Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20 Indianapolis Colts 27 Sunday 26 November 2023 at Lucas Oil Stadium
CBS COMMENTARY CREW Spero Dedes and Adam Archuleta
NFC SOUTH STANDINGS Atlanta Falcons 5-6 New Orleans Saints 5-6 Tampa Bay Buccaneers 4-7 Carolina Panthers 1-10
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 78 Wirfs DL 94 Kancey LG 64 Stinnie NT 50 Vea C 70 Hainsey OLB 7 Barrett RG 69 Mauch OLB 0 Diaby RT 67 Goedecke ILB 52 Britt TE 88 Otton ILB 51 Russell TE 87 Durham CB 24 Davis WR 13 Evans CB 27 McCollum WR 14 Godwin CB 29 Izien QB 6 Mayfield S 30 Delaney RB 1 White S 31 Winfield PLAYED 4 McLaughlin, 5 Camarda, 9 Tryon-Shoyinka, 10 Palmer, 19 Moore, 22 Edmonds, 23 Neal, 26 Merriweather, 32 Hayes, 41 Kieft, 44 Tucker, 49 Gill, 58 Watts, 60 Leverett, 71 Feiler, 77 Skule, 79 O’Connor, 81 Miller, 83 Thompkins, 90 Hall, 92 Gholston, 96 Gaines, 97 Triner, 98 Nelson DID NOT PLAY 2 Trask, 16 Isaac INACTIVES 8 Dennis, 11 Wolford, 21 Vaughn, 35 Dean, 45 White, 54 David, 73 Walton
The Bucs lost their sixth game in seven with another disappointing road loss. Lapses on both sides of the ball cost them and a final lost fumble by Baker Mayfield inside the last two minutes sealed their fate. Mike Evans had a pair of TD receptions but there were too many drops and six sacks stopped potential scoring drives. Rachaad White had the first 100-yard rushing game of the year and only the third in the past two years as the ground game had its best performance.
GAME SCORING TB 7:28-1Q McLaughlin FG21 IND 3:01-1Q Gay FG46 IND 0:11-1Q Taylor 4 run (Gay kick) IND 9:36-2Q Minshew 2 run (Gay kick) TB 5:08-2Q Evans 1 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin) IND 10:01-3Q Gay FG36 TB 12:50-4Q Evans 23 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin) IND 7:30-4Q Taylor 1 run (Gay kick) TB 4:10-4Q McLaughlin FG24
GAME REPORTS Bucs' comeback falls short after Mayfield's late fumble vs. Colts Devin White's foot injury costs Bucs a touchdown in loss to Colts With 2 TD receptions, Mike Evans closing in on 100 for career How the Indianapolis Star saw the game unfold Scott Smith’s official game report Click here for the play-by-play and the NFL gamebook
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: R.White 15-100, Mayfield 3-14, Edmonds 1-11. COLTS: Taylor 15-91, Moss 8-55, Minshew 3-6, McKenzie 1-3. PASSING BUCS: Mayfield 30-20-199-1-2, Trask 1-0-0-0-0. COLTS: Minshew 41-24-251-1-0. RECEIVING BUCS: Evans 6-70, Otton 4-45, Palmer 4-17, Godwin 3-45, R.White 2-10, Durham 1-12. COLTS: Pittman 10-107, Downs 5-43, Pierce 4-27, Mallory 2-29, Moss 2-15, Allie-Cox 1-30. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Davis 1-3. COLTS: Harrison 1-9. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Thompkins 0-0. COLTS: McKenzie 0-0. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Thompkins 0-0. COLTS: McKenzie 1-13. SACKS BUCS: Tryon-Shoyinka 1-9, Kancey 1-3. COLTS: Ebukam 2-12, Lewis 1-6.5, Paye 1-1, Land 1-0, Adebawore 0.5-3.5, Odeyingbo 0.5-3.
NFL RESULTS - WEEK 12 Tampa Bay 20 Indianapolis 27 Green Bay 29 Detroit 22 Dallas 45 Washington 10 San Francisco 31 Seattle 13 Miami 34 NY Jets 13 Atlanta 24 New Orleans 15 Pittsburgh 16 Cincinnati 10 Jacksonville 24 Houston 21 NY Giants 10 New England 7 Tennessee 17 Carolina 10 LA Rams 37 Arizona 14 Denver 29 Cleveland 12 Kansas City 31 Las Vegas 17 Philadelphia 37 Buffalo 34 Baltimore 20 LA Chargers 10 Chicago 12 Minnesota 10
GAME HIGHLIGHTS Click on the boxes below to view the big plays Carlton Davis had the first interception by a starting cornerback all season Which set up Mike Evans’ first score of the game A 4th down conversion led to the second one in the fourth quarter