Tampa Bay Buccaneers 35 San Francisco 49ers 3 Sunday 21 November 2004 at Raymond James Stadium
SCORING TB 11:43-1Q Pittman 14 run (Gramatica kick) TB 8:48-2Q Jurevicius 9 pass from Griese (Gramatica kick) TB 0:14-2Q Jurevicius 42 pass from Griese (Gramatica kick) TB 9:55-3Q Pittman 6 run (Gramatica kick) SF 2:13-3Q Peterson FG47 TB 8:13-4Q Cox 55 interception return (Gramatica kick)
GAME REPORTS Roy Cummings' game review Martin Fennelly's award-winning column What Rick Stroud thought of the win Joey Johnston's Monday morning column Torrie Cox has a memorable day John Romano's Gimme Five column Dwight Smith shines in the secondary What the San Francisco press had to say Here come the offensive playmakers Can we say the dreaded P word (playoffs?) Game notes and anecdotes The game report The gamebook and play-by-play of the game
This one was not close. The 49ers were a poor 1-9 team and got it handed to them on both sides of the ball. A pair of touchdown passes from Brian Griese to Joe Jurevicius and a pair of Michael Pittman TD runs to go with his 100-yard game put the Bucs out of sight early in the third quarter. Torrie Cox’s pick six was the icing on the cake and brough some temporary smiles to fans, players and coaches alike.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Pittman 21-106, Graham 4-27, Alstott 7-21, Griese 3-5. 49ERS: Hicks 7-36, Barlow 14-30, Rattay 2-6. PASSING BUCS: Griese 21-15-210-2-2. 49ERS: Rattay 31-15-147-1-0. RECEIVING BUCS: Jurevicius 5-82, Clayton 4-66, Galloway 3-33, Heller 1-13, Cook 1-9, Dilger 1-7. 49ERS: Barlow 5-14, Hicks 3-37, Jackson 2-31, Woods 1-32, Johnson 1-9, Ware 1-9, Wilson 1-8, Lloyd 1-7. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Cox 1-55. 49ERS: Parrish 2-39. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Cox 1-18, Graham 1-18. 49ERS: Hicks 2-50. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Galloway 3-16. 49ERS: Battle 2-11. SACKS BUCS: Ahanotu 1-6, Brooks 1-6, Barber 1-4, Bradley 1-0, Gooch 0.5-3, White 0.5-3. 49ERS: Carpenter 1-10, Cooper 1-7.
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 70 Deese DE 94 Spires LG 78 Stinchcomb DT 95 Ahanotu C 79 Mahan DT 91 Darby RG 60 Coleman DE 97 Rice RT 67 Walker LLB 52 Gold TE 85 Dilger MLB 53 Quarles WR 84 Galloway RLB 55 Brooks WR 80 Clayton LCB 25 Kelly FB 43 Cook RCB 20 Barber RB 32 Pittman SS 26 Smith QB 8 Griese FS 38 Howell PLAYED 2 Simms, 9 Bidwell, 10 Gramatica, 24 Cox, 27 Edwards, 28 Jackson, 35 Ivy, 37 Allen, 40 Alstott, 50 Gooch, 51 Burns, 56 Nece, 58 Cooper, 73 Bradley, 75 Steussie, 77 Terry, 81 Brown, 83 Jurevicius, 86 Moore, 89 Heller, 90 White, 98 Smith INACTIVES 11 Schroeder, 14 Johnson, 23 Phillips, 34 Comella, 69 Davis, 82 Lee, 92 McFarland, 93 Savage
COMMENTARY CREW Ron Pitts and Tim Ryan