This would end up being the last game for Tony Dungy as head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He remains their most successful coach by win percentage to date.
Not only was this Tony Dungys final game with Tampa Bay, it was also Warrick Dunns final game with Tampa Bay. Very underrated player who never got a ring, and had to watch Tampa Bay win their first championship right after he left.
Not counting last week, this was the Eagles' first win against a team above .500 in a game that meant something since week 2 at Seattle. Now they have a chance for the NFC Central daily double next week at Chicago.
For those that don’t know The Bucs told Dungy they wanted him to stay but he had to make changes to his offensive coaching staff. He refused thus he was fired
I still think Malcolm Glazer owner of the Bucs wanted a better offense than Dungy that's why he was willing to trade with Al Davis for John Gruden service not saying your lying or wrong I believe you I still think the team was tired of Dungy inability to create an offense with that defense even Warren Sapp and Lynch made the comments public and on America's Team and A Football life. But team was frustrated that the defense was carrying the load all those years and the offense was not held accountable the same way they were
The biggest fallacy is this notion that Gruden won with 'Dungy's team'. DUNGY couldn't even get to 10 points against the same Eagles team in two games the prior two years. And the Bucs got punked by the Eagles in back to back asswhoopins. The Bucs absolutely needed someone with a modern offense in Gruden to balance that team out. Remember...Dungy's Colts in 2002 were solid, but mostly against bad teams (gave up 9 points in three games to the Cowboys and Texans, combined 9-23 record) and got worked by better teams, culminating with the 41-0 thrashing by the Jets in the playoffs. They would have never won the Super Bowl in Tampa with Dungy in charge. They had clearly plateaued.
Yes, it was Dungy's team. They wouldn't have won w/ Dungy but they wouldn't have won w/ Gruden either had the Raiders not changed their signals. The offense never improved under Gruden, it was actually worse in 02 than 01. The pass defense peaked that year w/ guys like Brian Kelly and Dexter Jackson having career years, putting them over the top. Gruden never put 1 good offense together in Tampa. Bucs were always carried by their defense, which Dungy (and Kiffin) put in place.
I miss Stu Scott. Berman was the best with the NFL but Stu might have been the best all around Sports Center anchor ever. There’s a few really great ones so I’m not sure but he’s certainly in the conversation. BOO YA!
@@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly Yeah. SC was great when it was Stu Scott, Dan Patrick, Linda Cohn, Rich Eisen, Kenny Mayne, and Keith Olbermann before he went insane. With Berman on NFL duties, of course.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this was the first year that the NFL scheduled the Saturday playoff games with a late afternoon and prime time slots instead of the 11:30/3:00 time slots.
McNabb was too good that year, plus Duce Staley was killing it and barely nobody had an answer for the best DB core in the NFL that era in Troy Vincent, Bobby Taylor Sean Dawkins and Damon Moore! In the video games 🎮 around that time i was unbeatable when i used Philly mainly cause of those ball hawk DBs who were great tacklers and cover guys and Philly was just too stacked! They should’ve went to the Superbowl and beat New England that year cause they were an overall better team than the Rams who had the worst defense for a Superbowl team ever that season
