This was the first question and answer from Kevin Patullo’s Tuesday press conference:

Q. What went wrong in the second half against Tampa from your perspective? (Cayden Steele)

Kevin Patullo: I mean when you look at the game as a whole, we started off the game like we wanted to: we had good pace, good rhythm, we got it going. I think sometimes when you evaluate games after the fact, there’s obviously things we want to work on to get better, and we know we can be critical of as a staff that we know we can...

Sean Payton mentioned in an interview the moment he knew the Tush Push vote was a bunch of bullshit:

“…when all of a sudden health and safety was pulled into that, which might be the safest play in football, my bullshit nose kind of went up.”

I wish more coaches in the NFL were like Payton. He’s always been the gold standard for player safety. Instead, you have coaches like Sean McDermott fighting against it and he ran the play (unsuccessfully) in the playoffs last year. Why can’t other people see that Bart Starr ran it in the Ice Bowl...

George Pickens went full Donovan McNabb after the Sunday Night Football tie. You never go full McNabb:

I think it’s finally time to come to the conclusion that ties shouldn’t happen in the NFL. I gotta imagine before it was a player safety issue, but since the NFL has completely abandoned caring about that we might as well stop ties altogether. Just adopt the college football rules if you’re worried about player safety. Have a couple possessions start from a set yard line and then at a certain point move it to 2-point conversions. There, problem solved. Now we don’t...

Vic Fangio in his Tuesday press conference called out reporters for missing the biggest scandal in the NFL right now. Field goal kickers bombing footballs 60+ yards like it’s a PAT:

Do we have our very own Deflategate on our hands? I mean he sounds like he knows what he’s talking about. Can we get one of the 70 reporters from the Eagles beat researching these footballs instead of tweeting about what Bible verse AJ Brown is reading that day? This seems way more important. What if the Eagles lose on a last second 72-yard field goal this Sunday...

You seeing what I’m seeing? Hearing what I’m hearing?

Miserabs are out there on social media and standing at the company water cooler, comparing the 2025 Eagles to the 2023 Eagles, a stance based primarily on the fact that the Birds offense looks a little janky under a first-year offensive coordinator. You even get the sense that some of the fake news media is waiting for a Birds collapse, so that they can have something to complain about, because all of this winning is much less interesting to talk about.

To recap:

• the Eagles lost to the Chiefs by...

I know the phrase goes, “A tie is like kissing your sister,” but what the hell is going on with the horny Cowboys reporters in the Dallas-Fort Worth area that wanted to know so bad? They asked Dak Prescott immediately after he came off the field:

The drive by question for Dak is crazy work. Reminds me of the reporter who tried to get a question in when Ben Simmons returned to Philly before they were going out for practice and Blake Griffin roasted him.

That awkward back and forth wasn’t enough for reporters because they ended up asking Jerry...

Stateside Live is in the middle of a $20 million renovation and this Eagles fan just wanted to help out:

We don’t condone misdemeanor destruction of property here at Crossing Broad, but if you’re in the middle of a renovation now is the best time for an Eagles fan to swing a giant stanchion through your glass doors. That’s what we call in the biz a sunk cost. That’s an insurance claim that’s just going to get roped in with the hundreds of other ones that happen on a years-long construction site. One day it’s a guy going full...

No one travels like Philadelphia Eagles fans. They turned Raymond James Stadium into the Linc South. I’ve never seen a video of a home team’s fans in the NFL crashing out because there are so many opposing fans there:

If your team is 3-0 and you’re selling your tickets, that’s kind of a you problem, no? It’s not like the Bucs are on some Patriot-style dynasty run. They’ve had two Super Bowl titles in 25 years. There wasn’t exactly a lot of winning in between those two titles either. And I don’t want to hear about the heat. If you’re...

One of the things that didn’t get a lot of talk on Sunday afternoon is that the Birds got away with a hip-drop tackle on the key fumble that allowed them to take over in Tampa territory and stop some of the third-quarter bleeding:

This was supposed to be a point of emphasis change in 2024, but it seems like they’re not calling it very often. The rule summary goes this way:

ARTICLE 18. HIP-DROP TACKLES

It is a foul if a player uses the following technique to bring a runner to the ground:

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Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but the Eagles won a game while A.J. Brown didn’t catch a lot of passes. Just two receptions for seven yards in a 31-25 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Afterward, A.J. posted on social a snippet of a bible verse, the entire thing copied here and his portion highlighted:

Jesus called the Twelve to him, and sent them out in pairs. He gave them authority and power to deal with the evil opposition. He sent them off with these instructions:

“Don’t think you need a lot of extra equipment...

“What the hell is wrong with y’all?”

Great stuff. Another Eagles takeover in enemy territory. Tampa doesn’t have real fans anyway. They have a smattering, but it’s all expats or retirees down in Florida anyway. Tampa sports fans are relocated Northeasterners who ride the Lightning and Bucs because they never got to see their team win a title before departing for warmer weather. The end result is what you saw on Sunday, with visiting fans taking over the stadium.

We are! 4-0.

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If you watched the Penn State game on Saturday night, or the Eagles game Sunday afternoon, or even the Giants game, you saw a red zone shovel pass for for a touchdown. One was ugly as hell and the other two very nice:

Absolute sicko stuff at the goal line. The Oregon player, Jamari Johnson, ran into two of his linemen and somehow spun his way in for the overtime score. The Eagles’ pull was perfectly timed, and slipped Dallas Goedert through for his second score of the game. Then the Jaxson Dart shovel had that sprint right element to...