For 59 minutes and 51 seconds, more offensive futility. No touchdowns, no life and seemingly no hope. And then a last minute drive led to a one-yard scoring pass from Tom Brady to rookie TE Cade Otton with nine seconds remaining and the season remained alive at 4-5. The defense did its part with four sacks and big stops all day whilst rookie punter Jake Camarda tied the franchise record with a 74-yard kick and had the best average day in franchise history.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: White 8-27, Fournette 9-19, Vaughn 2-4, Godwin 1-1. RAMS: Henderson 12-56, Brown 2-9, Akers 5-3, Kupp 1-1, Stafford 2-(-1). PASSING BUCS: Brady 58-36-280-0-1. RAMS: Stafford 27-13-165-0-1. RECEIVING BUCS: Miller 7-53, Godwin 7-36, Otton 5-68, Fournette 5-41, Evans 5-40, White 3-7, Jones 2-28, Kieft 1-6, Perriman 1-1. RAMS: Kupp 8-127, Robinson 3-24, Brown 1-10, Powell 1-4. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: none. RAMS: none. KICK RETURNS BUCS: White 1-25. RAMS: Powell 3-63. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Darden 8-82. RAMS: Powell 2-12. SACKS BUCS: Vea 2-16, Nunez-Roches 1-9, Avery 1-2. RAMS: Donald 1-8.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 16 Los Angeles Rams 13 Sunday 6 November 2022 at Raymond James Stadium
GAME SCORING TB 3-0 7:16-1Q Succop FG20 LA 3-7 12:57-2Q Kupp 69 pass from Stafford (Gay kick) TB 6-7 0:24-2Q Succop FG38 LA 6-10 9:14-3Q Gay FG26 LA 6-13 0:09-3Q Gay FG35 TB 9-13 8:07-4Q Succop FG50 TB 16-13 0:09-4Q Otton 1 pass from Brady (Succop kick)
GAME REPORTS Brady leads Bucs over Rams with late TD pass to Cade Otton If the Bucs survive the regular season, you’ll want to remember this Replenished Bucs defensive line gets its groove back Tom Brady achieves a six-figure statistic. Is it unprecedented? Punter Jake Camarda wins a game ball for an amazing display How the Los Angeles Times 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 50 Vea C 70 Hainsey OLB 9 Tryon-Shoyinka RG 69 Mason ILB 54 David RT 78 Wirfs ILB 45 White TE 41 Kieft OLB 98 Nelson TE 88 Otton CB 24 Davis WR 13 Evans CB 35 Dean WR 14 Godwin CB 23 Murphy-Bunting QB 12 Brady S 22 Neal RB 7 Fournette S 32 Edwards PLAYED 1 Darden, 3 Succop, 5 Camarda, 6 Jones, 8 Rudolph, 10 Miller, 16 Perriman, 21 Vaughn, 27 McCollum, 29 White, 30 Delaney, 34 Turner, 51 Russell, 53 Fatukasi, 56 Nunez- Roches, 59 Avery, 72 Wells, 79 O’Connor, 90 Hall, 92 Gholston, 94 Nassib, 97 Triner DID NOT PLAY 11 Gabbert, 73 Walton, 75 Molchon, 95 Senat INACTIVES 2 Trask, 17 Gage, 31 Winfield, 67 Goedecke, 84 Brate
GAME HIGHLIGHTS Click on the boxes below to view the big plays Rakeem Nunez-Roches got his first Buccaneer sack at a key moment in the third quarter Jake Camarda was named NFC Special Teams’ Player of the Week And then it was Tom Brady to Cade Otton for the winning score
COMMENTARY CREW Jim Nantz and Tony Romo
NFL RESULTS - WEEK 9 Tampa Bay 16 LA Rams 13 Philadelphia 29 Houston 17 LA Chargers 20 Atlanta 17 Cincinnati 42 Carolina 21 Detroit 15 Green Bay 9 Miami 35 Chicago 32 Jacksonville 27 Las Vegas 20 New England 26 Indianapolis 3 NY Jets 20 Buffalo 17 Minnesota 20 Washington 17 Seattle 31 Arizona 21 Kansas City 20 Tennessee 17 Baltimore 27 New Orleans 13 Bye week: Cleveland, NY Giants, Pittsburgh, Denver, Dallas, SF