Tampa Bay Buccaneers 13 Philadelphia Eagles 17 Sunday 6 January 2002 at Raymond James Stadium

SCORING TB 4:50-1Q Brien FG42 TB 14:56-2Q Stecker 4 run (Brien kick) PHI 9:18-2Q Akers FG47 TB 0:19-2Q Brien FG23 PHI 2:12-4Q Douglas 2 pass from Feeley (Akers kick) PHI 1:46-4Q Douglas 24 pass from Feeley (Akers kick)

GAME REPORTS Click here for Roy Cummings' morning-after column Click here for Rick Stroud's views on the game Click here for how Gary Shelton saw it unfold Click here for the official gamebook and play-by-play

This was a strange game as the result had absolutely no bearing on anything as the two teams would meet the following weekend in Philadelphia in a wild card game. So both teams rested everyone important and it took the air of a meaningless pre-season game.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Stecker 12-35, Abdullah 8-34, Alstott 3-11, King 2-(-9). EAGLES: Buckhalter 20-89, Detmer 2-13, Smart 2-6, Martin 1-3. PASSING BUCS: B.Johnson 4-3-46-0-0, King 28-19-148-1-0. EAGLES: Detmer 14-5-51-1-0, Feeley 14-10-143-1-2. RECEIVING BUCS: Cook 5-21, Wynn 4-69, Murphy 3-25, Stecker 3-8, Abdullah 2-26, Yoder 2-20, Williams 2-18, Green 1-7. EAGLES: Douglas 5-77, Buckhalter 5-50, Stewart 3-41, Scott 2- 26. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Lynch 1-2, Abraham 1-0. EAGLES: Cook 1-11. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Murphy 2-34, Williams 1-22, Abdullah 1-18. EAGLES: Mitchell 3-70, D.Douglas 1-18. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Williams 2-4. EAGLES: Brown 4-19. SACKS BUCS: Gooch 0.5-4.5, Kelly 0.5-4.5. EAGLES: Kalu 1-12, Walker 1-10, Burgess 1-7.

STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 67 Walker DE 94 White LG 64 McDaniel DT 92 McFarland C 62 Christy DT 99 Sapp RG 60 Coleman DE 97 Rice RT 71 Wunsch LLB 53 Quarles TE 83 Moore MLB 59 Duncan TE 80 Yoder RLB 55 Brooks WR 81 Green LCB 25 Kelly WR 86 Williams RCB 20 Barber RB 40 Alstott SS 47 Lynch QB 14 Johnson FS 34 Jackson PLAYED 3 Royals, 4 Brien, 10 King, 21 Abraham, 22 Stecker, 26 Smith, 27 Abdullah, 38 Howell, 43 Cook, 46 Gibson, 50 Gooch, 51 Singleton,, 69 Pierson, 75 Washington, 76 Curry, 84 McDermott, 87 Murphy, 88 Wynn, 89 Roberg, 91 Darby, 96 Wyms, 98 Cannida DID NOT PLAY 59 Duncan INACTIVE 1 Hamilton, 7 Gramatica, 19 Johnson, 28 Dunn, 65 Hochstein, 68 Grice, 78 Jones, 85 Anthony

COMMENTARY CREW Mike Patrick, Paul Maguire and Joe Theismann