For 29 minutes, the old Super Bowl Bucs were back, leading 17-0 with a great offensive gameplan and a stifling
defense shutting down the Bengals. And then it all went horribly wrong. A failed fake punt, fumbles, interceptions,
key penalties and a general collective effort to throw a game away. 34 unanswered points later and the Bucs fell to
6-8 yet still a game up of the other three teams in the NFC South in what is becoming the worst division in history.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING
BUCS: Fournette 10-44, White 11-38, Thompkins 1-9, Brady
2-1, Bernard 1-0.
BENGALS: Perine 7-24, Mixon 11-21, Burrow 3-8.
PASSING
BUCS: Brady 44-30-312-3-2.
BENGALS: Burrow 39-27-200-1-4.
RECEIVING
BUCS: Godwin 8-83, Gage 8-59, Evans 5-83, Fournette 4-
30, Brate 2-25, Otton 1-20, Thompkins 1-7, White 1-5.
BENGALS: Chase 7-60, Boyd 5-35, Higgins 5-33, Mixon 5-
33, Wilcox 3-34, Irwin 1-5, Perine 1-0.
INTERCEPTIONS
BUCS: Davis 1-0.
BENGALS: Flowers 1-0, Pratt 1-0.
KICK RETURNS
BUCS: Thompkins 3-48.
BENGALS: Williams 2-48.
PUNT RETURNS
BUCS: Thompkins 2-14.
BENGALS: Taylor 0-0.
SACKS
BUCS: David 1-10, Nelson 0.5-3, Tryon-Shoyinka 0.5-3.
BENGALS: Wilson 1-8.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 23 Cincinnati Bengals 34
Sunday 18 December 2022 at Raymond James Stadium
GAME SCORING
TB
3-0
6:06-1Q
Succop FG21
TB
10-0
14:11-2Q
Gage 1 pass from Brady (Succop kick)
TB
17-0
1:39-2Q
Godwin 5 pass from Brady (Succop kick)
CIN
17-3
0:00-2Q
McPherson FG41
CIN
17-6
12:04-3Q
McPherson FG21
CIN
17-12
5:42-3Q
Higgins 5 pass from Burrow (pass failed)
CIN
17-20
2:40-3Q
Boyd 3 pass from Burrow (Higgins pass)
CIN
17-27
12:45-4Q
Chase 8 pass from Burrow (McPherson kick)
CIN
17-34
2:21-4Q
Wilcox 12 pass from Burrow (McPherson kick)
TB
23-34
0:49-4Q
Gage 5 pass from Brady (pass failed)
GAME REPORTS
Second-half collapse vs. Bengals leads to another loss for Bucs
If the Bucs aren't embarrassed, then we have a problem
Bright opening half for Bucs offense precedes after-dark debacle
How the Cincinnati Examiner saw the game unfold
Scott Smith’s official game report
Click here for the play-by-play and the NFL gamebook
STARTERS
OFFENSE
DEFENSE
LT
76 Smith
DL
96 Hicks
LG
60 Leverett
DT
56 Nunez-Roches
C
70 Hainsey
OLB
98 Nelson
RG
69 Mason
ILB
54 David
RT
72 Wells
ILB
45 White
TE
41 Kieft
OLB
9 Tryon-Shoyinka
WR
16 Perriman
CB
24 Davis
WR
13 Evans
CB
23 Murphy-Bunting
WR
14 Godwin
S
31 Winfield
QB
12 Brady
S
22 Neal
RB
29 White
S
26 Ryan
PLAYED
3 Succop, 5 Camarda, 7 Fournette, 10 Miller, 17 Gage, 21
Vaughn, 25 Bernard, 27 McCollum, 30 Delaney, 32
Edwards, 37 Chesley, 51 Russell, 52 Britt, 67 Goedecke,
73 Walton, 79 O’Connor, 83 Thompkins, 84 Brate, 88
Otton, 90 Hall, 92 Gholston, 95 Senat, 97 Triner.
DID NOT PLAY
8 Rudolph, 11 Gabbert, 75 Molchon.
INACTIVES
2 Trask, 6 Jones, 35 Dean, 50 Vea, 59 Avery, 78 Wirfs, 94
Nassib.
COMMENTARY CREW Jim Nantz and Tony Romo
NFL RESULTS - WEEK 15
Tampa Bay 23 Cincinnati 34
San Francisco 21 Seattle 13
Minnesota 39 Indianapolis 36
Cleveland 13 Baltimore 3
Buffalo 32 Miami 29
New Orleans 21 Atlanta 18
Pittsburgh 24 Carolina 16
Philadelphia 25 Chicago 20
Kansas City 30 Houston 24
Jacksonville 40 Dallas 34
Detroit 20 NY Jets 17
Denver 24 Arizona 15
Las Vegas 30 New England 24
LA Chargers 17 Tennessee 14
NY Giants 20 Washington 12
Green Bay 24 LA Rams 12
GAME HIGHLIGHTS
Click on the boxes below to view the big plays
Carlton Davis caught a deflected pass for his first interception of the season early on
Russell Gage scored on a 4th down pass from the one-yard line to put the Bucs 10-0 up
Chris Godwin scored on a smoke route play to extend the lead to 17-0