Tampa Bay Buccaneers 17 St.Louis Rams 19 Sunday 14 September 2014 at Raymond James Stadium
SCORING TB 8:56-1Q McCown 5 run (Murray kick) STL 3:07-1Q Stacy 2 run (Zuerlein kick) STL 0:39-2Q Zuerlein FG36 TB 9:18-3Q McCown 1 run (Murray kick) STL 2:41-3Q Zuerlein FG35 STL 9:10-4Q Zuerlein FG46 TB 5:15-4Q Murray FG36 STL 0:38-4Q Zuerlein FG38
A late fieldgoal gave the Rams victory in Week 2 although a late Buc drive was halted by an injury to Mike Evans that caused a 10-second run-off and left the Bucs out of time at the Ram 32-yard line. “When you end the game that way you have to look at ways to get one more play in,’’ Lovie Smith said. “But again, that’s one play. We had so many other opportunities we didn’t capitalize on.’’
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Rainey 22-144, James 6-7, McCown 2-6. RAMS: Stacy 19-71, Austin 2-21, Cunningham 6-15, Britt 1-12, Davis 1-0. PASSING BUCS: McCown 21-16-179-1-0. RAMS: Davis 29-22-235-0-0. RECEIVING BUCS: Jackson 4-51, Evans 4-49, Rainey 3-30, Myers 2-33, Herron 2-13, Lane 1-3. RAMS: Quick 7-74, Cook 4-46, Pettis 3-46, Kendricks 3-25, Harkey 2-8, Britt 1-17, Givens 1-15, Cunningham 1-4. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: none. RAMS: McLeod 1-0. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Patton 3-71, Owusu 1-45. RAMS: Givens 2-22. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Patton 1-0. RAMS: Austin 1-(-1). SACKS BUCS: McDonald 1-10, Gholston 1-5. RAMS: Gaines 0.5-2, Sims 0.5-2.
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 73 Collins DE 92 Gholston LG 70 Mankins DT 93 McCoy C 62 Dietrich-Smith DT 98 McDonald RG 66 Omameh DE 91 Bowers RT 69 Dotson WLB 54 David TE 82 Myers MLB 59 Foster TE 88 Stocker SLB 52 Casillas WR 83 Jackson LCB 27 Banks WR 13 Evans RCB 21 Verner RB 43 Rainey SS 23 Barron QB 12 McCown FS 38 Goldson PLAYED 7 Murray, 9 Koenen, 10 Herron, 25 James, 26 Butler, 29 Johnson, 30 McDougald, 31 Wright, 37 Tandy, 39 Dixon, 46 Lane , 48 DePaola, 50 Fletcher, 51 Lansanah, 56 Smith, 57 English, 60 Solomon, 72 Gilkey, 75 Cousins, 80 Owusu, 86 Patton, 89 Shepard, 97 Spence DID NOT PLAY 8 Glennon INACTIVE 22 Martin. 28 Melvin, 64 Pamphile, 65 Johnson, 71 Edwards, 87 Seferian-Jenkins, 90 Johnson
COMMENTARY CREW Dick Stockton and Kirk Morrison