Miscues Mar Performances Of Pittman, Griese Roy Cummings, The Tampa Tribune, published 29 November 2004 Michael Pittman had one of his best days as a Buc on Sunday. It felt like one of his worst. ``I think I feel worse than anyone in this locker room because I let us down,'' Pittman said after the Bucs dropped a 21-14 decision to the Panthers at Bank of America Stadium. ``I'll put this loss all on my shoulders.'' Though his two fumbles ruined a day in which he racked up more than 100 receiving yards for the first time, he was not the only Buc to experience a bittersweet afternoon. Brian Griese had a similar experience against the Panthers, throwing for more than 300 yards for the first time as a Buc but giving up a score on an interception that was returned for a touchdown. ``We just didn't make enough plays,'' said Griese, who threw for 347 yards and a pair of touchdowns. ``You can't come on the road and turn the ball over three times and expect to win.'' Pittman echoed Griese's sentiments. ``Those three times we lost the ball, we lost momentum,'' said Pittman, whose second turnover came at the Carolina 15-yard line. ``Those could have been three touchdowns.'' The Bucs did score a pair of touchdowns Sunday. Both times it was on a pass from Griese to Pittman. The pair hooked up on a 6- yard shovel pass play that resulted in a 7-7 tie with 1:55 left in the second quarter and again on an 8-yard pass play that tied the game at 14 with 6:42 remaining. ``I was isolated a lot today with the linebackers and safeties, and I was just beating them,'' Pittman said. ``The running game wasn't there. Carolina played great against the run. But Brian did a great job today. He stayed positive after the interception. He was fired up and didn't get down on himself and drove us down there for the tie on the touchdown.'' Griese and Pittman hooked up on another play, but the results weren't what the Bucs were looking for. Facing a third-and-6 at the Carolina 18, Griese audibled out of a pass play and into a running play for Pittman. Pittman ran left but lost a yard on the play, setting the stage for Martin Gramatica's final field-goal miss of the day, a 37-yard attempt that went wide left and allowed Carolina to stage its winning rally. ``We had two plays called in the huddle there,'' Griese said. ``One was a pass to the right side, the other was a run to the left. They came out with a blitz, and if we had stuck with the pass we wouldn't have been able to block them. So I went with the other play, which was a run away from the blitz. We thought it was just as good a play as we had, but we just didn't get it. Like I said, we just didn't make enough plays today.''