Thanks to the comeback, the Steelers move to 4-2 and the Buccaneers fall to 1-5. They’ll try to get a second consecutive win away from home next week in Paris.<\/p>\n
With the winning touchdown pass, Rodgers tied Peyton Manning for third most in the regular season in NFL history with 539. Last week Rodgers surpassed Manning on the all-time list including postseason play. It was also the fourth career win for Rodgers when trailing by 13 or more points entering the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
Chris Boswell’s 20-yard go-ahead field goal with 1:21 left was set up by a 40-yard interception return to the Tampa Bay 3 by former Buccaneers cornerback Jamel Dean.<\/p>\n
Dean signed with the Steelers in free agency this offseason after seven years with Tampa Bay, and he hardly could’ve picked a better time to pick off his first pass with his new team. Daniels was trying to engineer a 2-minute drill when Dean jumped a route by Emeka Egbuka and nearly took it all the way to the end zone. Buccaneers kicker Chase McLaughlin answered with a 53-yard field goal to tie it at 19 with eight seconds left in regulation.<\/p>\n
“The game doesn’t end until it’s over with,” Dean said. “We just kept our compure and continued fighting the whole time.”<\/p>\n
The Steelers drummed up some pressure defensively against the Buccaneers the way they wanted to, tallying more than two sacks for the first time since Week 2, but a few miscues on the other side of the ball had them playing from behind most of the game.<\/p>\n
Rodgers was intercepted by massive defensive lineman A’Shawn Robinson when outside linebacker Yaya Diaby tipped a pass and Darnell Washington couldn’t snag it off the deflection. That’s how the ball ended up in the lap of the 6-foot-3, 320-pound Robinson, who somehow hauled in a juggling interception while going to the ground.<\/p>\n
On their next possession, the Steelers opted to go for it on 4th-and-3 from the Tampa Bay 42. Rodgers found Bernard for a completion past the first-down marker, but in an effort to do more damage after the catch, Bernard actually lost yardage and was dropped short of the line to gain with 3:41 left in the first quarter.<\/p>\n
“You have to give credit to the defense,” Rodgers said. “They kept us in it. There were a lot of opportunities for that game to get out of hand.”<\/p>\n
The Steelers managed to drive it to the Buccaneers 30 midway through the second quarter and faced another 4th-and-3. This time, they sent out the field goal unit, but Boswell missed a 48-yarder wide left on a windy day by the bay.<\/p>\n
In between those offensive struggles, the Buccaneers got on the scoreboard first with a 43-yard field goal from McLaughlin, and added to their lead with an eight-play, 60-yard touchdown drive. Daniels hit Emeka Egbuka for a 2-yard score to make it 10-0 eight seconds into the second quarter. McLaughlin and Boswell traded field goals late in the first half to make it 13-3 at the break.<\/p>\n
It took another quarter for the Steelers to find a groove on offense, but find a groove they did in the fourth. Rodgers led an eight-play, 68-yard touchdown drive capped by a 5-yard catch by Darnell Washington. That made it 16-10 with 13:48 to play, and that’s when the defensive avalanche began for the Steelers, who finished with four sacks and two interceptions.<\/p>\n
“We won our first away game. We stacked two in a row,” said head coach Mike McCarthy.<\/p>\n
Boswell hit three field goals in the fourth quarter, including a 58-yard field goal to tie the score at 16 with 1:58 left. Rodgers threw for 253 yards on 33-of-49 passing with the two touchdowns to one interception. DK Metcalf and Bernard had 11 receptions each, with the latter going for 93 yards and the former for 87.<\/p>\n
Payton WIlson had a team-high 11 tackles for the Steelers while Ramsey and Nick Herbig had two sacks apiece. Dean had six passes defended. Yahya Black also had a sack while Daylen Everette had an interception, the first of his NFL career, and Steelers Nation loved it.<\/p>\n
“I’m not going to lie, it was crazy,” Everette said. “Even after that play, I looked in the crowd, and you saw more of those towels than you saw red. We came deep. It was good to see.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to the comeback, the Steelers move to 4-2 and the Buccaneers fall to 1-5. They’ll try to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[89735,564,563,73,75,74,125781,565,6029],"class_list":["post-309574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-brian-batko-content","tag-featured","tag-non-sponsored","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-at-tampa-bay-buccaneers-2026-reg-6","tag-sights-and-sounds","tag-xtra-points"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}