Tampa Bay Buccaneers 23 New Orleans Saints 13 Sunday 2 January 2011 at the Louisiana Superdome TB 9:58-1Q Barth FG43 NO 4:41-1Q Graham 4 pass from Brees (Hartley kick) TB 6:40-2Q Briscoe 2 pass from Freeman (Barth kick) NO 10:30-3Q Hartley FG45 TB 8:01-3Q Barth FG32 TB 2:09-3Q M.Williams 18 pass from Freeman (Barth kick) NO 11:17-4Q Hartley FG38 TB 4:01-4Q Barth FG48 Click on the link to view the video of that play Commentators - Thom Brennaman and Brian Billick INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Blount 19-66, Freeman 4-11, C.Williams 1-7. SAINTS: Bush 9-70, Ivory 7-33, Jones 4-6, Daniel 1-0, Meacham 1-(-3). PASSING BUCS: Freeman 26-21- 255-0-2, Spurlock 1-0-0-0-0. SAINTS: Brees 38-22-196-1-1, Daniel 3-2-16-0-0. RECEIVING BUCS: Briscoe 4-65, M.Williams 4-40, Winslow 3-28, Stovall 2-45, Parker 2-33, Blount 2-2, Lumpkin 1-12, Purvis 1-11, Lorig 1-10, Gilmore 1-9. SAINTS: Arrington 7-79, Moore 6-53, Bush 5-55, Graham 2-15, Jones 2-3, Meacham 1-5, Evans 1-2. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Asante 1-4. SAINTS: none. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Spurlock 3-108. SAINTS: Henderson 6-142. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Spurlock 1-4. SAINTS: Bush 1-7. SACKS BUCS: Miller 1-7, Magee 1-4, Hayes 1-2 SAINTS: Charleston 1-10, Smith 1-9, Brown 1-3. GAME REPORTS AND COMMENTS Roy Cummings reports from the Superdome Joe Henderson knows that more is still to come How Rick Stroud saw the game unfold Gary Shelton offers his opinions on events LeGarrette Blount batters his way to a 1,000-yard season The gamble on 4th down paid off big time for the Bucs And yet more rookies step up to the plate Game notes and anecdotes from the Tampa locker room Scott Smith's detailed game report The official gamebook and play-by-play OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 70 Penn LDE 96 Crowder LG 62 Larsen UT 98 Okam C 76 Zuttah DT 90 Miller RG 73 Hardman RDE 71 Bennett RT 65 Trueblood WLB 54 Hayes WR 19 M Williams MLB 51 Ruud WR 85 Stovall SLB 57 Hayward TE 82 Winslow LCB 31 Biggers TE 88 Gilmore SS 26 Jones RB 27 Blount FS 41 Lynch QB 5 Freeman RCB 20 Barber SUBSTITUTIONS 1 Malone, 10 Barth, 11 J Johnson, 21 Harris, 22 Asante, 23 Lewis, 24 Williams, 28 Lumpkin, 33 Mack, 44 Lorig, 48 Economos, 50 McKenzie, 53 Koutouvides, 56 Watson, 77 Lee, 80 Purvis, 81 Spurlock, 87 Parker, 89 Briscoe, 91 White, 95 Woods, 97 Magee DID NOT PLAY 60 Carter INACTIVE 12 Carpenter, 18 Stroughter, 29 Johnson, 34 Graham, 61 Barker, 67 Johnson, 79 Worthington, 84 Overbay