Tampa Bay Buccaneers 25 New York Giants 23
Sunday 1 October 2017 at Raymond James Stadium
SCORING
TB
7:47-1Q
Evans 6 pass from Winston (Folk kick)
TB
3:00-1Q
Howard 58 pass from Winston (kick failed)
NYG
7:17-2Q
Rosas FG30
NYG
3:17-2Q
Manning 14 run (Rosas kick)
TB
0:32-2Q
Folk FG20
NYG
4:19-3Q
Gallman 4 pass from Manning (Rosas kick)
TB
7:44-4Q
Brate 14 pass from Winston (pass failed)
NYG
3:16-4Q
Ellison 2 pass from Manning (pass failed)
TB
0:00-4Q
Folk FG34
GAME REPORTS
The Tampa Bay Times’ Rick Stroud reports on a nail-biting victory over the Giants
Tom Jones is fully behind the coaching decision to put the game on Nick Folk
Greg Auman’s notes column
How Roy Cummings saw the game unfold for Florida Football Insiders
DeSean Jackson was not happy after the game
More on Nick Folk’s up-and-down day
Scott Smith’s game report
The play-by-play and NFL Gamebook
This was a wild one with the lead changing hands three times in the final quarter but the Bucs came out on
top when Nick Folk’s field-goal squeezed inside the left upright as time expired. Jameis Winston had three
touchdown passes and led the game-winning drive inside the final three minutes. Folk had earlier missed two
fieldgoals and an extra point but came through when necessary to send the Bucs to 2-1 on the season.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING
BUCS: Rodgers 16-83, Sims 1-14, Winston 4-12, Barber 2-2.
GIANTS: Gallman 11-42, Manning 3-22, Vereen 5-14, Perkins 9-
13.
PASSING
BUCS: Winston 38-22-332-0-3.
GIANTS: Manning 49-30-288-0-2.
RECEIVING
BUCS: Humphries 6-70, Evans 5-67, Brate 4-80, Howard 2-63,
Rodgers 2-25, Jackson 2-20, Sims 1-7.
GIANTS: Beckham 7-90, Engram 6-62, Marshall 6-46, Shepard 5-
54, Ellison 2-11, Gallman 2-8, Vereen 1-11, Perkins 1-6.
INTERCEPTIONS
BUCS: none.
GIANTS: none.
KICK RETURNS
BUCS: Reedy 2-37.
GIANTS: none.
PUNT RETURNS
BUCS: Reedy 2-16.
GIANTS: Harris 0-0.
SACKS
BUCS: none.
GIANTS: Pierre-Paul 0.5-4.5, Rodgers-Cromartie 0.5-4.5.
STARTERS
OFFENSE
DEFENSE
LT
76 Smith
LDE
91 Ayers
LG
64 Pamphile
DT
93 McCoy
C
74 Marpet
DT
90 Baker
RG
73 Sweezy
RDE
92 Gholston
RT
69 Dotson
MLB
59 Bond
TE
80 Howard
WLB
51 Beckwith
TE
88 Stocker
SLB
53 Glanton
TE
84 Brate
LCB
28 Hargeaves
WR
13 Evans
RCB
24 Grimes
QB
3 Winston
SS
23 Conte
RB
32 Rodgers
FS
37 Tandy
PLAYED
2 Folk, 9 Anger, 10 Humphries,11 Jackson, 12 Godwin, 18
Reedy, 21 Evans, 25 Barber, 26 Robinson, 29 Smith, 34 Sims,
35 Elliott, 36 McClain, 45 Cross, 52 Lynch, 56 J Smith, 57
Spence, 62 E Smith, 65 Sanborn, 77 Benenoch, 94 Clarke, 95
Russell, 98 McDonald.
DID NOT PLAY
14 Fitzpatrick
INACTIVES
43 Ward, 54 David, 58 Alexander, 66 Wester, 68 Hawley, 82
Auclair, 96 Siliga
COMMENTARY CREW
Kenny Albert, Ronde Barber and Tiki Barber
GAME HIGHLIGHTS
Click on the boxes below to view the big plays
Mike Evans’ opening score came in spite of the Fox coverage suffering technical issues
OJ Howard’s first NFL touchdown was an awesome piece of offensive play design
Cameron Brate put the Bucs ahead in the 4th quarter with Jameis’ third TD of the game