{"id":1018929,"date":"2026-10-05T03:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1018929\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:51:13","slug":"packers-hold-on-to-beat-buccaneers-17-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1018929\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers hold on to beat Buccaneers, 17-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Packers lead Buccaneers 10-7 at halftime<\/p>\n<p>The second quarter began with Love and Kraft failing to connect in the back of the end zone but then getting a first down at the Tampa 1 after a defensive pass interference penalty on Jacob Parrish.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks and <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.packers.com\/team\/players-roster\/marshawn-lloyd\/\" title=\"MarShawn Lloyd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MarShawn Lloyd<\/a> lost five yards on back-to-back carries. Lloyd gained four yards back on a quick pass and Green Bay went for it on fourth-and-2 after using its second timeout.<\/p>\n<p>Love lobbed a 2-yard touchdown to Matthew Golden, converting the third fourth down of the series, to put the Packers up 7-0 with 12 minutes, 54 seconds left in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-play, 68-yard drive lasted 9:16 and saw Green Bay convert three fourth downs.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa started from its own 35 after the touchback. The Buccaneers went three-and-out after Otton dropped a second-down slant and Daniels was pressured into a 2-yard scramble on third-and-10.<\/p>\n<p>The Packers started at their 24 but were backed up after an offensive pass interference call on Christian Watson. Love&#8217;s deep ball for <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.packers.com\/team\/players-roster\/j-michael-sturdivant\/\" title=\"J. Michael Sturdivant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">J. Michael Sturdivant<\/a> fell incomplete and the Packers punted.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay took over at its 46. After two Kenneth Gainwell carries gained five yards, Daniels found an open Ted Hurst for 21 yards to the Green Bay 28.<\/p>\n<p>On third-and-1, Sean Tucker was stopped for no gain but then gained five yards on his fourth-down attempt. Daniels gained nine yards on a read-option and then Tucker ran in the 5-yard TD to tie the game at 7 with 5:13 left in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>The Packers&#8217; next possession started with a holding penalty on Laken Tomlinson, but they got 16 yards back on a pass to Watson on a stop route. On third-and-5, Golden dropped a slant that initially was a ruled a fumble and Green Bay punted.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa started at its 16 after a fair catch and came out throwing. A 9-yard pass to Chris Godwin earned a first-down on second-and-8 and then Tez Johnson caught a 15-yard pass at the two-minute warning.<\/p>\n<p>Hurst caught a 4-yard slant on fourth-and-1, but the drive ended when Edgerrin Cooper picked off Daniels and returned it to the Tampa Bay 44.<\/p>\n<p>Lloyd gained three yards on first down before the Packers sent out <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break:break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.packers.com\/team\/players-roster\/trey-smack\/\" title=\"Trey Smack\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trey Smack<\/a> for a 58-yard field goal.<\/p>\n<p>Smack, who now owns two of the four longest field goals in team history, is just the third rookie kicker to make multiple 58-plus-yard field goals in the same season, joining Brandon Aubrey (three, 2023) and Greg Zuerlein (two, 2012)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Packers lead Buccaneers 10-7 at halftime The second quarter began with Love and Kraft failing to connect in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1018930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,125807,2514,2513,34,417,36829,44437,507,6,428],"class_list":["post-1018929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-green-bay-packers","tag-football","tag-green-bay","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-green-bay-packers-at-tampa-bay-buccaneers-2026-reg-4","tag-greenbay","tag-greenbaypackers","tag-homepage-cp","tag-news-all-news","tag-news-gameday","tag-news-in-game-updates","tag-news-national-feature","tag-nfl","tag-packers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117386273332112115","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1018930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}