One Hiccup With Offense
October 30th, 2020
Victim (sort of).
Damn if this doesn’t seem like nitpicking, but hang with Joe here.
Yes, the Bucs have a fantastic offense that leads the league in points scored. Park-violating, home-invading, NFLPA-ignoring, down-counting Bucs quarterback Tom Brady is hot as fire. Ronald Jones has blossomed into the fourth-best back in the NFL. Future Hall of Fame tight end, foot-rubbing Rob Gronkowski is slowly but surely getting back to what he was in his final years with the Belicheats.
Damn it is good to be a Bucs fan right now.
But there is one little element the Bucs could work on to make the offense even better. A simple little thing called “catching the ball.”
It seems Brady has had more receivers drop passes on him than anyone else in the NFL. Carson Wentz is close (20). Teddy Bridgewater (entering last night’s game) was third with 16 passes dropped.
Again, you could say this is nitpicking. Joe won’t argue. But imagine if the Bucs could drop down the drops, how lethal could this offense be?
QBs with most drops by receivers this season:
Tom Brady – 21
Carson Wentz – 20
Teddy Bridgewater – 16
Ben Roethlisberger – 15
Matthew Stafford – 14
Daniel Jones – 14
Matt Ryan – 14
Josh Allen – 14
Russell Wilson – 14
Patrick Mahomes – 13
Drew Brees – 13
Kyler Murray – 12— NFL Stats (@NFL_Stats) October 29, 2020
October 30th, 2020 at 12:06 am
Man, it feels good to be nitpicking instead of discussing next year’s draft.
October 30th, 2020 at 12:08 am
On Oct. 30!
October 30th, 2020 at 12:19 am
Ronald Jones with all 21 of those drops. Dahh, just kidding – “only” about half of all the drops..
October 30th, 2020 at 12:21 am
Our receivers are quite obviously not used to the ball hitting them in their hands. Give them time.
October 30th, 2020 at 12:29 am
HC with a strategy +
HC handpicked staff signed +
Handpicked staff coaching their A$$ Off +
Eliminate Dead Wood +
Strong draft +
Amazing FA signings +
= a winning football team still trending upwards and towards the playoffs!!!!
Suck it Haters!!!
Go Bucs!
In BA I Trust!
October 30th, 2020 at 12:31 am
@Gofortheface30
You nailed it bro!🤣
October 30th, 2020 at 12:54 am
How many of those drops were touchdowns? Isn’t it at least 4?
October 30th, 2020 at 2:39 am
These comments so far are GOLD
October 30th, 2020 at 4:09 am
Let’s not forget Brady has outright missed some wide open receivers too since we’re not picking. That’s good for a few hundred more yards and a few tds! 😅🤣😂
October 30th, 2020 at 4:43 am
It’s not nitpicking, stop sucking and catch the ball
October 30th, 2020 at 6:25 am
There’s nothing more irritating than watching a perfectly thrown ball doink off the hands of a receiver, let alone a helmet!
Jones has dropped more “gimme” passes out of the backfield than I care to watch.
“Nit-picking”?!
On this, I have to side with Clean House. CATCH the damn ball!
October 30th, 2020 at 7:03 am
Why not have a sign on RoJo’s back; “Don’t throw the ball to me.” That would reduce the drop rate considerably.
October 30th, 2020 at 7:04 am
That was one of the excuses for the former Qb here…excuse
# 73 i should say.
Doesnt seem to stop this team from winning
Our running backs have helped with this stat
Thats you rojo. Thats you vaughn. Thats you shady who should never see the field again
October 30th, 2020 at 7:47 am
That last one Rojo dropped against the Raiders was so frustrating. Screen play, wide open, no defender within 15 yards, hit Rojo square in the hands…
Then? Rojo, we have Fournette. Don’t worry about it, Lenny can catch. You go have a seat for a while and think about that!
October 30th, 2020 at 7:52 am
Watching Tom he throws a lot of low balls that make for harder catches for our receivers. The upside is that the balls are impossible to intercept. Happy with that!
October 30th, 2020 at 8:18 am
Out of all the trolls I like clean house the best 😂. I can’t stand oneilbucs😂😂😂.
October 30th, 2020 at 8:49 am
That’s why it sucks that Godwin has missed games cause he has the best hands on the team. He has probably the best hands in the NFL.
October 30th, 2020 at 8:54 am
Youngbucs like I really care about how you feel cookie 🍪 😄😁😆😅🤣 ….
October 30th, 2020 at 9:01 am
Youngbucs cookie who cares how you feel lol lol 😆😅🤣…
October 30th, 2020 at 9:02 am
So
October 30th, 2020 at 9:02 am
Youngbucs cookie who cares how you feel lol lol 😆😅🤣…
October 30th, 2020 at 9:05 am
At least half of those drops are Rojo.
October 30th, 2020 at 9:51 am
Man it feels good to have a real QB!!!
October 30th, 2020 at 9:54 am
I think the majority of those drops came early in the year.
October 30th, 2020 at 9:54 am
The old man even has a better deep ball!!!!!
October 30th, 2020 at 12:35 pm
9 of those were in the first 2 weeks. That makes 12 over five games. 2 per games. Seems fine.
October 30th, 2020 at 1:08 pm
A lot of those were in one game and Rojo has only really dropped like 5 or so… He’s caught way more than he dropped but it does seem like he drops it a lot
October 30th, 2020 at 2:40 pm
Man only if we lead the league in passing yards this year like ATL….
October 30th, 2020 at 4:12 pm
I’d like to know how many of those were in the first 3 games when the Bucs were just starting to tune things up.
October 30th, 2020 at 5:39 pm
How bout that pass to a wide open receiver that hit him in the head haha does that count as a drop too lol idk even who that WR was but I don’t think he’s a buc anymore
October 31st, 2020 at 12:26 am
Maybe if someone could squeeze a couple PSI out of the balls…
October 31st, 2020 at 2:16 am
Most of those drops were earlier in the season, there really hasn’t been anything I can think of in the last few weeks. But yeah, I mean go back to the Carolina game and 3 dropped TDs. Tom has 18 TDs right now, 2nd in the league, if they hadn’t dropped those, he’d be 1st.