Tampa Bay Buccaneers 34 Atlanta Falcons 10
Sunday 8 December 2002 at Raymond James Stadium
FOX COMMENTARY CREW Joe Buck, Troy Aikman and Cris Collinsworth
All the talk around the NFL the previous month had been the
stellar play of Michael Vick. Then he came to Tampa and once
again found himself under siege, nowhere to run and totally at
the mercy of the No.1 defense in the league. The Falcons
were held to under 200 yards of total offense and thanks to a
trio of first-half touchdown passes from Brad Johnson, swept in
the season series by the Bucs. Johnson finished with four
scoring strikes, two each to Joe Jurevicius and Keenan
McCardell. The Bucs also moved to within a game of clinching
a playoff berth and also remained a game ahead of the Saints
at 10-3 in the NFC South Division.
GAME SCORING
TB
11:12-2Q
Jurevicius 10 pass from B.Johnson (Gramatica kick)
TB
7:42-2Q
Jurevicius 13 pass from B.Johnson (Gramatica kick)
ATL
2:02-2Q
Feely FG30
TB
0:34-2Q
McCardell 14 pass from B.Johnson (Gramatica kick)
TB
9:56-3Q
Gramatica FG42
TB
5:20-3Q
Gramatica FG21
ATL
11:40-4Q
Crumpler 5 pass from Vick (Feely kick)
TB
8:31-4Q
McCardell 27 pass from B.Johnson (Gramatica kick)
GAME REPORTS
Roy Cummings' take on the game
Martin Fennelly's award-winning column
The surprise offensive star
Not quite a playoff berth yet
Vick comes back to earth
Paul Tagliabue was at the game
What the losers had to say
Game notes and anecdotes
The game report
The gamebook and the play by play of the game
STARTERS
OFFENSE
DEFENSE
LT
72 Oben
LDE
94 Spires
LG
71 Jenkins
UT
92 McFarland
C
62 Christy
DT
99 Sapp
RG
60 Coleman
RDE
97 Rice
RT
67 Walker
LLB
51 Singleton
TE
85 Dilger
MLB
53 Quarles
WR
19 Johnson
RLB
55 Brooks
WR
87 McCardell
LCB
25 Kelly
FB
40 Alstott
SS
47 Lynch
RB
32 Pittman
FS
34 Jackson
QB
14 Johnson
RCB
20 Barber
PLAYED
7 Gramatica, 9 Tupa, 10 King, 23 Phillips, 26 Smith, 27 Stecker, 30
Barnes, 35 Ivy, 38 Howell, 43 Cook, 52 Webster, 58 Golden, 66
Benjamin, 74 Green, 75 Brown, 77 Washington, 80 Yoder, 83
Jurevicius, 86 Williams, 88 Dudley, 90 Gurley, 91 Darby, 95 Warner
INACTIVE
11 Johnson, 31 Wansley, 64 Goodspeed, 81 Lee, 84 Barlow, 89
Crawford, 93 Claybrooks, 96 Wyms
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING
BUCS: Alstott 13-95, Stecker 4-30, Pittman 9-25, King 1-2, Williams 2-(-2).
FALCONS: Duckett 13-47, Vick 6-9, Christian 4-6.
PASSING
BUCS: B.Johnson 31-23-276-0-4.
FALCONS: Vick 25-12-125-1-1.
RECEIVING
BUCS: Jurevicius 8-100, Pittman 4-50, McCardell 4-49, Dilger 3-18,
K.Johnson 2-25, Dudley 1-31, Cook 1-3.
FALCONS: Kelly 2-25, Crumpler 2-25, Jefferson 2-11, Duckett 2-11, Finneran
2-3, Gaylor 1-47, Christian 1-3.
INTERCEPTIONS
BUCS: Jackson 1-21.
FALCONS: none.
KICK RETURNS
BUCS: Stecker 2-45.
FALCONS: Rossum 6-103.
PUNT RETURNS
BUCS: Williams 1-12.
FALCONS: Rossum 3-37.
SACKS
BUCS: Spires 1-6.
FALCONS: Kerney 1-5.
VIDEO CLI{S Click on the boxes for the main plays from the game
This was Joe Jurevicius’ big game with his first 100-yard game
And then he added another one later in the first half
Keenan McCardell had a pair of scores