Tampa Bay Buccaneers 16 San Francisco 49ers 41 Sunday 23 October 1994 at Candlestick Park

SCORING SF 6:30-1Q Watters 3 run (Brien kick) SF 14:21-2Q Brien FG23 SF 0:42-2Q McCaffrey 7 pass from Young (Brien kick) SF 8:26-3Q Floyd 1 run (Brien kick) SF 4:16-3Q Brien FG35 SF 2:08-3Q Watters 2 run (Brien kick) TB 9:18-4Q Rhett 1 run (Copeland pass from Erickson) SF 3:42-4Q Logan 1 pass from Grbac (Brien kick) TB 1:24-4Q Dawsey 34 pass from Erickson (Harris pass from Erickson)

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 opinions Hardy Nickerson's return was not a distinguished one

The Trent Dilfer era began with his first start, merely away to the 49ers. This one was never in doubt and it was a long afternoon for me sitting at the Clearwater Bucs Bunch watching party that afternoon. At least I won the scoring sweep. Craig Erickson threw two late scores and actually started the game at wide receiver in one of Sam Wyche's trick formations.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Rhett 9-46, Workman 10-41, McDowell 5-23, Royster 1-0. 49ERS: Watters 14-103, Floyd 8-34, Young 2-31, Loville 6-11, Logan 3-4, Grbac 2-(-2). PASSING BUCS: Dilfer 23-7-45-1-0, Erickson 7-5-67-0-1, Stryzinski 1-1-21-0-0. 49ERS: Young 26-20-255-0-1, Grbac 3-3-28-0-1. RECEIVING BUCS: Dawsey 4-65, J Harris 3-34, McDowell 3-10, Rhett 2-3, Carter 1-21. 49ERS: Jones 5-76, Watters 4-64, Rice 4-57, McCaffrey 3-34, Taylor 2-26, Singleton 2-7, Carter 1-10, Floyd 1-8, Logan 1-1. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: none. 49ERS: Davis 1-8. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Buckley 3-75, Wilson 3-73, Carter 1-0. 49ERS: Carter 1-17. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Hawkins 1-3, Everett 0-0. 49ERS: Carter 1-(-1). SACKS BUCS: Culpepper 1-8, Dotson 1-5. 49ERS: Stubblefield 1-8.

STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 74 Gruber DE 72 Ahanotu LG 70 McRae DT 77 Wheeler C 61 Mayberry DT 73 Culpepper RG 62 Beckles DE 75 Curry RT 76 Dill LLB 55 Marts TE 81 Harris MLB 56 Nickerson WR 85 Hawkins RLB 27 Bussey WR 7 Erickson LCB 35 Mayhew FB 33 McDowell RCB 39 DImry RB 46 Workman SS 23 Carter QB 12 Dilfer FS 22 Everett PLAYED 4 Stryzinski, 5 Husted, 21 McGruder, 25 Covington, 28 Buckley, 31 Royster, 32 Rhett, 45 Stargell, 47 Lynch, 53 E Brady, 57 J Brady, 67 Sullivan, 71 Dotson, 79 Love, 80 Dawsey, 83 Moore, 84 C Wilson, 86 Armstrong, 87 Thomas, 88 Copeland, 91 K Wilson, 92 Price, 93 DuBose INACTIVE 11 Weldon, 26 Green, 30 Turner, 43 Harris, 60 Pyne, 78 Irwin, 89 Bishop, 95 Powe

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