Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20 Carolina Panthers 14 Thursday 12 September 2019 at Bank of America StadiumFOX COMMENTARY CREW Joe Buck and Troy Aikman
GAME SCORINGTB5:36-1QGay FG40CAR2:52-1QSlye FG32CAR8:26-2QSlye FG37TB1:20-2QGodwin 20 pass from Winston (Gay kick)CAR0:00-2QSlye FG54CAR7:51-3QSlye FG51TB4:20-3QBarber 16 run (Gay kick)CAR13:21-4QSafety - Barber tackled in endzoneTB2:26-4QGay FG32
The Bucs earned their first win of the season and the first for Bruce Arians as head coach of the team with a nationally televised Thursday night win in Charlotte. It was a series of big defensive plays no bigger than Vernon Hargreaves’ 4th down stop in the final two minutes that led the victory although the offense played turnover-free football and Jameis Winston threw a scoring pass to Chris Godwin.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHINGBUCS: Barber 23-82, Jones 4-9, Winston 4-9.PANTHERS: McCaffrey 16-37, Samuel 1-2, Newton 2-0.PASSINGBUCS: Winston 25-16-208-0-1.PANTHERS: Newton 51-25-333-0-0.RECEIVINGBUCS: Godwin 8-121, Evans 4-61, Brate 2-10, Ogunbowale 1-9, Barber 1-7.PANTHERS: Moore 9-89, Olsen 6-110, Samuel 5-91, McCaffrey 2-16, Wright 2-15, Hogan 1-12.INTERCEPTIONSBUCS: none.PANTHERS: none.KICK RETURNSBUCS: none.PANTHERS: Hogan 1-21.PUNT RETURNSBUCS: Wilson 3-21.PANTHERS: McCloud 4-39.SACKSBUCS: Barrett 3-20.PANTHERS: Poe 1-9, Burns 1-0, Addison 0.5-5, Carter 0.5-5.
VIDEO CLIPSChris Godwin scored his second touchdown in as many weeksPeyton Barber’s 16-yard score put the Bucs ahead to stayit came down to Vernon Hargreaves’ game-saving tackle