LIVE UPDATES: Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Arizona Cardinals

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Tom Brady and the Bucs (6-8) look to right the ship in a Christmas Day showdown in Arizona against the Cardinals (4-10).
Inactives/Actives
Bucs Inactives
- QB Kyle Trask
- WR Breshad Perriman
- CB Jamel Dean
- DL Vita Vea
- G John Molchon
- T Donovan Smith
- OLB Carl Nassib
Cardinals Inactives
- QB Colt McCoy
- CB Jace Whittaker
- LB Jesse Luketa
- LB Victor Dimukeje
- OL Wyatt Davis
- DL Zach Allen
1st quarter
- Cardinals win the coin toss and defer to the second half.
- Pass interference on Arizona gives the Bucs great field position in Cardinals' territory.
- Bucs' offense stalls with a wide open Julio Jones for a TD, but the Bucs settle for a 38-yard Ryan Succop field goal.
- he Cardinals fake a punt on 4th down and convert on a fake punt. Arizona continues their first drive.
- Anthony Nelson comes away with a HUGE strip sack and Devin White comes up with the ball. Bucs back in business.
-ucs give the ball to Leonard Fournette on 4th down and are unable to convert. Arizona takes over with great field position.
- Cardinals take advantage of great field position and convert with 56-yard FG. Game is tied 3-3 at the end of the first.
2nd quarter
- T Josh Wells looks to have suffered a major injury. Cart coming out.
- Big pitch to Fournette for 23-yards, looking like one of his longest gains of the season.
- Julio Jones catches a pass from Tom Brady for a TD, but an illegal formation pulls the ball back.
- Bucs aren't able to punch it in the endzone, but settle for a 35-yard FG from Ryan Succop.
- Tom Brady's pass to Mike Evans is underthrown and intercepted by Marco Wilson.
- Cardinals' offense stalls, but Prater dinks one in from 53-yards to even up the score 6-6.
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3rd quarter
- Brady intercepted after staring down his wide receiver.. Cards take over.
- Arizona is able to capitalize on the Bucs' misfortune and go up 9-6 .
- Arizona takers great field position after great position, up 9-6.
4th quarter
- James Conner rushes it in through a wide open hole, Arizona leads 16-6.
- Lenny with a HUGE run of 44-yards to get the Bucs into Cardinal territory.
- Rachaad White scores a touchdown to put the Bucs within scoring distance.
- Bucs force a turnover and are in business.
- The Bucs are able to try and force OT, tying it up at 16 via a Ryan Succop FG

Caleb is from Nashville, TN and graduated from Florida State University in 2018 with majors in Sociology and History. He has previously written for an FSU outlet and started covering the Buccaneers in March of 2022. Caleb is an avid sports fan and former host of the Tribeoholics podcast. You can follow Caleb on Twitter @chsnole
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