Sunday November 22, 2009 - New Orleans Saints vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers Gameday Report

LOSS - Tampa Bay Buccaneers 07 New Orleans Saints 38

Buccaneers home game loss to division rivals New Orleans.

Rookie QB Josh Freeman led the Buccaneers on an opening 95-yard drive with a scoring pass to Michael Clayton. Freeman threw three picks and a fumble as the Saints scored 38 unanswered points in the Buccaneers home turf. "He was just off as a thrower," Raheem Morris said of Freeman. "He was never able to get into a rhythm. He just didn't have it."

The Saints remained undefeated on the season and controlled the entire second half as the Buccaneers defense was unable to record a sack, turnover or change the games direction.

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GAMEDAY BRIEF

WEATHER: Cloudy - 79°F. - Humidity 78% - Wind S.E. 8-12 mph Wind Chill 82°F.

OFFICALS

REFEREE: Walt Coleman
UMPIRE: Jeff Rice
HEAD LINESMAN: Julian Mapp
LINE JUDGE: Jeff Bergman
SIDE JUDGE: Rick Patterson
BACK JUDGE: Bob Schmitz
FIELD JUDGE: Scott Steenson
REPLAY OFFICAL: Bill Spyksma
VIDEO OPERATOR: NOT DOCUMENTED

SCORING

BUCCANEERS: 4:58-1Q Clayton 18 pass from Freeman (Barth kick)
SAINTS: 1:04-1Q Meacham 4 pass from Brees (Carney kick)
SAINTS: 4:11-2Q Carney FG38
SAINTS: 0:28-2Q Meacham 6 pass from Brees (Carney kick)
SAINTS: 10:36-3Q D.Thomas 11 pass from Brees (Carney kick)
SAINTS: 4:50-3Q Bell 3 run (Carney kick)
SAINTS: 10:12-4Q Bell 1 run (Carney kick)

STARTERS OFFENSE

WR: #80 M. Clayton
LT: #70 D. Penn
LG: #76 J. Zuttah
C: #52 J. Faine
RG: #75 D. Joseph
RT: #65 J. Trueblood
TE: #82 K. Winslow
TE: #88 J. Gilmore
QB: #05 J. Freeman
FB: #45 C. Pressley
RB: #24 C. Williams

STARTERS DEFENSE

LE: #97 J. Wilkerson
DT: #98 R. Sims
DT: #95 C. Hovan
RE: #96 T. Crowder
MLB: #51 B. Ruud
WLB: #54 G. Hayes
LCB: #25 A. Talib
RCB: #21 S. Piscitelli
DB: #36 T. Jackson
SS: #20 R. Barber
FS: #27 T. Cox

SUBSTITUTIONS

8 D Johnson, 10 Barth, 18 Stroughter, 22 Smith, 28 Ward, 29 Roberson, 34 Graham, 41 Lynch, 48 Economos, 50 McCoy, 53 Koutouvides, 57 Hayward, 58 Black, 69 Dotson, 71 Bennett, 85 Stovall, 86 Stevens, 89 Bryant, 91 White, 93 Miller, 94 K.Moore

DID NOT PLAY

11 J Johnson, 61 Compas

INACTIVE

7 Leftwich, 16 Figurs, 30 Mickens, 33 Mack, 74 Murphy, 77 Lee, 87 Clark, 92 D.Moore

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

RUSHING

BUCCANEERS: Williams 11-32, Graham 3-31, Freeman 2-30, Ward 7-26.
SAINTS: Thomas 11-92, Bell 13-75, Hamilton 9-19, Brunell 3-(-3).

PASSING

BUCCANEERS: Freeman 33-17-126-3-1.
SAINTS: Brees 29-19-187-0-3.

RECIEVING

BUCCANEERS: Winslow 5-29, Bryant 3-40, Graham 3-16, Ward 3-14, Clayton 1-18, Stevens 1-5, Williams 1-4.
SAINTS: Colston 5-74, D.Thomas 4-66, P.Thomas 3-11, Shockey 2-17, Meacham 2-10, Roby 1-6, Bell 1-5, Henderson 1-(-2).

INTERCEPTIONS

BUCCANEERS: none
SAINTS: Reis 1-33, Jenkins 1-14, Vilma 1-6.

KICK RETURNS

BUCCANEERS: Smith 4-106.
SAINTS: Roby 2-51.

PUNT RETURNS

BUCCANEERS: Smith 1-11.
SAINTS: Henderson 2-10, Colston 1-6.

SACKS

BUCCANEERS: none
SAINTS: Fujita 1-10, Smith 1-8, Harper 0.5-4, Torrence 0.5-4.