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BigBucBoy

Sep 8 2003, 09:56 PM

There's been a lot of smack talk on this discussion board from both teams fans during this long off season . . . .

But let the discussion end TONIGHT about which of these two team is clearly the DOMINATE ONE. . . . Monday Night Football. . . . Buccaneers 17 - Eagles 0. . IN THEIR HOUSE.

All I can say is. . . .

WOW

Ray Jay will be rockin this Sunday. . . can't wait!!!!!!

Cadillac

Sep 8 2003, 10:01 PM

Amen.......

Jim at Outsports

Sep 8 2003, 11:08 PM

Well, it seems as if the Bucs now own the Eagles. I am not a fan of either team, so as an impartial observer, the Iggles got schooled, including coaching.

shawnq

Sep 8 2003, 11:44 PM

I almost felt sorry for Eagles fans tonight with their new stadium and all, and I don't mean to pile on, but I must say that hearing Philly fans boo their team as they head for the tunnel at halftime has got to be one of the more pleasant sounds on earth.

[ September 09, 2003, 12:23 AM: Message edited by: shawnq ]

Kenny

Sep 9 2003, 03:17 AM

QUOTE

shawnq:
I almost felt sorry for Eagles fans tonight with their new stadium and all, and I don't mean to pile on, but I must say that hearing Philly fans boo their team as they head for the tunnel at halftime has got to be one of the more pleasant sounds on earth.

Shows what class their fans have! Will the real PF please shut up, please shut up!?

Joe in Philly

Sep 9 2003, 11:40 AM

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Jim at Outsports:
I am not a fan of either team, so as an impartial observer, the Iggles got schooled, including coaching.

Especially coaching, actually. It would be interesting to play Tampa again with a coach that has a clue on offense. As long as Andy Reid is coach, the Eagles will NEVER win the Super Bowl.

A few other comments on the game and on the Linc:

The pre-game laser/fireworks display was impressive, but I'm not sure a flyover by F-16's works as well at night. The only reason I saw them was because they came from above the north end zone and I was seated in the south end zone, so they basically flew right past my head. wink
Throwing to the rookie tight end from the one-yard line--twice--in the first game of the season is asinine. This isn't a guy who's a sure bet. He played for RUTGERS, for God's sake. The second throw was on the fake field goal attempt, which never should have taken place. At that point, you either take the three or just go for it on offense. To resort to a trick play at that point of the game is like waving the white flag of surrender.
And speaking of surrender, one of the friends I was at the game with was so disgusted that as soon as the pass was caught by Warren Sapp he left. I can't blame him. He sat through the game in January and just couldn't take any more. The score was only 10-0, and though the way the Eagles offense was going the game was over, the Bucs throwing to Sapp was just rubbing it in, and the Eagles just let them. There should have been, on that play or the next, a late hit or two to send a message for down the road. But Andy Reid likes his players to be robots. That's why McNabb is so afraid to go against a failing game plan and run more. And it's a good part of the reason Hugh Douglas is in Jacksonville.
They can talk about the sight lines and all the seats being closer to the field, but when you're about ten rows from the top of the stadium and in the end zone, you're still pretty far away. I had no idea Bobby Taylor had gotten hurt. (It does explain the latter stages of the game somewhat.) At times I kept wanting to watch the game on the giant video screen rather than on the field.

And while it is loud, at least while the team gives fans a reason to BE loud, the fact that the Eagles won't allow signs or banners to be hung on railings or walls makes for a very antiseptic, sterile, corporate atmosphere. The only signs I could see were the advertisements. Did anyone who watched the game on TV see anyone with hand-held signs in the stands? I think the signs add flavor to the game, just like the various fan group signs at the Phillies games (the \"Wolf Pack\" and so on) add to the fun. But the Eagles are not about fun. They're about money.

[ September 09, 2003, 11:40 AM: Message edited by: Joe in Philly ]

blatino

Sep 9 2003, 07:51 PM

Towards the end of the game ABC showed McNabb after an incomplete pass. He was smiling, almost laughing. I can't imagine what he could've been so happy about. If anything, he should've been crying considering the type of game he and the team had played to that point. Anyone else catch this on tv and what do you make of it?
Ohh... and please don't respond pp.

[ September 09, 2003, 07:56 PM: Message edited by: blatino ]

Joe in Philly

Sep 10 2003, 07:15 AM

It's kind of bizarre. I seem to recall people saying the same thing about Rodney Peete when he was here.

William1865

Sep 10 2003, 10:29 AM

Did you know...(I got this from the bucs website)...

Shutouts

In fact, Tampa Bay did something no other club has done in more than a decade. The last team to end one season by shutting out a team and then begin the next season the same way was the 1989-90 Washington Redskins.

The Bucs have been on a supremely unlikely shutout binge in the last two years.

Prior to the 2002 season, Tampa Bay had posted four shutouts in its first 26 years of existence. That number has nearly doubled to seven after the Bucs blanked Baltimore in September of 2002, Chicago last December and Philadelphia on Monday.

Even more impressively, the team had one road shutout prior to 2002, a 35-0 drubbing of Cincinnati in the 1998 season finale, but it's last three blankings have all come on the road. One was in a cold weather game, supposedly the bane of the Bucs' existence, and one was in the emotionally-charged opening of a new stadium.

The shutout of the Eagles is probably the most impressive of the recent three, given that Philadelphia was coming off back-to-back NFC Championship Game appearances and is considered a prime Super Bowl contender again in 2003. In fact, since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger, after which there were two conference championship games every season, no participant in a championship game had ever been shut out in its opener the following season. The Eagles were the first team to suffer that feat, at the Bucs' hands.

Joe in Philly

Sep 10 2003, 11:32 AM

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William1865:
Prior to the 2002 season, Tampa Bay had posted four shutouts in its first 26 years of existence. That number has nearly doubled to seven after the Bucs blanked Baltimore in September of 2002, Chicago last December and Philadelphia on Monday...

The shutout of the Eagles is probably the most impressive of the recent three,

"Probably"? The Bears resorted to starting a quarterback from Temple at the end of last year, their offense was so hideous and banged-up. And in September 2002 the Bucs caught the Ravens at their lowest point of the year.

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