Tampa Bay Buccaneers 17 Carolina Panthers 14 Monday 10 October 2016 at Bank of America Stadium
SCORING TB 6:28-1Q Aguayo FG35 TB 0:43-2Q Aguayo FG35 CAR 9:12-3Q Artis-Payne 1 run (Gano kick) CAR 6:03-3Q Artis-Payne 12 run (Gano kick) TB 4:27-3Q Evans 26 pass from Winston (Humphries pass) TB 0:00-4Q Aguayo FG38
GAME REPORTS Rick Stroud’s lead story on the game from The Tampa Bay Times Tom Jones sees the Bucs potentially save their season The game grades are in - who passed and who failed Greg Auman’s notes column Scott Smith’s detailed game report Click here for the gamebook and the play-by-play
The Bucs maintained their unbeaten record on Monday Night Football this decade with a last-second victory over the Panthers on Roberto Aguayo’s game-winning fieldgoal. Playing without all four of their starting defensive linemen and top two running backs, the Bucs somehow mustered enough offense and forced key turnovers to defeat the defending NFC Champions in their own stadium in front of a national TV audience. Aguayo atoned for two earlier misses with his game-winner on the final play of the game capping a tremendous drive inside the final two minutes to set up the winning kick.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Rodgers 30-101, Winston 4-6, Barber 3-6. PANTHERS: Artis-Payne 18-85, Whittaker 5-45, Anderson 1-4, Tolbert 1-2. PASSING BUCS: Winston 30-18-219-0-1. PANTHERS: Anderson 28-18-278-2-0. RECEIVING BUCS: Evans 6-89, Rodgers 5-28, Jackson 3-36, Brate 1-38, Myers 1-12, Humphries 1-11, Cross 1-5. PANTHERS: Olsen 9-181, Benjamin 5-70, Brown 2-13, Whittaker 1- 9, Ginn 1-5. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Grimes 1-0, Da.Smith 1-(-5). PANTHERS: none. KICK RETURNS BUCS: none. PANTHERS: Ginn 1-21. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Humphies 1-12. PANTHERS: Ginn 2-6. SACKS BUCS: none. PANTHERS: Boston 1-9, McClain 0.5-4, Love 0.5-4.
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 76 Smith LDE 75 Lambert LG 64 Pamphile DT 71 Ward C 68 Hawley DT 97 Spence RG 74 Marpet RDE 92 Gholston RT 69 Dotson MLB 58 Alexander TE 82 Myers WLB 54 David TE 84 Brate SLB 51 Da Smith WR 13 Evans LCB 28 Hargeaves WR 83 Jackson RCB 24 Grimes QB 3 Winston SS 23 Conte RB 32 Rodgers FS 30 McDougald PLAYED 9 Anger, 11 Humphries, 19 Aguayo, 21 Vermer, 26 Robinson, 29 R Smith, 37 Tandy, 38 Adjei-Barimeh, 43 Barber, 44 Hansbrough, 45 Cross, 48 DePaola, 52 Lynch, 53 Glanton, 57 Spence, 62 E Smith, 67 Hughes, 78 Cherilus, 89 Shepard, 95 Jones DID NOT PLAY 4 Griffin, 8 Glennon, 27 Banks, 66 Wester INACTIVES 10 Shorts, 22 Martin, 77 Benenoch, 88 Stocker, 91 Ayers, 93 McCoy, 98 McDonald
COMMENTARY CREW Sean McDonough and Jon Gruden
GAME HIGHLIGHTS Click on the boxes below to view the clips Mike Evans scores on a touchdown pass from Jameis Winston Brent Grimes’ endzone interception stopped a Carolina scoring threat Roberto Aguayo atoned for his two earlier misses with the game-winning kick