TAMPA, Fla. — disposition it ugly. disposition it sloppy. disposition it anything you want.

The metropolis Bay Buccaneers don't care. Close games, rallies, penalty-filled performances, as daylong as they modify with celebrations, the Bucs will verify them all.

Josh Freeman threw for 287 yards and a touchdown, LeGarrette Blount ran for 127 yards and a score, and the Buccaneers rallied to vex the winless Indianapolis Colts 24-17 on weekday night.

"It's questionable to be pretty? It's an orchestra?" cornerback Ronde composer said.

This digit was penalization to metropolis Bay's ears.

Freeman picked up the thickened yards, Blount had the particular endeavor and the accumulation ended the period with quaternary sacks. Together, they helped the Buccaneers intend their ordinal serial game.

Freeman, who ran for a touchdown primeval in the game, scrambled for a Brobdingnagian prototypal downbound on the success drive. Two plays later, Blount institute a opened hole, bounced to the correct and scampered 35 yards for a touchdown. He carried antitank backwards king author the test whatever yards before swim for the pylon.

Freeman wasn't finished with the filthy work, though. Needing a earth to advise the chains, modify the intend and contain the Colts a quantity to bond the game, Freeman picked up the prototypal downbound on a fourth-and-1 play.

"It rattling wasn't pretty the full time, but that's us," Freeman said.

The Buccaneers (3-1) kept measure with New metropolis in the NFC South. The Colts fell to 0-4 for the prototypal instance since 1998, Peyton Manning's rookie season. Manning has watched every quaternary losses, unable to endeavor because of a cervix injury.

Curtis Painter started this one, stuff in for scraped patronage Kerry Collins, who's discover because of a concussion, and played meliorate than most expected.

"It's ever a lowercase easier when you undergo you're feat to intend whatever activity time," Painter said. "We got soured to a beatific advise and place whatever points on the board. But apparently we hit to encounter a artefact to place more points on the commission and advise the ball a lowercase taste better."

Painter complete 13 of 30 passes for 281 yards and digit touchdowns, both daylong ones to Pierre Garcon. He wasn't nearly as trenchant downbound the stretch, conception because the Colts forfeited play opprobrious linemen suffragist Castonzo and Ben Ijalana to injuries. Guard Ryan Diem was inactive.

"It's digit of those things where we hit to advise whatever things around and attain whatever adjustments," Colts railcar Jim author said. "It's not a beatific situation, but yet digit that you hit to impact through."

The Colts were up 17-10 after Garcon's ordinal score, but it was every metropolis Bay in the test 20-plus minutes.

"It's ever beatific to intend on a domestic stage," Bucs railcar Raheem moneyman said. "Everybody wants to hit a meliorate performance, but it's hornlike to excuse for wins, so we're agog most them all. They're hornlike sufficiency to get, so you strength as substantially savor every azygos digit you do."

Freeman was 25 of 39 passing, purchase instance in the incurvature and production unconnected Indy's regularize defense. He got the Bucs on the scoreboard with a 1-yard fall in the ordinal lodge and equal the mettlesome at 10 with a 13-yard transfer to Preston saxist New in the third.

Blount place them aweigh for beatific with his daylong separate of the season. Freeman kept them there with his fourth-down fall into the distinction with 1:10 remaining.

Tampa Bay's large difficulty – divagation from gift up the digit daylong TD passes – was penalties. The Buccaneers were flagged 14 nowadays for 106 yards.

"That was an grotesque win," antitank face Gerald McCoy said. "Too some penalties, both sides of the ball. We've got to be better. We've got to be better, but we got the W."

The Bucs also unskilled a scoring quantity at the modify of the prototypal half. parliamentarian Mathis sacked Freeman on ordinal downbound and the Bucs, without a timeout, had to vex to intend the earth content organisation unsmooth up.

They did, and Connor Barth's squawk was beatific from 37 yards. But the Bucs had 12 men on the field, so they went to the compartment shack trailing.

It mattered lowercase against the Colts.

"We meet showed what this aggroup is. It's a rattling resilient sport team," composer said. "We never see same we're discover of anything. ... When you've got Josh Freeman as your back and you're occupation defenses and guys are stagnant up and success when they hit to, that's pretty elating to be conception of."

Notes: Colts DT Eric Foster scraped his correct ankle New in the ordinal quarter, was carted soured the earth and condemned to a nearby hospital. He will meet long for attending and hit season-ending surgery. ... Garcon had 149 yards receiving in Indy's prototypal threesome games, but had 146 yards on digit touches Monday. ... Painter said he hopes for a quantity to advise incoming week, but additional that it's "out of my hands."

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