Tampa Bay Buccaneers 3 New Orleans Saints 9 Sunday 25 October 1998 at the Superdome NO 10:22-2Q Brien FG46 TB 12:31-3Q Husted FG52 NO 9:15-3Q Brien FG50 NO 7:15-4Q Brien FG41 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Dunn 11-46, Alstott 7-12. SAINTS: Davis 18-48, Craver 4-12, Hastings 1-2, Zellers 2-1, Toliver 2-(-7). PASSING BUCS: Dilfer 44-20-186-2-0. SAINTS: Toliver 32-20-216-0-0. RECEIVING BUCS: Emanuel 6-86, Dunn 5-27, Moore 4-19, Anthony 3-49, Hape 1-5, Green 1-0. SAINTS: Davis 5-34, Craver 5-30, Cleeland 4-55, Dawkins 3-27, Poole 2-64, Hastings 1-6. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: none. SAINTS: Knight 1-26, Cota 1-3. GAME REPORT From zero to hero. Trent Dilfer led a fourth quarter comeback with two late drives and finished the game off with a 29-yard TD strike to a leaping Karl Williams in the right corner of the endzone. What a dreadful exercise in offensive futility. Trent had two TD passes dropped, Patrick Hape fumbled inside the Saints' 5-yard line and Michael Husted missed two fieldgoals. "This was a slap in the face" said guard Jorge Diaz. "It was a reality check." Rick Stroud reports from the Superdome Now the offense REALLY stinks up the joint Loss follows the bouncing ball OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 74 Gruber LDE 97 Jackson LG 64 Diaz UT 77 Culpepper C 61 Mayberry DT 99 Sapp RG 73 Middleton RDE 91 Upshaw RT 70 Odom LLB 50 Gooch TE 83 Moore MLB 56 Nickerson WR 87 Emanuel RLB 55 Brooks WR 85 Anthony LCB 20 Barber FB 40 Alstott SS 47 Lynch RB 28 Dunn FS 22 Mincy QB 12 Dilfer RCB 27 Parker SUBSTITUTIONS 5 Husted, 6 Barnhardt, 23 Bouie, 24 Robinson, 25 Kelly, 31 Young, 37 Ellison, 41 Neal, 51 Singleton, 53 Quarles, 54 Palmer, 59 Duncan, 69 Pierson, 71 Wunsch, 78 Jones, 80 Davis, 81 Green, 82 Hape, 86 Williams, 90 Maniecki, 94 White DID NOT PLAY 4 Walsh, 65 Dogins INACTIVE 13 Milanovich, 21 Abraham, 26 Abdullah, 72 Ahanotu, 75 Washington, 84 Thomas, 88 Hunter, 98 Cannida