The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are riding high at 2-0. Surprisingly, so is most of the NFC South. Who would've thought.

2-0 feels very good for a team that didn't have a whole lot of hype coming into the year, but it is hard to get too caught up with this team based on the level of competition faced so far.

The Vikings and Bears aren't good teams. The Eagles, Tampa's Week 3 opponent on Monday Night Football, are a different story entirely. Here is how the Bucs can pull off the unthinkable.

If you told most people before the start of the season that Tampa would actually have a shot in this game, they'd probably laugh at you. 

The Bucs without Tom Brady have a shot against the team that almost won the Super Bowl?

Well, it is time to start accepting facts, and the fact of the matter is this Bucs team is better than everyone is giving them credit for.

In fact, the Bucs have shown through the first two games that they can beat the Eagles, even if the first two games were against inferior opponents.

The scariest part about the Eagles is their offense. Sure, that defense has some dudes that are going to make life very tough for Baker Mayfield and Dave Canales, but Philly's offense with their offensive line, Jalen Hurts, and those pass-catchers should terrify every defense in the league.

Well, almost every defense.

The Dallas Cowboys have been in a tier of their own through the first two weeks, but the Buccaneer defense isn't that far off from a production and points scored metric, especially when you look at their ability to get opposing quarterbacks off their rhythm.

Tampa was able to hold Kirk Cousins, the most productive quarterback in the NFL through two weeks, to just 17 points in the opener. 

The Bucs then followed this up by holding Justin Fields to 17 points as well. It is worth noting that Fields had three rushing yards in that game.

So, if the Bucs were able to stop Kirk Cousins (better thrower than Hurts) and Justin Fields (better rusher than Hurts), why is stopping Jalen Hurts, and by extension the offense, so hard?

Hurts may be a complete quarterback with better weapons than either of the past two opponents for Tampa, but he isn't unbeatable, and the Bucs have a chance of making his life a living Hell on Monday night.

If the Buccaneers can slow down Hurts and keep playing safe football on offense, a win in this game is absolutely on the table. Then, the football world will have no choice but to accept the Buccaneers for what they really are; a surprisingly-good football team.

Biggest takeaways from Buccaneers’ statement Week 2 win

Here are the big points.