Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers left Sunday's loss to Tampa Bay with a shoulder injury, but returned later in the game. Rodgers left in the third quarter, and was replaced by rookie Matt Flynn. He returned in the fourth quarter of the team's 30-21 loss, but left for good after throwing his third interception of the game. Rodgers finished 14-for-27 with 165 yards, two touchdowns and three interceptions.

Until seven years ago, the Green Bay/Tampa Bay games were a divisional match up in the Black and Blue NFC Central that was always a heated rivalry. Since then, the battle of the bays has cooled off some, but don?t expect the teams to play nice come Sunday. Green Bay is a paltry 1-5 at Tampa?s Raymond James Stadium and the team is coming off a loss against Dallas that exposed all of the flaws in the young team. Last week Tampa Bay won an emotional comeback OT victory over the Chicago Bears in which their newly anointed starting quarterback Brian Griese threw 67 passes and their secondary was susceptible to big plays. They?re also going to be rallying around their Kicker Matt Bryant, whose 3-month old son died in his sleep this week. How each of these team?s react to adversity is going to determine who comes away with the win. To say these teams are evenly matched is an understatement. Tampa Bay is 7th in the NFL in total offense. Green Bay is 8th. Check out these averages: Both teams are sitting pretty much where they expected to be heading into Week 4: atop their divisions, but with room for improvement. Both teams will be looking to find balance in their offensive game and need to get their running games going. Both teams will be starting a secondary that will be vulnerable and will have the possibility of making or breaking the game based on their ability to prevent big plays. For Tampa Bay, the key will be exploiting the youth and inexperience on Green Bay?s defense. The Buccaneers run a fairly complicated offense that features a lot of movement at the line and crossing patterns in the field. With Charles Woodson?s injured toe and Will Blackmon?s inexperience, the Packers could have a hard time keeping up. Griese?s 67 pass attempts tied him for 5th on the all-time NFL list for most attempts in a game. The Bucs have had a hard time establishing the run, but the return of Guard Joseph Davin should give the rushing attack a boost. The Packers defensive front shouldn?t cause the Buccaneers as many problems as the Bears? did and that should allow Tampa Bay to find the balance they?re desperately searching for on offense. For Green Bay, the Buccaneers defense shouldn?t provide near the problems that Dallas? did last week. Tampa won?t be able to blitz or provide the pass rush that caused so many problems for the Packers last week. The Packers? success will depend on the match up between their wide receivers and Tampa?s secondary. It should be a favorable one for Green Bay and Tampa?s corners will have their hands full trying to prevent the Packers from big plays. If Rodgers can get enough time in the pocket, Donald Driver, Greg Jennings and James Jones will be able to exploit their matches and be open downfield. That?s crucial, because it?s unlikely that this will be the week that Ryan Grant becomes the RB we remember from last season. If the O-line can?t provide Rodgers with pass protection, it will be a long day for the Packers. On the other side of the ball, the Packers veteran DE duo of Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila and Aaron Kampman could have a field day with Tampa?s Tackles Donald Penn and Jeremy Trueblood. If KGB and Kampman perform like they should, Brian Griese could have a long day of getting up off his butt this week.

The three-month-old son of Buccaneers' kicker Matt Bryant and his wife died at the couple's home Wednesday morning, according to St. Petersburg Times. "We had a terrible tragedy this morning," Bucs' Coach Jon Gruden said Wednesday. "We lost a key member of our family." "My understanding was the young man didn't wake up this morning. It's shocking." "The entire Buccaneer family is deeply saddened by this tragedy," General Manager Bruce Allen said. "The Bryants have been an inspiration to the entire community through their commitment to their family and their exhaustive efforts working with children and those in need in the bay area. Our thoughts and prayers are with Matt and Melissa during this difficult time."

The Buccaneers claim that the Bears played dirty on Sunday, culminating in Charles Tillman's 15-yard penalty for unnecessary roughness after he took a swing at wide receiver Michael Clayton, according to Chicago Sun-Times. "If you want me to be truthful with the situation, I don't know who it was, but they grabbed me in places they shouldn't have grabbed me after the play, and that's what started the whole thing," Tampa Bay right tackle Jeremy Trueblood said. "I think those guys take a lot of pride in what they do, and we take a lot of pride in what we do, but one thing I don't stand for is someone grabbing you in your genitals." Trueblood wrestled on the ground with Chicago defensive end Adewale Ogunleye, and then the skirmish broke out that ended with Tillman engaging with Clayton. "I don't know who it was," Trueblood said. "But whoever was beneath [me] paid the price. I was just doing what I do on a block. I was just laying on top of him, not moving. And then those guys ... we were kind of cool with the situation. That [stuff] happens on every play." "Someone is going to grab and someone is going to poke. We were kind of letting it ride. I was going to get up, I was going to walk away."

Buccaneers' wide receiver Joey Galloway is expected to miss the team's game against the Bears on Sunday with a sprain foot, according to St. Petersburg Times. "It could make it worse if we were to do too much right now," Galloway said. "We'll just have to let it quiet down a bit and then begin the rehab process."

Brian Griese will start again for the Buccaneers on Sunday against the Bears, according to Reuters. Griese, 33, replaced Jeff Garcia as the Bucs' starting quarterback after they lost to the New Orleans Saints 24-20 in their season opener. "[Griese] managed the game," Coach Jon Gruden said. "I think he'll get better and better."

Buccaneers' quarterback Jeff Garcia disagrees with Coach Jon Gruden and believes he's healthy enough to play against the Falcons on Sunday, according to ESPN.com. Garcia sprained his ankle in the team's season-opening loss to the Saints. "Right now, having only played one game, I would've liked the opportunity to battle through whatever I'm going through," Garcia told reporters Thursday. "But Coach made that decision early in the week and I have to live with it." "I understand in the game on Sunday, there were a couple plays I left out on the field. And I'm hard enough on myself to know that they could've been difference-makers in the game. I know I can turn that around, I can learn from whatever I didn't do. And I think there's been some things that unfortunately have piled up injury-wise that I don't like to bring to anybody's attention because I always feel I can fight through it, that I can always get through those things and not have them be a factor. Well, Coach feels like there's some things that are factors, that are taken away from what I bring to the table. So right now, it's his decision," he said.

An ankle sprain put Jeff Garcia?s name on the injury report. A shaky performance in the Buccaneers' season opener cost the four-time Pro Bowl QB his starting job this week against the Falcons this weekend. Buccaneers' Coach Jon Gruden said Wednesday that Brian Griese will start against the Falcons on Sunday.

The Steelers traded backup center Sean Mahan to the Buccaneers on Tuesday for an undisclosed draft pick in 2009, according to Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Mahan started all seventeen games, including their playoff, last season after he signed with the Pittsburgh as an free agent from Tampa Bay.