The Bucs went to 10-3 and won their fourth game in a row but it was way too close and needed a 58-yard scoring pass from Tom Brady to Breshad Perrinan in overtime to see off the Bills. Buffalo came back from a 24-3 half-time deficit and scored 17 unanswered fourth quarter points. But the Tampa defense stiffened late and in overtime to allow the late heroics.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Fournette 19-113, Brady 7-16, Jones 3-8. BILLS: Allen 12-109, Singletary 4-52, Breida 3-12. PASSING BUCS: Brady 46-31-363-0-2. BILLS: Allen 54-36-308-1-2. RECEIVING BUCS: Godwin 10-105, Evans 6-91, Gronkowski 5-62, Fournette 4-19, Johnson 3-17, Brate 2-11, Perriman 1-58. BILLS: Beasley 9-64, Diggs 7-74, Knox 7-60, Singletary 6-37, Davis 5-43, Sanders 1-25, McKenzie 1-5. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Sherman 1-0. BILLS: none. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Darden 3-38. BILLS: Stevenson 1-29. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Darden 1-10. BILLS: Stevenson 2-9. SACKS BUCS: White 1.5-7.5, Barrett 1.5-7.5. BILLS: Milano 1-10, Ankou 1-2.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 33 Buffalo Bills 27 (ot) Sunday 12 December 2021 at Raymond James Stadium
GAME SCORING TB 7-0 8:13-1Q Fournette 47 run (Succop kick) TB 10-0 13:36-2Q Succop FG23 BUF 10-3 9:28-2Q Bass FG21 TB 17-3 7:11-2Q Evans 13 pass from Brady (Succop kick) TB 24-3 1:29-2Q Brady 1 run (Succop kick) BUF 24-10 7:29-3Q Allen 18 run (Bass kick) TB 27-10 11:20-4Q Succop FG24 BUF 27-17 9:07-4Q Knox 15 pass from Allen (Bass kick) BUF 27-24 4:53-4Q Davis 4 pass from Allen (Bass kick) BUF 27-27 0:22-4Q Bass FG25 TB 33-27 5:31-OT Perriman 58 pass from Brady
GAME REPORTS Rick Stroud reports on the first home overtime TD in Bucs history After this game, the Super Bowl should be Tampa Bay’s to lose Bucs made things interesting. They would have preferred convincing Tom Brady’s early mobility precedes his 11th-hour moxie Game notes and anecdotes - Godwin’s 1,000-yard mark Scott Smith’s official game report Click here for the play-by-play and the NFL gamebook
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 76 Smith DL 93 Suh LG 74 Marpet NT 50 Vea C 66 Jensen LOLB 90 Pierre-Paul RG 65 Cappa LILB 45 White RT 78 Wirfs RILB 54 David TE 87 Gronkowski ROLB 58 Barrett WR 18 Johnson CB 35 Dean WR 13 Evans CB 24 Davis WR 14 Godwin CB 23 Murphy-Bunting QB 12 Brady S 26 Adams RB 7 Fournette S 31 Winfield PLAYED 1 Darden, 3 Succop, 5 Sherman, 8 Pinion, 9 Tryon-Shoyinka, 16 Perriman, 21 Vaughn, 25 Bernard, 27 Jones, 30 Delaney, 43 Cockrell, 48 Stuard, 49 Gill, 51 Minter, 52 Britt, 56 Nunez- Roches, 70 Hainsey, 72 Wells, 79 O’Connor, 80 Howard, 84 Brate, 92 Gholston, 97 Triner, 98 Nelson DID NOT PLAY 11 Gabbert, 60 Leverett INACTIVES 2 Trask, 10 Miller, 29 Desir, 33 Whitehead, 96 McLendon
GAME HIGHLIGHTS Click on the boxes below to view the big plays Leonard Fournette got the party started with this 47-yard touchdown run in the first quarter Tom Brady showed he still has the arm strength with a bullet to Mike Evans And then Breshad Perriman had the first walkoff Bucs home touchdown in team history
COMMENTARY CREW Jim Nantz and Tony Romo
NFL RESULTS - WEEK 15 Pittsburgh 28 Minnesota 36 Dallas 27 Washington 20 Jacksonville 0 Tennessee 20 Seattle 33 Houston 13 Las Vegas 9 Kansas City 48 New Orleans 30 NY Jets 9 Atlanta 29 Carolina 21 Baltimore 22 Cleveland 24 NY Giants 21 LA Chargers 37 Detroit 10 Denver 31 San Francisco 26 Cincinnati 23 Buffalo 27 Tampa Bay 33 Chicago 30 Green Bay 45 LA Rams 30 Arizona 23 Bye week: Indianapolis, Miami, New England and Philadelphia