Kyle Brandt Warns Eagles That Bucs Are Coming For Them
May 27th, 2025
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
May 27th, 2025 at 10:38 am
Go Bucs
May 27th, 2025 at 10:41 am
I will never forget 2 things about that Championship game:
1 The collective yell I heard from all the neighbors { living on the beach with the door and windows open} when Ronde’ intercepted McNabb and ran it back, me included, still makes me smile. Greatest moment in Buc’s history
2 The stunned silence of that stadium when Ronde’ started running free down the field. It went from full on to full off in an instant. LOLOLOL
May 27th, 2025 at 10:43 am
I’ll never forget jumping up yelling “YEAH” and hearing it from like 100 other people.
May 27th, 2025 at 11:10 am
100%!! Go Bucs!!!
May 27th, 2025 at 11:18 am
maybe siriani will alternate good and bad years, but their secondary is uh, much improved
May 27th, 2025 at 11:27 am
I knew when we beat the Eagles that year that we were SB bound.
May 27th, 2025 at 11:37 am
The season cant get here fast enough.
May 27th, 2025 at 11:41 am
Two of the major catalysts toward the revitalization of the unit, the Eagles’ first two 2024 draft picks immediately improved the secondary. The revamp happened overnight, as Philadelphia went from 31st in pass yards allowed per game (252.7) to first (174.2), a difference of 78.5 yards. Quinyon Mitchell, Cooper DeJean very good now
May 27th, 2025 at 11:45 am
Think Joe Jurevichius TD was breaking point in that game
May 27th, 2025 at 11:51 am
My mistake play was not TD it was Just about over 70 yards catch and run and stop near goal line
May 27th, 2025 at 11:56 am
I agree with BuckyBuc, Go Bucs
May 27th, 2025 at 12:05 pm
I send the Rondé play to all my friends that are eagles fans every time we play them
May 27th, 2025 at 12:07 pm
Joe, you just described the game I have wanted to go to since 1995…… I can’t even imagine how hype I would be for a Home NFC championship game.
May 27th, 2025 at 12:08 pm
That taste is Still Sweet. I believe we Absolutely live in their heads. And if they happen to beat us, it’s no less of a feeling of a Super Bowl victory.
We have OWNED THEM for YEARS (and boy do they Know It) and I don’t see that changing this year…
Even though I believe we could do better than the current head coach, with this team and at least slightly better coaching up, I see us taking home 11 wins this year.
I’d like to see us Dominate our division this year instead of us having to rely on poor performances from others to advance into the post season. “Building Momentum” at the end of the season (like 2020/21) and “looking like we belong there” and not like a “fat” stray dog begging for a meal.
I’d like to be special in a dynasty type of way before that window closes and we slip back into a lost decade. I Guard Against It with each word I write.
I don’t mean to nay say as much as I’m Sure it must seem. My table pounding comes from a place of genuine love for my Bucs, flag baring brothers in arms, and All of our future Sundays to come.
In the end I think that 10 wins only and it’s time for a change. I believe with this roster it should be No Problem to get 11. If we Show Up at the end of the year looking like a Hungry Predator, If we win the 11…..
I’ll leave Bowles alone. I’LL GIVE HIM HIS FLOWERS AND SING HIS PRAISES.
BUT if it’s like usual, NOT because of him and any other reason besides him, and we once again crawl across the finish line (if we make it that far) and once again have to show up as a Fat, Lazy dog begging for a meal… “why do I get flashes on Dean when I envision that???”
GO BUCS!
May 27th, 2025 at 12:30 pm
“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.”
While you have the Box Score in front of you take a look at what was not there.
A.J Brown and DeVonta Smith did not play in that game. When Dallas Goedert is your best and pretty much only choice I can see why the 4th worse team against the pass held Hurts to 158 yards passing and sacked him 6 times.
Bucs caught them in week 4 short two #1 receivers. Week 5 after their return the Eagles reeled off 10 straight wins and would have bee 13 in a row had the Commanders not beat them in a tight divisional game. Same Commanders that the Eagles destroyed a few weeks later 55-23.
Anyone that uses the Eagles/Bucs game in 2023 to imply the Bucs were a better team in 2024 is just plain dumb.
Week 4 in 2025 will come along soon enough.
NFL has once again given the Bucs an advantage to build excitement the in the basement of the NFC.
Pit the Bucs vs Eagles in week 4 with the Bucs facing Falcons, Texans and Jets the first 3 weeks while beating the Eagles up with the Cowboys, Chiefs, and Rams.
Bucs win in week 4 and you won’t be able to shut Bradnt up.
May 27th, 2025 at 2:31 pm
Regarding Ronde’s INT in that championship game, very similar scene happened at the friend’s house where I was watching. I remember the craziness on US19 driving home later, at every red light people waiting would just start blaring their horns.
For me, that Ronde play goes way beyond the greatest moment in Bucs history. It’s the defining moment from any sport of how great it can be to invest your time in a team and its players. The fair weather Chiefs fans these days will never have that.
May 27th, 2025 at 2:53 pm
If Baker doesn’t fumble the ball to lose the Redskins game, the Bucs go to Philly and beat the Eagles – and every Eagles fan knows that would have been the outcome.
If only Baker didn’t collapse when it mattered most.
May 27th, 2025 at 3:41 pm
Rod Munch, If Baker collapsed when it mattered most against Washington, what makes you think he wouldn’t have done so later on against whoever. Your post makes no sense. You repeatedly harp on Baker’s propensity to choke in the biggest moments but express supreme confidence that the Bucs go to Philly and beat the Eagles.
May 27th, 2025 at 4:38 pm
Last regular season, the Bucs beat Detroit, Philly, and Washington. Not many, if any, other teams did that. When healthy, the Bucs are capable of beating anybody. They just need to have the confidence they can beat the top teams, and the focus to stop playing down to the division opponents.
May 27th, 2025 at 5:08 pm
It was so annoying listening to their fans with the spelling of their name chant nonstop.
I agree with the earlier post about them not having smith and brown but we were banged up too.
It was fun to watch the fans leave that game disappointed.
May 27th, 2025 at 8:07 pm
Bojim
We lost to the eagles in the reg season that year and had lost several in a row to them, until the nfc championship game that year. Which was also our 1st win above freezing. Maybe you knew when we won we were Super Bowl bound. haha, me too
May 27th, 2025 at 8:42 pm
It’s always been this way … some teams just don’t match up well against another, despite their records. It’s that way with the Bucs over the Eagles just like, for no apparent reason, the Texans and 49ers have the Bucs’ number year after year.
In the Bucs vs. Eagles case, the answer may have a lot to do with what many NFL experts/coaches are saying about the Bucs – they are one of the hardest hitting teams to play against. Philly isn’t used to that and may have met their match.
May 27th, 2025 at 8:59 pm
We HAD to be Super Bowl bound it was the NFC Championship game. LOL
May 27th, 2025 at 9:38 pm
Nice to see some media members are awake. Bucs are one of the most physical teams in the league and match up well along the lines with teams like Philly and Detroit. It’s not rocket science. Eagles OL and DL can’t bully ours.
I do think we beat the Eagles last year if we beat Wash… at the very least we give the Eagles a game unlike the Commanders.
I don’t buy the injured narrative for Philly last year vs us. We had major injuries at that point as well. Philly is a running team, Barkley broke 1 long run, otherwise him and Hurts were bottled up. That’s what Bowles is great at, shutting down the other teams run game.
May 28th, 2025 at 1:20 am
Love Brandt and hope he can hold down the fort till NFL Network returns to sanity. However it is way to early to be taunting anyone. Lots of queston marks on our Bucs right now.
Go Bucs!
May 28th, 2025 at 2:45 am
Dungy’s teams never could beat the Fleagles. Gruden’s Bucs lost to them in the regular season. That’s where it ended. Ronde Barber gave me the best birthday present ever in the NFCC game. That was the last game they played in their old stadium. In the 2003 season opener the Bucs beat them again to christen their new stadium. That should have been a home game for the Bucs, instead it was three consecutive games played in Philadelphia. In the conference championship game, some of the Fleagle fans heckled Joe Jurivicious about his newborn son passing away. Joe made two absolutely fantastic TD catches against them in their first game in their new stadium. Beating them that way almost outshines the SB against the Raiders. I know when looking back I always think of Barber’s interception for a TD first. That’s a great memory.
May 28th, 2025 at 7:19 am
I’m all about counting quality wins. For instance, Lions win last season, in their house, and with Hutchinson having a career game, simply no caveats to that win. Brilliant win. However, the last 2 wins against the Eagles, they were missing both their starting receivers. Yes, we know how that feels, its a big deal. Both times, AJ Brown was out, who imo turned the Eagles franchise around when they traded for. Prior to the 2 straight wins, 2023 regular season, they were healthy, they came into our house, we had a hot start, 2-0 and they thumped us.
That being said, I think Hurts is overrated. As physically gifted as he is, he doesn’t make the players around him better, he needs all the help he can get. He’s well suited for their offense, and they got all the weapons to make him look good. But, without those reliable outlets, Hurts has a hard time reading the blitz. He does not pick it up like we’ve seen better QBs in this league do against us.
The Eagles, when healthy are going to be tough to beat. They are loaded at every level. It will be interesting to see how we match up with the tweaks we’ve made over the offseason.
May 28th, 2025 at 8:33 pm
That’s because Baker proved Rod to be an idiot and he cant get over it. We all told him not to bet against Baker but he did it anyway and as Baker has done so many times before, made the experts look like idiots and trust me Munch considers himself an expert.