After torching the Saints in Week 1, Ryan Fitzpatrick and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have been the talk of the NFL. Yeah, there has been some chatter about some guy named Aaron, but whatever he did probably wasn’t as amazing.
Now, though, it gets interesting. The defending Super Bowl champion Eagles are in town. We get to see whether the Bucs are for real.
A year ago, the Eagles were coming off a 7-9 season and were Super Bowl longshots. There were several reasons for their turnaround — a deep and talented defensive line, their head coach’s aggressive play-calling and a backup quarterback who caught fire in the playoffs — but the focus in this week’s Sound-Smarter-Than-Your-Friends Guide is on how Philadelphia scored almost 100 more points in 2017 than it did in 2016.