Sunday, September 4, 1983
Detroit Lions 11, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 0| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Detroit Lions (1-0-0) | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
| Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-1-0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DET | TAM | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | DET | Safety, English tackled Golsteyn in end zone | 2 | 0 |
| DET | Eddie Murray 29 yard field goal | 5 | 0 | |
| 3rd | DET | Eddie Murray 48 yard field goal | 8 | 0 |
| 4th | DET | Eddie Murray 38 yard field goal | 11 | 0 |
| DET | TAM | |
|---|---|---|
| First downs | 16 | 16 |
| Rush-yards-TDs | 31-77-0 | 22-60-0 |
| Comp-Att-Yd-TD-INT | 22-34-263-0-1 | 21-33-217-0-1 |
| Sacked-yards | 3-27 | 7-46 |
| Net pass yards | 236 | 171 |
| Total yards | 313 | 231 |
| Fumbles-lost | 5-1 | 4-2 |
| Turnovers | 2 | 3 |
| Penalties-yards | 10-80 | 10-83 |
| Passing | Rushing | Receiving | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tm | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | Lng | Att | Yds | TD | Lng | Rec | Yds | TD | Lng | |
| Eric Hipple | DET | 14 | 24 | 174 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Leonard Thompson | DET | 6 | 80 | 0 | 27 | ||||||||||
| James R. Jones | DET | 11 | 23 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 49 | 0 | 29 | ||||||
| Billy Sims | DET | 14 | 37 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 31 | 0 | 14 | ||||||
| Gary Danielson | DET | 8 | 10 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Mark Nichols | DET | 5 | 41 | 0 | 14 | ||||||||||
| Ulysses Norris | DET | 1 | 35 | 0 | 35 | ||||||||||
| Jeff Chadwick | DET | 2 | 19 | 0 | 11 | ||||||||||
| Horace King | DET | 3 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||||||
| Rob Rubick | DET | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Passing | Rushing | Receiving | |||||||||||||
| Tm | Cmp | Att | Yds | TD | Int | Lng | Att | Yds | TD | Lng | Rec | Yds | TD | Lng | |
| James Wilder | TAM | 5 | 18 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 69 | 0 | 18 | ||||||
| Jerry Golsteyn | TAM | 14 | 21 | 120 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Jack Thompson | TAM | 7 | 12 | 97 | 0 | 1 | 31 | ||||||||
| Theo Bell | TAM | 2 | 47 | 0 | 31 | ||||||||||
| Gerald Carter | TAM | 4 | 41 | 0 | 17 | ||||||||||
| Mel Carver | TAM | 11 | 22 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 9 | ||||||
| Jim Obradovich | TAM | 1 | 19 | 0 | 19 | ||||||||||
| Michael Morton | TAM | 5 | 16 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Jerry Bell | TAM | 2 | 16 | 0 | 11 | ||||||||||
| Mark Witte | TAM | 1 | 10 | 0 | 10 | ||||||||||
| Kevin House | TAM | 1 | 6 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||||
| James Owens | TAM | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||||||||||
| Def Interceptions | Fumbles | Kick Returns | Punt Returns | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tm | Sk | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | FR | Yds | TD | Rt | Yds | TD | Lng | Ret | Yds | TD | Lng | |||
| Doug English | DET | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| William Gay | DET | 5.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Alvin Hall | DET | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 25.0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Al Latimer | DET | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| Robbie Martin | DET | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 15.0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 12.5 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Martin Moss | DET | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Def Interceptions | Fumbles | Kick Returns | Punt Returns | ||||||||||||||||
| Tm | Sk | Int | Yds | TD | Lng | FR | Yds | TD | Rt | Yds | TD | Lng | Ret | Yds | TD | Lng | |||
| Cedric Brown | TAM | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| David Logan | TAM | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Michael Morton | TAM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 9.0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Lee Roy Selmon | TAM | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Andre Tyler | TAM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 21 | 7.0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||