Eagles

The Eagles are Heading to Tampa Bay Early to Get Acclimated to the Heat

By Kyle Pagan

Published: Sep 23rd, 2025 · 9:19 AM EDT

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Every Eagles fan knows that the Birds stink in Tampa Bay. Maybe it’s the Bucs or maybe it’s the heat. Right now on the field it looks like it’ll be 103°. Real feel temperature. So the Eagles are heading down there early and might even get in a workout to get used to the temperature:

I’m told the Eagles are changing their travel schedule to Tampa this year. They are going a day ahead of schedule, on Friday, to acclimate to the heat. They may have a workout in Tampa on Saturday.

The Eagles have lost 3 of their last 4 games at the Bucs pic.twitter.com/8tHCOCsJmh

— John Clark (@JClarkNBCS) September 22, 2025

I love this move. Gotta switch it up somehow since the Bucs have had your number. Jalen Hurts didn’t just walk through the fire (Tampa Bay) to smell the smoke. The Bucs won’t only have heat on their side, but they’ll be getting back Chris Godwin and Tristan Wirfs as well.

I’m not going to claim like I understand how the NFL schedule works. I know we play our division and then one each from the NFC and AFC and it changes each year. So why the hell are the Eagles always playing the Bucs in the fall when it’s 100+ degrees down there? Why don’t they ever do the reverse snow bird? The last time the Bucs had to travel up to Philly was in 2021 and before that 2015. We’ve played them down in hell’s basement five out of the last seven times! During that time the Eagles have only played them twice after Halloween. If we have to go down there can’t we go in like December? Something stinks! It feels like every year you can pencil in a Tampa Bay away game in the fall and a Week 18 Giants game that typically doesn’t matter. We have to finally rid the demons.

I’m tired of the Bucs having our number. There’s gotta be something that we can do to stop this nightmare. Have the Eagles thought about giving a couple roster spots to the McPoyles?