GREEN BAY, Wis. -- The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have spent this week preparing for the Brett Hundley they saw against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday night: the quarterback who threw three touchdowns and nearly matched Ben Roethlisberger drive for drive.

But they could just as easily see the Hundley from a week earlier against the Baltimore Ravens: the quarterback whose decisions were equally as atrocious as his throws.

Imagine how difficult it must be for Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy to put together a call sheet for a quarterback that wildly inconsistent.

To Hundley’s credit, he bounced back from his four-turnover game in the shutout loss to the Ravens with his best performance to date even though the Packers (5-6) lost at Pittsburgh. But the last time Hundley played well -- he made several clutch throws late in the Week 10 victory at Chicago -- he followed that up with the stinker against Baltimore.

So perhaps handling success has been more difficult that dealing with failure.

“You have to handle the highs,” McCarthy said. “I don’t really concern myself when players go through a low because you’re talking about character and a National Football League football player. These guys are going to respond. They’re always going to respond to challenges. That’s just part of who they are.

“We talked about it last week where having a little success coming out of Chicago, pushing the envelope a little bit against Baltimore [to] get yourself in trouble there with the turnovers. I thought he did a great job in how he responded playing against Pittsburgh. We’ve just got to keep moving forward. He has more to give, and we need it.”

If there’s the chance for Hundley to do so, it would be Sunday. The Buccaneers (4-7) bring the NFL’s worst pass defense to town. They rank 32nd in passing yards allowed per game (284.6) and 32nd in third-down defense (allowing opponents to convert nearly half the time).

Hundley said he has tried not to let the previous result affect his preparation.

“Because if you allow that, then every week is different almost because then you’re not ... there’s no constant,” Hundley said. “For me, that’s what I’ve tried to maintain is a constant level of preparation. Going into the game, what my thoughts are, how I’m going to play, visualizing it. I don’t want to be on this up-and-down roller coaster. If you have a bad game, your preparation changes. For me, I just try to be constant each and every week.”

The big picture for Hundley, in the six games he’s finished (including five starts) since Aaron Rodgers broke his collarbone, looks like this: one win, five touchdowns, seven interceptions and a passer rating (73.2) that ranks 27th among all qualified quarterbacks during that stretch.

“He did play good against Pittsburgh,” Buccaneers coach Dirk Koetter said on a conference call with reporters at Lambeau Field. “I thought that was his best game since he’s been starting. I mean, you plan for what you see on tape. I think as a coach game planning, you tend to game plan for a guy’s best, not for his worst.”

When asked why that was his approach, Koetter said: “Well, once he’s put it on film you know he can do it again.”