Grading the Bucs' 26-20 loss to Dallas Tom Jones, The Tampa Bay Times, published 19 December 2016 Man, that's a big scoreboard. Sorry, we're supposed to be talking about the Bucs game and that valiant and entertaining, yet ultimately disappointing 26-20 Tampa Bay loss to the Cowboys. But, man, is that scoreboard big. The crown jewel of the NFL's biggest and most expensive stadium is a scoreboard and video screen that turns the cavernous AT&T Stadium into the a man cave for 93,000 fans. When the game is going on, you don't know whether to watch the field or the scoreboard. Whichever you watched Sunday, it show the same thing: a Bucs team that played fairly well after a shaky start. Here's a report card from Sunday's game. MAN, THAT'S A BIG SCOREBOARD Did I mention how big that scoreboard is? Put it this way, if they ever make the Grand Canyon into a sport stadium, they can use this as the scoreboard. Man, is it big. Officially, it's 160 feet wide and 72 feet high. Unofficially: Really stinkin' big. GRADE: A. PLAY OF THE GAME Here's a play that, in a weird way, might have cost Tampa Bay a good chance to win. Fourth quarter and Tampa Bay had the ball at the Dallas 46. The Bucs had just recovered a fumble and trailed, 23-20. On a 2nd and 11, QB Jameis Winston threw a screen to Charles Sims. It was a perfect call and it looked like it had potential for a huge gain. But tackle Gosder Cherilus didn't make a key block and the pass produced only six yards. After an incompletion, the Bucs punted. And that was Tampa Bay's last best chance. All the might have separated the Bucs from an upset was one good block. GRADE: D-minus. BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE Good thing this was 2016 instead of 2006. If it had been 2006, the Cowboys would have played in a stadium with a hole in the roof. And that would have meant the Bucs would have played with temperatures dipping into the low 20s. Talk about crazy weather. The high Saturday in Dallas was 72. By game time Sunday night, it was 21. But, thankfully, the Cowboys now play indoors where it's always comfortable T-shirt temperatures. GRADE: A. PRIME TIME When NBC moved Sunday's game to primetime, some Bucs fans might have been a bit worried. After all, there was a chance the Bucs could have been blown out and, surely, NBC would have serious doubts about scheduling the Bucs for any future Sunday Night Football games. But the Bucs handled themselves quite well, enough that NBC could not have been scared off from future Bucs games in primetime. GRADE: B-plus.