 2024 at 1:34 pm
Good!! That’s when they play the best when everyone is down on em. I hate getting media attention
September 27th, 2024 at 1:58 pm
Forget last week that was an unprepared and unmotivated Bucs team.
With Tom Brady’s return to Tampa in the Fox booth the Bucs have plenty of reasons to be up for this game. At home after last week, another clunker and a Todd Bowles’ hot seat will be on fire. They cannot afford another low effort game or the fans will turn on the team after 2 straight seasons stinkers at home.
The hope is the bad tackling gets corrected and that the protection is executed much better than vs Detroit and Denver. Eagles have some big guys at defensive tackles so the front 3 of the Bucs will have to hold up to keep the pressure from coming up the middle. More screens and draws and getting ball out quicker is needed.
Defensively there is less playmakers on the Eagle offense as AJ Brown and Devonte Smith and their#3 WR are injured. You need to stack the box vs Barkley and Hurts and keep coverage on Goddard.
Hurts has been turning the ball over so blitzing him is a good idea.
September 27th, 2024 at 2:00 pm
I hate that we somehow are shocked that analysts don’t trust the Bucs team when we just got our @sses handed to us handily in our own house by what was a less talented but much better coached and executed team last Sunday.
It’s not surprising at all that people are backing off the Bucs train. We beat a team that was weak to start the year and is now getting their footing and then we beat a team that was supposedly tough and they were out of sorts while our banged up D played with heart and then we came home and played like we were the Bucs of the early 2000s…WHAT DO YOU EXPECT PEOPLE TO THINK?!?!
September 27th, 2024 at 4:23 pm
Payton > Bowles
September 27th, 2024 at 4:54 pm
Eagles 20 Yucs 12
September 27th, 2024 at 5:28 pm
Bucs 30 Eagles 10
September 27th, 2024 at 5:47 pm
Glazers should’ve blown this team up last year. Beating the Eagles will prove to have just delayed the inevitable. Need an HC, a QB, OL, DL and a GM, this team will go nowhere as constructed.
September 27th, 2024 at 9:50 pm
Perfect analysis @DR. You can’t grease wheels that aren’t on the truck……it’s a long season
Guys get better. Guys heal up. We need both as soon as possible. The season is long but you can leak it away fast. Licht has some money to use. He should start rethinking his plan, sooner rather than later. Give us a spark. Go Bucs.
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September 28th, 2024 at 8:11 am
They gon wipe the floor with us 0-2 at the Den of Depression lol