Tampa Bay Buccaneers 16 New Orleans Saints 11
Sunday 11 December 2016 at Raymond James Stadium
SCORING
TB
8:04-1Q
Aguayo FG 41
TB
14:50-2Q
Martin 1 run (Aguayo kick)
TB
8:26-2Q
Aguayo FG39
NO
5:29-2Q
Lutz FG42
NO
5:20-2Q
Safety - Martin tackled in endzone
NO
0:00-2Q
Lutz FG34
NO
3:35-3Q
Lutz FG22
TB
12:46-4Q
Aguayo FG26
Another home game, another team kept out of the endzone and the winning streak went to five. Once again, it was
not a totally all-round dominating performance as after the Bucs had jumped out to a 13-0 lead, the offense went cold
for much of the rest of the game but left the defense to preserve the victory with big stops and three interceptions of
Drew Brees. The final pick came once more from Keith Tandy, the second straight week he had sealed victory with an
interception. This was the first game in Jameis Winston’s pro or college career in which he did not account for a
touchdown of any kind.
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
RUSHING
BUCS: Martin 23-66, Sims 4-17, Winston 5-16, Huff 1-5, Rodgers 1-0.
SAINTS: Hightower 6-31, Ingram 7-14, Brees 1-2, Kuhn 1-0, Cadet 1-(-
1).
PASSING
BUCS: Winston 26-18-184-0-0.
SAINTS: Brees 41-25-257-3-0.
RECEIVING
BUCS: Brate 4-47, Evans 4-42, Sims 3-33, Martin 2-19, Shepard 1-17,
Huff 1-17, Myers 1-9.
SAINTS: Snead 6-85, Cooks 5-61, Coleman 5-47, Cadet 4-30, Ingram
1-9, Hightower 1-8, Phillips 1-8, Fleener 1-6, Kuhn 1-3.
INTERCEPTIONS
BUCS: Grimes 1-5, Hargreaves 1-0, Tandy 1-0.
SAINTS: none.
KICK RETURNS
BUCS: Huff 1-0.
SAINTS: Lewis 1-19.
PUNT RETURNS
BUCS: Hargreaves 3-15,
SAINTS: Lewis 1-6.
SACKS
BUCS: Ayers 1-9.
SAINTS: Fairley 1-7, Jordan 0.5-5.5, Bell 0.5-5.5.
STARTERS
OFFENSE
DEFENSE
LT
76 Smith
LDE
91 Ayers
LG
64 Pamphile
DT
93 McCoy
C
68 Hawley
DT
98 McDonald
RG
74 Marpet
RDE
92 Gholston
RT
78 Cherilus
MLB
58 Alexander
TE
82 Myers
WLB
54 David
TE
84 Brate
SLB
51 Smith
WR
89 Shepard
LCB
28 Hargeaves
WR
13 Evans
RCB
24 Grimes
QB
3 Winston
SS
37 Tandy
RB
22 Martin
FS
30 McDougald
PLAYED
9 Anger, 15 Huff, 16 Martino, 17 Dye, 19 Aguayo, 21 Verner,
26 Robinson, 29 R Smith, 31 Wright, 32 Rodgers, 34 Sims, 35
Elliott, 43 Barber, 45 Cross, 48 DePaola, 52 Lynch, 53
Glanton, 57 Spence, 62 Smith, 66 Wester, 70 Siliga, 96
Russell, 97 Spence
DID NOT PLAY
8 Glennon
INACTIVES
4 Griffin, 11 Humphries, 23 Conte, 69 Dotson, 75 Lambert, 77
Benenoch, 88 Stocker
COMMENTARY CREW
Thom Brennaman, Chris Davis and Chris Spielman
GAME REPORTS
Rick Stroud’s lead story on the game from The Tampa Bay Times
Tom Jones reports on a day when the punter was one of the stars
Game grades - more top marks being handed out to the Buccaneers
Greg Auman’s notes column leads with the end of Jameis’ streak
The defense kept the Saints out of the endzone all day long
Scott Smith’s detailed game report
Click here for the gamebook and the play-by-play
GAME HIGHLIGHTS Click on the boxes below to view the clips
Doug Martin scores the first Buccaneer touchdown on a cut back and dive over the left side
The punt team produced one of the plays of the season to down a ball inside the one-yard line
For the second week in a row, Keith Tandy intercepted a pass to seal a Buccaneer victory