John Gilmore helped Dexter Jackson stop looking like this on kick returns

Slipping sliding and scared. That was the best way to describe Bucs rookie Dexter Jackson’s performances as a punt and kick returner during the Bucs first three games of the season.

Then, poof, Jackson looked like a stud agaiinst the Packers.

Dave Scheiber of the St. Pete Times found out that some one-on-one tutoring by tight end John Gilmore snapped Jackson out of his funk.

“He said, ‘Rookie, if you need some help, I don’t mind staying later and getting one-on-one time with you and show you what I looked at in Chicago with Hester,’ ” Jackson recalled.

Given Jon Gruden’s lack of patience, it seems Gilmore may have saved Jackson’s career.