Tampa Bay Buccaneers 10 Dallas Cowboys 16 Sunday 23 September 2012 at Texas Stadium

SCORING TB 10:51-1Q Stocker 1 pass from Freeman (Barth kick) DAL 1:22-1Q Murray 11 run (Bailey kick) DAL 2:51-2Q Bailey FG32 DAL 11:10-4Q Bailey FG26 DAL 2:43-4Q Bailey FG22 TB 0:40-4Q Barth FG28

The Tampa offense was held to jusy 166 yards of offense in a putrid display in Texas as Josh Freeman posted a career-low in completion percentage. A special teams fumble led to a Dallas fieldgoal and there were enough other mistakes to leave the Buccaneers at 1-2 on the season.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Martin 19-53, Blount 4-19, Ware 1-2, Freeman 1-1. COWBOYS: Murray 18-38, Romo 4-1, Jones 1-(-1). PASSING BUCS: Freeman 28-10-110-1-1. COWBOYS: Romo 39-25-283-1-0. RECEIVING BUCS: Williams 2-33, Martin 2-21, Jackson 1-20, Ware 1-11, Benn 1-8, Underwood 1-7, Stocker 1-1, Clark 1-0. COWBOYS: Bryant 6-62, Austin 5-108, Ogletree 5-57, Murray 3- 17, Jones 2-28, Witten 2-8, Vickers 1-5, Romo 1-(-1). INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Talib 1-0. COWBOYS: Lee 1-0. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Benn 1-15 . COWBOYS: Jones 1-18. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Shipley 3-10. COWBOYS: Bryant 3-43. SACKS BUCS: Bennett 2-15, McCoy 2-9. COWBOYS: Ware 2-19.

STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 70 Penn DE 71 Bennett LG 77 Nicks DT 93 McCoy C 76 Zuttah DT 50 Te’o-Nesheim RG 62 Larsen DE 94 Clayborn RT 69 Dotson WLB 54 David WR 17 Benn MLB 59 Foster WR 19 Williams DB 33 McDonald WR 83 Jackson LCB 25 Talib RB 28 Ware RCB 21 Wright RB 22 Martin SS 24 Barron QB 5 Freeman FS 20 Barber PLAYED 9 Koenen, 10 Barth, 11 Underwood, 12 Shipley, 23 Lewis, 27 Blount, 29 Johnson, 35 Grimm, 41 Lorig, 43 A Black, 44 Clark, 48 Economos, 53 Goode, 56 Watson, 57 Hayward, 58 Black, 65 Trueblood, 86 Noble, 88 Stocker, 90 Miller, 95 Gibson, 96 Irvin DID NOT PLAY 6 Orlovsky, 74 Wallace INACTIVE 26 Gaitor, 31 Biggers, 34 Smith, 37 Tandy, 79 Meredith, 80 Owusu, 97 Johnson

COMMENTARY CREW Joe Buck and Troy Aikman

GAME REPORTS Roy Cummings reports from Texas Stadium Award-winning columnist Martin Fennelly's opinions How Rick Stroud saw the game unfold Gary Shelton weighs in with his thoughts Relentless defense keeps pressure on Cowboys Bucs' run game persistence doesn't pay off Kneel down play issues once again Bucs fearing worst for Clayborn's injury Game notes from the Buc sideline Scott Smith's game report The official gamebook including the play-by-play