Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20 New Orleans Saints 23 Sunday 1 December 2002 at the Superdome TB 3:17-1Q Safety - ball batted through endzone NO 10:02-2Q McAllister 6 run (two-point run failed) TB 6:41-2Q Alstott 44 pass from BJohnson (Gramatica kick) NO 12:56-3Q Reed 3 pass from Brooks (Carney kick) NO 9:00-3Q Horn 14 pass from Brooks (Carney kick) TB 5:04-3Q Gramatica FG51 NO 10:47-4Q Carney FG48 TB 2:49-4Q McCardell 2 pass from BJohnson (KJohnson pass from BJohnson) INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Alstott 8-17, Pittman 8-17. SAINTS: McAllister 27-99, Brooks 2-5, Delhomme 2-(-2). PASSING BUCS: B.Johnson 44-28-276-1-2. SAINTS: Brooks 25-9-155-0-2, Delhomme 1-1-10-0-0. RECEIVING BUCS: McCardell 11-107, Pittman 6-27, K.Johnson 5-53, Alstott 2-47, Jurevicius 2-18, Cook 1-13, Dilger 1-11. SAINTS: Horn 5-106, Reed 3-43, Stallworth 1-9, McAllister 1-7. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: none. SAINTS: Bellamy 1-14. GAME REPORTS AND COMMENTS Roy Cummings' take on the game Bucs lost turnover battle Over 10,000 Buc fans make the trip Now it's Atlanta up next The one-game cushion is gone NFC playoff race closes up Game notes and anecdotes The game report Post-game quotes The gamebook and the play by play of the game OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 72 Oben LDE 94 Spires LG 71 Jenkins UT 91 Darby C 62 Christy DT 99 Sapp RG 60 Coleman RDE 97 Rice RT 67 Walker LLB 51 Singleton TE 85 Dilger MLB 53 Quarles TE 88 Dudley RLB 55 Brooks WR 87 McCardell LCB 25 Kelly WR 19 Johnson SS 47 Lynch RB 32 Pittman FS 34 Jackson QB 14 Johnson RCB 20 Barber SUBSTITUTIONS 7 Gramatica, 9 Tupa, 23 Phillips, 26 Smith, 27 Stecker, 35 Ivy, 38 Howell, 40 Alstott, 43 Cook, 52 Webster, 58 Golden, 66 Benjamin, 74 Green, 75 Brown, 77 Washington, 80 Yoder, 83 Jurevicius, 86 Williams, 89 Crawford, 90 Gurley, 96 Wyms DID NOT PLAY 10 King, 93 Claybrooks INACTIVE 11 Johnson, 30 Barnes, 31 Wansley, 64 Goodspeed, 81 Lee, 84 Barlow, 92 McFarland, 95 Warner