Tampa Bay Buccaneers 6 Seattle Seahawks 10 Sunday 19 September 2004 at Raymond James Stadium
SCORING SEA 2:24-1Q Brown FG44 SEA 14:25-2Q Robinson 29 pass from Hasselbeck (Brown kick) TB 0:49-2Q Gramatica FG24 TB 4:35-4Q Gramatica FG27
GAME REPORTS Roy Cummings' game review Martin Fennelly's award-winning column Joe Henderson says not to blame Simms Gary Shelton says not to change QBs now The defense did its job superbly Game notes and anecdotes The game report A happy return for Darrell Jackson The last drive spluttered down the field What Jon Gruden and Chris Simms had to say The gamebook and play-by-play of the game
A second straight game without an offensive touchdown and one in which Jon Gruden pulled Brad Johnson after an ineffective start and put second-year QB Chris Simms in for his first regular season action. He led the Bucs to a pair of second quarter fieldgoals but nothing more and his interception ended a scoring threat.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Garner 13-75, Simms 4-13, Alstott 2-6, Johnson 1-3, White 4- (-5). SEAHAWKS: Alexander 17-45, Strong 2-11, Morris 3-2. PASSING BUCS: Johnson 7-4-34-1-0, Simms 32-21-175-1-0. SEAHAWKS: Hasselbeck 26-12-147-1-1. RECEIVING BUCS: Brown 7-49, Clayton 6-61, Garner 6-24, Lee 1-35, Dudley 1- 17, Dilger 1-12, Alstott 1-6, Schroeder 1-4, White 1-1. SEAHAWKS: Jackson 5-50, Robinson 4-66, Stevens 1-16, Engram 1-13, Morris 1-2. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Brooks 1-3. SEAHAWKS: Trufant 1-41, Boulware 1-6. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Murphy 3-63. SEAHAWKS: Morris 3-73. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Brown 2-15, Schroeder 1-0. SEAHAWKS: Engram 3-25. SACKS BUCS: McFarland 2-10, Spires 2-6, Quarles 1-5, Phillips 1-2. SEAHAWKS: Winstrom 2-11, Huff 1-10, Bernard 1-5, Cochran 1-4.
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 70 Deese DE 94 Spires LG 78 Stinchcomb DT 92 McFarland C 76 Wade DT 91 Darby RG 60 Coleman DE 97 Rice RT 75 Steussie LLB 52 Gold TE 85 Dilger MLB 53 Quarles WR 81 Brown RLB 55 Brooks WR 82 Lee LCB 25 Kelly FB 40 Alstott RCB 20 Barber RB 30 Garner SS 26 Smith QB 14 Johnson FS 23 Phillips PLAYED 2 Simms, 9 Bidwell, 10 Gramatica, 11 Schroeder, 15 Murphy, 22 White, 27 Edwards, 34 Comella, 35 Ivy, 37 Allen, 38 Howell, 50 Gooch, 51 Burns, 56 Nece, 58 Cooper, 66 Gregory, 79 Mahan, 80 Clayton, 86 Moore, 88 Dudley, 90 White, 96 Wyms DID NOT PLAY 67 Walker INACTIVES 8 Griese, 24 Cox, 43 Cook, 69 Davis, 77 Terry, 84 Galloway, 89 Heller, 93 Savage
COMMENTARY CREW Curt Menafee and Tim Green