Buccaneers vs. Houston Oilers

LOSS - Tampa Bay Buccaneers 07 Houston Oilers 19

The Buccaneers were held to a season-low 155 yards against the Oilers.

The Oilers offense controlled our defense for 34 plays and 18:50 on just two field-goal drives in the first half. By halftime, the Oilers offense controlled time of possesion was 21:11 compaied to the Buccaneers 8:49.

The defense also allowed Houston to convert 9 of 16 third downs. "Anyone who looks at this game and thinks the defense did their job, I think they're fooling themselves," safety John Lynch said. "We didn't do what we needed to do. They grinded the ball on us at will. They outplayed us. We had bad tackles - I made a bad tackle on my part. It just wasn't a good day for us."

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GAMEDAY BRIEF

OFFICALS

• REFEREE: Dick Hantak
• UMPIRE: Hendi Ancich
• LINE JUDGE: Lloyd McPeters
• SIDE JUDGE: Howard Slavin
• HEAD LINESMAN: Bob McGrath
• BACK JUDGE: Scott Steenson
• FIELD JUDGE: Don Carey
• VIDEO REPLAY OFFICAL: not documented

SCORING

• OILERS: 05:27-1Q Del Greco FG19
• OILERS: 01:52-1Q Del Greco FG45
• BUCCANEERS: 10:42-2Q Dilfer 21 run (Husted kick)
• OILERS: 01:25-2Q Del Greco FG41
• OILERS: 00:26-3Q Butts 4 run (Del Greco kick)
• OILERS: 00:21-4Q Del Greco FG39

STARTERS OFFENSE

• WR: #82 A. Harper
• LT: #74 P. Gruber
• LG: #60 J. Pync
• C: #61 T. Mayberry
• RG: #70 C. McRae
• RT: #76 S. Dill
• TE: #81 J. Harris
• WR: #80 L. Dawsey
• QB: #12 T. Dilfer
• RB: #32 E. Rhett
• TE: #83 D. Moore

STARTERS DEFENSE

• LE: #72 C. Ahanotu
• LT: #77 M. Wheeler
• RT: #71 S. Dotson
• RE: #75 E. Curry
• LLB: #51 L. Marts
• MLB: #56 H. Nickerson
• RLB: #55 D. Brooks
• LCB: #35 M. Mayhey
• RCB: #39 C. Dimry
• SS: #47 J. Lynch
• FS: #22 T. Everett

SUBSTITUTIONS

• 1 Roby, 5 Husted, 11 Weldon, 21 McGruder, 23 Bouie, 25 Johnson, 27 Bussey, 28 Buckley, 29 Gant, 37 Ellison, 41 Edmonds, 45 Stargell, 52 Rouse, 53 Brady, 67 Sullivan, 69 Pierson, 73 Culpepper, 85 Hawkins, 86 Armstrong, 88 Copeland, 93 DuBose, 94 McIntosh, 99 Sapp

DID NOT PLAY

• none.

INACTIVE

• 15 Philcox, 26 Abraham, 44 Booty, 54 Stephens, 62 Beckles, 65 Ingram, 87 Thomas, 95 Powe

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING

• BUCCANEERS: Rhett 13-37, Dilfer 2-25, Ellison 1-21, Hawkins 1-11
• OILERS: Thomas 23-89, Butts 14-35, McNair 1-8, Chandler 3-0, Sanders 1-(-13).

PASSING

• BUCCANEERS: Dilfer 23-10-82-3-0.
• OILERS: Chandler 29-19-167-0-0.

RECIEVING

• BUCCANEERS: Dawsey 4-32, J Harris 2-36, Moore 2-6, Hawkins 1-5, Harper 1-3.
• OILERS: McNair 6-65, Wycheck 4-27, Seabron 3-24, Jeffires 2-25, Sanders 2-16, Lewis 1-6, Thomas 1-4.

INTERCEPTIONS

• BUCCANEERS: none.
• OILERS: Dishman 2-17, Harris 1-0.

KICK RETURNS

• BUCCANEERS: Edmonds 5-65.
• OILERS: Armstrong 1-6.

PUNT RETURNS

• BUCCANEERS: Edmonds 1-6.
• OILERS: Gray 2-22.

SACKS

• BUCCANEERS: Culpepper 1-10, Dotson 1-1.
• OILERS: Walker 1-9, Robinson 1-6, Bishop 0.5-3.5, Cook 0.5-2.5.

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