Tampa Bay Buccaneers 16 New Orleans Saints 11 Sunday 11 December 2016 at Raymond James Stadium FOX COMMENTARY CREW Thom Brennaman, Charles Davis and Chris Spielman
GAME SCORING TB 8:04-1Q Aguayo FG 41 TB 14:50-2Q Martin 1 run (Aguayo kick) TB 8:26-2Q Aguayo FG39 NO 5:29-2Q Lutz FG42 NO 5:20-2Q Safety - Martin tackled in endzone NO 0:00-2Q Lutz FG34 NO 3:35-3Q Lutz FG22 TB 12:46-4Q Aguayo FG26
Another home game, another team kept out of the endzone and the winning streak went to five. Once again, it was not a totally all-round dominating performance as after the Bucs had jumped out to a 13-0 lead, the offense went cold for much of the rest of the game but left the defense to preserve the victory with big stops and three interceptions of Drew Brees. The final pick came once more from Keith Tandy, the second straight week he had sealed victory with an interception. This was the first game in Jameis Winston’s pro or college career in which he did not account for a touchdown of any kind.
GAME REPORTS Rick Stroud’s lead story on the game from The Tampa Bay Times Tom Jones reports on a day when the punter was one of the stars Game grades - more top marks being handed out to the Buccaneers Greg Auman’s notes column leads with the end of Jameis’ streak The defense kept the Saints out of the endzone all day long Scott Smith’s detailed game report Click here for the gamebook and the play-by-play
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 76 Smith LDE 91 Ayers LG 64 Pamphile DT 93 McCoy C 68 Hawley DT 98 McDonald RG 74 Marpet RDE 92 Gholston RT 78 Cherilus MLB 58 Alexander TE 82 Myers WLB 54 David TE 84 Brate SLB 51 Smith WR 89 Shepard LCB 28 Hargeaves WR 13 Evans RCB 24 Grimes QB 3 Winston SS 37 Tandy RB 22 Martin FS 30 McDougald PLAYED 9 Anger, 15 Huff, 16 Martino, 17 Dye, 19 Aguayo, 21 Verner, 26 Robinson, 29 R Smith, 31 Wright, 32 Rodgers, 34 Sims, 35 Elliott, 43 Barber, 45 Cross, 48 DePaola, 52 Lynch, 53 Glanton, 57 Spence, 62 Smith, 66 Wester, 70 Siliga, 96 Russell, 97 Spence DID NOT PLAY 8 Glennon INACTIVES 4 Griffin, 11 Humphries, 23 Conte, 69 Dotson, 75 Lambert, 77 Benenoch, 88 Stocker
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Martin 23-66, Sims 4-17, Winston 5-16, Huff 1-5, Rodgers 1-0. SAINTS: Hightower 6-31, Ingram 7-14, Brees 1-2, Kuhn 1-0, Cadet 1-(-1). PASSING BUCS: Winston 26-18-184-0-0. SAINTS: Brees 41-25-257-3-0. RECEIVING BUCS: Brate 4-47, Evans 4-42, Sims 3-33, Martin 2-19, Shepard 1-17, Huff 1- 17, Myers 1-9. SAINTS: Snead 6-85, Cooks 5-61, Coleman 5-47, Cadet 4-30, Ingram 1-9, Hightower 1-8, Phillips 1-8, Fleener 1-6, Kuhn 1-3. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Grimes 1-5, Hargreaves 1-0, Tandy 1-0. SAINTS: none. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Huff 1-0. SAINTS: Lewis 1-19. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Hargreaves 3-15, SAINTS: Lewis 1-6. SACKS BUCS: Ayers 1-9. SAINTS: Fairley 1-7, Jordan 0.5-5.5, Bell 0.5-5.5.