Silent Confirmation: Ronald Jones Stinks
December 9th, 2018
Invisible when needed.
Want to know how much of an afterthought second-round draft pick Ronald Jones is with Bucs Bit-O-Honey-snacking, Ozark-watching, yams-eating Dirk Koetter?
One only needed to watch the game today.
Early in the loss to the Saints, Bucs running back Peyton Barber left with an injury. One would think an offensive coach would then turn to his fresh second-round pick.
Nope.
With Koetter, likely coaching for his career with the Bucs, didn’t even consider calling Jones’ number. Instead, Koetter called for the immortal Jacquizz Rodgers to help save his job.
As the one-and-only Chris “Mad Dog” Russo would say, “That’s all you need to know.”
Now some Bucs fans were hollering on social media ripping Koetter for not playing Jones. Joe can only repeat that when he last saw Jones in a meaningful practice which was in training camp in August, Jones never demonstrated that he was anything special nor should be given quality carries.
Clearly, when he has played, to use one of Joe’s favorite Koetter lines, Jones didn’t exactly remind anyone of Gale Sayers.
Right now, with three games left in his rookie season, Jones sure looks like a total whiff of a draft pick.
December 9th, 2018 at 5:07 pm
The entire roster outside of 4 or 5 players sucks. They prove that on the field more times than not. The race to the basement is on!!!!
December 9th, 2018 at 5:09 pm
I’m just at a total loss for words. From the top to the bottom. Need I say more?
December 9th, 2018 at 5:10 pm
Of course his body language sucked he was getting killed on every play. Oline once again was beyond embarrassing
December 9th, 2018 at 5:13 pm
Or Dirk is just an idiot. After all he did keep Mike Smith and still keeps George Warhop.
December 9th, 2018 at 5:14 pm
Add Noah Spence, Roberto Aquayo and Vernon Hargraves to the mix and you get a pretty good picture of Jason Licht’s expertise in franchise building. Add the immortal Vita Vea, Caleb Bennenoch and JayMiss Winnone to the ledger and it’s pretty clear that this dumpster fire has been raging for awhile.
Time to blow this trash heap up and start again
December 9th, 2018 at 5:16 pm
Lots of misses every year…
Any posts coming on that dominate performance from cancer93 today…. force feed us how great he is when he makes one of his 2 good plays a year but crickets when he is mauled like a ragdoll from goodwill
December 9th, 2018 at 5:18 pm
On second thought, Jones HAS to be better than Jeremy McNichols; at least Jones made the final roster.
December 9th, 2018 at 5:18 pm
Blame Licht fire Licht
December 9th, 2018 at 5:19 pm
Ronald Jones is pretty close to being a certain bust as a high second round pick in his rookie year. Yet he doesn’t even qualify as the worst second round pick in Licht’s tenure (Aguayo). He does seem to be worse than fellow 2nd round busts Noah Spence and ASJ though.
Licht is so wonderful. We really need to give him a 10 year extension, right Joe?
December 9th, 2018 at 5:24 pm
How can anyone evaluate him running behind this Offenseive Line?
December 9th, 2018 at 5:25 pm
Dirk just doesn’t trustyoung RBs, especially with his job on the line. This is the same BS he did to Peyton Barber. He doesn’t give the young RBs enough opportunities to do anything.
December 9th, 2018 at 5:34 pm
I still haven’t seen enough of Rojo to call him a bust. Jesus, he can’t really be much worse than the other RBs on this roster. If we could ever get the kid in space, maybe he could do something. He’s certainly got more speed than the other RBs.
December 9th, 2018 at 5:35 pm
Let’s see what happens next year with Jones before throwing in the towel on him. It’s easy to sit here and say he’s a bust. Let’s give him another training camp and probably a new coach and see if he picks it up.
December 9th, 2018 at 5:39 pm
He may or may not be a bust..the oline is so horrible…no rookie with confidence issues should be forced to run behind it
December 9th, 2018 at 5:42 pm
I did see Jones as one of the first tacklers down the field on special teams so we know he at least has speed, and desire. The fact clueless Koetter didn’t give him one carry today tells me Koetter can’t coach, more then Jones is a bust. Jones will be back next year, Koetter won’t. I’m not judging the play of anyone the rest of the year until a real H.C. gets a crack at coaching them
December 9th, 2018 at 5:43 pm
If the Bucs drafted any young RB outside of Barkley, DK wouldn’t play them. His loyalty is to Quiz, just like it was to Martin (veteran RBs), a good coach designs plays to utilize their players skills.
Preseason, he throws a pass to ROJO that looked pretty good when he lined him up outside, where has that play been. How many RB screens have we run this year and last, my guess is between 5 – 10, give it to Barber and Jones in space, but we ran that Hump receiver screen (which works from time to time) until the cows come home. We just have talented players, we do not out scheme any teams with our offense.
December 9th, 2018 at 5:45 pm
Guice was the pick but licht has been making poor personnel moves past 5 years to get the bucs to 6-10
December 9th, 2018 at 5:47 pm
#lichtmyb*lls
You can try to be this bad at drafting in the second round.
2014: ASJ – Jackwagon
2015: D. Smith – Lazy, zero fire
2015: A. Marpet – Is he all that good?
2016: N. Spence – Nothing
2016: R. Aguayo – Total embarrassment
2017: J. Evans – Is he all that good?
2018: R. Jones – Joke
2018: M.J. Stewart – Nope
Dirk and Jason are both done.
I hope the Glaziers have already started talking to a new GM or Team President type to evaluate the coaching candidates and the roster on this team.
December 9th, 2018 at 5:50 pm
Peyton sucks!!
December 9th, 2018 at 5:50 pm
Yup. I told my son during the draft that the only RB out of the top 10 projected backs that I didn’t want was Ronald Jones. He only had great games against weak competition and disappeared in big games, so of course he was our pick. This really sucks.
December 9th, 2018 at 5:50 pm
Or maybe just Koetter stinks. Wouldn’t surprise me if he’s decent with the new coach
December 9th, 2018 at 5:53 pm
Alvin, good RBs don’t need space, they just need a crack.
December 9th, 2018 at 5:53 pm
Thin legged fella who couldn’t average a yard per carry in the preseason. Well…not what you hope for with the 38th pick. When Lil’ Quiz Rodgers comes in before you do…you might be a bust.
December 9th, 2018 at 5:54 pm
Agreed maybe Koetter is worse than it appears. I bet all our players will reach a new level of play with a new coach exactly like our defense did
December 9th, 2018 at 5:54 pm
Joe, it’s literally his first year in the nfl. Our leading rusher is our qb and I’m pretty sure he rushed for less than 50 yards. You’re making a fool of yourself. Give him some time
December 9th, 2018 at 5:56 pm
Hodad, Koetter is coaching for his job. He sees Jones everyday in practice and still didn’t give him a carry. THATS all I need to know about Jones.?
December 9th, 2018 at 6:02 pm
Just because Jones is a second round pick doesn’t mean he’s going to be good. RBs need instincts and vision. You can’t coach either. He has it or he doesn’t. Jones doesn’t.
December 9th, 2018 at 6:03 pm
Jones isn’t impressing anyone on the practice field….so he’s not going to get a shot in the games. Its that simple, you have to prove it on the practice field first and then do it consistently. Neither of those are occurring with Jones….not to say it wont happen down the road, maybe next year…but right now he’s shown nothing to inspire confidence from the coaching staff or teammates. If Jones were killing it in practice….you’d hear players chirping for the guy. For a 2nd rd pick not to contribute as a RB….not even on special teams….That’s garbage by your GM.
December 9th, 2018 at 6:11 pm
Koetter is a moron who should be fired. Force feed it to the kid- give him some confidence, show him you have real confidence in him. Koetter is a lousy leader- Bradley Clement is right
December 9th, 2018 at 6:24 pm
If there is one person that deserves to be fired above all others it’s Jason Licht. Jameis will be back, and I can agree with some arguments on bringing Koetter back, but Licht has been as bad as Dominick. The wins and losses don’t lie.
December 9th, 2018 at 6:44 pm
Nobody in the NFL can be good with this collection of garbage AKA the Bucs OL taking up space in front of them.
December 9th, 2018 at 6:56 pm
Idk, we all know how much Koetter dislikes rookie running backs. No s*** he is going to go with a guy he coached back in Atlanta as well as here over a rookie. I want to see what he looks like with a full year under his belt, plus some better coaching.
December 9th, 2018 at 7:14 pm
He played hard to get to the NFL to make millions. He doesn’t have the heart or will to care
December 9th, 2018 at 7:53 pm
I leaned over and said to my Son, “Well, you wanted to see Ronald Jones. Now you will.”
“Ahhhhhh, not so much. That was ‘Quizz checking in.”
December 9th, 2018 at 8:06 pm
I’m from Chicago and saw Gale Sayers in his prime. He said all he needed was 18 inches through the line and he would be off to the races. Most DB couldn’t keep up with him and when they did, he’d deek them out of their jockstraps. A work of art !
December 9th, 2018 at 8:08 pm
NPRSageBoy
“Add the immortal Vita Vea, Caleb Bennenoch and JayMiss Winnone to the ledger and it’s pretty clear that this dumpster fire has been raging for awhile.”
Vita is turning more into beast mode with every game and give Jameis a coach and an oline and you’ll probably be back S-ing his D like every after last weeks victory.
December 9th, 2018 at 8:09 pm
This is a team that should have been up 20-3 in the first half. I’m not down on the majority of the roster. Just the part this is underperforming the most… the QB and OL positions being the worst offenders. And yes, Jameis isn’t a good QB right now. Bring him back next season to play for whomever, but starting looking for answers at that position now.
December 9th, 2018 at 8:15 pm
ukinator
I saw a guy get called for roughing the passer after he pulled Dat Prescot down by his legs in the pocket for a sack. Gale Sayers prime would of been awesome.
December 9th, 2018 at 9:10 pm
Joe do some work. Why don’t YOU research how many plays a draft class gets for each team in the NFC South. You throw inflammatory “stories” and let the dogs provide content.
December 9th, 2018 at 10:12 pm
Jameis isntbthe problem. Jameis is great.
December 9th, 2018 at 11:11 pm
Should’ve just traded 1st and 2nd pick along with next years 1st to CLE and gotten RB Barkley….this year would’ve been a whole lot different
December 10th, 2018 at 8:12 am
There were so many other MUCH more accomplished backs coming out of college in the draft. Just sayin’!
December 10th, 2018 at 12:23 pm
I’m not sure how good Barkley would have been running behind this OL. Just got to say Turn Out the Lights the Partys over.
December 11th, 2018 at 11:31 am
We might as well not even drafted last year. Lichts picks all suck. We didnt even get one decent starter outta this draft class. With all the talent at running back and corner and safety we end up with nothing. This is all Lichts fault, fire him now.