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Can you believe that he never came down? Brian Griese threw 67 passes against the Chicago Bears, and they couldn’t take him down. It was the second most amazing statistic of the day.

No. 1: Griese wasn’t sacked. Not once!

“You’ll never see that again,” Bucs coach Jon Gruden said.

Bucs offensive lineman, Jeremy Trueblood, sat on a chair in the locker room. For the longest time, only his mouth moved.

“I’ve never felt this exhausted,” he said.

Granted, Trueblood wasn’t too tired to start that field scrum in overtime that led to a Bears personal-foul penalty that saved the day and led to the Bucs’ game-winning drive. But you get the idea.

“We’re all spent,” Trueblood said.

This line isn’t money yet. We still don’t know when it will all come together. Three games into this season and we know that when this line blocks well, the Bucs run well. Sunday came relatively historic pass protecting against a Chicago defense that brought all kinds of looks and blitzes, stacked gaps. It dared Griese to beat it.

Sometimes, he didn’t. In the end, he did. The only thing that is for sure: Nobody got to him!