Mailata really giving Fred Johnson his props!!!

51 minutes ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Fangio isn’t on the field and you acknowledge lead. Leadership comes in many forms that aren’t revolving around throwing a football. The one thing even BG shared with our opponents before….with Hurts…our guys believe we can…no…WILL get it done.

Your statement argued that Hurts was the only leader. He is the tactical leader implementing the Offensive Strategy. Fangio leads by setting and adjusting the Defensive Strategy. You don’t need to be on the field to deliver that essential highest order, highest impact leadership. Then the position coaches and the players deploy the specific tactical steps that implement the strategy. Hurts has nothing to do with the setting of Fangio’s strategy, nor does he interact with the defensive position coaches on the sideline, and as I pointed out in my prior comment he isn’t on the field when the Defense is on the field, and those defenders aren’t on the field when Hurts is on the field with the Offense. So his role and actions are as the prime tactical leader of the Offense.

Regarding BG’s comment, he has said the same thing about Sirianni. It is a both/and situation/observation.

You are trying to cram a square peg into a round hole.

7 hours ago, Alpha_TATEr said:

🤣

in all seriousness, the entire team seemed to pull their collective heads out of their arses and started playing and coaching better. this week should show us if the 2nd half is what we could expect going forward.

tampa is a huge monkey on the eagles back, winning sunday would be big.

I agree big, but not huge. It really is more of a statement game. Time to let everyone know who is who.

4 hours ago, capmaster24 said:

I will be looking at their run game. We need to stop that.

Bucky doing a nice job for them

4 hours ago, capmaster24 said:

I disagree. Tampa is irrelevant. They beat us with half our offense missing last year. In 2023 we wouldn't have beaten a college team in the playoffs. The one game with AJ we won. Context matters. The one fair fight we won. The rest of the time we didn't have any weapons.

Still counts the same. There are no asterisks. Remember when we played the 9ers and they had no QB? Did anyone care?

4 hours ago, Bleedinggreen93 said:

I’d like to see us come out attacking TB aggressively this week take a deep shot to start the game target AJ early and often…. Try and open up some of those running lanes for Saquon by forcing TB drop more guys in coverage not able to stack the box

Yep that's what I said before

3 hours ago, cunninghamtheman said:

Fangio isn’t on the field and you acknowledge lead. Leadership comes in many forms that aren’t revolving around throwing a football. The one thing even BG shared with our opponents before….with Hurts…our guys believe we can…no…WILL get it done.

He should, he has the best supporting cast in the league

Fantasy- DSmith is in this week. I'm waiting patiently (or stupidly) for Harrison Jr to show me why I drafted his sorry butt. he gets chance 4 tonight and he best start playing or they will ship him to Cleveland or Miami to die LOL

On 9/24/2025 at 2:13 AM, GreenbleedinNC said:

I hated the change,I said it then and I still hate it,go back to real kick offs. move the ball back and kick like they used to

I detest the kickoff. Put the ball on the 20 and play ball.

Kyler Murray sucks. How did he ever beat the Eagles?

3 hours ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

Still counts the same. There are no asterisks. Remember when we played the 9ers and they had no QB? Did anyone care?

Compared to other games it counts 50% more than a Cowboys game or a Commanders game or a Giants game.

4 hours ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

Still counts the same. There are no asterisks. Remember when we played the 9ers and they had no QB? Did anyone care?

Not that we have to care...but if you constantly beat me when I don't have my team, then it would mean more. At what point did yiu think we would win any of those 4 games we lost to Tampa recently? We were way out classed. The one time we came with a decent team we dominated them. Does it matter record wise...nope...does it matter mentally...yep. It's nothing like how we keep beating the Rams when they hsve everyone. AJ himself hasn't even lost to Tampa ..why would he think it's a huge hump to get over??

1 hour ago, joemas6 said:

Not that we have to care...but if you constantly beat me when I don't have my team, then it would mean more. At what point did yiu think we would win any of those 4 games we lost to Tampa recently? We were way out classed. The one time we came with a decent team we dominated them. Does it matter record wise...nope...does it matter mentally...yep. It's nothing like how we keep beating the Rams when they hsve everyone. AJ himself hasn't even lost to Tampa ..why would he think it's a huge hump to get over??

LMAO just saying it can't be one way and not the other. So we had guys out and they won just like we beat SF with no QB. It's like drag racing, "you run what ya brung". The NFL doesn't care, you put forth the best team you can and you win or lose

2 hours ago, Senhorcook said:

I detest the kickoff. Put the ball on the 20 and play ball.

Oh I used to enjoy the return game. Who was that little dude the Bears used to have? He was electric

2 hours ago, Senhorcook said:

Kyler Murray sucks. How did he ever beat the Eagles?

Horrible and they signed him through 2028.

2 hours ago, mattwill said:

Compared to other games it counts 50% more than a Cowboys game or a Commanders game or a Giants game.

So 1 W is worth more than another?

1 hour ago, joemas6 said:

Not that we have to care...but if you constantly beat me when I don't have my team, then it would mean more. At what point did yiu think we would win any of those 4 games we lost to Tampa recently? We were way out classed. The one time we came with a decent team we dominated them. Does it matter record wise...nope...does it matter mentally...yep. It's nothing like how we keep beating the Rams when they hsve everyone. AJ himself hasn't even lost to Tampa ..why would he think it's a huge hump to get over??

SO you are going to feel extra great if we beat TB without their top 2 WR's?(like the way we lost when we didn't have ours?) It would mean more to me if I "beat the best you got". The W is the W. if you want to feel good mentally, you need to beat the best they got

23 minutes ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

Oh I used to enjoy the return game. Who was that little dude the Bears used to have? He was electric

Devin Hester

43 minutes ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

LMAO just saying it can't be one way and not the other. So we had guys out and they won just like we beat SF with no QB. It's like drag racing, "you run what ya brung". The NFL doesn't care, you put forth the best team you can and you win or lose

It's simple... forget us as fans ..we mean nothing. The players matter. Which players do you really think that they think so much about Tampa? AJ didn't lose.. DeJean didn't play... I don't think any of the Eagles players think " Tampa has our number, or that we have to prove anything" I just think they want to win and go 4-0. They are in the now... not last year or any other time.

Like I said... psychologically it's different if I feel you beat me when im at full strength ... over and over and over again...( see Rams) but much different if i don't feel i ever had a real chance because I was no where close to full strength or had a good enough roster in the first place.

If I'm Hurts...knowing that I had AJ and I dominated Tampa....but lost a bunch of times with Quez Watkins and Johnny Wilson starting.. I'm not feeling so defeated or having to prove anything. I just want to win and stay ahead in the playoffs race.

58 minutes ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

SO you are going to feel extra great if we beat TB without their top 2 WR's?(like the way we lost when we didn't have ours?) It would mean more to me if I "beat the best you got". The W is the W. if you want to feel good mentally, you need to beat the best they got

I don't care about Tampa... I just want to go 4-0. Tampa isn't an issue for me.

2 hours ago, GreenbleedinNC said:

So 1 W is worth more than another?

Yes, in the standings a head to head win is worth 1 plus the tiebreaker (arbitrarily call that .5 win).

Friday Morning Eagles-Bucs Predictions Update - 2 days until Kickoff

15 predictions recorded

12 predictions are for an Eagles win and 3 are for a Bucs win.  The average predicted score is Eagles 28 Bucs 24.

I believe I got everyone's prediction. If you don't see your name below, I either missed your prediction or you haven't submitted one yet.

As always, please tag your prediction post with @mattwill that way I will be sure to see/record it.  Score predictions can also have an optional "Bonus Pick" tiebreaker prediction.  I will be taking predictions right up until Kickoff.

A list of the 15 predictions is presented below, sorted high to low by Eagles points predicted.

The alphabetical listing of the predictors is:

On 9/24/2025 at 10:20 AM, joemas6 said:

31 - 17 Eagles. Smith with the big game due to AJ getting the attention.

I missed this in the Update above. It will show up in the next Update

2 hours ago, joemas6 said:

It's simple... forget us as fans ..we mean nothing. The players matter. Which players do you really think that they think so much about Tampa? AJ didn't lose.. DeJean didn't play... I don't think any of the Eagles players think " Tampa has our number, or that we have to prove anything" I just think they want to win and go 4-0. They are in the now... not last year or any other time.

Like I said... psychologically it's different if I feel you beat me when im at full strength ... over and over and over again...( see Rams) but much different if i don't feel i ever had a real chance because I was no where close to full strength or had a good enough roster in the first place.

If I'm Hurts...knowing that I had AJ and I dominated Tampa....but lost a bunch of times with Quez Watkins and Johnny Wilson starting.. I'm not feeling so defeated or having to prove anything. I just want to win and stay ahead in the playoffs race.

I never said Tampa had our number LOL. You got that someplace else. All I said was I would rather beat their best vs our best. I would get no satisfaction beating a 1 legged guy in an arse kickin contest even though I still got the trophy. I'm hoping they are at 100% and so are we. Doesn't look like that is the case. I doubt they risk Evans. They need to have him around to with their division so I don't see them rushing him back and this is Godwins first game since last year. Believe they will have Godwin, Sheppard and Egbuka