Week three’s edition of Monday Night Football featured two games— The Philadelphia Eagles against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the LA Rams taking on the Cincinnati Bengals. The former was an ugly, rain soaked game at Raymond James Stadium. The Eagles spent the better part of the evening running the ball into a fatigued and battered Tampa Bay defense. Philadelphia accumulated 201 muddy yards on the ground and the Bucs had no answer. Todd Bowles left the game, as many fans likely did, feeling defeated. His team had just suffered their first loss of the season, rather ingloriously, and post-game quotes (referencing the Eagles’ run game) like—
“Two or three times, we let it out.