The Bucs took their record to 6-1, a new best-ever start to a season. The 35-3 half-time scoreline reflected their domination and the second half became a procession of back-ups getting to play and missed chances to extend their lead. Tom Brady threw his 600th regular season TD pass and Mike Evans got himself a hat-trick of scores.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Fournette 15-81, Jones 10-63, Vaughn 5-27, Darden 1-11. BEARS: Herbert 18-100, Fields 8-38, Williams 3-5. PASSING BUCS: Brady 36-20-211-0-4, Gabbert 3-2-15-0-0. BEARS: Fields 32-22-184-3-0. RECEIVING BUCS: Godwin 8-111, Evans 6-76, Johnson 2-16, Fournette 2-9, Bernard 2-5, Howard 1-9, Yelder 1-0. BEARS: Kmet 5-43, Herbert 5-33, James 3-20, Mooney 2-39, Robinson 2-16, Goodwin 2-16, Byrd 1-10, Nall 1-4, Williams 1-3. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Delaney 1-26, Whitehead 1-17, Desir 1-0. BEARS: none. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Darden 1-17. BEARS: none. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Darden 1-43. BEARS: Grant 2-13. SACKS BUCS: Pierre-Paul 2-5, Winfield 1-6, Barrett 1-5. BEARS: none.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers 38 Chicago Bears 3 Sunday 24 October 2021 at Raymond James Stadium

GAME SCORING TB 7-0 11:58-1Q Fournette 2 run (Succop kick) TB 14-0 4:37-1Q Godwin 4 pass from Brady (Succop kick) TB 21-0 0:06-1Q Evans 9 pass from Brady (Succop kick) CHI 21-3 6:08-2Q Santos FG28 TB 28-3 3:35-2Q Evans 2 pass from Brady (Succop kick) TB 35-3 0:09-2Q Evans 8 pass from Brady (Succop kick) TB 38-3 12:51-4Q Succop FG22

GAME REPORTS Rick Stroud reports on another record-setting day for Tom Brady Better hop aboard, the Bucs defense is about to set sail Two more Bucs cornerbacks step up, then go down Fan gets 600th Tom Brady touchdown ball, gives it back Seeing it from the Chicago Tribune’s point of view 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 DL 50 Vea C 66 Jensen LOLB 90 Pierre-Paul RG 65 Cappa LILB 45 White RT 78 Wirfs RILB 51 Minter TE 80 Howard ROLB 58 Barrett WR 18 Johnson CB 43 Cockrell WR 13 Evans CB 35 Dean WR 14 Godwin CB 30 Delaney QB 12 Brady S 33 Whitehead RB 7 Fournette S 31 Winfield PLAYED 1 Darden, 3 Succop, 8 Pinion, 9 Tryon-Shoyinka, 11 Gabbert, 15 Grayson, 21 Vaughn, 25 Bernard, 26 Adams, 27 Jones, 28 Robinson, 29 Desir, 32 Edwards, 46 Tinker, 48 Stuard, 49 Gill, 52 Britt, 56 Nunez-Roches, 64 Stinnie, 72 Wells, 79 O’Connor, 82 Yelder, 84 Brate, 92 Gholston, 98 Nelson DID NOT PLAY 70 Hainsey INACTIVES 2 Trask, 5 Sherman, 54 David, 60 Leverett, 81 Brown, 87 Gronkowski, 96 McLendon

GAME HIGHLIGHTS Click on the boxes below to view the big plays Dee Delaney got the ball rolling with his first Buccaneer interception Mike Evans caught the historic 600th touchdown from Tom Brady - then gave the ball away Pierre Desir set off another row-the-boat celebration in the endzone

COMMENTARY CREW Jim Nantz and Tony Romo

NFL RESULTS - WEEK 7 Cleveland 17 Denver 14 NY Giants 25 Carolina 3 New England 54 NY Jets 13 Tennessee 27 Kansas City 3 Green Bay 24 Washington 10 Atlanta 30 Miami 28 Cincinnati 41 Baltimore 17 LA Rams 28 Detroit 19 Las Vegas 33 Philadelphia 22 Arizona 31 Houston 5 Tampa Bay 38 Chicago 3 Indianapolis 30 San Francisco 18 New Orleans 13 Seattle 10 Bye week: Pittsburgh, Buffalo, LA Chargers, Jacksonville, Minnesota and Dallas.