Tampa Bay Buccaneers score early, often in Wild Card win over Philadelphia Eagles

This one was never in doubt.

Where has this been?

Philadlephia scores again thanks to a 16-yard pass to Gainwell. That's followed up by an unreal catch by Smith for the two-point conversion.

Philly breaks the shutout with a 35-yard, 40-second drive to the end zone.

It's probably too little, too late at this point.

This one's all but over.

It took exactly one play for Brady to engineer a TD after that INT. Evans does well to dance past his defender before flipping into the end zone.

The extra point is good.

Barrett picks the ball out of the air after Hurts lobs a ball towards Barrett on 4th and 3.

Whatever silver lining the Eagles were working on in the second quarter has all but evaporated in the third.

Now it's Gronkowski's turn to get in on the action, scoring his 15th career postseason touchdown. This is one of the easiest for Gronk, who's the highest-scoring tight end in playoff history.

The extra point is good, and you have to think there's no way back for the Eagles now.

Phildelphia does well to keep Brady and the Bucs' offence pinned deep in their own half for three downs, but on the punt Reagor mishandles the catch. That allows Cockrell to pounce in the ball at the 48, effectively advancing the ball for Tampa Bay and giving Brady another four downs to work with.

Can the Eagles battle back?

It looked like the Buccaneers were going to continue scoring at will, but after the first two touchdowns the Eagles' defence tightened up significantly. Brady's been sacked three times, which has blunted the Bucs' offence.

Still, it's a long way back for Philly against the defending Super Bowl champs.

The Eagles finally worked their way to the Bucs' 20, and Hurts looks to hit a wide-open Smith in the end zone with a pass. Instead, Edwards speeds over and snags the ball, stopping that drive dead inside the Tampa end zone.

They move the ball 46 yards over 5:27, but still turn the ball over on downs after choosing not to go for a 60+-yard field goal.

Brady is stopped from getting his team into the end zone for the first time today, but the Bucs still add to their lead as Succop nails the 34-yarder.

A penalty and a sack combined to end that drive as quickly as it started, and the Bucs once again have the ball after a punt.

The slow starts that have been recentkly hampering the Bucs were no issue today, as they get to the end zone twice.

As for the Eagles, they only gained 17 total yards and will need to do much better if they want to keep this close.

It's another short run for a major, this time it's Vaughn who rumbles two yards into the end zone.

The extra point is good, and Philly has a big hole to dig out of already.

The Eagles go three and out to start their day, and they're forced to punt.

Sanders runs the ball seven yards to start Philadelphia's opening possession.

Gio Bernard bowls in from two yards to give Tampa Bay the first score. That completes a 15-play, 60-yard drive for the Bucs.

The extra point is good and Tampa Bay leads 7-0.