Tampa Bay Buccaneers 0 Atlanta Falcons 17 Sunday 27 November at Tampa Stadium CBS COMMENTARY CREW Bob Costas and Emerson Boozer
GAME HIGHLIGHTS Click on the boxes below to view the big plays Paul Harris sacked Bartkowski and Council Rudolph was there to recover. Lee Roy Selmon got his eighth sack of the season during the first half. The very next play, he got his ninth as Bartkowski felt the full force of 63.
Another home game and another shutout, the fourth in a row at home. The Bucs had marginally more completions (five) to their own players than interceptions (four). The Tampa Bay offensive total for the game was a paltry 78 yards. The Falcons were 10 point favourites against ths spread in spite of the game being in Tampa. The Bucs never crossed the Atlanta 35-yard line during the game and both times they got as far as that, they committed turnovers. Lee Roy Selmon had sacks on consecutive plays to extend his team lead in that category as the defense did its part holding the Falcons to just 222 yards of total offense.
GAME SCORING ATL 8:11-1Q Steinfort FG26 ATL 14:06-3Q Stanback 1 run (Steinfort kick) ATL 1:34-3Q Stanback 1 run (Steinfort kick)
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Ragsdale 2-23, Carter 7-22, Bell 6-11, Williams 2-2, Huff 1-2, Davis 1-1, DuBose 1-1. FALCONS: Stanback 21-75, Esposito 8-39, Thompson 17-32, McIntyre 6-32, Pritchett 1-6, Bartkowski 6-(-3), Mitchell 1-(-6). PASSING BUCS: Huff 11-4-38-3-0, Hedberg 12-1-17-1-0. FALCONS: Bartkowski 14-9-82-0-0, Esposito 1-0-0-0-0. RECEIVING BUCS: Owens 1-17, McKay 1-17, DuBose 1-10, Hagins 1-6, Bell 1-5. FALCONS: Mitchell 2-32, Jenkins 2-25, Francis 2-12, Stanback 2-6, Thompson 1-7. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: none. FALCONS: Easterling 1-36, Pennywell 1-10, Lawrence 1-0, Ortega 1-(- 1), Brown 0-8. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Hagins 2-53, Reece 1-24, A.Davis 1-15. FALCONS: Farmer 1-27. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Reece 1-12. FALCONS: Ryckman 3-25, Lawrence 1-7. SACKS BUCS: L.Selmon 2-23, Harris 1-12. FALCONS: Merrow 2-21, Pennywell 1-16, Team 1-2.
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 75 Reavis LDE 78 Rudolph LG 62 Winans DT 76 Pear C 79 Wilson RDE 63 L Selmon RG 68 Medlin LOLB 57 Lewis RT 70 Carlton LILB 61 D Selmon TE 83 Nafziger RILB 54 Wood WR 85 Owens ROLB 52 Harris WR 81 Hagins LCB 45 White FB 28 Davis SS 33 Cotney RB 42 Bell FS 34 Brown QB 19 Huff RCB 40 Washington PLAYED 4 Green, 14 Hedberg, 23 Ragsdale, 32 L Carter, 35 DuBose, 43 Williams, 46 Reece, 51 Ryczek, 53 Bonness, 59 Lemon, 64 Robinson, 65 R Johnson, 66 B Carter, 72 G Johnson, 77 Kollar, 80 Novak, 87 Mucker, 89 McKay DID NOT PLAY 9 Leavitt, 25 Jordan, 56 C Johnson INACTIVE 17 Blount, 82 Waddell