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Not only has it been amended to say the NFL and then in parenthesis Taylor's version. I don't know if you follow Taylor Swift, you know that she's re-releasing a bunch of her music and she's calling it her own version, my version. Meaning she's releasing the songs and the music the way that she wants to present them and the way that she wants to play them, the way that she wants to perform them. As opposed to the way the studio or the producers dress them up or change them from her original thoughts or plans. It really is, it's a situation that many young entertainers and I would say even young broadcasters have to go through where before you become big enough, quote unquote, before you have enough experience, before you are financially stable or you are willing and ready to gamble on yourselves.

Well you have to take instruction and you have to a lot of times give up some creative autonomy in order to keep your job. I've been there, clearly many musicians are there as well, especially before they become big, before they strike it rich so to speak. Now Taylor can make any decision that she wants to over her music and over her songs and she wrote them, she owns them now. But initially she had a contract with a record company and producers and likely they changed her music and it wasn't what she wanted it to be or they changed some of the creative elements that she really liked. And so now on her Twitter and on all of her social media, when she talks about re-releasing songs and re-releasing her music, she includes in parentheses my version or Taylor's version. So now the NFL has that on its Twitter handle, NFL in parentheses Taylor's version and you have to go check out the Twitter account because the header photo, so mine's the beach. The header photo of the NFL is now her and Donna Kelsey, Travis and Jason's mom in the suite yesterday and Taylor's mouth is wide open and she's screaming, wearing the hat that she was wearing and she's screaming at the top of her lungs. So the NFL is selling out, trying to grab as many Swifties as possible. I'm going to be honest and say that I'll bet there are a large number of Swifties, maybe even the majority of Swifties who had no idea who Travis Kelsey was or what he did for a living or the fact that he even existed before yesterday.

But that has all changed and have you all seen the latest rumor or the report I should say? Oh my gosh, there is an ad for a Chili's burger and fries. Oh no, it's Applebee's, my fault.

Applebee's burger and fries on the TV in front of me and I am so hungry I could eat that burger and just it would taste so good. But that's a distraction so forgive me. Anyway, the Taylor Swift and the Swifties have taken over the NFL and the NFL has decided they're going to ride this wave as much as they possibly can.

But the rumor and the report coming out of Kansas City last night is that Travis Kelsey rented out an entire restaurant, which I think may have had a rooftop bar or rooftop seating area, something like that, rented out an entire restaurant for a private party with Taylor Swift. You gotta fight! Exactly. Or in his case, you just have to rent out the entire restaurant, you just have to pay for it.

You don't have to fight for it, you just have to pay for it. Know your role and shut your mouth, you jabroni! I wonder if he tried that line on her. And so I guess there were other patrons in the restaurant around eight o'clock Central Time, remember this was an early game, right? Oh no no, it was a late game. It was a later game, so it would have been a 3.25 Central Time start, 3.25 Kansas City start. Apparently around eight o'clock local time, the restaurant managers and wait staff started to bring out doggy bags for all of the people who were still eating in the restaurant.

And they were given doggy bags full of food and then they were told, hey you can have free drinks if you go down the road to our sister restaurant or our sister bar. So they were cleared out and then apparently it was Travis and it was Taylor and it was teammates and it was friends but it was a private party and of course mom was welcome there too. I do not know if Justin Fields was invited.

Probably not. The f*** is that guy? Right. People were saying that about you, Travis. And somehow you are now connected to one Taylor Swift. It's crazy town. Seriously, the NFL now intersecting with Taylor Swift as if the NFL wasn't crazy enough. Let's get a little Taylor Swift into the equation and see how it takes off and develops a life of its own. It's time to have some fun. Yeah, so she's not trending on Twitter right now but she is the NFL's brand new header photo because why not?

Might as well ride that horse until he gets tired. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. We'd love to have you find us on Twitter, After Hours CBS or my Twitter, ALawRadio. If you haven't yet voted for Monday MVP, the poll is still available. In fact, I'll tweet it now. Just a couple hours left to cast your vote and I know that many of you wanted me to include Taylor Swift in the poll. Yeah, that's not really how we do things around here but if you think that she deserves a vote, well you can always send us a tweet or a Facebook post with your write-in vote for her.

Or if some of you are just sending me memes and gifs of Taylor Swift. We've got candidates from the Packers, Chargers, Browns and Dolphins and a relatively close race. So again, check that out on Twitter, either our show Twitter or mine and then also on our Facebook page. And if you haven't yet meandered over to our YouTube channel in the last week or so, there is a brand new video that has absolutely nothing to do with sports except it does answer the question of why I'm getting married on an NFL Sunday. So it's the first part, we'll call it part one, of Ask Amy Walks Down the Aisle.

Do you ever watch Wheel of Fortune? And they have that category called, I think it's called before and after, where it's two phrases that come together over a pivotal word in the middle. So in this case, I mean it wouldn't be as clever if I had to tell you about it, right? It's Ask Amy anything, but it's just Ask Amy and then it's Amy Walks Down the Aisle.

So that's kind of how I bridged the gap. And many of you have already seen it, including a good number of Bob's family, including Bob himself. And so if you want to check it out, these are, oh gosh, how many Producer J? These are the what, 15 wedding questions that were relatively common and that's just part one. The frequently asked questions about Amy's nuptials, I know I did just go third person on your butt. The frequently asked questions will be released in time for the hump show, but this is part number one. And I'm a little nervous that I gave away too much.

I don't know, because this is all new for Bob's family and for Bob himself. Now, thankfully, he thought it was fun and thought it was not over the top. I hope he would tell me if he did think it was over the top, but I'm not actually sure. So anyway, you can check it out on our YouTube channel After Hours with Amy Lawrence. And while you're there, we would ask that you like it. If you do like it, don't lie, right? We don't want people to lie if they like it. So J thinks you should lie.

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Again, you can check it out After Hours with Amy Lawrence on YouTube. All right, now we've got a doubleheader on Monday Night Football that is staring us in the face. We've got week three now completely in the books. And so we do have all the material, all the evidence that we need to go back and to review and really to check the pulse of not just the NFL, but your favorite teams. Now that we're three weeks in.

I said this to you on our last show, but I will say it again. Over the course of the NFL playoffs and really the expansion of the regular season, going back to 1990, right? So we've seen various iterations of not just the regular season, but also of the playoff bracket. But going back to 1990, there had been 158 teams who started 0-3. Again, predating the 17 game season so that will likely change the numbers a little bit. Oh my gosh, now there's a Wendy's Frosty on the TV in front of me. Why?

Stop teasing me with the food. Of the 158 teams or 158 times that a team started 0-3, only four of them have ever made the playoffs. That's according to the people who keep the stats. It's not me.

I'm just passing them along. But the number is itty teeny peeny. It's eensy weensy. It's minute. It's minuscule. It's marginal.

It's not the rule. It's an aberration when a team that's 0-3 makes the postseason. Impossible?

Nope. And we've seen some pretty crazy stuff. We've seen teams that were 1-5 make the playoffs. We've seen teams with five game losing skids make the playoffs.

But historically, not that the NFL is doomed to repeat its history or that any team is doomed to repeat its history. But historically, teams that are 0-3 make the playoffs a very small percentage of the time. I think the number is about 2.5%. Don't quote me on that.

Roughly 2.5%. Which is why with the Minnesota Vikings now, they are in dire straits. Which is why you gotta feel a sense of urgency if your team is 0-3. The Denver Broncos. I don't know why anyone's talking about playoffs with Denver Broncos in the same sentence. The Chicago Bears, same situation. The Carolina Panthers, absolutely. And I don't know if they had playoff designs, though maybe a little more so in the NFC South.

But those are your 0-4 teams right now. The biggest shocker is definitely the Vikings. Because they won the NFC North last year, had double figure wins. I know that they were embarrassed in the playoffs.

Well, embarrassed. I know they lost in the playoffs. But at the same time, they were considered to be a real strong contender to win the North Division again, but also to make some noise in the postseason.

It's September. We shouldn't be talking about the postseason, but we are anyway. They brought in a new defensive coordinator, right? They brought in some pieces to try to shore up their defense because that was part of the issue with them last year.

The major issue. It's not the offense. I know they've changed some of their pieces offensively. But they still have Justin Jefferson, still have an Alexander Madison, not a Dalvin Cook. But the challenge for them was defense. So they bring in Brian Flores off of the Pittsburgh staff. Remember Mike Tomlin kind of threw him a lifeline.

So now he's back as a defensive coordinator in Minnesota and yet 0-3. And their challenge has been turnovers. So I'm not sure you can blame them on the defense. But their challenge has been turnovers.

So that's the major surprise. Panthers, Bears, not a surprise. Those are your three 0-3 teams in the NFC and then just the Broncos remaining in the AFC. The AFC is thick around the middle, right? You've got one team that's a perfect 3-0 and one team that has yet to win.

Everybody else is clumped together in the middle. So as the dust settles on week number three, we're going to get to our doubleheader from Monday night. Jalen Hurts with flu-like symptoms.

Joe Burrow nursing that strained calf muscle and actually honest about how it affected him. Sure, more turnovers. It's still early. Offense is still trying to find their rhythm and their grooves.

And then at the top of the hour, he's a night owl, which is great. TJ Reeves from the Buccaneers radio network who is there in Tampa on the sidelines for a battle between two teams that were previously undefeated. But the Bucks obviously pick up their first loss. Every team in the NFC South lost a game this weekend. Seriously, NFL Network showing Taylor Swift right now.

What is happening? The NFL is sold out. Did you ever think the NFL would be a sellout? Kind of funny though, did you see on, I guess it was on ABC, when they highlighted Jason Kelce and DeAndre Swift standing next to each other. Did they really have to do that?

That actually made me laugh out loud. And then it turned into a big thing on social media, on Twitter is where I was looking at it. People talking about it. The rumored connection between the offensive lineman Jason Kelce and his top running back DeAndre Swift. But just to catch the camera shot of the two of them standing next to each other, Kelce and Swift. That was brilliant. Destiny.

Whoever took that photo, that was brilliant. I mean the jokes, the jokes will never die down or they won't anytime soon. And they might not until Taylor writes a few songs about Travis. Then it becomes official. That's how you know it's official. Okay, so we're going to dive into the late game between the Rams and the Bengals coming up here momentarily. If you haven't yet voted for Monday MVP, I see you with your write in votes for Tay Tay. On Twitter after our CBS as well as my Twitter and then on our Facebook page too. Take some time.

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Burrow gives to mix it. Joe. Touchdown. And now he does a jungle jump into the crowd, sitting with the fans after scoring a go ahead touchdown with 534 left in the third quarter.

Off the field, on the money and after hours, it's time to talk football with Amy Lawrence. Some defense and some offense and all of it needed for the Bengals against the Los Angeles Rams. This game taking place in Cincinnati.

And I will not forget it. It's the night that our friend Boomer Esiason is honored with a spot on the Bengals Ring of Honor. Really neat for him to be there at halftime and receive a jacket, he said, and had to fly out right after that, of course, because he does a radio show in New York early in the mornings. But great for him to finally get a spot in the Bengals Ring of Honor. And it was mentioned multiple times on the broadcast, including Kevin Harlan, his former broadcast partner on Westwood One, who's now with our friend Kurt Warner. Our friend, Kurt Warner.

It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. Yes, you get a pair of Logan Wilson interceptions, plus a Joe Mixon 14 yard touchdown run where he's banging off tacklers. And that was a 13-9 lead for the Bengals. There are a lot of missed opportunities here, as I say, points left on the field where each team was settling for field goals instead of getting into the end zone. It wasn't until late that the Rams were able to find pay dirt. So, yeah, the Bengals, they were only into the red zone one time, but they did capitalize when they got in there. As for the Rams, they were one for four in the red zone.

And that leaves you with a lot of what ifs, what ifs. There were some pretty impressive moments for the Los Angeles Rams, but they just couldn't capitalize on the majority of their opportunities. There was a really incredible Okello Witherspoon interception.

If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and look it up on YouTube or on Twitter. He snags the ball, well he and, I think it was D.T. Higgins, was it? I'd have to go back and look who the receiver was, but he and the receiver get to the ball at the same exact time. And it sure looks like it's going to be a reception.

No, it was Tyler Boyd, excuse me. It certainly looks like it's going to be a reception for Tyler, except that Witherspoon has got a couple of palms on it. He does this acrobatic move, something that you would see in the martial arts or in a movie where you've got FBI agents and, I don't know, trained special forces. He's got his palms on the ball. He does a front flip, a somersault forward, and his momentum as he hangs onto the ball, his momentum in doing this front flip and the somersault forward actually snatches the ball out of the hands of Tyler Boyd.

It was incredible. So yeah, both teams end up with turnovers. Both teams end up with missed opportunities. Ultimately, the Bengals were able to hang on.

The calls there with Dan Horton and Dave Lapham on the Bengals radio network. There was an onside kick at the end, but, not but, the Rams end up losing by three, so there was a chance there. But the Bengals cover it up and they're able to seal their first victory of the year.

So yeah, this is a big deal. Finally get into the win column, especially when you're talking about a very challenging AFC North. You got to get that first win and it changes everything, changes the week, changes the momentum. To hear them get a chance to sing the song in the locker room is good. So again, it creates a lot of positive energy for the week, which we haven't had the last couple weeks.

You just feel that kind of hanging over you. But I thought our guys managed this game well. It starts really with the defense. The defense set the tone for us in the first half while the offense was trying to get their feet underneath them.

And so to hold them to what, six points at halftime I think it was, and then allow the offense to go out and start to get some momentum and play with a two-score lead. That's the type of football game we're used to playing. Yeah, it's really interesting to look at the stats because it would be tough to figure out who won this game or really what the score was if you were just looking at stats.

Or you wouldn't know that it was only a 1916 final because the Bengals possessed the ball 12 more minutes than did the Rams. So they're overwhelmingly winning the time of possession battle. They have 22 more offensive snaps with the ball than do the Rams. They end up with more yards. They actually, neither team was able to rush the ball. So with the Joe Mixon touchdown notwithstanding, that was actually a good chunk of the rushing yardage tonight. Just a little disjointed for both teams in different stretches. And for the Rams, they go one for 11 on third down. So yeah, one for four in the red zone, one for 11 on third down.

They could not capitalize when they had to. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence, CBS Sports Radio. We'll hear from the Rams coming up a little bit later on. But the big story, even before this game kicked off, is the fact that Joe Burrow was dealing with a calf injury and that he was playing despite not being 100 percent. That was very clearly communicated. He was not 100 percent. I mean, I'm in here saying day to day because that's what we're doing. You just never fully know.

And you just want honest responses from him, which he gave. And you talk to the doctors and everyone gets on the same page and feels good about it. And he goes out there and delivers a performance like he did. I feel good. We didn't have any setbacks today. But still day to day.

And I've learned through this process that you can have one at any time. So it was good to get through this one. That means it will be stronger for this week. So hopefully I can have a full week of practice to prepare for next week. So Joe Burrow goes 26 of 49.

We're talking about roughly 50 percent, a little more than 50 percent. 259 yards. He got sacked a couple of times. He did have the one interception that I just talked about with Witherspoon. So did the calf injury limit what he was able to do out there on the field? I was pretty cautious with extending plays.

I was quick to throw the ball away. But we were able to get the job done. Joe's toughness, we're just used to it. So we kind of take it for granted at times because he's played through a lot of stuff over the last however many years.

Is it four years? He's played in four years. So again, he's always a guy that it's appreciated when your quarterback goes out there and is dealing with something as significant as he was and able to battle through it, throw the ball 40-something times.

That was really, you know, escaped a couple pressures too and got the ball out of his hand. So that was big time. That means be ready. You know what I'm saying? That means be ready and give us your best. You know what I'm saying? Joe already giving us his best.

So we have no choice but to follow and lead more. Jamar Chase saying when our leader goes out there and we know he's not 100 percent, but he's going to play hurt, well that means we have to give it our best too. And he certainly did, was a major piece of the offense, a major target for the offense.

A dozen catches for 141 yards. Though Jamar actually wants to highlight the Denver, no one's highlighting anything about Denver, the Bengals defense. Our defense is crazy good, man. They showed every year we've got one of the best linebackers in the game and our secondary is just getting better.

They're young, but the core is just getting better. And our up front is even more amazing as our linebacker, so that tells us everything. I like what the defense did. I would say that there are still ways in which we're going to see these Bengals get better on both sides of the ball. Whether it's because of the offensive limitations that's putting extra pressure and stress on the defense, well, okay. But they certainly did do well in limiting the run for the Rams, so that was important.

Neither team though looked particularly fluid or smooth offensively. Man, it's a lot of fun to watch Pukunakua though. Boy, he is awesome. And to hear his story and see him highlighted over and over, five more catches for him, 72 yards now in this game. The fact that he's the volume guy, right? He's really filling the shoes of Cooper Cupp and maybe then some, but Cooper was the security blanket for Matthew Stafford.

He was a guy who would do anything. He would go anywhere on the field, really difficult to keep track of. And Pukunakua is out there catching everything that Matt Stafford throws at him. And then you've got the rookie Tutu Atwell as well, who gets into the end zone for their touchdown late, not the rookie, I'm sorry. Pukunakua is the rookie.

Tutu, a couple of years in with the Rams, but he gets into the end zone with the late touchdown for them. So yeah, kind of making the game, the margin more respectable, a little bit competitive and more interesting at the end. I saw some people complaining about it because of the betting and the spread and all that jazz. But this was about getting Joe Burrow on the field, trying to protect him as much as possible. He says he wasn't holding onto the ball too long, wasn't trying to extend plays.

So yeah, there was risk to go out there, maybe tweak it again, injure it again. But they understood the sense of urgency because they didn't want to fall into an 0-3 hole. We'll hear from the Rams and their side of things as they fall to 1 and 2 now and talk about young guys. There are a lot of young guys around Matthew Stafford that offense is a work in progress, more so than some of the other teams that have started out slowly because they've got so many different pieces. What did Kelly Stafford say on her podcast before the season started? That Matthew is trying to find a way to connect with all of these young guys in the Rams locker room because they're in a bit of a rebuild or a retool, a reworking of the roster thanks to salary cap restrictions and all that jazz.

Remember how Les Snead wore the t-shirt that said, F them picks after they won the Super Bowl? Yeah, well the problem is you do that and you sell out and you go and you trade away all your picks and you sign free agents, big free agents to be sure, but you sign free agents to these fat contracts and you give away a lot of money, well then you're cash strapped and you're really left in a position where you don't have cheaper ways to add to your roster, right? Because you don't have as many picks which means you can't add, and I don't want to say they're cheap talent, but rookies don't cost as much as high priced veterans. I mean that's an obvious way that teams are able to stay under the salary cap and add talent at the same time. That's why draft picks are so valuable because those rookies have lower salaries and so you can fit more of them under a salary cap. But that's not been the reality for the Rams, so now they're trying to figure out how to make it work with a bunch of young guys. Or guys, I don't want to say they got them off the scrap heap because that's not fair, but not high priced free agents. So it's Matthew Stafford in the middle of a rebuild. He did not want to go through one in Detroit, but now he's going through one in LA. So we'll get more of the reaction from Bengals beating the Rams for their first win, and we'll dive into Buccaneers and Eagles, which was total domination in the trenches on both sides of the ball.

I would say the Bucs ran into an Eagles buzzsaw, both the offensive and defensive lines. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on Twitter, ALawRadio, our Facebook page too. You are listening. When you need to know what's happening, it's time to get in the huddle. The big question is Desmond Ritter. The problem that I think a lot of fans are having and looking at Desmond Ritter is they just haven't seen enough. They want to trust him. They want to believe. But I will tell you this, Jason.

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Atwell on the far side of the end zone, three yards deep. Stafford's first touchdown pass tonight, a one yarder and a new score in Cincinnati with 1.03 to go. First third down conversion right there, four point bangle lead as they come up with big play after big play. But the rookie receiver pulled off the biggest play of all.

This is After Hours with Amy Lawrence. There was a touchdown. There was a moment in which the Rams were into the end zone and it gave them a bit of life. The Bengals still had to make sure they came through on one last play.

1.03 to go. Maher ready for the onside kick. The Bengals up three. He dribbles it forward. The Bengals recover it.

Mitchell Wilcox grabbing the ball at the 46 and that is coffin nails. BAM! See I knew it.

I knew it. The Bengals were able to recover the onside kick and the defense comes away with a pair of interceptions and six sacks. Dan Hoard and Dave Lapham there on Bengals Radio.

Kevin Harlan on Westwood 1. But even before that Atwell touchdown reception, here's what stood out to me. They had pulled the witherspoon interception.

They had gotten it off of Joe Burrow. They had kept the Bengals from scoring again. But their very next drive was a three and out. So they waste the interception. Then when they get the ball back, what do they do? They have another three and out. So in the fourth quarter, a pair of three and outs when they needed the points. Even a field goal in that juncture and they end up losing by three would have been better than nothing. But a pair of empty possessions after the takeaway and they don't score until a minute left in which case your options and your time are running out.

It's after hours with Amy Lawrence here on CBS Sports Radio. So Sean McVay, big believer in that Bengals defense. They did a nice job but they were fairly in alignment with what we kind of expected. Sometimes it was some execution. There was a couple things like Jordan mentioned where they were able to apply some pressure. We ended up getting some conversions but then you end up getting penalties that take you out of it. Now you're way behind the sticks and you're almost just trying to say, okay, let's just give ourselves some room for a punt. There was a handful of those and again, there'll be a lot of things that we can learn from this tape and that's coaches and players alike. The biggest thing for us tonight was missed opportunities early in the game in the red zone. Obviously if we can come away with some sevens there, it's probably a little bit different game later on. Obviously turnovers, miscommunication on one of the protections and then the other one, I mean I'm throwing it where it needs to go and Mike Hilton read out of his pressure because we had him picked up and sometimes those things happen. Tips and go to the other team.

Just keep playing on those but those are times where you lost points. I just can't believe that they went not just one for four in the red zone because again that speaks to consistency at this juncture in the season, but how about one for 11 on third down? It's just execution when it comes down to that. Obviously put ourselves in some tough spots, had some third and extra longs.

Didn't do a good enough job there and then I'd have to go back and watch all of them for you. But we just didn't execute. Throwing and catching is the name of the game on third down.

We didn't do that well enough. It's After Hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS Sports Radio. Even as the Rams slip to one and two and the Bengals get their first win so both these teams are sitting on the same record. Who is your Monday MVP? Still a couple minutes. More like 90 minutes. A couple.

It's all in the interpretation. A few minutes left for you to vote for the Monday MVP on either Twitter, After Hours, CBS or our Facebook page. So this whole double header Monday Night Football thing is actually not easy. I'm glad that you like it if you do with the two games but it's not easy. I feel like I'm trying to keep track of two March Madness games that have been straddled or started at the same time or two NBA playoff games.

And it's weird because they do picture in picture and they'll have the two games going on at the same time or they'll have like a box in one quarter where you can see either the score or kind of see it in a much smaller window. What's happening on the other one? I don't know. I don't know the reason why.

I just know that it's a lot. So I'm okay with their just going back to one game on Monday Night Football and that will be the case for week four to start on, I guess it starts on Thursday right? I don't even know what today. It's Monday night. So it's still a few days away. My brain is muddy.

My brain feels like a Monday. So the starting of the first game an hour before the other and so they're not quite at halftime and now you've got two games to monitor at the same time. It's a little bit too much NFL Sunday and I thought we got through all of that. The first game was the opposite of this one right? Where you had a couple of teams who are trying to get, well the case of the Bengals trying to get their first win.

The Rams trying to get above 500 and be hovering there in the NFC West. Well the game that started early on ABC was between a pair of teams that had yet to lose. So we knew one of them was going to come away with the 3-0 record and initially what became very apparent is it was physical and it was fierce and it was tough. And it was a fight for yards and a fight for the football to be sure. And even with Jalen Hurts feeling under the weather, just so many weapons that he has at his disposal.

Hurts in the gun. He's back. He steps up. He's looking.

Still looking. Has time. Let's it go. And it is complete. Touchdown!

A lot of it is Zaccheaus. You give Jalen Hurts enough time, Zaccheaus got open and Jalen threw a 34-yard strike. This was really the epitome of what the Eagles want to do and what they were able to do in this game, which is control the ball.

And if you control the ball, you control the game. That touchdown that you hear with Merrill Reese on the Eagles radio capped a 5-minute possession, a 5-minute drive that went 84 yards for the Eagles. And they were up at that point 10-3. They were able to run the ball. The Buccaneers not able to run the ball.

And yeah, late in the first half, you had three consecutive possessions that resulted in turnovers. Buccaneers turned it over. Then the Eagles turned it over. Then the Buccaneers gave it right back to the Eagles. See, I got a little sloppy there to end the first half. And so kind of any momentum that the Eagles offense had kind of ran right into halftime there. But they are a team that can create momentum because of their ability to run the ball.

Nick Sirianni does not hesitate. The offense stays right where they are. Fourth and goal.

Rain beginning to fall again in Tampa, Florida. 13-3 Eagles. They'll line up again for the quarterback sneak. Hurts gets pushed over the left side.

No signal yet. Hurts looking. Eagles looking. Touchdown, Philadelphia. He just got pushed over the left side into the end zone for six and a 19-3 Eagles lead. The Jalen Hurts touchdown was really one of those where he gets pushed and shoved and pulled in every which direction so that the Eagles can get him across the goal line. I don't know what's going to happen with that rule. There are a lot of people who don't like that rule at all.

So it may be one that is again revisited by the competition committee. But for now, Jalen Hurts into the end zone and that's something the Eagles do very well. They create space. They move piles. They move the line. And in this case, they drag, push and pull their quarterback over the goal line. So ultimately, because of the Eagles ability to run the ball, even though the Buccaneers got a late touchdown and looked pretty fluid on their late touchdown drive, the disparity is this. 201 rushing yards for the Eagles. Only 41 for the Buccaneers.

And there was a decided advantage in the trenches. Now coming up next hour, we'll let you hear from Nick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts as they start out 3-0. Just like the Niners. Oh, how odd. The last two teams standing last year in the NFC are both 3-0. But straight ahead, we'll talk about the Bucs and their first loss.

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