Bucs Eliminate Falcons, Strengthen Playoff Hopes
25th December, 2005 - 2:00 am
ESPN - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the Atlanta Falcons by means of a Matt Bryant 41-yard field goal with only 15 seconds remaining in the extra 15 minutes.

"I mean, one minute, you're thinking, 'OK, we're going to win!' Said Bryant. ?And then something would go wrong and it was, 'I can't believe we're going to lose the thing!' It's kind of been like that all season, I suppose, for us. The one positive thing you can say is that this team is certainly battle-tested."

Falcons owner Arthur Blank told the Atlanta Journal Constitution last week that not making the playoffs might not necessarily be viewed as a failure, but that sentiment didn't fly too well in Atlanta's locker room following the latest disappointing defeat. "We need to re-evaluate a lot of things around here," quarterback Michael Vick said. [READ]

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