Tampa Bay Buccaneers 17 San Diego Chargers 32 Sunday 2 January 1994 at Tampa Stadium NBC COMMENTARY CREW Drew Goodman and Bob Trumpy
GAME SCORING SD 10:49-1Q Carney FG48 SD 5:47-1Q Miller 48 pass from Humphries (Carney kick) TB 0:46-1Q Husted FG21 SD 1:16-2Q Carney FG38 TB 5:45-3Q Thomas 20 pass from Erickson (Husted kick) SD 0:52-3Q Carney FG43 TB 8:26-4Q Hawkins 42 pass from Erickson (Husted kick) SD 6:17-4Q Carney FG45 SD 2:35-4Q Young 12 pass from Humphries (kick failed) SD 1:51-4Q Means 15 run (Carney kick)
The Bucs held a one-point advantage with eight minutes left in the season, but the Chargers capitalised on two late Craig Erickson interceptions to take victory in the final game of the 1993 campaign. Horace Copeland had another 100-yard game, his second of the season.
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 74 Gruber DE 92 Price LG 67 Sullivan DT 77 Wheeler C 61 Mayberry DT 71 Dotson RG 70 McRae DE 98 Seals RT 76 Dill LLB 54 Williams TE 82 Hall MLB 56 Nickerson WR 88 Copeland RLB 27 Bussey WR 46 Workman LCB 35 Mayhew FB 43 Harris RCB 29 Reynolds RB 34 Cobb SS 23 Carter QB 7 Erickson FS 41 King PLAYED 4 Stryzinski, 5 Husted, 11 Weldon, 21 Mack, 24 Jones, 28 Buckley, 33 Royster, 44 Anderson, 45 Turner, 47 Lynch, 51 Thomas, 53 Brady, 55 Brownlow, 72 Taylor, 79 Love, 83 Moore, 84 Wilson, 85 Hawkins, 87 Thomas, 90 Ahanotu, 93 DuBose, 96 Wilson DID NOT PLAY 20 Gray INACTIVE 13 Vlasic, 36 Paul, 50 Burnette, 66 Reimers, 75 Curry, 86 Armstrong, 89 Collins, 91 Hall
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
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Cobb 21-67, Workman 2-5. CHARGERS: Butts 13-52, Humphries 3-29, Means 7-19, Harmon 4-2, Kidd 1-(-10). PASSING BUCS: Erickson 41-21-272-3-2, Weldon 5-4-40-0-0. CHARGERS: Humphries 30-18-272-0-2. RECEIVING BUCS: Copeland 7-101, Hawkins 6-98, Workman 5-24, Wilson 3-34, Thomas 2-38, Hall 2-17. CHARGERS: Miller 7-119, Harmon 4-41, Jefferson 3-47, Young 2-21, Lewis 1-35, Butts 1-9. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: none. CHARGERS: Carrington 1-28, Gordon 1-3, Davis 1-0. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Turner 6-61, Wilson 1-13. CHARGERS: Lewis 2-40. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Hawkins 1-2. CHARGERS: Gordon 0-0. SACKS BUCS: none. CHARGERS: none.