Lovie: More Work Coming For Mike Evans
November 11th, 2015
Would you toss your infant to Mike Evans?
Joe wouldn’t. But it seems Lovie Smith would.
Speaking on the Buccaneers Radio Network this week, the Bucs’ head coach said the 19 targets to Mike Evans on Sunday, which resulted in six drops, eight catches and 152 yards, might not be enough.
“If you have a favorable matchup with a great player, you want to keep doing it,” Lovie said about throwing to Evans so much. “Mike would tell you, ‘No, that’s not too many.’ He’ll tell you next time he’s going to make more of those plays that he had an opportunity to make.
“So I say, no, if we get in situations where maybe a team is playing a lot of man-to-man, anytime we can get Mike Evans in a 1-on-1, I mean, that’s advantage Bucs.”
“We’re not going to stop throwing the ball to him. The complete opposite. [Sunday,] it’s not like he had a string where he only dropped balls and he didn’t catch any.”
Joe’s all in with continuing to feed Mike Evans until Vincent Jackson returns. The Bucs simply don’t have good alternative options.
Donteea Dye, Russell Shepard and Adam Humphries offer little, though Humphries catches what comes his way. And Dirk Koetter isn’t big on throwing to his tight ends, just one target against the Giants.
November 11th, 2015 at 9:33 am
Would you toss your infant to Mike Evans?
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My infant? No. Someone else’s? Maybe.
November 11th, 2015 at 9:45 am
Would you toss your infant to Mike Evans?
Joe, that seriously is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time!! I’m still smiling:)!!
November 11th, 2015 at 9:46 am
Wonder if lovie would…..
November 11th, 2015 at 9:54 am
ME is not the first receiver to go through a slump of dropsies. What happens next will be most revealing.
Some great WR’s who have bad stretches rebound nicely.
Others? Can you say Michael Clayton which of course is the ghost that hangs on ME!
November 11th, 2015 at 10:01 am
Would you toss your infant to Mike Evans?
LOL, come on Joseph!!
November 11th, 2015 at 10:28 am
Mike Evans… He of the the 6 drops… Mike, please send me a check for the “party” I had in Giants territory. But you’re amazing failure taught me and the Giants fans in attendance that jameis is the entire real deal… I say defense I. The draft and let’s head for 6-10. Lovie you got one more year bro. And gmc? Dude, play ball please. Like just play. Get out of your head and into the moment. And no one needs or wants a “nice guy” at defensive lineman. The position predicated on having a beasts mentality. Get hungry or get lost.
November 11th, 2015 at 10:38 am
Dirk Koetter doesn’t throw to his tight ends because he doesn’t trust them. The one that he can rely on to get open is always injured or “not 100% ready because he owes it to his teammates to only be 100% instead of being with them on the field”. Makes sense.
November 11th, 2015 at 10:43 am
@cmurda
I do not disagree with your post at all and it could very well be the reason Koetter hasn’t gone to the TE.
But what happened to Myers a proven TE with good hands. He’s not Gronk and he might not even be a healthy ASJ…but he is a PROVEN TE on two different teams. The lack of opportunity for Myers is what has me puzzled.
November 11th, 2015 at 10:54 am
Brate rhymes with Great.
November 11th, 2015 at 11:07 am
Good. Throw him the ball more. He’s an amazing talent. Jerry Rice started his career dropping everything in sight. He got better.
November 11th, 2015 at 11:12 am
Still would not look past Dye breaking out at some point… Him and JW are gonna get they’re timing down…. Two balls to Dye got over thrown last week…. Dye was behind his man both times…. Either one of those if not both go for LOND TDs had they hooked up…. I am betting they hook up deep one time this week for 50 plus!!!!
November 11th, 2015 at 11:45 am
it’s frustrating but lovie is right. winston targeted him as much as he did because he has a winnable matchup. 150+ yards despite the drops says he can make good things happen with the right matchup. whatever BS he has going on right now, he’s not going to get better and the team is not going to get better by ignoring an open Mike Evans. he has to play through it and let the team make some decisions in the offseason.
the bucs badly need VJax back so he can balance out his targets, but jameis is building the right tendency by always looking out for his freakish target in mismatch situations.
November 11th, 2015 at 11:48 am
mike evans your a 6’5 starting wr in the nfl…your job is to catch the ball…CATCH THE DAMN BALL!!!…GO BUCS!!!
November 11th, 2015 at 11:53 am
More chances to catch balls = more chances to give up on routes to work on his bitching to the refs act. Talented guy but the non-stop whining has already gotten old.
November 11th, 2015 at 12:14 pm
“Dirk Koetter isn’t big on throwing to his tight ends”???
Seems to me that Tony Gonzalez had at least 5 come his way per game quite successfully.
November 11th, 2015 at 12:34 pm
We should be playing Shepard a lot more. Not more than Evans, but more than Dye and Humphries.
November 11th, 2015 at 1:17 pm
Joe,
Do you watch the All 22 film? TEs were open, Jameis was just force feeding Evans in hopes of getting big plays. TE’s were open on 5-6 different plays that Jameis went to Evans.
November 11th, 2015 at 1:22 pm
@Nick, I agree, and I might add that Mike Evans has, I think played football for only 3 or 4 years before being drafted by the Bucs. He was a basketball player for most of his time in high school. He will get much better.
November 11th, 2015 at 4:49 pm
Joe, you are way off base saying “Koetter doesn’t throw to his TE’s”. He proved that he used his TE’S alot in Atlanta so you are totally wrong on that. Also, when ASJ was healthy and played earlier in the year he targeted him often as well.