PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Pittsburgh Steelers\u2019 offense began Thursday\u2019s joint practice with Tampa Bay by prevailing 6-1 in the \u201cseven shots\u201d drill against the Buccaneers defense.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a great showing,\u201d Steelers tight end Pat Freiermuth said. \u201cI thought we built on that as well throughout the rest of the practice. It was great to see the guys on the offense fired up to compete. I think everyone took their reps personally.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Amanda Filipcic-Godsey is a freelance writer in Pittsburgh. She covers Pittsburgh sports for CNHI Pa. newspapers. Follow her on Twitter @AmandaFGodsey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Pittsburgh Steelers\u2019 offense began Thursday\u2019s joint practice with Tampa Bay by prevailing 6-1 in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2055],"tags":[265,5444,637,4034,7,636,1255,122,6,47357,1890,47358,9073,520,57,2360,3007,632,635,426,5226,250,638,3865],"class_list":{"0":"post-289634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-steelers","8":"tag-american-football","9":"tag-american-football-people","10":"tag-american-football-teams","11":"tag-cameron-heyward","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-gridiron-football-variants","14":"tag-mike-tomlin","15":"tag-national-football-league","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-nfl-seasons","18":"tag-nfl-teams","19":"tag-nfl-teams-seasons","20":"tag-pat-freiermuth","21":"tag-pittsburgh","22":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","23":"tag-pittsburghsteelers","24":"tag-running-back","25":"tag-seasons-in-american-football","26":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","27":"tag-steelers","28":"tag-t-j-watt","29":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","30":"tag-team-sports","31":"tag-tight-end"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}