Tampa Bay Buccaneers 17 Chicago Bears 27 Sunday 17 September 2023 at Raymond James Stadium
FOX COMMENTARY CREW Joe Davis and Darryl Johnston
NFC SOUTH STANDINGS Tampa Bay Buccaneers 2-0 Atlanta Falcons 2-0 New Orleans Saints 2-0 Carolina Panthers 0-2
The Bucs went to a perhaps surprising 2-0 start to the season with a solid all- round performance in their home opener. The offense racked up nearly 450 yards without a turnover and the defense was all over Justin Fields with six sacks. The game-clinching score came when Shaq Barrett picked off a pass deep in Chicago territory and rolled into the endzone . This was only the third time in team history and first since 1994 that the Bucs have had no turnovers in their first two games.
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 78 Wirfs DL 90 Hall LG 71 Feiler NT 50 Vea C 70 Hainsey DL 91 Greene RG 69 Mauch OLB 9 Tryon-Shoyinka RT 67 Goedecke ILB 45 White TE 88 Otton ILB 54 David WR 83 Thompkins OLB 7 Barrett WR 13 Evans CB 27 McCollum WR 14 Godwin CB 35 Dean QB 6 Mayfield S 23 Neal RB 1 White S 31 Winfield PLAYED 0 Diaby, 4 McLaughlin, 5 Camarda, 10 Palmer, 18 Jarrett, 22 Edmonds, 26 Merriweather, 29 Izien, 30 Delaney, 32 Hayes, 38 Pitts, 41 Kieft, 44 Tucker, 49 Gill, 51 Russell, 52 Britt, 77 Skule, 79 O’Connor, 89 Wells, 92 Gholston, 96 Gaines, 97 Triner, 98 Nelson DID NOT PLAY 2 Trask, 60 Leverett, 64 Stinnie INACTIVES 8 Dennis, 21 Vaughn, 24 Davis, 58 Watts, 73 Walton, 87 Durham, 94 Kancey
GAME SCORING TB 9:03-1Q McLaughlin FG26 CHI 6:17-1Q Fields 1 run (Santos kick) TB 10:53-2Q R.White 4 run (McLaughlin kick) CHI 1:55-2Q Santos FG52 TB 0:00-2Q McLaughlin FG25 TB 4:06-3Q Evans 32 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin) CHI 6:17-4Q Claypool 20 pass from Fields (Santos kick) TB 2:03-4Q Barrett 4 interception return (McLaughlin)
GAME REPORTS Bucs move to 2-0 as the defense harasses Justin Fields Who is going to tell rest of the NFL that the Bucs are still winning? Bucs' run game awakens in Sunday's triumph against Bears If this is Mike Evans' finale as a Buc, it gets grander by the week How the Chicago Tribune saw the game unfold for the Bears Scott Smith’s official game report Click here for the play-by-play and the NFL gamebook
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: R.White 17-73, Mayfield 6-17, Edmonds 2-12, Thompkins 1-7, Tucker 8-7. BEARS: Herbert 7-35, Johnson 4-32, Fields 4-3, Jones 1-(-3). PASSING BUCS: Mayfield 34-26-317-0-1. BEARS: Fields 29-16-211-2-1. RECEIVING BUCS: Evans 6-171, Otton 6-41, Godwin 5-58, R.White 5-30, Wells 2- (-10), Palmer 2-1, Jarrett 1-7. BEARS: Moore 6-104, Kmet 4-38, Claypool 3-36, Johnson 2-10, Herbert 1-23. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Barrett 1-4, Izien 1-4. BEARS: none. KICK RETURNS BUCS: none. BEARS: none. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Thompkins 2-7. BEARS: Taylor 0-0. SACKS BUCS: Tryon-Shoyinka 2-21, Vea 1.5-12.5, Gill 1-7, Barrett 1-0, Hall 0.5-1.5. BEARS: none.
NFL RESULTS - WEEK 2 Tampa Bay 27 Chicago 17 Philadelphia 34 Minnesota 28 Indianapolis 31 Houston 20 Buffalo 38 Las Vegas 10 Baltimore 27 Cincinnati 24 Seattle 37 Detroit 31 Kansas City 17 Jacksonville 9 Tennessee 27 LA Chargers 24 Atlanta 25 Green Bay 24 NY Giants 31 Arizona 28 San Francisco 30 LA Rams 23 Dallas 30 NY Jets 10 Washington 35 Denver 33 Miami 24 New England 17 New Orleans 20 Carolina 17 Pittsburgh 26 Cleveland 22
GAME HIGHLIGHTS Click on the boxes below to view the big plays Rachaad White scored from four yards out on third down Mike Evans had a huge game including this touchdown catch Shaq Barrett sealed it with the shortest interception return in Buc history