Tampa Bay Buccaneers 14 New Orleans Saints 7 Sunday 7 December 2003 at the Superdome NO 1:39-1Q Williams 31 pass from Brooks (Carney kick) TB 1:25-2Q Dilger 14 pass from BJohnson (Gramatica kick) TB 0:12-2Q Sapp 1 pass from BJohnson (Gramatica kick) INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Jones 20-89, Pittman 6-13, Lee 1-8, B.Johnson 2-(-3). SAINTS: McAllister 22-69, L.Smith 1-17, Brooks 1-4. PASSING BUCS: B.Johnson 34-20-213-1-2. SAINTS: Brooks 30-20-238-0-1. RECEIVING BUCS: McCardell 6-85, Lee 5-52, Pittman 3-29, Dilger 2-26, Jones 2-14, Dudley 1-6, Sapp 1-1. SAINTS: Horn 9-118, Williams 4-59, McAllister 3-19, Rasby 2-31, Pathon 1-8, T.Smith 1-3. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: none. SAINTS: Ruff 1-7. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Barlow 1-20, Jones 1-14. SAINTS: Lewis 3-86. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Barlow 2-5. SAINTS: Lewis 4-57. SACKS BUCS: Rice 3-14, McFarland 1-11, Spires 1-0, Brooks 1-0. SAINTS: Smith 1-6. GAME REPORTS AND COMMENTS Roy Cummings' game review Martin Fennelly's award-winning column What Marty Strasen made of it all Thomas Jones rushes to victory Gene Deckerhoff's act wearing thin Simeon leads the defense Game notes and anecdotes The game report The gamebook and the play by play of the game OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 72 Oben LDE 94 Spires LG 71 Jenkins UT 92 McFarland C 76 Wade DT 99 Sapp RG 60 Coleman RDE 97 Rice RT 67 Walker LLB 56 Nece TE 85 Dilger MLB 53 Quarles WR 82 Lee RLB 55 Brooks WR 87 McCardell LCB 26 Smith FB 43 Cook SS 47 Lynch RB 22 Jones FS 23 Phillips QB 14 Johnson RCB 20 Barber SUBSTITUTIONS 3 Shepherd, 7 Gramatica, 9 Tupa, 21 Frost, 27 Stecker, 28 Whitaker, 30 Barnes, 32 Pittman, 34 Gibson, 35 Ivy, 52 Webster, 57 Rudd, 65 Whittle, 66 Benjamin, 80 Yoder, 84 Barlow, 86 K Williams, 88 Dudley, 90 White, 91 Darby, 96 Wyms DID NOT PLAY 10 King, 74 Green INACTIVE 2 Simms, 13 Minnis, 19 Johnson, 28 Robinson, 62 King, 79 Mahan, 81 R Williams, 89 Heller