Here come the Bucs!
Watch out, Eagles! The Bucs have a bullseye on your dirty green jerseys and possess a Chris Lyle-like aim.
Kyle Brandt, the lone original co-host on the now gutted and diluted “Good Morning Football,” did a piece on the top teams gunning for the Super Bowl champion Eagles.
The No. 1 team the Eagles must worry about? Yup, your Tampa Bay Buccaneers, baby.
“The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are under the radar,” Brandt said on NFL Network. “They smacked the Eagles last year. Look it up. They smacked them.”
And this wasn’t a fluke, Brandt pointed out.
In this decade, the Bucs have had strong success against the Eagles, handing them two playoff losses, including ending their season in 2023 and chasing Jason Kelce into retirement (Kelce later blamed Vita Vea).
“Eagles fans know the Bucs always play them very tough,” Brandt said. “Maybe they are not the shiniest, brightest team in the league. Maybe they don’t have the exposure the Commanders had last year.
“The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been a nemesis for this version of the Eagles.”
As AC/DC-loving Bucs general manager Jason Licht has said many times, the Bucs are 6-1 against the Green Menace in their last seven games? That stat always shakes Joe.
Except for early this century when Father Dungy coached the Bucs, the Bucs have had mostly good success against the Eagles. Eagles fans still have Rondé Barber nightmares.
Fetching Colleen Wolfe of NFL Network despises Barber so much she can barely speak his name.
How cool would it be in the NFC Championship game at The Licht House if the Bucs host the Eagles and stomp them so badly their fans can’t even bring themselves to eat cheesesteaks for weeks?
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— Sara Walsh (@Sara_Walsh) May 23, 2025