Tampa Bay Buccaneers 17 Washington Redskins 23 Sunday 5 December 1993 at Tampa Stadium

SCORING WAS 4:22-1Q Gannon 1 run (Lohmiller kick) WAS 0:00-2Q Lohmiller FG51 WAS 14:35-3Q Brooks 78 run (Lohmiller kick) TB 8:07-3Q Husted FG31 TB 6:39-3Q Seals 0 interception return (Husted kick) WAS 1:43-3Q Gouveia 59 interception return (kick failed) TB 1:36-4Q Hawkins 4 pass from Erickson (Husted kick)

GAME REPORTS Click here for the gamebook and the play-by-play Click here for Rick Stroud's review of the game Click here for Hubert Mizell's morning-after column The defense has no excuses this time

This was a game of big plays. Reggie Brooks broke the then-longest running play against the Bucs ever for a score to put the Redskins 17-0 up. But after the Bucs had fought back to within a score, Kurt Gouveia had one of three Redskin interceptions of Craig Erickson and returned it for the decisive score

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Cobb 15-59, Workman 8-45, R.Harris 4-21, Royster 2-10, Erickson 2-9. REDSKINS: Brooks 20-128, Ervins 5-15, Gannon 7-12, Mitchell 2- 11, Byner 2-9. PASSING BUCS: Erickson 34-15-163-3-1. REDSKINS: Gannon 16-9-71-1-0. RECEIVING BUCS: Hawkins 8-112, Workman 2-19, Hall 2-13, Thomas 1-17, Copeland 1-8, Cobb 1-(-6). REDSKINS: McGee 2-18, Byner 2-4, Brooks 1-17, Sanders 1-11, Howard 1-10, Monk 1-7, Middleton 1-4. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Seals 1-0. REDSKINS: Green 2-10, Gouveia 1-59. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Wilson 3-64. REDSKINS: Howard 1-17, Mitchell 1-12. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Hawkins 3-11. REDSKINS: Mitchell 3-15, Mays 1-0. SACKS BUCS: Seals 1-8. REDSKINS: none.

STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 74 Gruber DE 92 Price LG 70 McRae DT 90 Ahanotu C 61 Mayberry DT 71 Dotson RG 62 Beckles DE 98 Seals RT 76 Dill LLB 54 Williams TE 82 Hall MLB 56 Nickerson TE 86 Armstrong RLB 27 Bussey WR 85 Hawkins LCB 35 Mayhew WR 88 Copeland RCB 29 Reynolds RB 46 Workman SS 23 Carter QB 7 Erickson FS 20 Gray PLAYED 4 Stryzinski, 5 Husted, 21 Mack, 24 Jones, 28 Buckley, 33 Royster, 34 Cobb, 41 King, 43 Harris. 47 Lynch, 51 Thomas, 53 Brady, 55 Brownlow, 67 Sullivan, 72 Taylor, 73 Adams, 83 Moore, 84 Wilson, 87 Thomas, 91 Hall, 93 DuBose, 96 Wilson DID NOT PLAY 11 Weldon INACTIVE 13 Vlasic, 44 Anderson, 50 Burnette, 66 Reimers, 75 Curry, 77 Wheeler, 79 Love, 81 Claiborne

COMMENTARY CREW Tim Ryan and Matt Millen