Humphries Hiding In Weeds
October 24th, 2019
Set to explode?
If is not like it’s difficult at all for wide receivers to exploit the disgustingly bad Bucs secondary. So Joe wonders if a receiver who knows the Bucs’ secondary best might just turn around his otherwise mediocre season?
That would be Adam Humphries. The former Bucs slot receiver took his skills to Tennessee in the offseason.
Some Bucs fans believe that was a dire mistake. But one cannot argue with results and Humphries’ replacement, Chris Godwin, has been lighting it up this year.
Still, Humphries seems to be moving the chains like he always did, averaging just over nine yards a catch, but he has only caught 25 balls through seven games. He’s on pace to have the fewest yards receiving since he was a Bucs rookie undrafted free agent having a rookie quarterback throwing him passes.
Of course, one reason Humphries’ numbers might be low is that he had gimmick quarterback Marcus Mariota throwing (?) him the ball. Mariota is proof that just because a guy can hand off and just because he can run fast doesn’t mean he’s a quarterback. At some point you have to use your arm besides tossing pitchouts.
Now with Ryan Tannehill starting for the benched Mariota, Humphries had two of his better games this year since Tannehill took over (Mariota was pulled out of a game two weeks ago for lack of production).
So it would not surprise Joe one bit that with a quarterback who can throw a pass farther than 10 yards, and with Humphries knowing how to school Bucs’ defensive backs, Humphries could just blow up his former team.
And if that happens it may just be time for the Bucs to blow up this roster.
.@Titans receiver @adamhumphries13 will face his old team #GoBucs on Sunday. pic.twitter.com/Qv7pE9Eyj0
— Jim Wyatt (@jwyattsports) October 23, 2019
October 24th, 2019 at 4:16 pm
I have Humphries in a few of my GPP lineups as a boom or bust player on DraftKings. Betting against the Bucs defense is rarely a bad play in DFS.
October 24th, 2019 at 4:17 pm
Yup, makes perfect sense. If Hump has a great day, it’s “time for the Bucs to blow up this roster”. Which is exactly what the Panthers did last year when Humphries had a great game against them with 8 catches on 8 targets for 82 yards & 2 TDs. Oh wait, no they didn’t … they WON that game 42-28. Danged, my bad, I’ll have to keep looking.
October 24th, 2019 at 4:22 pm
Joe- the problem with waiting to blow up the roster after this game is they should have done it this off season. Licht should have been replaced as well. If it meant losing out on BA so be it. What needed to be done put us back another season. All signs point to this continuing next season. But we always have hope which is nice.
October 24th, 2019 at 4:29 pm
Maybe from a football standpoint but not a business standpoint.
Glazers have many millions of dollars invested in Jameis. Would have been very foolish not to try another method to turn that investment around. As in a coach with a proven track record for building quarterbacks.
Sort of like buying a truck for $20k and if the wipers don’t work parking the truck in a Walmart parking lot with a sign “Free to a Good Home” only because you didn’t like the service manager at dealer you bought the truck from.
October 24th, 2019 at 4:29 pm
Humphries is above average and overpaid. Godwin is a rising star and will break the bank. How the hell are we going to be able to afford him and Mike?
October 24th, 2019 at 4:31 pm
Nothing would be more Bucs than to have Humphries go 10 catches for 150 and 2 TD’s.
October 24th, 2019 at 4:49 pm
Good point Joe. But BA was not the only coach that could have tried to fix Jameis
There were other options out there if they wanted to really make wholesale changes. Blow up was not an option.
October 24th, 2019 at 4:51 pm
“Hump going to tell OC and other receivers about the pitiful corners and their weaknesses
Tons of slants and crossing patterns
Mariota held down 2 of the most underrated and talented receivers in Cory Davis and AJ Brown
These 2 are 3x better than MEME and Godwin
Just watch these 2 receivers
2 words
Physicality”
Son of Kobe Faker
October 24th, 2019 at 5:10 pm
One of the biggest offseason mistakes made by Licht/Arians was letting Hump go. He is absolutely killing it for the Titans. He is somewhere between a reliable checkdown and an across-the-middle late WR for them too. Not to mention he did fine as the Bucs PR. Two buffoons continue to ruin this team. Even DK saw the value in Hump. How’s Bobo and Perriman working out? Yeah. Hump will get 100 yards Sunday and run through our “totally fixed” secondary at will.
October 24th, 2019 at 5:14 pm
Kobe your crazy to think that even all their WRs put together would be better than Godwin let alone ME13 who has bin killing it since he came into the league 5 years ago. Get your head checked on that one bro
October 24th, 2019 at 5:16 pm
STOP! He’s having his worst season since he was a rookie. Your bar for “killing it” must be painfully low.
October 24th, 2019 at 5:16 pm
“Glazers have many millions of dollars invested in Jameis.”
Actually the Glazers realize they have many millions WASTED on him by keeping him this past year. They should have let him go, never drarfted him really, but hindsight is always 20/20. Or is it? JJV was right. They should have blown this up last year but couldn’t afford to with salary cap issues and true, they did need to confirm what they already know. Many people like to say “find out what they have.” Oh, they know. Everybody knows. Licht, being under a deal, is under a LOT less presusure to make Winston work out…or to win this year. So let guys chomp on that.
October 24th, 2019 at 5:23 pm
“STOP” He’s having his worst….”
Nope, not when you look at what those catches do. 25 catches in 3 games started and 7 games total for 9.2 average is not bad but when you look at him moving the chains, yes he IS killing it. He is making plays, not just getting garbage yards when they are down by three TDs. He is not so much replaced by Godwin as he is by Perriman, who has not been good.
Someone would look at Winston’s yards etc and think he’s a good QB. But we know better. It’s not the stats, but what is being done with the play.
October 24th, 2019 at 5:35 pm
Wise Joe wrote this one.
October 24th, 2019 at 5:45 pm
“Anonymous
AJ Brown is Godwin with muscles
Dude is going to eat Sunday”
Son of Kobe Faker
October 24th, 2019 at 6:13 pm
These are the types of scenarios where the Bucs find themselves on the short end of the stick. Somehow Humphries will go off and it will feel like a kick to the seeds. He was way too pricey to retain so I don’t fault him for leaving though.
October 24th, 2019 at 6:16 pm
Joe
But what if the brakes don’t work? Lemon? Ijs
We got no brakes (def)
October 24th, 2019 at 6:27 pm
Yeah Joe, those gimmick QBs ………
So glad we got the “Pro Ready” one instead.
And I’m not a Mariota supporter.
October 24th, 2019 at 6:38 pm
They are hardly using him. He’s only started a few games.
October 24th, 2019 at 6:53 pm
If Mariota is a “gimmick” QB, what the hell is Jay Miss?
October 24th, 2019 at 6:57 pm
Godwin is the two, so he basically replaced DJax. Licht thought Bobo Wilson would suffice to replace Hump, even though he didn’t even bother to stay in Tampa during cut day.
October 24th, 2019 at 7:29 pm
F%^K Hump. . . he is not a Buc anymore
October 24th, 2019 at 8:17 pm
We’re missing that dude big time.
October 24th, 2019 at 9:01 pm
Doubt it.
October 24th, 2019 at 9:28 pm
Wish him the best. He is a worker.
October 24th, 2019 at 9:31 pm
Son of Kobe Father
Lay off
The Titan receivers better than Evans and Godwin
Lol
They almost could beat the Chargers
Dude what are you on
October 25th, 2019 at 12:05 am
Blow it up?
They just did.
They need linemen and DBs.
The only thing to blowup is QB
October 25th, 2019 at 8:10 am
Humphries 105 yards, 2 TDs???? Seems reasonable given the Bucs pass D, unless someone knocks him out of the game…..
October 25th, 2019 at 8:44 am
Letting Hump go was poor move. Bet he ends up in New England one day and gets a ring… Does that sound familiar?
October 25th, 2019 at 11:04 am
Humphries went from a real QB who can throw to a game-manager and check-down artist.
Humphries will always be thankful to Jameis Winston for getting him PAID … same with Kelvin Benjamin, Rashaad Greene and Cam Brate.
October 25th, 2019 at 1:35 pm
I snagged him in my fantasy league just for this game 🤦♂️🤷♂️ I mean if hes going to I might as well benefit from it
October 25th, 2019 at 6:53 pm
Bucs corners have a problem with speed, that aint Adam Humphries. The Joe’s are pathetic honestly talking this guy up like he was the best slot reciever in the league. He is not the premier receiver there he just gets paid like it. If anything if we let him go off then start all the rookies no need to have the vet corners continue to start with the worst pass defense, I say give it to the rookies and let them get the experience for 2020, only corners in danger are Davis and vh3