Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20 Atlanta Falcons 6Sunday 6 October 2002 at the Georgia DomeFOX COMMENTARY CREWKenny Albert and Tim Green
Another stifling defensive performance led the Bucs to their fourth straight victory, again one in which the defense recorded themselves a touchdown as Derrick Brooks and Warren Sapp combined for a fourth quarter fumble sack and strip. Michael Vick never had much success against a Tampa defense and he left this one injured during the third quarter allowing back-up Doug Johnson to throw three interceptions. The Bucs offense did just enough once again, the big play coming when the other Johnsons, Brad and Keyshawn, hooked up on a 76-yard passing play during the third quarter to put the Bucs ahead for good.
GAME SCORINGATL 7:05-1Q Feely FG34TB8:03-2Q Gramatica FG23ATL 6:18-3Q Feely FG32TB4:32-3Q K.Johnson 76 pass from B.Johnson (Gramatica)TB 6:31-4Q Gramatica FG23TB6:14-4Q Brooks 15 lateral from Sapp (Gramatica kick)
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHINGBUCS: Pittman 19-62, Alstott 4-9, B.Johnson 1-2, McCardell 1-3, Stecker 1-(-2).FALCONS: Duckett 11-52, Dunn 9-14, Johnson 1-3, Vick 1-1.PASSINGBUCS: B.Johnson 31-17-261-1-1.FALCONS: Vick 12-4-37-0-0, Johnson 25-13-150-3-0, Mohr 1-0-0-1-0.RECEIVINGBUCS: K.Johnson 6-131, McCardell 6-83, Pittman 2-9, Jurevicius 1-19, Cook 1-13, Alstott 1-6.FALCONS: Finneran 5-61, Duckett 3-34, Jefferson 2-32, Kozlowski 2-17, Dunn 2-13, Jackson 1-16, Crumpler 1-9, Kelly 1-5.INTERCEPTIONSBUCS: Smith 2-35, Brooks 1-15, Sapp 1-0.FALCONS: Carpenter 1-0.KICK RETURNSBUCS: none.FALCONS: Rossum 4-111, Crumpler 1-9.PUNT RETURNSBUCS: Williams 0-0.FALCONS: Rossum 3-40.SACKSBUCS: Rice 1.5-7, Wyms 1-6, Kelly 1-0, McFarland 0.5-1.FALCONS: Rogers 1-6, Stewart 1-2.
VIDEO CLIPS Click on the boxes for the main plays from the gameKeyshawn had a long touchdown passDwight Smith intercepted the fake punt passDerrick Brooks scored once again, this one from Warren Sapp’s lateral