Tampa Bay Buccaneers 10 Washington Redskins 17 Sunday 7 January 2006 at Raymond James Stadium
SCORING WAS 8:40-1Q Portis 6 run (Hall kick) WAS 4:15-1Q Taylor 51 fumble return (Hall kick) TB 10:02-2Q Bryant FG43 WAS 5:34-2Q Hall FG47 TB 9:40-3Q Simms 2 run (Bryant kick)
GAME REPORTS Roy Cummings' review of the game Martin Fennelly's award winning column What Joe Henderson thought of it all Joey Johnston reports on daylight robbery at RJS Rick Stroud reports on the Bucs' playoff demise Naturally Gary Shelton has to take the negative view Cadillac watches the key fourth down play from the sideline Was that the last time we'll see the A-Train play? This time the close calls go against the Buccaneers Comment from Michael Wilbon from Pardon the Interruption Game notes and anecdotes The game report The gamebook and the play-by-play of the game
How did the Bucs lose this playoff game? They held the Redskins to 120 yards of total offense including just 25 through the air but still fell short. An apparent game-tying touchdown from Chris Simms to Edell Shepherd was correctly but unfortunately ruled incomplete and the 2005 season came to a disappointing end.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Williams 18-49, Alstott 4-15, Simms 3-11. REDSKINS: Portis 16-53, Betts 10-25, Moss 1-11, Brunell 4-6. PASSING BUCS: Simms 38-25-198-2-0. REDSKINS: Brunell 15-7-41-1-0, Portis 1-0-0-0-0. RECEIVING BUCS: Galloway 7-69, Hilliard 4-38, Pittman 3-30, Becht 3-26, Smith 3-14, Williams 3-10, Alstott 1-7, Shepherd 1-4. REDSKINS: Moss 2-18, Cooley 2-12, Betts 1-11, Thrash 1-5, Portis 1-(-5) INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Kelly 1-3. REDSKINS: Arrington 1-21, Washington 1-13. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Pittman 4-96. REDSKINS: Betts 2-43, Sellers 1-12. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Jones 4-37. REDSKINS: Brown 3-19. SACKS BUCS: Rice 1-11, Wyms 1-5. REDSKINS: Daniels 1-13, Stoutmire 1-9, Evans 1-8.
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 69 Davis DE 94 Spires LG 72 Buenning DT 95 Hovan C 76 Wade DT 92 McFarland RG 79 Mahan DE 97 Rice RT 67 Walker LLB 56 Nece TE 88 Becht MLB 53 Quarles WR 19 Hilliard RLB 55 Brooks WR 84 Galloway LCB 25 Kelly FB 40 Alstott RCB 20 Barber RB 24 Williams SS 23 Phillips QB 2 Simms FS 34 Jackson PLAYED 3 Bryant, 9 Bidwell, 21 Bolden, 26 Allen, 27 Cox, 28 Nicholson, 32 Pittman, 33 Graham, 39 Pearson, 43 Cook, 51 Ruud, 54 Mallard, 58 Cooper, 75 Steussie, 77 Terry, 81 Smith, 83 Moore, 86 Shepherd, 89 Jones, 90 White, 96 Wyms DID NOT PLAY 12 McCown, 91 Bradley INACTIVES 13 Rattay, 22 Watson, 46 Adams, 61 Colmer, 64 Bryant, 74 Jackson, 80 Clayton, 85 Heller
COMMENTARY CREW Mike Patrick, Paul Maguire and Joe Theismann