Tampa Bay Buccaneers 10 Dallas Cowboys 38 Thursday 23 November 2006 at Texas Stadium
SCORING TB 9:18-1Q Alstott 1 run (Bryant kick) DAL 1:09-1Q Glenn 30 pass from Romo (Vanderjagt kick) DAL 11:33-2Q Glenn 2 pass from Romo (Vanderjagt kick) TB 6:38-2Q Bryant FG46 DAL 0:30-2Q Barber 1 pass from Romo (Vanderjagt kick) DAL 9:55-3Q Barber 1 pass from Romo (Vanderjagt kick) DAL 6:30-3Q Owens 7 pass from Romo (Vanderjagt kick) DAL 10:00-4Q Vanderjagt FG22
Facing a short week and playing in their first Thanksgiving game, the Bucs jumped out to an early lead scoring on their first drive and then got carved up like turkeys for the rest of the game. Tony Romo threw five touchdown passes as playing their third game in just 11 days took its effect on the Tampa defense.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Williams 17-78, Gradkowski 4-17, Alstott 2-4, Pittman 1-2. COWBOYS: Barber 16-83, Jones 11-40, Polite 7-18, Romo 3-(-4). PASSING BUCS: Gradkowski 20-10-120-2-0. COWBOYS: Romo 29-22-306-0-5. RECEIVING BUCS: Galloway 3-71, Clayton 2-19, Pittman 2-19, Alstott 1-4, Graham 1-4, Hilliard 1-3. COWBOYS: Owens 8-107, Glenn 4-89, Crayton 4-68, Witten 3-30, Barber 2-3, Fasano 1-9. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: Williams 1-27, Ayodele 1-0. COWBOYS: none. KICK RETURNS BUCS: Pittman 4-97, Cox 2-38. COWBOYS: Austin 3-76. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: Hilliard 1-9. COWBOYS: Newman 1-24. SACKS BUCS: Hovan 1-8. COWBOYS: Hatcher 1-10.
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 69 Davis DE 94 Spires LG 72 Buenning DT 95 Hovan C 76 Wade DT 98 Bradley RG 75 Joseph DE 90 White RT 65 Trueblood MLB 51 Ruud TE 88 Becht RLB 55 Brooks WR 80 Clayton DB 27 Cox WR 84 Galloway LCB 21 Bolden RB 40 Alstott RCB 20 Barber RB 24 Williams SS 23 Phillips QB 7 Gradkowski FS 37 Allen PLAYED 3 Bryant, 9 Bidwell, 19 Hilliard, 31 Buchanon, 32 Pittman, 33 Sowell, 34 Graham, 39 Pearson, 46 Adams, 50 Winborn, 52 Cash, 54 Mallard, 56 Nece, 71 Haye, 74 Green, 77 Terry, 79 Mahan, 83 Moore, 85 Stovall, 86 Jolley, 91 Jenkins, 93 Bennett DID NOT PLAY 13 Rattay INACTIVES 12 McCown, 29 Zemaitis, 53 Quarles, 70 Penn, 81 Smith, 82 Warren, 96 Wyms
COMMENTARY CREW Joe Buck and Troy Aikman
GAME REPORTS Roy Cummings reports from Texas Stadium Martin Fennelly on the grassy knoll in Dallas The Bucs' road woes continues - 0-5 now away from Tampa Game notes and anecdotes from Thanksgiving The game report from Dallas The gamebook and the play-by-play from the game