Hey, guys, welcome to double shot of Steelers.

I'm Dan Kovachovich of DK. Pittsburgh Sports.

Tomorrow night brings the first and only home preseason game for the Steelers.

That'll be at 7 p.m. against the Buccaneers.

Those two teams also squared off in arguably a more meaningful joint practice yesterday.

And when I say more meaningful, I mean that everybody used their guys.

You know, there wasn't any of this holding people out, never mind holding out 19 of them.

The joint practice yesterday came with its pluses and it came with its minuses.

The players coming off the field would attest to all of that. There were some

things that they liked. There were some things that they didn't like. I'm going to tell you

today, one thing that I didn't like, and because I didn't like it, I actually liked it, meaning I'm glad it happened.

And that is that the defense got served a bit, okay?

You want to call it humble pie.

You can come up with whatever phrasing you want for this.

But the defense, which has been seeing, hearing and reading,

nothing other than lavish praise, including from this direction,

for the past three weeks, got to face Baker Mayfield at some of his sharpest, got to face Mike Evans, who still got it.

I mean, I know he's been around a while, but Evans, there was nobody he wasn't beating from the Tampa Bay perspective.

And this idea, this concept that Mike Tomlin's had, that we've got our three coverage guys,

and they don't need no help and whatever else here.

And it's not, it's not going to be easy.

Okay.

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