Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20 New Orleans Saints 17Sunday 27 December 2009 at the SuperdomeFOX COMMENTARY CREWKenny Albert and Darryl Johnston
If the win in Seattle the previous week had been a surprise, this road victory over the 13-1 Saints stunned everybody. The Bucs trailed 17-0 just before half-time, fought back to within seven and then watched as Micheal Spurlock took a punt back for a touchdown to tie the scores with just over two minutes left. And then in overtime, the Bucs turned to Cadillac Williams, who sandwiched 40 yards of rushing gains around an 8-yard scramble by Josh Freeman on a third-and-5 play to set up Connor Barth's 47-yard winning field goal. “It was a well-fought game by a really proud football team," Morris said. "I always knew they had this in them and I've felt all along that they were getting better."
GAME SCORINGNO 6:47-1QThomas 8 run (Hartley kick)NO 1:32-1Q Meachem 30 pass from Brees (Hartley kick)NO 6:39-2Q Hartley FG28TB 0:00-2Q Barth FG34TB 13:14-4Q Williams 23 run (Barth kick)TB 2:25-4Q Spurlock 77 punt return (Barth kick)TB 8:06-OT Barth FG47
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICSRUSHINGBUCS: Williams 24-129, Ward 7-32, Graham 1-8, Freeman 2-7.SAINTS: Thomas 6-60, Hamilton 7-21, Bell 7-20, Bush 2-16, Meachem 1-7.PASSINGBUCS: Freeman 31-21-271-2-0.SAINTS: Brees 37-32-258-0-1.RECEIVINGBUCS: Bryant 5-52, Winslow 4-76, Graham 4-43, Williams 3-19, Stovall 2-47, Clark 1-15, Clayton 1-10, Stevens 1-7.SAINTS: Colston 8-77, Bush 6-37, Meachem 5-66, Henderson 5-35, Thomas 5-25, Hamilton 2-10, Eckel 1-8.INTERCEPTIONSBUCS: none.SAINTS: Sharper 1-21, Porter 1-0.KICK RETURNSBUCS: Spurlock 5-116.SAINTS: Roby 3-65.PUNT RETURNSBUCS: Spurlock 2-80.SAINTS: Bush 1-14.SACKSBUCS: Hayes 1-9.SAINTS: Smith 1-3, Grant 1-3, Hargrove 1-2.
VIDEO CLIPSCadillac Williams’ 23-yard scoring run began the Buc comebackMicheal Spurlock did his thing with a stunning punt return TDConnor Barth then wins it with his second field-goal of the game