The Linc – Bucs right tackle ruled out and other injury updates ahead of Eagles game

Philadelphia Eagles news and links for 9/29/24.

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Breaking: Bucs Luke Goedeke out vs Eagles – Bucs Nation
To say that the Bucs could use Goedeke in the lineup is an understatement. They have struggled to protect Baker Mayfield in back to back weeks including giving up seven sacks last week to Denver. Bucs will once again be relying on Justin Skule to take over at right tackle. Hopefully Goedeke is able to return sooner rather than later to help out a Tampa Bay offensive line that hasn’t looked the same since he has been out.

Eagles-Buccaneers Week 4 injury report, with analysis – PhillyVoice
Goedeke is out. He may not be a household name, but that’s a big loss. Justin Skule has played RT in Goedeke’s previous absences. PFF has him down for 3 sacks allowed on 70 pass block snaps, which, uh, is not good. #Analysis.

Source: Bucs’ Rachaad White, Bucky Irving expected to play – ESPN
Tampa Bay Buccaneers running backs Rachaad White and Bucky Irving are both expected to play Sunday against the Philadelphia Eagles, a source told ESPN’s Adam Schefter. White is listed as questionable because of food poisoning and, according to the source, already feels better. Irving is questionable because of a hamstring injury. Irving was limited in practice during the week but did vow to play Thursday when speaking to reporters.

Game Preview – PHI at TB – Iggles Blitz
Mayfield has mostly played well, but the protection issues have limited the passing game. Mike Evans only has 10 catches for 120 yards after three games. Remember that Dallas Goedert went 10-170 last week alone. Chris Godwin is the leading receiver, with 21 catches. The run game has been inconsistent. Rachaad White is struggling, at 2.1 yards per carry. That’s not good. Rookie Bucky Irving is averaging 6.2 ypc. That is good. Expect him to get more touches. Irving is a quick, shifty runner so he doesn’t need great blocking. He’s able to create on his own. The Tampa defense has been up and down. They are a disappointing 28th in yards allowed, but are 15th in points. They are 12th in defensive DVOA. The Bucs only have 2 sacks. They struggle with missed tackles. They allow 4.9 ypc, which is 28th in the league. This looks like a Todd Bowles defense in terms of style (blitzing), but the results aren’t what he wants, aside from being tough to score on. CB Jamel Dean is the leading tackler. That’s never a good sign. No player has more than 2 TFLs. They only have 9 as a team. Guys just aren’t making plays.

10 things to watch when the Eagles play the Buccaneers – BGN
Saquon Barkley is primed to take advantage of a Bucs defense that’s allowed 4.9 rushing yards per attempt this season. Only four teams (including the Eagles) have allowed more. The Bucs have been an especially bad tackling team with a league-high 41 missed tackles, according to Pro Football Focus. Over the past two weeks, the Eagles have weirdly failed to get Barkley a touch on their first drive of the game. Cut the bullshit and give him the ball early and often until the Bucs prove they can stop it.

In Roob’s Eagles Observations: The worst part of Nick Sirianni stepping on Kellen Moore’s toes – NBCSP
1. Imagine you’re Kellen Moore. You have the No. 5 offense in the NFL after two weeks and you’ve just called plays on a drive that started at your own 7-yard-line with 3:55 to go in the first half, and 15 plays later has your team in position for a game-tying field goal. And then the head coach who supposedly gave you autonomy to run the offense over-rules you and calls an ill-advised 4th-down play that fails miserably? That’s the part of what happened Sunday that really bothers me. Not even the play call or the play execution as much as the fact that Nick Sirianni picked that spot to do what he swore he would never do and snagged play-call duties from his 1st-year playcaller. Moore by any measure has done a terrific job running the offense. The Eagles are now No. 2 in the NFL in yards per game and that’s without A.J. Brown for two games and without a bunch of other key guys in the second half Sunday in New Orleans. And without scoring before halftime Sunday because Sirianni meddled where he can’t meddle. If this unusual approach is going to work – with Sirianni as a CEO coach and Moore having autonomy over the offense – Sirianni has to stay out of Moore’s way. Not 99 percent of the time but all the time. Moore handled questions about all this Tuesday the way you’d expect, talking about the value of collaboration and how all the offensive coaches contribute ideas blah blah blah. He said all the right things. But if you’re Moore, how would you like to be out there calling plays at a high level and then at a crucial moment in a three-point game get over-ruled by the guy who promised you full control of the offense? Sirianni really does have some important strengths. He’s very good at communicating and getting players to understand their roles, at getting backups to approach their job like starters (which paid off Sunday with all the injuries), at developing a team-first culture, at making everyone on the roster feel important. You don’t go 36-18 as a head coach by accident. But when he pulls stuff like he did Sunday? He’s not helping. It’s got to stop.

2025 NFL Draft: Updated needs for all 32 teams, including QB for the Browns and Giants – PFF
Philadelphia Eagles: EDGE RUSHER, OFF-BALL LINEBACKER. There aren’t many areas for the Eagles to improve on paper, but edge defender stands out. Trading Haason Reddick for Bryce Huff hasn’t been as smooth of a swap as expected, and Josh Sweat and Milton Williams are pending free agents. Brandon Graham is likely retiring after this season, too. Zack Baun has played well as an off-ball linebacker, but he is also a pending free agent. The Devin White signing hasn’t worked out so far, as he was a healthy scratch for Weeks 2 and 3 after missing Week 1 due to an injury.

Eagles vs. Buccaneers Game Preview – PE.com
The weekly turnover battle reminder. This is something the Eagles know must improve: They are -4 in turnover ratio and they have said that that number is not sustainable to winning big this season. Ball security is huge against an aggressive Tampa Bay defense. Philadelphia hasn’t taken the football away as much as it wants, but there have been some timely takeaways, including last week’s Reed Blankenship interception that ended the Saints’ last possession and sealed the Eagles’ road win.

NFL fines C.J. Gardner-Johnson for three infractions in Week 3, totaling $45,021 – PFT
The NFL fined Gardner-Johnson for three different infractions from the game against the Saints. We’d previously reported he’d been fined for an illegal hit on Saints running back Alvin Kamara. The out-of-bounds takedown, which wasn’t flagged, will cost Gardner-Johnson $11,255. Gardner-Johnson also picked up not one but two fines for taunting the Saints. One happened with 6:06 to play in the second quarter, and one happened with 1:04 to play in the third. Each one carries a financial penalty of $16,883. He was penalized for neither incident.

Will he ever play for the New York Jets? A Haason Reddick update. – Gang Green Nation
Russini notes Reddick seemed to be under the impression that a new contract was coming if he accepted the trade. That could explain why Reddick has been so steadfast in his contract demands. It seems that the word around the NFL is that Reddick will not show up without a new deal, which would certainly harm the Jets’ Super Bowl hopes and could eventually force them to cut bait and trade him elsewhere. As a casual observer, I have to admit that I have no idea where this standoff is headed. What do you think?

Things I think after the Commanders 2-1 start to the season – Hogs Haven
Zach Ertz is who we hoped he would be. I remember watching Jason Witten in his final season or two with Dallas and wondering how it was that he could lumber downfield like a slow ox and yet be open. Ertz seems to be drinking from the same well that allowed Witten, from age 32 to 37, to catch at least 63 passes per season and generate between 529 and 713 yards per season for five seasons. In three games for the Commanders, Ertz has been targeted 13 times, with 12 completed passes for 128 yards. His 10.7 yards per reception is actually slightly higher than his career average (10.5), while his 9.8 yards per target is far above his career average (7.0) and his previous season-best (8.2 in 2013). At his current pace, Ertz is on track for 68 receptions for 725 yards — which would be a very Witten-like result in Ertz’s age 34 season. He is proving to be the wily veteran target that we hoped he would be for Jayden Daniels.

Even after win, Cowboys don’t feel like a 2-2 team – Blogging The Boys
With their Week 4 win over the Giants, the Dallas Cowboys preserved a far more palatable 2-2 record for the first quarter of their season. But while that record superficially says they’re an average team, the truth of how we got here says otherwise. This doesn’t feel like a .500 team and the next few games could make that clear on every level. Apologies to Bill Parcells, but in this case the record doesn’t really tell the story about who the Cowboys are. Even in Thursday night’s victory we saw Dallas make poor game-management decisions, fail to execute consistently on offense, and get worked by New York’s passing. That opponent wasn’t good enough to make us pay with a loss, but it doesn’t change that Dallas’ performance would’ve resulted in defeat against the majority of NFL teams.

Giants coach Brian Daboll isn’t ‘toast’ — at least, not yet – Big Blue View
In my view, it is far too early to write Daboll’s epitaph. And, if you are writing Daboll’s, perhaps GM Joe Schoen’s, too. The start of this season, a 1-3 beginning that is exactly what we said again and again — and Schoen acknowledged on ‘Hard Knocks’ — was the type of thing this regime could ill-afford, has opened the door to this speculation. I understand that. What we are seeing, what we have seen too much of since the beginning of the 2023 season, can’t continue. It is, though, too early in my view to declare that Daboll is done as Giants’ coach, that he’s a dead man walking. There are 13 games to play. The story of this season is still only in its early chapters. There could be lots of plot twists. To consider anything a fait accompli at the season’s quarter-pole is foolhardy. Now, offensive lineman Jermaine Eluemunor’s bold confidence after Thursday’s loss to the Dallas Cowboys might also be misplaced. “Hell, yeah,” Eluemunor said when I asked him if he still had confidence in this Giants team. “This is a really good team,” Eluemunor said. “We’re a really good team at 1-3 and by the end of the year our record will reflect that.” Maybe it will. Maybe it won’t. Point is, 76.5% of the Giants’ 2024 season remains to be played. Things can change.

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