Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20 Houston Texans 23Sunday 21 December 2019 at Raymond James StadiumNFL NETWORK COMMENTARY CREW Rich Eisen, Joe Thomas and Nate Burleson
GAME SCORINGHOU14:12-1QRoby 27 interception return (Fairbairn kick)HOU11:29-1QFairbairn FG32TB0:56-1QGay FG50HOU9:22-2QHyde 1 run (Fairbairn kick)TB1:57-2QJones 4 run (Gay kick)TB0:13-2QWatson 8 pass from Winston (Gay kick)HOU9:30-3QFairbairn FG25TB1:13-3QGay FG41HOU7:11-4QFairbairn FG37
The turnovers came quick and early in this one, Jameis’ first pass being returned for a touchdown, the next drive being one that set up a fieldgoal and a third before the end of the first quarter. Yet without Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, the Bucs fought back and only went down by a fieldgoal to the Texans. One last drive resulted in another pick whilst Cameron Brate dropped a 4th down reception on the way to a potential clinching fieldgoal attempt.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHINGBUCS: Jones 14-77, Winston 2-16, Barber 5-13.TEXANS: Watson 7-37, Hyde 17-27, Johnson 2-4.PASSINGBUCS: Winston 48-25-335-4-1.TEXANS: Watson 32-19-184-1-0.RECEIVINGBUCS: Perriman 7-102, Watson 5-43, Howard 3-46, Ogunbowale 3-34, Jones 3-32, Brate 2-17, Hyman 1-31, McElroy 1-30.TEXANS: Stills 5-57, Hopkins 5-23, Fells 3-27, Carter 2-44, Fuller 2-11, Johnson 1-12, Hyde 1-10.INTERCEPTIONSBUCS: Dean 1-31.TEXANS: Roby 1-27, Reid 1-18, Addae 1-4, Joseph 1-0.KICK RETURNSBUCS: Ogunbowale 5-74.TEXANS: none.PUNT RETURNSBUCS: Schnell 2-3.TEXANS: Carter 1-10.SACKSBUCS: Pierre-Paul 3-16, Murphy-Bunting 1-7, Nassib 1-0.TEXANS: Mercilus 2-3, Dunn 1-3.
VIDEO CLIPSRonald Jones had the first Buccaneer touchdown of the gameJamel Dean’s interception was part of a wild first halfJustin Watson brought the Bucs level just before half-time