One that got away for the Buccaneers as Cairo Santos’ late fieldgoal gave the Bears victory on a Thursday night game at an empty Soldier Field. Tampa Bay jumped out to an early 13-0 lead and had enough chances to put the game away but two Bear scores in the final two minutes of the first half got the home side back in the encounter.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Jones 17-106, Brady 3-0. BEARS: Montgomery 10-29, Patterson 3-7, Foles 1-(-1). PASSING BUCS: Brady 41-25-253-0-1. BEARS: Foles 42-30-243-1-1. RECEIVING BUCS: Brate 5-44, Evans 5-41, Johnson 4-61, Gronkowski 3-52, Jones 3-19, Mickens 2-22, Vaughn 2-5, Hudson 1-9. BEARS: Robinson 10-90, Montgomery 7-30, Miller 4-28, Patterson 3-38, Graham 3-33, Mooney 2-15, Harris 1-9. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Davis 1-34. BEARS: none. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Mickens 1-25. BEARS: Patterson 3-119. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Mickens 2-20. BEARS: Ginn 1-6. SACKS BUCS: Pierre-Paul 1-17, Gholston 1-9, Vea 1-9. BEARS: Mack 2-14, Vaughters 1-6.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 19 Chicago Bears 20 Thursday 8 October 2020 at Soldier Field
SCORING TB 9:48-1Q Succop FG39 TB 0:56-1Q Evans 2 pass from Brady (Succop kick) TB 7:03-2Q Succop FG35 CHI 1:48-2Q Montgomery 3 run (Santos kick) CHI 0:36-2Q Graham 12 pass from Foles (Santos kick) TB 9:04-3Q Succop FG46 CHI 10:34-4Q Santos FG47 TB 4:49-4Q Succop FG25 CHI 1:13-4Q Santos FG38
GAME REPORTS Rick Stroud reports from Soldier Field on a tough loss for the Bucs Ronald Jones had another 100-yard game as the team came up short Vita Vea looks to be lost for the season hurting the defensive lineon Scott Smith’s official game report Click here for the play-by-play and the NFL gamebook
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 76 Smith DE 93 Suh LG 74 Marpet DT 50 Vea C 66 Jensen DE 92 Gholston RG 65 Cappa LOLB 90 Pierre-Paul RT 78 Wirfs LILB 45 White TE 87 Gronkowski RILB 54 David WR 10 Miller ROLB 58 Barrett WR 13 Evans LCB 24 Davis WR 18 Johnson RCB 23 Murphy-Bunting QB 12 Brady SS 31 Winfield RB 27 Jones FS 33 Whitehead PLAYED 3 Succop, 8 Pinion, 15 Grayson, 26 Adams, 28 Fournette, 29 Smith, 30 Vaughn, 32 Edwards, 35 Dean, 43 Cockrell, 48 Cichy, 49 Gill, 51 Minter, 56 Nunez-Roches, 57 Bell, 72 Wells, 73 Haeg, 79 O’Connor, 84 Brate, 85 Mickens, 88 Hudson, 97 Triner, 98 Nelson DID NOT PLAY 11 Gabbert, 39 Motley, 62 Shipley INACTIVES 4 Griffin, 14 Godwin, 17 Watson, 25 McCoy, 64 Stinnie, 89 Pearson, 94 Davis
COMMENTARY CREW Joe Buck and Troy Aikman
GAME HIGHLIGHTS Click on the boxes below to view the big plays Carlton Davis had his third interception in four games off a fortunate deflection Rookie Tyler Johnson made a big play to set up the Buccaneer touchdown Which was Tom Brady to Mike Evans on an inside slant move from two yards out