Tampa Bay Buccaneers 28 Atlanta Falcons 43 Thursday 3 November 2016 at Raymond James Stadium NBC COMMENTARY CREW Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth
GAME SCORING TB 9:28-1Q Evans 3 pass from Winston (Aguayo kick) ATL 7:29-1Q Toilolo 32 pass from Ryan (Bryant kick) ATL 6:08-1Q Bryant FG29 ATL 13:38-2Q Bryant FG41 TB 8:35-2Q Evans 24 pass from Winston (Aguayo kick) ATL 3:56-2Q Gabriel 9 run (Bryant kick) ATL 8:54-3Q DiMarco 1 pass from Ryan (Bryant kick) ATL 3:02-3Q Jones 3 pass from Ryan (Bryant kick) ATL 9:56-4Q Hooper 2 pass from Ryan (Bryant kick) TB 6:47-4Q Humphries 7 pass from Winston (run failed) ATL 3:42-4Q Bryant FG50 TB 0:59-4Q Brate 2 pass from Glennon (Myers pass from Glennon)
And then it was four home losses in a row. In a nationally- televised Thursday night game, the Bucs simply did not have enough firepower to go up and down the field against the NFL’s No.1 ranked offense and the Tampa defense could not stop Matt Ryan and the Falcons at all. The Bucs put up some nice offensive numbers but the final score came on a garbage time drive after Jameis Winston had left the game injured on a failed two-point conversion. The Bucs started their fourth different running back of the season and had yet another receiver, Russell Shepard, inactive for the game.
GAME REPORTS Rick Stroud’s lead story on the game from The Tampa Bay Times Tom Jones sees a defense gets absolutely shredded Martin Fennelly’s game grades - ranging from D for Dismal Greg Auman’s notes leads with the constantly rotating backfield Scott Smith’s detailed game report Click here for the gamebook and the play-by-play
STARTERS OFFENSE DEFENSE LT 76 Smith LDE 91 Ayers LG 64 Pamphile DT 93 McCoy C 68 Hawley DT 97 Spence RG 74 Marpet RDE 92 Gholston RT 69 Dotson MLB 58 Alexander TE 88 Stocker WLB 54 David WR 10 Shorts SLB 51 Da Smith WR 13 Evans LCB 28 Hargeaves WR 11 Humphries RCB 24 Grimes QB 3 Winston SS 23 Conte RB 43 Barber FS 30 McDougald PLAYED 8 Glennon, 9 Anger, 16 Martino, 19 Aguayo, 21 Vermer, 25 James, 26 Robinson, 29 R Smith, 36 A Smith, 37 Tandy, 38 Adjei- Barimeh, 45 Cross, 48 DePaola, 52 Lynch, 53 Glanton, 57 Spence, 62 E Smith, 67 Hughes, 71 Ward, 75 Lambert, 78 Cherilus, 82 Myers, 84 Brate, 95 Jones INACTIVES 4 Griffin, 22 Martin, 32 Rodgers, 66 Wester, 77 Benenoch, 89 Shepard, 98 McDonald
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING BUCS: Barber 11-31, A Smith 5-25, Winston 2-14, James 1-3. FALCONS: Freeman 17-77, Ward 8-30, Gabriel 2-24, Ridley 3-7, Ryan 2-0, Schaub 2-(-2). PASSING BUCS: Winston 37-23-261-0-3, Glennon 11-10-75-0-1. FALCONS: Ryan 34-25-344-0-4. RECEIVING BUCS: Evans 11-150, Humphries 5-46, Brate 5-43, Barber 4-24, A Smith 3-27, James 3-17, Shorts 1-20, Martino 1-9. FALCONS: Jones 8-111, Sanu 5-74, Gabriel 5-52, Hooper 3-46, Freeman 2-28, Toilolo 1-32, DiMarco 1-1. INTERCEPTIONS BUCS: none. RAIDERS: none. KICK RETURNS BUCS: none. FALCONS: Weems 2-54. PUNT RETURNS BUCS: none. FALCONS: Weems 2-1. SACKS BUCS: Gholston 1-10, McCoy 1-9. FALCONS: Jarrett 2-8, Clayborn 1-5.