More of the same for the Buccaneers as the defense gave up a ton of points and fell behind early leading to the offense to try and bring it back only to fall short. Ryan Fitzpatrick threw four scores but had two picks and a failed fake punt also led to another Panther touchdown drive as the Bucs fell to 3-5 on the season.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Barber 11-31, Fitzpatrick 5-23, Rodgers 2-14, Wilson 2-7, Humphries 1-7. PANTHERS: McCaffery 17-79, Newton 11-33, Samuel 1- 33, Moore 1-32, Armah 1-1, Anderson 1-1. PASSING BUCS: Fitzpatrick 40-24-243-2-4, Anger 1-0-0-0-0. PANTHERS: Newton 25-19-247-0-2. RECEIVING BUCS: Humphries 8-82, Howard 4-53, Brate 3-15, Godwin 2-40, Jackson 2-32, Barber 2-9, Rodgers 2-(-4), Evans 1-16. PANTHERS: Olsen 6-76, McCaffery 5-78, Funchess 4- 44, Samuel 2-25, Moore 1-16, Wright 1-8. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: none. PANTHERS: Reid 1-39, Jackson 1-0. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Wilson 1-25. PANTHERS: none. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Humphries 2-15. PANTHERS: Byrd 1-12. SACKS BUCS: Nassib 1-10, David 0.5-4.5, McCoy 0.5-4.5, PANTHERS: Addison 3-24.
COMMENTARY CREW Kenny Albert and Ronde Barber
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 28 Carolina Panthers 42 Sunday 4 November 2018 at Bank of America Stadium
SCORING CAR 10:34-1Q Armah 1 run (Gano kick) CAR 3:14-1Q McCaffery 3 run (Gano kick) TB 14:15-2Q Howard 4 pass from Fitzpatrick (Catanzaro kick) CAR 11:20-2Q Samuel 33 run (Gano kick) CAR 7:24-2Q McCaffery 1 run (Gano kick) CAR 4:01-2Q Olsen 17 pass from Newton (Gano kick) TB 0:15-2Q Howard 3 pass from Fitzpatrick (Catanzaro kick) TB 5:14-3Q Humphries 5 pass from Fitzpatrick (Catanzaro kick) TB 14:24-4Q Humphries 30 pass from Fitzpatrick (Catanzaro kick) CAR 9:04-4Q Samuel 19 pass from Newton (Gano kick)
GAME REPORTS Rick Stroud reports on another loss in the same predictable fashion With Mike Evans neutralized, other receivers forced to step up Pierre-Paul says to blame the players for Bucs’ defensive shortcomings The fake punt failed miserably leading to another Carolina score Carlton Davis continuing to work through growing pains How Roy Cummings saw the game for Florida Football Insiders Scott Smith’s official game report Click here for the play-by-play and the NFL gamebook
GAME HIGHLIGHTS Click on the boxes below to view the big plays OJ Howard scored the first two Buccaneer touchdowns - here is the first one Adam Humphries got his first score of the season early in the third quarter And after a coaches’ challenge, he got another one to bring the Bucs to within seven
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 76 Smith LDE 97 Curry LG 74 Marpet DT 93 McCoy C 66 Jensen DT 91 Allen RG 77 Benenoch RDE 90 Pierre-Paul RT 69 Dotson MLB 53 Taylor TE 80 Howard WLB 54 David WR 10 Humphries DB 35 Elliott WR 11 Jackson LCB 24 Grimes WR 13 Evans RCB 33 Davis QB 14 Fitzpatrick SS 31 Whitehead RB 25 Barber FS 21 Evans PLAYED 7 Catanzaro, 9 Anger, 12 Godwin, 17 Watson, 22 Harris, 26 Adams, 29 Smith, 32 Rogers, 38 Wilson, 39 Johnson, 45 Cross, 49 Bullough, 50 Vea, 52 Lynch, 57 Spence, 59 Bond, 61 Wester, 67 Liedtke, 82 Auclair, 84 Brate, 89 Sanborn, 92 Gholston, 94 Nassib. DID NOT PLAY 3 Winston INACTIVES 4 Griffin, 27 Jones, 36 Stewart, 56 Nunez-Roches, 62 Smith, 65 Cappa, 71 Harris