It's actually happened twice against the Bucs - in 1999, the Vikings got three touchdowns from Randall Cunningham (two to Randy Moss) and led the Bucs 21-0 after one quarter, holding on for a 21-14 win. Arizona won 14-6 against the Lions in 2014, and that's the only other time it's happened since the start of the 2013 season. In the last 30 years - that's roughly 7,500 games - it's happened just nine times. The Bucs generally don't get shut out like that - since the start of the 2014 season, Tampa Bay only had one other game where they failed to score after the first quarter - this year's 27-7 loss to the Broncos.Īcross the NFL, it's fairly rare to not score after the opening period and still win. Since then, 26 times it's happened, all Bucs losses by at least 14. To find a game in which the Bucs didn't score after the first quarter and even lost by less than 14 points, you have to go clear back to 1984 and a 13-7 overtime loss to the Lions. The one other time they had a 14-0 lead after the first quarter and failed to score the rest of the game, more predictably, the Bucs lost 32-14 to the Patriots in 1985. They were 0-11 in their first two seasons alone - all shutout losses. ![]() ![]() This is hardly a recipe for NFL success - the Bucs jumped out to a 14-0 lead in the opening quarter, then played well enough on defense to pull off a 14-5 win over the Seattle Seahawks.īefore Sunday, when the Bucs had failed to score a single point after the first quarter of a game, they had been 0-44 all-time. The Bucs won on Sunday despite not scoring a single point after the first quarter. It's always impressive that the NFL plays 256 games in every regular season and you can still find things that don't happen for years at a time, or even once in the 41-year history of a franchise.
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