Tampa Bay Buccaneers 13 Tennessee Titans 10 Sunday 14 October 2007 at Raymond James Stadium
SCORING TB 6:07-2Q Bryant FG23 TEN 7:52-3Q Bironas FG48 TB 2:29-3Q Galloway 69 pass from Garcia (Bryant kick) TEN 1:17-4Q White 2 run (Bironas kick) TB 0:11-4Q Bryant FG43
GAME REPORTS Roy Cummings reports from Raymond James Stadium Martin Fennelly's award-winning column What Joe Henderson thought of it all How Rick Stroud saw it unfold Gary Shelton's morning-after column Jeff Garcia's patience comes through in the end Ronde Barber twice comes close to making history Game notes and Buccaneer anecdotes Scott Smith's official game report The gamebook and the play-by-play
Matt Bryant’s 43-yard fieldgoal with 11 seconds remaining lifted the Bucs to 4-2 in a defensive battle over the Titans. Jeff Garcia led the game-winning drive connecting with veteran receivers Joey Galloway and Ike Hilliard as the Tampa offense finally got moving having stalled on the ground the entire game.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Graham 13-29, Garcia 2-1. TITANS: White 25-64, Brown 5-26, Young 3-6. PASSING BUCS: Garcia 31-20-274-0-1. TITANS: Young 14-11-120-1-0, Collins 20-10-125-0-0. RECEIVING BUCS: Graham 6-17, Galloway 4-97, Hilliard 4-59, Askew 3-33, Clayton 2-53, Smith 1-15. TITANS: Moulds 6-49, Williams 5-44, Gage 4-82, Sciafe 3-45, White 2-9, Hartsock 1-16. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Buchanon 1-(-1). TITANS: none. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Jones 1-33. TITANS: Griffin 3-60, Cramer 1-22. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Jones 3-12. TITANS: Davis 3-16. SACKS BUCS: Carter 1-13, Haye 1-7, Adams 1-4. TITANS: none.
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 70 Penn 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 TE 86 Stevens SLB 59 June WR 84 Galloway LCB 20 Barber WR 19 Hilliard RCB 31 Buchanon RB 34 Graham SS 23 Phillips QB 7 Garcia FS 28 Jackson PLAYED 3 Bryant, 9 Bidwell, 11 Jones, 22 Davis, 26 Allen, 27 Cox, 30 Crockett, 35 Askew, 36 Gates, 39 Pearson, 48 Economos, 54 Chukwurah, 56 Nece, 58 Black, 68 Lehr,80 Clayton, 85 Stovall, 88 Becht, 90 Adams, 91 White, 96 Peterson DID NOT PLAY 5 Gradkowski, 69 Davis INACTIVES 12 McCown, 25 Kelly, 32 Pittman, 50 Trotter, 57 Hayward, 72 Buenning, 73 Roland, 98 Sims
COMMENTARY CREW Greg Gumbel and Dan Dierdorf