Tampa Bay Buccaneers 26 New Orleans Saints 9 Sunday 1 October 2023 at Caesar’s Stadium
FOX COMMENTARY CREW Chris Myers and Robert Smith
NFC SOUTH STANDINGS Tampa Bay Buccaneers 3-1 Atlanta Falcons 2-2 New Orleans Saints 2-2 Carolina Panthers 0-4
The Bucs beat the Saints for the third consecutive time, the first time in franchise history they had done that. They also held New Orleans to under 200 yards for the first time in 63 meetings and relied on three Baker Mayfield touchdown passes to move to 3-1 and the lead in the NFC South division. Antone Winfield was everywhere on defense as the Saints were held without a touchdown. The Bucs lost Mike Evans to a hamstring injury in the first half but the other receivers stepped up.
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 78 Wirfs DL 90 Hall LG 71 Feiler NT 50 Vea C 70 Hainsey OLB 9 Tryon-Shoyinka RG 69 Mauch ILB 54 David RT 67 Goedecke ILB 45 White TE 88 Otton OLB 7 Barrett TE 41 Kieft CB 24 Davis WR 13 Evans CB 27 McCollum WR 14 Godwin S 29 Izien QB 6 Mayfield S 23 Neal RB 1 White S 31 Winfield PLAYED 0 Diaby, 4 McLaughlin, 5 Camarda, 10 Palmer, 16 Isaac, 18 Jarrett, 21 Vaughn, 26 Merriweather, 30 Delaney, 32 Hayes, 44 Tucker, 49 Gill, 51 Russell, 52 Britt, 77 Skule, 79 O’Connor, 83 Thompkins, 89 Wells, 91 Greene, 92 Gholston, 96 Gaines, 97 Triner, 98 Nelson DID NOT PLAY 2 Trask, 60 Leverett, 64 Stinnie INACTIVES 8 Dennis, 35 Dean, 38 Pitts, 58 Watts, 73 Walton, 87 Durham, 94 Kancey
GAME SCORING NO 9:20-1Q Grupe FG37 TB 5:19-2Q Otton 4 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin) TB 0:19-2Q Palmer 1 pass from Mayfield (McLaughlin) NO 0:49-3Q Grupe FG32 TB 13:31-4Q McLaughlin FG51 NO 8:29-4Q Grupe FG44 TB 3:44-4Q Thompkins 5 pass from Mayfield (McL’n) TB 2:34-4Q McLaughlin FG28
GAME REPORTS Bucs stifle Saints to take control of the NFC South Young receivers step up with touchdowns after Mike Evans' injury Baker Mayfield narrowly avoids injury, uses legs to survive Saints Game notes and anecdotes Scott Smith’s official game report Click here for the play-by-play and the NFL gamebook
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: R.White 15-56, Mayfield 8-31, Vaughn 9-16, Thompkins 1- 11. SAINTS: Kamara 11-51, Hill 4-10, Prentice 1-5, Miller 1-3, Carr 2-1. PASSING BUCS: Mayfield 32-25-246-1-3, Godwin 1-0-0-0-0. SAINTS: Carr 37-23-127-0-0, Hill 1-1-13-0-0, Winston 1-0-0-1-0. RECEIVING BUCS: Godwin 8-114, Thompkins 4-45, Evans 3-40, R.White 3-22, Otton 2-13, Palmer 2-6, Vaughn 1-3, Jarrett 1-3. SAINTS: Kamara 13-33, Thomas 4-53, Shaheed 3-33, Hill 1-7, Prentice 1-5, Miller 1-5, Olave 1-4. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Delaney 1-4. SAINTS: Yiadom 1-0. KICK RETURNS BUCS: none. SAINTS: Shaheed 2-39. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Thompkins 1-7. SAINTS: Shaheed 2-45. SACKS BUCS: Vea 2-9, Winfield 1-4. SAINTS: Bresee 1-7.
NFL RESULTS - WEEK 4 Tampa Bay 26 New Orleans 9 Detroit 34 Green Bay 20 Buffalo 48 Miami 20 Jacksonville 23 Atlanta 7 Minnesota 21 Carolina 13 Denver 31 Chicago 28 Baltimore 28 Cleveland 3 Houston 30 Pittsburgh 6 LA Rams 29 Indianapolis 23 Philadelphia 34 Washington 31 Tennessee 27 Cincinnati 3 LA Chargers 24 Las Vegas 17 Dallas 38 New England 3 San Francisco 35 Arizona 16 Kansas City 23 NY Jets 20 Seattle 24 NY Giants 3
GAME HIGHLIGHTS Click on the boxes below to view the big plays Cade Otton walked into the endzone from close range for the first score A jump ball to the corner of the endzone was the way Trey Palmer scored Baker Mayfield had all kinds of time before finding Deven Thompkins