Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31 New Orleans Saints 14 Sunday 16 September 2007 at Raymond James Stadium
SCORING TB 5:25-1Q Williams 1 run (Bryant kick) TB 13:09-2Q Galloway 69 pass from Garcia (Bryant kick) TB 1:05-2Q Galloway 24 pass from Garcia (Bryant kick) TB 4:26-3Q Williams 1 run (Bryant kick) NO 0:49-3Q Karney 1 run (Mare kick) TB 7:30-4Q Bryant FG27 NO 2:50-4Q Colston 4 pass from Brees (Mare kick)
GAME REPORTS Roy Cummings reports on the home-opening win Martin Fennelly's award-winning column Joe Henderson's morning-after column How Rick Stroud saw it unfold Gary Shelton offers his comments on the win Malcolm Glazer makes a return to Raymond James Stadium Cadillac scores twice and impresses with his toughness The defense takes us back to the old days How the New Orleans media viewed it Game notes and anecdotes Scott Smith's official game report The gamebook and play-by-play
This was not even close - it was 28-0 Tampa in the third quarter with Cadillac scoring twice in spite of playing beaten up and Jeff Garcia connected twice with Joey Galloway on scoring passes. The game was long decided when the Saints made the score a little more respectable and the Bucs went to 1-1 on the season.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Williams 24-61, Pittman 5-18, Garcia 2-6, Graham 1-2. SAINTS: McAllister 10-49, Bush 10-27, Karney 3-13, Brees 3-10. PASSING BUCS: Garcia 16-10-243-0-2. SAINTS: Brees 44-26-260-1-1. RECEIVING BUCS: Galloway 4-135, Hilliard 2-51, Smith 2-45, Pittman 1-11, Askew 1-1. SAINTS: Colston 8-70, Bush 6-43, Moore 3-46, Johnson 3-18, Patten 2-66, McAllister 1-7, Copper 1-6, Owens 1-4, Karney 1-0. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: June 1-0. SAINTS: none. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Jones 1-36, Clayton 1-23, Hilliard 1-3. SAINTS: Moore 3-50, Lake 1-10. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Jones 3-25. SAINTS: none. SACKS BUCS: Haye 1-7, White 1-9. SAINTS: none.
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 77 Petitgout DE 94 Spires LG 78 Sears DT 71 Haye C 76 Wade DT 95 Hovan RG 75 Joseph DE 93 Carter RT 65 Trueblood WLB 55 Brooks TE 81 Smith MLB 51 Ruud WR 19 Hilliard DB 22 Davis WR 84 Galloway LCB 20 Barber FB 35 Askew RCB 31 Buchanon RB 24 Williams SS 23 Phillips QB 7 Garcia FS 28 Jackson PLAYED 3 Bryant, 9 Bidwell, 11 Jones, 21 Piscitelli, 26 Allen, 32 Pittman, 34 Graham, 39 Pearson, 48 Economos, 56 Nece, 57 Hayward, 58 Black, 59 June, 68 Lehr, 70 Penn, 80 Clayton, 85 Stovall, 86 Stevens, 88 Becht, 90 Adams, 91 White, 96 Peterson DID NOT PLAY 5 Gradkowski INACTIVES 2 Simms, 12 McCown, 25 Kelly, 50 Trotter, 54 Chukwurah, 69 Davis, 72 Buenning, 98 Sims
COMMENTARY CREW Sam Rosen and Tim Ryan