Jameis The Leader
November 8th, 2015
James said blame him for red zone woes.
Losing another game within their grasp, it would be easy for the Bucs to point fingers. Too easy.
There were drops by Mike Evans. There was a terrible drop by Doug Martin that likely would have been six points. There was Gerald McCoy pretending to be Ghost Johnson and stomping out of the locker room nearly running over two TV camera crews.
But no, that is not what America is about. And America’s Quarterback, Bucs signal-caller Jameis Winston, had every opporutnity to sell out his teammates after the loss to the Giants.
Instead, he praised them and said the loss was on him.
“No one is perfect,” Jameis said of Evans’ Vaseline hands. Evans is “playing his tail off. Dropped balls, you can fix those. He is one of our best receivers. There is a lot of pressure. Nine times out of ten, he will come through.
“We have to socre in the red zone. I have to lead us in the red zone. I just have to make the throw and come though in the clutch.”
Joe even gave Jameis a chance to say he is missing Vincent Jackson and Louis Murphy (not sure if Jameis misses Austin Seferian-Jenkins because right now it is just a rumor that he is on the team). Nope, Jameis wouldn’t bite.
“I dont believe it is stunting at all,” Jameis said of the absence of Jackson and Murphy.
“[Donteea Dye and Adam Humphries], those guys are stepping up and playing their tails off. I just believe we have to get better. These are new guys we are working with. I am very experienced working with them in OTAs and offseason.”
Jameis added that he has to get the ball more to Dye.
“Eventually, we will break through,” Jameis said.
November 8th, 2015 at 9:18 pm
Marcus who?
November 8th, 2015 at 9:18 pm
I wasn’t a Jameis guy before the draft. But he easily grows on you. Dude is a natural leader.
November 8th, 2015 at 9:19 pm
I don’t think people realize how lucky we are to have Jameis as our franchise QB.
November 8th, 2015 at 9:19 pm
Bucs fans should be thanking their lucking stars to have won the lotto with this pick! Don’t know how he stays so gracious!
November 8th, 2015 at 9:23 pm
Jameis Christ, our savior. He must be excited for his next coach so we can see him really thrive.
November 8th, 2015 at 9:25 pm
Is it even going-out-on-a-limb for me to suggest that Jameis is our best player?
November 8th, 2015 at 9:25 pm
Surprised how well jw is leading and handling losing. I remember seeing him fighting with assistant coaches against Oregon. He’s been great. He could have easily been 22-33 300+ yards and 2 Tds. Handling drops great. Kudos. I like our guy. Mariottas good too but who cares.
November 8th, 2015 at 9:27 pm
Jameis best weapons all let the team down today. Evans with his drops and Martin and Sims with fumbles. The team left to many points in the redzone. Somehow this game was still in reach. The defense wasn’t very good but much better than I expected. Sadly I put this loss on the Offense. Didn’t think I would say that again this year. In the end I can live with this loss, it hurts but we were the better team, just need better gloves or something.
Oh and Joe can we agree that ASJ has taken up residence on the milk carton?
November 8th, 2015 at 9:27 pm
Not a stretch.
November 8th, 2015 at 9:27 pm
Oh yeah joe. Interested your opinion on all this jw scrambling. He’s a winner but scares me. I say save that for playoffs only. This years lost screw these head first dives.
November 8th, 2015 at 9:30 pm
It just sucks how the bucs find ways to lose, great effort by jameis, freakng concrete hands evans just make my blood boil, no nfl receiver should drop that many passes in one game, doug martin with the fumble and the drop pass that could have gone for 6, this team just implodes on so many levels its not even funny.
November 8th, 2015 at 9:36 pm
Oh yeah joe. Interested your opinion on all this jw scrambling. He’s a winner but scares me. I say save that for playoffs only. This years lost screw these head first dives.
Bucs were still in the playoff hunt at the time.
November 8th, 2015 at 9:39 pm
The dropped passes were Lovie’s fault……the fumbles were also Lovie’s fault….as were every single penalty….Lovie’s fault…..and, Connor Barth’s first missed FG was Lovie’s fault. GMC & LVD’s poor play…..Lovie’s fault…..ASJ’s injury….Lovie’s fault.
Lovie must go….then we will be winners!!!
November 8th, 2015 at 9:42 pm
Humphries stepped up big time. Dye didn’t look like much.
JW was on point virtually all game. WRs let him down big time.
November 8th, 2015 at 10:02 pm
Jameis had a few bad plays but not as many as Evans, gmc and lvd
November 8th, 2015 at 10:11 pm
i’m watching Winston’s press conference… my wife walks in and hears all of about 10 seconds and screams “now he’s a leader!” and she’s not a sports person at all & wouldn’t even watch football if it wasn’t for me LOL she does still love the old bucs sapp, brooks, lynch, barber, dunn, and her all time favorite buc mike alstott
November 8th, 2015 at 11:32 pm
Where are the dunkaneers? I never see them exploiting their size. Watch what Dez did on SNF on the Hail Mary.
November 9th, 2015 at 12:38 am
THE MESSIAH! As I’ve said time and time again. He will lead this franchise back to the promise land sooner or later. Today was hardly on him.
November 9th, 2015 at 9:53 am
@unbelievable
Humphries stepped up big time. Dye didn’t look like much.
While I agree with that observation completely unbelievable…but Dye did make the nice TD catch last game. He’s a rook and so I still want to see more of him.
Jameis seems to feel the need to get him the ball…but mostly I hope he works out because he is the ONLY receiver with even decent speed. We need at least one deep threat.
As for Humphries I’m genuinely excited. Could he be our Julian Edelman?
A really fine possession receiver…the go to guy on 3rd down when you can’t afford to have the ball dropped?
November 9th, 2015 at 10:16 am
Evans shouldn’t use Vaseline, because it is petroleum based. He should switch to a water soluble lube.
November 9th, 2015 at 11:34 am
TBBF says:
“The dropped passes were Lovie’s fault……the fumbles were also Lovie’s fault….as were every single penalty….Lovie’s fault…..and, Connor Barth’s first missed FG was Lovie’s fault. GMC & LVD’s poor play…..Lovie’s fault…..ASJ’s injury….Lovie’s fault.
Lovie must go….then we will be winners!!!”
I’m not going to dog Lovie for everything. It’s painfully obvious that this team is at least one, maybe 2 solid drafts away, especially on defense.
I will put two things squarely on Lovie’s shoulders. First, the penalties: The offsides, 12 men on the field earlier in the year and the dumbass personal fouls. Good coaches simply do not tolerate that. While we are thin on the defensive line, we’re not one step out of the Superbowl. If our coach wanted to send a message to this team, he should cut Akeem Spence… a nice player who is a back-up at best in this league.
Secondly is clock management. Who calls their last timeout after a 9 yard run on first down? That was as boneheaded a call as you will find. That likely cost the team 40 seconds which could have meant 1st and 10 at our 20 with a minute as opposed to 1st and 10 at our 10 with 20 seconds left. It likely wouldn’t have made a difference, but that is the garbage that won’t change with this guy.
November 9th, 2015 at 1:18 pm
Look for Adam Edelman to get better each game. Jameis needs to target him more. The guy can catch the ball and I noticed him open on several plays.