At quarterback Jeff Garcia and Tim Rattay were the only two that played. Garcia was on the mark all game, making good decisions and throwing a few nice long passes. Rattay struggled throughout the second quarter rarely throwing the ball to his receivers.

At receiver Terrell Owens has a huge day, going over 120 yards in one half of football. Owens had some nice plays down field but did not reach the endzone. JJ Stokes was involved in the offense early, but after receiving one short pass and being the target in the endzone once, the ball never came his way. The likely case hear was that Garcia was having such an easy time going to his first read in Owens that Garcia rarely needed to look to Stokes, still the coaching staff need to designate plays where JJ is the primary guy. Eric Johnson was relegated to mainly blocking duty in the first half, and thus was not much of a target for Garcia; only one pass was sent in his direction. No other receiver really did much of anything. Rattay dumped most of his passes off to running backs so guys like Cederick Wilson and Tai Streets barely saw the ball. Just Swift made one crazy reception off a Bronco tipped ball.

Garrison Hearst was ok in his six rushing attempts, but neither he nor Kevan Barlow really got into a rhythm. Paul Smith probably had the best day of any of the running backs, picking up some key yardage and making some good blocks. Fullback Fred Beasley had a crushing downfield block to spring Owens, in which he took out three players on the same block.

The offensive line played quite well for the first half. Rookie Eric Heitmann started in place of the injured Ron Stone, and did a good job. Center Ben Lynch also started in place of Jeremy Newberry. Clearly the run blocking was an issue with the starting offensive line. The second half line rarely gave Rattay more than a few seconds to throw. He was under constant pressure, but had enough time to get the ball to his receivers. Kyle Kosier was called repeatedly for lining up incorrectly along the line of scrimmage.