Steelers vs. Buccaneers Prediction: Defense Decides It

Steelers and Buccaneers going at it this week. Not a game that anybody's going to want to watch, but they'll put it on TV anyway. Neither team can score. Neither team plays particularly great offense, but on defense, that's where it could potentially be the separator today who plays better defense. Pittsburgh is two-and-a-half point road favorites at Tampa Bay, one of the lowest point totals I see here on the board at 38-and-a-half. Boy, I don't know. It certainly feels like the ultimate matchup here. the buy low the sell high Tampa Bay picking up a win at Dallas last week Pittsburgh can't get out of their own way I think I am going to lean toward the Steelers today I'm just not a believer Joe in Tampa Bay Daniels is a great story he was certainly a great college quarterback Cowboys are just a gift that keeps keep on giving every year when they're big favorites they lose and they don't cover the same story every single season so I am gonna fly back to Pittsburgh this week and believe that they are the better team against Tampa Bay well Pittsburgh is the better team theoretically on paper realistically but that win that the Buccaneers picked up against the Dallas Cowboys on the road on a short week with a backup quarterback undrafted free agent it shook me to my core so I am a hard pass on this game your your hard pass was the Tennessee Titans game against the Indianapolis Colts with good reason I believe I can understand not liking a lot of things like I said I think it's a lot of Jonathan Taylor in that game we'll get to some more of that the hour two with the props they're looking at uh but this one to me man this is one of those situations where if the Pittsburgh Steelers haven't prepared properly for this game and overlook the Tampa Bay Buccaneers they could be in a bad spot it's also Aaron Rodgers traveling with DK Metcalf who's not 100% going to play you got Jeremy Bernard's gonna have to step up in that void because Pittman's out Roman Wilson's out now you do have Rico Gallo returning but let's not screw up all the things that we have discovered here with Jalen Warren in these last couple weeks who's become a breakout star in 2026 are we gonna go to a timeshare now I don't know Craig there's just a lot of questions I have and my confidence with the Steelers on the road is not high Steelers should win this game they should win this game by more than a field goal I just don't feel really good about it so I'm a pass I'm out on this one