Tampa Bay Buccaneers 17 New York Jets 18 Sunday 8 September 2013 at Met Life Stadium

SCORING NYJ 8:35-1Q Safety - Freeman batted ball out of endzone TB 1:07-1Q Williams 17 TD pass from Freeman (Lindell kick) NYJ 11:01-2Q Folk FG43 TB 6:46-2Q Martin 5 run (Lindell kick) NYJ 0:34-2Q Winslow 7 TD pass from Smith (Folk kick) NYJ 5:15-4Q Folk FG30 TB 0:34-4Q Lindell FG37 NYJ 0:02-4Q Folk FG48

GAME REPORTS Roy Cummings reports from the season opener Award-winning columnist Martin Fennelly adds his opinion How Rick Stroud saw the game unfold Gary Shelton weighs in with his own thoughts on proceedings Freeman has up-and-down effort for Bucs Vincent Jackson has special performance Flag football - penalties hurt the Bucs all day Revis has unhappy homecoming Scott Smith's game report The official gamebook including the play-by-play

The opening game of the 2013 season set the tone for a bad season when the Bucs allowed a late drive and the Jets kicked the winning fieldgoal with two seconds remaining. Lavonte David was called for a personal foul penalty that gave the Jets the key extra 15 yards to allow Nick Folk’s kick to be successful. The Bucs had their other chances during the game but a succession of penalties and mistakes cost them in the end.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Martin 24-65, Freeman 1-0. JETS: Smith 6-47, Powell 12-29, Ivory 10-15, Kerley 1-(-1). PASSING BUCS: Freeman 31-15-210-1-1. JETS: Smith 38-24-256-1-1, Kerley 1-0-0-0-0. RECEIVING BUCS: Jackson 7-154, Williams 4-52, Martin 2-(-1), Leonard 1-4, Byham 1-1. JETS: Winslow 7-79, Hill 6-39, Kerley 4-35, Bohanan 1-21, Gates 1-17, Holmes 1-13, Reuland 1-7. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: David 1-7. JETS: Landry 1-38. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Martin 1-40, Page 1-27, Ogletree 1-25, Leonard 0-0. JETS: Kerley 1-19. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Page 2-35, Black 1-0. JETS: Kerley 1-9, Wilson 0-0. SACKS BUCS: Foster 2-24, Watson 1-11, Te'o-Nesheim 1-6, David 1-1. JETS: Barnes 1-10, Wilkerson 1-5, Richardson 0.5-5, Pace 0.5-5.

STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 70 Penn DE 50 Te’o-Nesheim LG 72 Carimi DT 93 McCoy C 76 Zuttah DT 97 Spence RG 75 Joseph DE 94 Clayborn RT 69 Dotson WLB 54 David TE 88 Stocker MLB 59 Foster WR 19 Williams DB 27 Banks WR 83 Jackson LCB 24 Revis FB 82 Byham RCB 29 Johnson RB 22 Martin SS 23 Barron QB 5 Freeman FS 38 Goldson PLAYED 4 Lindell, 9 Koenen, 17 Page, 21 Adams, 25 James, 30 Leonard, 37 Tandy, 43 A Black, 48 Economos, 52 Casillas, 56 Watson, 57 Hayward, 62 Larsen, 71 Scott, 79 Meredith, 81 Wright, 85 Ogletree, 89 Shepard, 90 Landri, 91 Bowers, 95 Gibson, 96 Means DID NOT PLAY 8 Glennon, 44 Hillis INACTIVE 6 Orlovsky, 28 Melvin, 41 Lorig, 77 Nicks, 84 Crabtree, 92 Gholston, 98 Jones

COMMENTARY CREW Kevin Burkhardt and John Lynch