Tampa Bay Buccaneers 21 Philadelphia Eagles 6 Sunday 3 September 1995 at Veterans Stadium

SCORING PHI 7:28-1Q Anderson FG21 TB 7:09-1Q Copeland 64 pass from Dilfer (Husted kick) PHI 0:35-1Q Anderson FG28 TB 12:07-4Q Harris 10 pass from Dilfer (Husted kick) TB 4:01-4Q Rhett 19 run (Husted kick)

GAME REPORTS Click here for the gamebook and the play-by-play How Horace Copeland replaced Alvin Harper Yes Bucs fans, it's a winning start The defense does the ultimate bend-don't-break

The Bucs opened Sam Wyche's fourth season with a win on the road in Philadelphia thanks to a monster game from Horace Copeland and two TDs from Trent Dilfer. Little did anyone realise that would be half his total number of scoring passes on the season. Making his debut as the Eagles' offensive co-ordinator was a 33- year-old Jon Gruden.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Rhett 26-85, Dilfer 3-(-2). EAGLES: Cunningham 3-42, Watters 17-37, Garner 5-23, Turner 2-9. PASSING BUCS: Dilfer 19-11-215-1-2. EAGLES: Cunningham 36-25-191-1-0. RECEIVING BUCS: Copeland 5-155, Rhett 2-22, Harris 2-18, Dawsey 1-16, Hawkins 1-4. EAGLES: Barnett 5-47, Watters 5-34, Martin 4-41, Turner 4-29, Williams 4-28, West 2-11, Johnson 1-1. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Marts 1-8. EAGLES: Frazier 1-3. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Edmonds 3-92. EAGLES: Garner 2-45, Martin 2-26. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Edmonds 3-17. EAGLES: Martin 2-42. SACKS BUCS: Nickerson 1-8, Wheeler 1-8, Culpepper 1-7, Sapp 1-5, Dotson 1-1. EAGLES: Fuller 1-13.

STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 74 Gruber DE 72 Ahanotu LG 70 McRae DT 77 Wheeler C 61 Mayberry DT 99 Sapp RG 62 Beckles DE 75 Curry RT 76 Dill LLB 51 Marts TE 81 Harris MLB 56 Nickerson TE 86 Armstrong RLB 55 Brooks WR 80 Dawsey LCB 35 Mayhew FB 83 Moore RCB 39 DImry RB 32 Rhett SS 27 Bussey QB 12 Dilfer FS 22 Everett PLAYED 1 Roby, 5 Husted, 11 Weldon, 21 McGruder, 28 Buckley, 29 Gant, 37 Ellison, 41 Edmonds, 44 Booty, 45 Stargell, 47 Lynch, 52 Rouse, 53 Brady, 54 Stephens, 71 Dotson, 73 Culpepper, 82 Davis, 85 Hawkins, 88 Copeland, 93 DuBose, 95 Powe DID NOT PLAY 60 Pyne, 69 Pierson INACTIVE 15 Philcox, 25 Johnson, 26 Abraham, 65 Ingram, 67 Sullivan, 82 Harper, 87 Thomas, 94 McIntosh

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