“For 10 Quarters They Looked, You Know, Awful”
September 27th, 2025
Ex-QB talks Jalen Hurts vs. Todd Bowles and Antoine Winfield.
So it turns out an Eagles legend and a current Philadelphia media insider lived next door to Todd Bowles for a year.
Small world.
Joe’s referring to retired 17-year NFL quarterback Ron “Jaws” Jaworski, who used to be a star analyst as the ESPN quarterbacks guru and on Monday Night Football games. (He also he was the color analyst on Bucs preseason games for years.)
Jaws keeps mostly a local profile these days but he jumped on SiriusXM NFL Radio this week to talk about Sunday’s Eagles-Bucs matchup.
Jaws thinks the Super Bowl champs are snapping out of a funk and finding their identity.
“I don’t know who they are right now, “Jaws said. “For 10 quarters they looked, you know, awful, and they were finding a way to win. But the last two quarters [against the Rams] they looked like a world championship team. So I really don’t know what they are, but they’re gonna get a good test this week. Because you know Todd Bowles man, he could bring the blitzes and Jalen [Hurts] better be ready.”
Interestingly, Jaws noted how Hurts came alive Sunday only after the Rams, with a 26-7 lead, went to a prevent-type defense. Hmm, that’s what the Bucs used while collapsing late against the Jets.
Joe sure hopes Bucs head coach Todd Bowles learned a lot from the film of both games.
Jaws went on to talk about how he think Hurts’ 1-4 record against a Bowles defense is deceiving because he often was without receiver A.J. Brown or Devonta Smith in those games.
However, Jaws is a big Bowles fan and predicted a lot of Antoine Winfield blitzing on Sunday, and Vita Vea being enough to stop the Eagles run game.
“I got to know [Bowles] when he came to Philadelphia as a coach. He lived next door to me for year. So we, we talked a lot of ball,” Jaws said.
“I know how he thinks. And then you watch his team on tape for year after year after year. You realize how creative he is. I mean, he is just a gamer. He gets after you and he knows your strengths, he knows your weakness and, he makes a quarterback and the offense play to their weaknesses.”
Jaws projects Bowles to have an array of “gimmicks and gadgets” to throw at Hurts but he’s picking the Eagles to win by 5 points. “I think the Eagles found themselves in the second half of that game against the Rams,” he said.
September 27th, 2025 at 1:56 pm
Ridiculous! They found themselves? They blocked two field goals. That turned into 14 points.
September 27th, 2025 at 2:05 pm
I suspect whoever wins the Turnover battle wins the game….
Neither team has played up to their potential.
September 27th, 2025 at 2:30 pm
wow predicting bucs and bowles defense blitzing. what insight from ron “kreskin” jaworski.
September 27th, 2025 at 2:31 pm
Jaws went on to talk about how he think Hurts’ 1-4 record against a Bowles defense is deceiving because he often was without receiver A.J. Brown or Devonta Smith in those games.
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He was without them for what, one game last year? Also, people keep mentioning their injuries while ignoring the fact the Bucs blew them out, again, and did so without Kancey, Winfield and Dennis – who ever all injured for that game.
September 27th, 2025 at 3:24 pm
Prevent defense prevents you from winning but then the other case in point what if a guy gets beat in man to man and then you’re roasted either way, it depends on the deficit. The offense had a hand in that Jets game last week by not scoring more in the 4th and I’m not talking about the blocked FG. Even keeping the ball and eating time has a factor and it usually ends up with points.
September 27th, 2025 at 3:27 pm
Jaworski … “I think the Eagles found themselves in the second half of that game against the Rams’.
Strange analysis by Jaws. He’s picking the Eagles to win by 5 points based on them coming back against the Rams. Yet earlier he says that the Rams were way ahead, 26-7, and then they decided to go prevent defense. And that’s what cost them the win.
Kinda seems to indicate that the Eagles can be expected to do well against prevent defenses, but couldn’t crack the Rams’ regular defense. So if I was Todd Bowles, I’d sure avoid the prevent defense.
September 27th, 2025 at 3:28 pm
Bucs 6-1 ve Eagles since 2015. Why is that?
September 27th, 2025 at 4:05 pm
jimmy Says:
September 27th, 2025 at 2:30 pm
wow predicting bucs and bowles defense blitzing. what insight from ron “kreskin” jaworski.
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Bwha hahahahahaha!
He doesn’t even watch games anymore. The eagles found their identity. Its too suck and just block kicks! Yup Jaws is puck8ng eagles by 5. So what does that score look like? 5 to 0. 6 to 1 7 to 2
September 27th, 2025 at 4:06 pm
Hes a fat sac of grits and loud lips at this point.
September 27th, 2025 at 4:30 pm
How do you avoid a prevent D when you know they are gonna pass? It’s not like we’re gonna stack guys up front when ahead by a bunch of points late.
September 27th, 2025 at 4:33 pm
The prevent D should never be used except up 7+ in the last 30-40 seconds and the opponent doesn’t have timeouts, starting from inside their 20.
It does not work, for anyone. It’s just giving up free yards. Give a QB time and a WR space and what do you think happens?
Play aggressive, play to win. Keep Winfield in CF denying deep shots, let Tykee blitz and roam the short area with Parrish.
September 27th, 2025 at 5:44 pm
Todd has many wrinkles to the Bucs prevent victory I mean prevent defense.
He can drop the whole DL deep into the end zone bleachers. Or, he can drop the OLBs 30 yards deep in the flat and the safeties into the end zone bleachers. Or he can have Vita covering Brown or Smith man to man while all the DBs blitz. No one would expect that.
The genius has many ways to an opponent down in the fourth quarter to mount a furious comeback.
And then there’s the special teams, doing nothing and saying nothing about Mr. Magoo indicates Todd thinks he’s doing just dandy.
September 27th, 2025 at 8:46 pm
Speaking of the Eagles receivers, is nice having all the Bucs corners healthy. I have good confidence in them right now.
Bowles need to trust his corners and the blitzes. The defense has looked overwhelming with pressure at times. They could have had eight or ten sacks against the Jets if he had kept the heat on, I thought.
September 27th, 2025 at 8:57 pm
Jaws seems to be covering his azz.
September 27th, 2025 at 9:04 pm
Um…the Bucs might be undefeated, but they nearly lost each game. Mostly because of injuries, but last week was 100% on Todd Bowls. Hopefully he learned that if the Bucs are going to win going forward, they can never take their foot off the gas.
September 27th, 2025 at 9:48 pm
Buddha Says:
September 27th, 2025 at 1:56 pm
Ridiculous! They found themselves? They blocked two field goals. That turned into 14 points.
And just how great has the Bucs’ “special” teams played the past 3 games???
September 27th, 2025 at 10:24 pm
Yes, Bonz. A fact. Indeed.
September 28th, 2025 at 5:01 am
Score early and get up by at least two scores! Make them play our game.
Go Bucs!
September 28th, 2025 at 6:35 am
Get way ahead so they abandon the run and you can focus solely on the pass. Then get picks and sack fumbles and we close them out. Tell Baker to start fast and early.
September 28th, 2025 at 11:36 am
I’ll be keeping an ear on the Secondary. There is a positive pattern developing with this krewe that reminds me of the 2002 swarming Secondary. I also hope someone assigns himself to spy duty on Hurts. As for Jaworski, he’s going to be a Philly homer. What do you expect? One reason why I love Gene Deckerhoff. He’s a superb radio voice (yeah, he’s going to retire soon), and Bucs homer just like me. I still say this one will be a classic Cardiac Bucs win (I hope). Watch out for the refs, Bucs!