Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20 Oakland Raiders 30 Sunday 26 September 2004 at Network Associates Coliseum ESPN COMMENTARY CREW Pat Summerall, Paul Maguire and Joe Theisman
It was homecoming night in Oakland as Jon Gruden returned to his former coaching home to be welcomed by Warren Sapp now wearing the silver and black. This one was all Oakland on national TV with only a pair of fourth quarter touchdowns giving the score some semblance of respectibility. Charlie Garner suffered a career-ending injury on his own return to the Bay Area and the Bucs fell to 0-3.
GAME SCORING TB 11:01-1Q Gramatica FG36 OAK 5:36-1Q Janikowski FG23 OAK 11:48-2Q Janikowski FG40 TB 9:53-2Q Gramatica FG30 OAK 1:16-2Q Curry 19 pass from Collins (Janikowski kick) OAK 11:05-3Q Janikowski FG39 OAK 9:48-3Q Buchanan 32 interception return (Janikowski kick) OAK 3:42-3Q Wheatley 2 run (Janikowski kick) TB 10:45-4Q Brown 16 pass from Johnson (pass failed) TB 1:52-4Q Schroeder 41 pass from Johnson (Dilger pass)
GAME REPORTS Roy Cummings' game review Joey Johnston's morning-after column The loss of Garner sums up the Bucs' woes Rick Stroud reports from Oakland Do you think Warren Sapp had a good night? Game notes and anecdotes The game report What the Bay Area press had to say Tim Brown gets his 100th TD What the Bucs players had to say The gamebook and play-by-play of the game
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 88 Dudley MLB 53 Quarles WR 81 Brown RLB 55 Brooks WR 11 Schroeder LCB 25 Kelly FB 43 Cook RCB 20 Barber RB 30 Garner SS 26 Smith QB 14 Johnson FS 23 Phillips PLAYED 9 Bidwell, 10 Gramatica, 22 White, 24 Cox, 27 Edwards, 35 Ivy, 37 Allen, 38 Howell, 40 Alstott, 50 Gooch, 51 Burns, 56 Nece, 58 Cooper, 66 Gregory, 79 Mahan, 80 Clayton, 82 Lee, 85 Dilger, 86 Moore, 90 White, 96 Wyms DID NOT PLAY 2 Simms, 67 Walker INACTIVES 8 Griese, 15 Murphy, 34 Comella, 69 Davis, 77 Terry, 84 Galloway, 89 Heller, 93 Savage
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Alstott 12-65, Johnson 3-13, Garner 6-11, White 1-3. RAIDERS: Wheatley 18-102, Zeroeue 6-41, Fargas 6-28, Gannon 1-2. PASSING BUCS: Johnson 36-22-309-1-2. RAIDERS: Gannon 4-2-10-0-0, Collins 27-16-228-1-1. RECEIVING BUCS: Schroeder 4-126, Brown 4-41, Alstott 4-30, Clayton 2-35, Garner 2-34, Dilger 2-14, White 1-12, Lee 1-11, Coleman 1-4, Moore 1-2. RAIDERS: Porter 5-84, Whitted 2-35, Rice 2-27, Redmond 2-18, Gabriel 1-30, Curry 1-19, Zeroeue 1-9, Anderson 1-8, Jolley 1-4, Wheatley 1-3, Crockett 1- 1. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Kelly 1-16. RAIDERS: Buchanan 1-32. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Cox 5-128, Schroeder 1-16. RAIDERS: Gabriel 4-145. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: none. RAIDERS: Buchanon 2-4. SACKS BUCS: Rice 1-12. RAIDERS: Woodson 1-9, Gbaja-Biamila 1-3.