Tampa Bay Buccaneers 27 Atlanta Falcons 0 Sunday 5 December 2004 at Raymond James Stadium FOX COMMENTARY CREW Kenny Albert and Brian Baldinger
Michael Vick never seemed to have good days in Tampa and this was one when he was well and truly shut out. New kicker Jay Taylor kicked a pair of fieldgoals including a 50- yarder to open his Buccaneer account and the rest of the offense weighed in for a comfortable home victory taking the Bucs to 5-7 on the season.
GAME SCORING TB 7:05-1Q Pittman 4 run (Taylor kick) TB 10:56-2Q Taylor FG50 TB 1:06-2Q Taylor FG30 TB 10:02-3Q Galloway 36 pass from Griese (Taylor kick) TB 1:55-4Q Alstott 5 run (Taylor kick)
GAME REPORTS Roy Cummings' game review Martin Fennelly's award-winning column Rick Stroud's Monday morning viewpoint Jay Taylor's debut is a memorable one A first Buc touchdown for Joey Galloway John Romano's Gimme Five column What the Falcons had to say Simeon Rice reaches 100 sacks A win means playoff talk (again) Game notes and anecdotes The game report The gamebook and play-by-play of the game
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 70 Deese DE 94 Spires LG 78 Stinchcomb DT 95 Ahanotu C 79 Mahan DT 91 Darby RG 60 Coleman DE 97 Rice RT 67 Walker LLB 52 Gold TE 85 Dilger MLB 53 Quarles WR 84 Galloway RLB 55 Brooks WR 80 Clayton LCB 25 Kelly FB 43 Cook RCB 20 Barber RB 32 Pittman SS 26 Smith QB 8 Griese FS 38 Howell PLAYED 6 Taylor, 9 Bidwell, 27 Edwards, 28 Jackson, 35 Ivy, 36 Smart, 37 Allen, 43 Cook, 50 Gooch, 51 Burns, 56 Nece, 58 Cooper, 72 O'Dwyer, 73 Bradley, 75 Steussie, 83 Jurevicius, 86 Moore, 89 Heller, 90 White, 93 Savage DID NOT PLAY 2 Simms, 81 Brown INACTIVES 14 Johnson, 23 Phillips, 24 Cox, 34 Comella, 69 Davis, 77 Terry, 82 Lee, 98 Smith
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Pittman 17-68, Alstott 9-42, Smart 1-25, Griese 4-(-3). FALCONS: Vick 8-81, Dunn 11-43, Duckett 7-32, Griffith 2-7. PASSING BUCS: Griese 21-13-131-1-1. FALCONS: Vick 27-13-115-2-0, Schaub 2-0-0-0-1-0, Mohr 1-0-0-0-0. RECEIVING BUCS: Galloway 4-63, Dilger 4-27, Pittman 2-12, Clayton 1-15, Cook 1-8, Alstott 1-6. FALCONS: White 3-37, Price 2-30, Dunn 2-9, Griffith 2-2, Jenkins 1-23, Blakley 1-6, Crumpler 1-5, Dunn 1-3. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Kelly 1-75, Nece 1-2, Smith 1-0, Ivy 0-11. FALCONS: Draft 1-33. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Smart 1-17. FALCONS: Rossum 5-104, Griffith 1-31. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Galloway 2-14. FALCONS: Rossum 2-13. SACKS BUCS: Rice 2-9, Brooks 2-7, White 1-7. FALCONS: Kerney 1.5-4.5, Brooking 0.5-4.5, Hall 0.5-4.5, Coleman 0.5-4.5.