Tampa Stadium
	1	2	3	4	Final
Philadelphia	0	7	3	7	17
Tampa Bay	7	10	0	7	24

Buccaneers 24, Eagles 17
NFC Divisional Dec. 9, 1979 TAMPA, Fla. -- The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the football team that claims as its motto "from worst to first," took a giant step toward that goal, advancing to the NFC Championship Game with a tense 24-17 victory against the Philadelphia Eagles. Jimmy Giles' 9-yard touchdown reception from quarterback Doug Williams provided the winning points with 7:08 to play, but Tampa Bay could not breathe easily until Ron Jaworski's fourth-down pass intended for Harold Carmichael at the sideline sailed out of bounds and incomplete with 43 seconds remaining. Tampa Bay took advantage of an Eagle defense that had few answers in solving the dilemma of stopping Ricky Bell -- who set an NFL playoff record with 38 carries, gained 142 yards and scored touchdowns on runs of four and one yards -- or combating the magnificent passing of second-year quarterback Williams, who finished with seven completions in 15 attempts for 132 yards and a touchdown. The Bucs were a ball-control team, holding the football for 36 1/2 minutes, to the Eagles' 23 1/2. They also recovered from countless errors -- nine penalties for 105 yards -- a controversial referee's decision on a touchdown pass ruled incomplete and a furious Philadelphia comeback in the final frantic minutes. -- Leonard Shapiro, The Washington Post

Veterans Stadium
	1	2	3	4	Final
Tampa Bay	0	3	0	0	3
Philadelphia	0	14	0	7	21

Eagles 21, Buccaneers 3
NFC Wild Card Dec. 31, 2000 PHILADELPHIA -- Last year, when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers saw Donovan McNabb in the second game of his rookie year, they spent the afternoon knocking him on his back. Sunday, the Philadelphia Eagles' quarterback spent the evening knocking the Bucs out of the playoffs. McNabb threw two touchdown passes and ran for another, and Eagle defensive end Hugh Douglas turned in the biggest play of the day, to lead the Philadelphia Eagles to a 21-3 win against Tampa Bay in the NFC wild-card playoffs before a chilly Veterans Stadium crowd of 65,813. The temperature at kickoff was 34 degrees with a wind-chill of 11 and an 18 mph wind that gusted to as high as 30. And the loss dropped the Bucs' postseason road losing record to 0-5. But this game wasn't about the weather or streaks or any of the other exotic stats. It was about making plays. McNabb and Douglas made plays the Bucs couldn't match. "I thought Donovan stepped up," said Eagles head coach Andy Reid. "He's a young man in his first playoff game who showed great composure." A year ago, the Bucs sacked McNabb six times in a 19-5 win. Sunday, McNabb finished the game 24 of 33 for 161 yards and two touchdowns, and ran eight times for 32 yards and a touchdown. -- Mike Cobb, The Ledger (Lakeland, Fla.)

Veterans Stadium
	1	2	3	4	Final
Tampa Bay	3	6	0	0	9
Philadelphia	3	14	7	7	31

Eagles 31, Buccaneers 9
NFC Wild Card Jan. 12, 2002 PHILADELPHIA -- Same old, same old. Field goals instead of touchdowns translated into another first-round playoff loss for the left-for-dead Buccaneers. All the usual defects doomed the Bucs to a 31-9 loss to the Eagles in the NFC Wild-Card Playoff game in which Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb burned them with his arm and feet just as he did in the same venue last year. Indeed, the Bucs season was buried by halftime, when they trailed 17-9. It was a safe lead because the Eagles defense has not allowed more than 21 points this season and the Bucs haven't scored a touchdown in their last three postseason road games. They were shut out in the second half, while the Eagles finished them off with a 25-yard TD run by Correll Buckhalter and 59-yard interception return by safety Damon Moore. The Bucs got inside the Eagles' 20-yard line three times in the first half and were forced to settle for three Martin Gramatica field goals. They drove inside the Eagles' 35 twice in the second half, and both drives ended in interceptions. Bucs quarterback Brad Johnson (22 of 36 for 202 yards passing) threw a season-high four interceptions, all in the second half, trying to play catch-up with the running game shut down. Johnson accounted for all the Bucs' turnovers. He had thrown only four interceptions all year. -- Tom Balog, Sarasota Herald-Tribune