Tampa Bay Buccaneers 10 Jacksonville Jaguars 17 Sunday 30 November 2003 at All-Tel Stadium ESPN COMMENTARY CREW Mike Patrick, Paul Maguire and Joe Theisman
Losing to the 2-9 Jaguars was simply not expected of any time let alone a defending champion but this inter-state loss really cemented the decline of the Buccaneer franchise from the heights of San Diego. Not a lot of offense, no defense when it really counted and all in front of a national TV audience on a Sunday night. . ``It's looking bleak,'' John Lynch said when asked about chances of making the playoffs. ``It may not be possible.''
GAME SCORING JAC 13:46-2Q Brady 10 pass from Leftwich (Marler kick) TB 8:30-2Q Jones 5 run (Gramatica kick) TB 5:10-2Q Gramatica FG47 JAC 0:14-2Q Marler FG28 JAC 10:31-4Q Smith 48 pass from Leftwich (Marler kick)
GAME REPORTS Roy Cummings' game review Martin Fennelly's award-winning column What Marty Strasen made of it all Joey Johnston sees the offense stink it up Now there's only pride to play for How annoying is Joe Theisman? Two former team-mates hit 700 Game notes and anecdotes The game report The gamebook and the play by play of the game
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 72 Oben DE 94 Spires LG 71 Jenkins DT 92 McFarland C 76 Wade DT 99 Sapp RG 60 Coleman DE 97 Rice RT 67 Walker LLB 56 Nece TE 85 Dilger MLB 53 Quarles WR 82 Lee RLB 55 Brooks WR 87 McCardell LCB 20 Barber FB 43 Cook RCB 31 Wansley RB 32 Pittman SS 47 Lynch QB 14 Johnson FS 26 Smith PLAYED 7 Gramatica, 9 Tupa, 22 Jones, 23 Phillips, 27 Stecker, 30 Barnes, 34 Gibson, 35 Ivy, 44 Ciurciu, 52 Webster, 57 Rudd, 65 Whittle, 66 Benjamin, 74 Green, 80 Yoder, 83 Jurevicius, 84 Barlow, 86 K Williams, 88 Dudley, 90 White, 91 Darby, 96 Wyms DID NOT PLAY 10 King INACTIVES 2 Simms, 19 Johnson, 28 Robinson, 59 Smith, 62 King, 79 Mahan, 81 R Williams, 89 Heller
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Pittman 10-60, Jones 7-11, B.Johnson 2-6. JAGUARS: Taylor 29-118, Toefield 2-9, Fuamatu-Ma'afala 1-5, Leftwich 3- 3. PASSING BUCS: B.Johnson 38-21-156-1-0. JAGUARS: Leftwich 34-20-224-0-2. RECEIVING BUCS: McCardell 8-74, Lee 6-47, Jones 2-21, Cook 2-8, Pittman 2-6, Dilger 1-0. JAGUARS: Smith 10-136, Brady 3-32, Edwards 3-24, Taylor 3-12, Johnson 1-20. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: none. JAGUARS: Peterson 1-7. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Jones 1-25, Barlow 1-21, Yoder 1-8. JAGUARS: Allen 3-66. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Barlow 1-1. JAGUARS: Allen 2-29. SACKS BUCS: none. JAGUARS: Stroud 2-12.