| Off | Def | Total | Score |
|---|
| Away | The Blitz | 146 | 117 | 263 | 17 | | Home | Resistance is Futile | 117 | 113 | 230 | 0 |
| Resistance is Futile |
The Blitz |
|---|
| I | Joe Flacco QB BAL | 0 |
| I | Todd Bouman QB ??? | 0 |
| I | Alex Brink QB ??? | 0 |
| S | Sage Rosenfels QB HOU | 0 |
| S | Matt Schaub QB HOU | -6 |
| I | Kyle Boller QB ??? | 0 |
| I | Troy Smith QB BAL | 0 |
| S | Casey Rabach OC WAS | 8 |
| I | Justin Hartwig OC PIT | 0 |
| I | Bobbie Williams OG CIN | 0 |
| S | Robert Gallery OG LV | 5 |
| I | Justin Smiley OG MIA | 0 |
| S | Arron Sears OG TB | 11 |
| S | Kareem McKenzie OT NYG | 13 |
| I | Jake Long OT MIA | 0 |
| S | Jordan Gross OT ??? | 0 |
| I | Jeremy Trueblood OT TB | 0 |
| B | Chester Taylor RB MIN | 3 |
| B | DeAngelo Williams RB CAR | 2 |
| B | Ricky Williams RB MIA | 4 |
| S | Kevin Smith RB DET | 1 |
| S | Darren McFadden RB LV | 10 |
| S | Devery Henderson WR NO | 6 |
| B | Robert Meachem WR NO | 3 |
| I | Nate Burleson WR SEA | 0 |
| I | Donte' Stallworth WR CLE | 0 |
| B | Ted Ginn WR MIA | 2 |
| S | Lee Evans WR BUF | 8 |
| S | Anthony Fasano TE MIA | 33 |
| I | Fred Davis TE WAS | 0 |
| B | Randy McMichael TE LAR | 2 |
| S | Stephen Gostkowski K NE | 8 |
| I | Matt Stover K BAL | 0 |
| I | Chicago OST CHI | 0 |
| S | Dallas OST DAL | 0 |
| I | Shawne Merriman OLB LAC | 0 |
| B | Chris Kelsay DE BUF | 5 |
| B | Phillip Merling DE MIA | 6 |
| S | Andre Carter DE WAS | 5 |
| I | Tank Johnson NT DAL | 0 |
| B | Jason Ferguson NT MIA | 1 |
| S | Kris Jenkins NT NYJ | 1 |
| S | Adewale Ogunleye DE CHI | 4 |
| B | Darryl Blackstock OLB CIN | 0 |
| S | Kawika Mitchell OLB BUF | 4 |
| S | Parys Haralson OLB SF | 6 |
| B | James Farrior ILB PIT | 5 |
| S | Akin Ayodele ILB MIA | 3 |
| B | Lawrence Timmons ILB PIT | 1 |
| S | Eric Barton ILB NYJ | 5 |
| B | Na'il Diggs OLB CAR | 1 |
| B | Nathan Vasher CB CHI | 5 |
| B | Adam Jones CB DAL | 8 |
| S | Chris Gamble CB CAR | 9 |
| S | Shawn Springs CB WAS | 3 |
| B | Dexter Jackson S CIN | 0 |
| S | Troy Polamalu S PIT | 7 |
| B | Chris Hope S TEN | 3 |
| S | Ken Hamlin S DAL | 6 |
| S | Shane Lechler P LV | 16 |
| I | Matt Turk P HOU | 0 |
| S | Chicago DST CHI | 9 |
| I | Dallas DST DAL | 0 |
|
| I | Damon Huard QB KC | 0 |
| I | Brodie Croyle QB KC | 0 |
| I | Tyler Thigpen QB KC | 0 |
| S | Peyton Manning QB IND | 12 |
| S | Jim Sorgi QB IND | 0 |
| I | Dominic Raiola OC DET | 0 |
| S | Dan Koppen OC NE | 0 |
| I | Kyle Kosier OG ??? | 0 |
| S | Logan Mankins OG/OT NE | 2 |
| I | Rob Sims OG ??? | 0 |
| S | Artis Hicks OG ??? | 4 |
| S | Jeff Otah OT CAR | -1 |
| I | Tyson Clabo OT ??? | 0 |
| I | Levi Jones OT CIN | 0 |
| I | Donald Penn OT TB | 0 |
| I | Deuce Lutui OG ARI | 0 |
| S | Leonard Davis OL ??? | 10 |
| B | Greg Jones FB JAC | 4 |
| B | Edgerrin James RB ARI | 3 |
| S | Earnest Graham FB TB | 11 |
| S | Willie Parker RB PIT | 3 |
| B | Peyton Hillis FB DEN | 2 |
| B | Sammy Morris FB NE | 2 |
| B | Felix Jones RB DAL | 4 |
| S | Maurice Jones-Drew RB JAC | 30 |
| I | Brandon Manumaleuna TE LAC | 0 |
| S | Heath Miller TE PIT | 15 |
| B | Daniel Graham TE DEN | 3 |
| S | Jason Witten TE DAL | 29 |
| I | Ben Patrick TE ARI | 0 |
| I | Matt Bryant K TB | 0 |
| S | Nate Kaeding K LAC | 12 |
| S | Arizona OST ARI | 1 |
| B | Turk McBride DE KC | 4 |
| B | Frostee Rucker DE CIN | 1 |
| S | Mario Williams DE HOU | 5 |
| S | Pat Williams DT MIN | 2 |
| S | Justin Smith DE SF | 15 |
| I | Chris Hovan DT TB | 0 |
| B | James Hall DE LAR | 2 |
| S | Marcus Harrison DT CHI | 0 |
| S | Jonathan Vilma MLB NO | 3 |
| B | Boss Bailey OLB DEN | 4 |
| S | Derrick Johnson OLB KC | 1 |
| B | Curtis Lofton MLB ATL | 3 |
| B | Alex Lewis LB DET | 4 |
| I | Eric Green CB ARI | 0 |
| S | Eric Wright CB CLE | 9 |
| B | Ronald Bartell CB LAR | 2 |
| S | Marcus Trufant CB SEA | 3 |
| S | Dwight Smith S DET | 5 |
| B | Antrel Rolle S ARI | 3 |
| S | Michael Griffin S TEN | 13 |
| B | Tyrell Johnson S MIN | 2 |
| I | Madieu Williams S MIN | 0 |
| B | Will Demps S HOU | 4 |
| B | Renaldo Hill CB MIA | 3 |
| S | Kevin Payne S CHI | 10 |
| I | Brian Moorman P BUF | 0 |
| S | Donnie Jones P LAR | 19 |
| S | Cincinnati DST CIN | 0 |
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| Game Summary (Larry Smith, NetFL Press)
The football gods smiled down upon the TB franchise this weekend. A wounded team was provided the perfect elixir, KIR, at an opportune time.
Because, if it had been anyone else but the offensively challenged KIR, every TB player would be changing their ring tones to Taps this morning. Luckily, TB ran into an opponent with much less margin for error than themselves, or they'd no doubt be nursing the losing column with yet another embarrassing loss.
One big reason that TB can exhale today is that KIR was talent-deficient enough to lose control of a game they had a chance to win. They looked so incompetent as they pushed the family shotgun during the game and convinced my cousin to join the circus - metaphorically speaking.
The score of 17-0 in front of a despondent home crowd for TB was aided by a ferocious defense, but even larger was the help provided by a reeling opponent that constantly pushed the wrong personnel buttons. No wonder the incompetent KIR have been such a welcome sight in opposing stadiums for so long. TB sure caught them on the right day.
It's doubtful that the TB defenders could have corralled a grandmother strolling across the field with the same ease as they did the KIR quarterback. "Instead of him looking down the field, he was looking to see who was coming," said Donnie Jones with 19 points on defense, a huge smile on his face. "Let's just say he got rattled a little bit."
Still, TB might not have escaped without a goto player to energize the offense - KIR's very own Matt Schaub. He was relentlessly victimized, continuously torched play after play before the KIR coaching staff mercifully pulled him, as he was clearly showing some ill-effects from his intestinal parasite.
"Picking on Matt Schaub was a part of the game plan," Maurice Jones-Drew with 30 points on offense said. "We should have been doing it more in the first half of the game."
How true. When a NetFL team needs a pick-me-up, they can usually count on KIR to deliver. TB leads the all-time series 1-0 against KIR. TB has a 3-0 regular season record. KIR has a 0-3 regular season record.
"Dem's fightin' woids!": Fuel was added to the fire during the two teams' post game news conferences. Tim Marshall grumbled, "Let's see... something nice to say? Well, they're not the most repugnant team out there, but that's kinda like saying that Shockey isn't as annoying as that Owens clown." In response, the KIR coach blathered, "Sheesh... just mentioning their scaly hides makes me feel very unclean. They're wretched, infantile little sewer rats and I don't want to get dragged into a discussion about them. Any other questions? I need to bathe." |
