Final Grades: Buccaneers at Steelers

Let me start off by apologizing for getting these in late. A stomach bug got the best of me and put me down for a couple of days.

Unfortunately for the Bucs, they couldn’t take a couple of days off after a bad defeat on Monday night against the Pittsburgh Steelers. A short week has them on to Chicago to face off against one of the league’s best defenses.

As for their performance against Pittsburgh, well, it was a tale of two different halves. This week’s grades were tough to give out since there was a lot of good as well as a lot of bad.

Offense

Things looked ugly in the first half. Ryan Fitzpatrick threw three interceptions, one of them costing Tampa Bay six points. The running game couldn’t…