Pat Freiermuth was happy to bring to light the Steelers’ starting offense dominating their visitors from Tampa Bay in Thursday’s joint practice at Acrisure Stadium. But he was less thrilled with how the Steelers’ first-teamers finished their session.

Let’s start with the good, as the Buccaneers were thrown into the traditional “seven shots” drill to open the full-team work. It was the first live action for Aaron Rodgers guiding the Steelers against non-Steelers, and it might be the only 11-on-11 with a real opponent until Week 1, when they visit the Jets. As a whole, the offense won that goal-line period 6-1.

“It was a great showing,” Freiermuth said. “I thought we built on that, as well, until the end of practice.”

Other than the very end, when the offense was thwarted in a two-minute

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