How did it go wrong? Let us count the ways Rick Stroud, The St.Petersburg Times, published 24 November 1997 It was a bad day for the Bucs from start to finish. What began with fullback Mike Alstott losing a fumble on the first play from scrimmage ended with kick returner Karl Williams muffing a punt 4 yards shy of his goal line with 38 seconds left. The Bucs faced an opponent more deadly than the Bears in Sunday's 13-7 loss at Soldier Field. When they couldn't prevail over the Bears, they elected to beat themselves. "We came up here and did a lot of things that we normally don't do," coach Tony Dungy said. "We fumbled the ball, we had penalties at the wrong time, we had turnovers. We didn't play good third-down defense. We didn't tackle real well. So we didn't deserve to win." The Bucs never got their running game on track and were held to a season-low 35 yards rushing. "We just didn't have enough plays, therefore we only had six runs in the first half," Dungy said. "That's not enough for us." Monday morning quarterbacking will surround the Bucs' play-calling on third and 2 from the Bears' 41 on Tampa Bay's last possession. A pass to running back Warrick Dunn fell incomplete and Alstott was stopped inches short of the first down after gathering a short pass from Trent Dilfer on fourth down. "We talked about (running)," Dungy said. "But we had some passes we liked. We thought we could get them open and complete them and just weren't able to do that." Even when the Bucs did something good, it was accompanied by something bad. Alstott used a 14-yard completion from Dilfer to give the Bucs first and goal at the Chicago 5 trailing 13-0 in the second quarter. But the play was nullified when tackle Jason Odom was penalized for tripping linebacker Ron Cox. "The guy had a move inside on me," Odom said. "I can't remember exactly what happened, because I'm not looking. I'm just doing it. Obviously, he saw something to throw the flag. Yeah, I'm dejected about the play and the loss. But I'm a young player. I'll go back to the film room and learn and improve." The Bucs defense certainly was not without sin. It allowed quarterback Erik Kramer, who never will be confused with Steve Young, to scramble for a careerlong 31-yard run to set up the Bears' touchdown. Kramer completed only 15 of 28 passes for 110 yards, but his quick passes prevented the Bucs from recording a sack for only the second game. Meanwhile, the defense dropped three batted passes that could've been intercepted - one each by Chidi Ahanotu, John Lynch and Donnie Abraham. "We had some chances," Lynch said. "If we make a play, it gives us the momentum." Bears running back Raymont Harris joined Barry Sanders as the only running backs to reach the century mark against the Bucs with 116 yards on 33 carries. Bucs placekicker Michael Husted struggled in the wind and 29-degree weather. He snapped a streak of 10 straight field goals by missing from 50 and 40 yards. Even Dungy left room for second-guessing when he eschewed a field-goal attempt from about 50 yards on the last play of the first half in favor of a pass to the end zone. "That was the story of our whole day," Dungy said. "We'd get something going, we'd have a penalty. We stop them, we're offsides. We just totally malfunctioned and you can't win like that."