Tampa Bay Buccaneers 35 Cincinnati Bengals 7
Sunday 29 September 2002 at Riverfront Stadium
FOX COMMENTARY CREW Sam Rosen and Bill Maas
Two of the Bucs’ biggest-ever road victories have come in
Cincinnati and this one was even more one-sided than the
score indicates. Although Tampa Bay fell behind early on, three
scoring strikes from Brad Johnson and Shelton Quarles’
interception return score had this game comfortably in control
early in the third quarter. The Bucs’ defense came to play
holding Akili Smith and the Bengals offense to under 200 yards
and Warren Sapp recorded a pair of sacks in the process. Mike
Alstott capped the scoring on a one-yard run late in the third
quarter and the rest of the game became playing time for the
back-ups on the roster.
GAME SCORING
CIN
2:19-1Q
Simmons 51 interception return (Rackers kick)
TB
14:53-2Q
Dudley 35 pass from BJohnson (Gramatica kick)
TB
7:27-2Q
McCardell 65 pass from BJohnson (Gramatica kick)
TB
0:52-2Q
Quarles 25 interception return (Gramatica kick)
TB
10:46-3Q
Dilger 22 pass from BJohnson (Gramatica kick)
TB
3:09-4Q
Alstott 1 run (Gramatica kick)
GAME REPORTS
Roy Cummings' game review
Joe Henderson's viewpoint
The defense scores again
Now the Bucs' TEs are involved
McCardell has a big game
From the Cincinnati beat writer
Game notes and anecdotes
The game report
What they had to say afterwards
The gamebook and the play by play of the game
STARTERS
OFFENSE
DEFENSE
LT
72 Oben
LDE
94 Spires
LG
71 Jenkins
UT
92 McFarland
C
62 Christy
DT
99 Sapp
RG
60 Coleman
RDE
97 Rice
RT
74 Green
LLB
51 Singleton
TE
85 Dilger
MLB
53 Quarles
WR
19 Johnson
RLB
55 Brooks
WR
87 McCardell
LCB
25 Kelly
RB
27 Stecker
SS
47 Lynch
RB
32 Pittman
FS
34 Jackson
QB
14 Johnson
RCB
20 Barber
PLAYED
7 Gramatica, 9 Tupa, 11 Johnson, 23 Phillips, 26 Smith, 30 Barnes,
35 Ivy, 38 Howell, 40 Alstott, 45 Solwold, 52 Webster, 56 Nece, 58
Golden, 77 Washington, 80 Yoder, 83 Jurevicius, 86 Williams, 88
Dudley, 91 Darby, 96 Wyms, 98 Smith
DID NOT PLAY
65 Hochstein, 75 Brown
INACTIVE
10 King, 31 Wansley, 34 Stephens, 43 Cook, 67 Walker, 82 Walker,
84 Barlow, 90 Gurley
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING
BUCS: Pittman 19-54, Alstott 7-29, Stecker 1-14, R.Johnson 1-4.
BENGALS: Dillon 21-59, Neal 2-10, Smith 4-5, Bennett 2-0.
PASSING
BUCS: B.Johnson 30-19-277-2-3.
BENGALS: Smith 33-12-117-1-0.
RECEIVING
BUCS: K.Johnson 5-56, Pittman 5-27, McCardell 4-108, Dilger 2-33, Dudley
1-35, Jurevicius 1-12, Alstott 1-6.
BENGALS: Warrick 4-51, Bennett 4-27, Houshmandzadeh 2-20, Luchey 1-15,
Schobel 1-4.
INTERCEPTIONS
BUCS: Quarles 1-25.
BENGALS: Simmons 1-51, Gibson 1-6.
KICK RETURNS
BUCS: Stecker 1-32, Yoder 1-9.
BENGALS: Bennett 6-106.
PUNT RETURNS
BUCS: Williams 5-61.
BENGALS: Warrick 2-15.
SACKS
BUCS: Sapp 2-15, Brooks 1-8.
BENGALS: Williams 1-10, Hawkins 1-5.
VIDEO CLIPS Click on the boxes for the main plays from the game
Keenan McCardell put the Bucs ahead to stay in the second quarter
Shelton Quarles had an interception return TD for the second time
Ken Dilger joined the offensive party with one of the three TD passes