Tampa Bay Buccaneers 36 Washington Redskins 35 Sunday 13 November 2005 at Raymond James Stadium FOX COMMENTARY CREW Joe Buck and Troy Aikman
One of the most dramatic wins in franchise history as the Bucs pulled to within a point on Chris Simms’ TD pass to Edell Shepherd and then coach Jon Gruden passed up the PAT to tie the score to go for a two-point conversion to win it. Mike Alstott was adjudged to have broken the plane on his dive although the jury remains out on that one. Either way, the Bucs took the win in spectacular style.
GAME SCORING TB 7:16-1Q Alstott 2 run (Bryant kick) WAS 3:33-1Q Hall FG31 TB 7:52-2Q Alstott 1 run (Bryant kick) WAS 7:36-2Q Betts 94 kickoff return (Hall kick) TB 5:08-2Q Galloway 24 pass from Simms (Bryant kick) WAS 1:36-2Q Hall FG40 WAS 13:14-3Q Sellers 7 pass from Brunell (Portis pass from Brunell) WAS 5:25-3Q Betts 17 pass from Brunell (Hall kick) TB 1:53-3Q Hilliard 4 pass from Simms (Bryant kick) WAS 8:19-4Q Portis 8 run (Hall kick) TB 0:58-4Q Shepherd 30 pass from Simms (Alstott run)
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 TE 81 Smith RLB 55 Brooks WR 84 Galloway LCB 25 Kelly WR 19 Hilliard RCB 20 Barber RB 24 Williams SS 23 Phillips QB 2 Simms FS 26 Allen PLAYED 3 Bryant, 9 Bidwell, 21 Bolden, 27 Cox, 32 Pittman, 33 Graham, 39 Pearson, 40 Alstott, 43 Cook, 46 Adams, 51 Ruud, 58 Cooper, 75 Steussie, 77 Terry, 83 Moore, 85 Lawrie, 86 Shepherd, 89 Jones, 90 White, 91 Bradley, 96 Wyms DID NOT PLAY 12 McCown, 74 Jackson INACTIVES 13 Rattay, 28 Nicholson, 34 Jackson, 54 Mallard, 61 Colmer, 64 Bryant, 80 Clayton, 87 Russell
GAME REPORTS Roy Cummings' review of the game Martin Fennelly's award-winning column What Rick Stroud thought of it all Do you think Chris Simms will remember his first NFL win? Simeon Rice bounces back big-time Another ex-Scottish Claymore comes up trumps for the Bucs Mike Alstott - one fantastic last hurrah for the A-Train Game notes and anecdotes The game report The gamebook and the play-by-play of the game
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Alstott 9-21, Williams 10-20, Pittman 5-15, Simms 3-5. REDSKINS: Portis 23-144, Betts 7-26, Brunell 3-15. PASSING BUCS: Simms 29-15-279-0-3. REDSKINS: Brunell 35-23-226-2-2. RECEIVING BUCS: Galloway 7-131, Shepherd 3-87, Hilliard 3-37, Alstott 1-18, Cook 1-6. REDSKINS: Cooley 6-66, Moss 4-79, Patten 3-24, Betts 3-19, Ports 2-9, Royal 2-2, Kowlowski 1-18, Sellers 1-7, Thrash 1-2. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Bolden 1-28, Rice 1-6. REDSKINS: none. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Cox 4-81, Shepherd 2-40. OPPS: Betts 5-170. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Jones 1-4. OPPS: Thrash 1-3, Moss 1-0. SACKS BUCS: Rice 2-22. OPPS: none.