In-Person Arm Review Of Ageless Tom Brady
December 3rd, 2020
A former Pro Bowl quarterback and longtime film guru got a chance to watch Tom Brady up close last month and talked about it this week, along with one thing he thinks is wrong with the Tampa Bay offense.
Of course, Joe was intrigued.
Back in 1989, Ron “Jaws” Jaworski ended his storied QB career with the Chiefs, where Bucco Bruce Arains was running backs coach and Father Dungy was defensive backs coach under defensive coordinator Bill Cowher.
Jaworski has scaled back his broadcasting career in recent years, but he still calls games on radio, and one was the Bucs-Giants game this year.
And his study of Tom Brady that Monday night in November left him excited for the Bucs and the 43-year-old quarterback.
“I think Tom is still the same player he was from a physical standpoint,” Jaworski told The Rich Eisen Show.
“I called the Bucs-Giants game earlier in the year and I watched Tom in warmup very closely. He was throwing with great velocity — deep ball, the deep out, comeback, far hash — all those difficult throws you have to make consistently in the NFL. He was making all those throws.”
Jaworksi went on to say he expects the Bucs to close out the season with some huge wins.
“I think the Tampa Bay Buccaneers offense is going to come back from this bye week and they are gonna just gut some people,” he said. “There is incredible talent on that offense. … Such a big upside when I look at the tape of that Bucs offense.”
All that optimism was tempered by one flaw Jaworski doesn’t understand.
“If there’s one thing that does puzzle me a little bit, they need to find a running back that can catch a ball out of the backfield because they’re getting some good matchups, you know, with linebackers and they’re not taking advantage of that,” Jaworski said. ” Of course, they’ve dropped a lot of balls. Leonard Fournette has not looked like a good receiving back.”‘
Joe’s very excited to see how the Bucs finish their final four games against the Vikings, Falcons (twice) and Lions.
If they sputter against that sad collective bunch, and miss the playoffs, it really will be one of the great choke jobs of this century. This loaded roster was 7-3.
December 3rd, 2020 at 10:07 am
I always liked Jaws
December 3rd, 2020 at 10:09 am
Can’t really disagree with anything Jaws says here…..
December 3rd, 2020 at 10:14 am
Vaughn. I still think of how natural that TD catch was. He made it look routine over his shoulder. The other two would’ve dropped it.
December 3rd, 2020 at 10:19 am
Great point Brad! I’d love to see Vaughn get some reps, but I’m afraid it’s not likely given Fournette is an excellent pass blocker and Vaughn is just a rookie. I think we just have to hope ROJO continues to improve in that department. He certainly looked a lot better catching the ball on his few targets against KC.
December 3rd, 2020 at 10:21 am
They should shred that Vikings Defense yes – but their offense will be no cakewalk. Overlook them and it will be “YOU LIKE THAT!” Part 2
December 3rd, 2020 at 10:34 am
joe – we are going to win this thing. tough 4 games as nothing in the nfl is given or easy. yes we are all freaked out but who isnt freaked out before any game? do you really think if we had the #1 seed and were on a bye and were playing a hot team you would be fully confident? any game the bucs play i am nervous and that doesnt change how good or bad they play. yes they should be playing better but this is trully a week to week league. we always look at tehe bucs based on the prior week and you cant. you need to look at them overall. right now 7-5. We should be 8-4 because of that stupid bears game.
lots of football to be played but this is what is in front of us:
win the next four, have the rams lose two and cardinals lose one game and we get the #5 spot. even then if we are playing the nfc east winner, i would still be nervous because any given sunday and any nfl win is something to be happy about so no such thing as givens.but facing the nfc east winner is our best shot probability wise to move onto the next round.
in terms of rams and cardinals, it isnt as bad as it sounds. if the rams and cardinals split their remaining two games and seattle beats the rams in seattle, and bucs win all four, it wont matter what happens in the other games. we can still get that 5 seed but damn that rams and bears loss really sting.
December 3rd, 2020 at 10:36 am
Except for his first NFL catch, smash, fumble, Ke’Shawn Vaughn has hands and I’m excited to see what he will do at #2 RB next year. It’s been obvious RoJo naturally has bricks for hands which is very unfortunate now that he’s busting of his running game shell.
December 3rd, 2020 at 10:45 am
Too bad JPP can’t run the ball because he catches the ball with 1.5 hands better than half of our stinking RB and WR groups.
December 3rd, 2020 at 10:48 am
What’s up with Shady?
No one seems to know.
December 3rd, 2020 at 10:52 am
I our Bucs want to be the best? Then run the table these last 4 games and go into the playoffs with momentum. I challenge them..Run the Table. Then you can say we got something. We shall see.
December 3rd, 2020 at 11:02 am
Seems like I’m seeing a trend developing Joe: let’s pick on the RBs receiving skills.
o RoJo: 27 catches – 40 targets – 67.5% – 161 yds – 4.0 yds/tgt
o Fournette: 28 catches – 37 targets – 75.7% – 171 yds – 4.6 yds/tgt
o McCoy: 10 catches – 14 targets – 71.4% – 61 yds – 4.4 yds/tgt
o Vaughn: 4 catches – 7 targets – 57.1% – 27 yds – 3.9 yds/tgt
None of them are exactly setting the world on fire, but Fournette seems be doing the best. His 75.7% catch % is very close to what he did in his 3 yrs with Minshew in JAX (77.0%), so there’s a certain consistency there. RoJo & McCoy? Not so much.
One thing that’s interesting about Fournette’s receiving this year: He’s got 171 total yds, and of that, 173 yds in Yards After the Catch (YAC). Wow, wonder what that stat tells us.
December 3rd, 2020 at 11:47 am
“I called the Bucs-Giants game earlier in the year and I watched Tom in warmup very closely. He was throwing with great velocity — deep ball, the deep out, comeback, far hash — all those difficult throws you have to make consistently in the NFL. He was making all those throws.”
How is this possible? The experts buc fans have gone on record stating, Brady is 43yrs old, father time is undefeated, no 43yrs old QB has been successful, his arm is shot, he can’t move in the pocket, he’ll get injured playing behind the bucs oline, He’s fragile, immobile, ……made of glass, will score 10pts a game, never be able to be among league leaders in yardage or team offense.
Jaws is just another national media figure who doesn’t do his homework and listen to the real experts. Plus his career was nothing compared to Bradys so he’s disqualified from offering anything of value. He was s@#$ in his playing career so he can’t comment. He would’ve know this had he spent a minute on jbf. Gtfoh. ..Philly boi!
December 3rd, 2020 at 12:31 pm
Run the ball
motion
play action
better defensive plan
we cant be stopped
December 3rd, 2020 at 1:05 pm
Jaws was about the only one to predict that Winston wasn’t going to have success here.
This is the best year ever to be in the playoffs as a wildcard… home field advantage will be next to nothing!
December 3rd, 2020 at 1:40 pm
The biggest difference between fournette and Jones is that once jones gets the ball he has potential to actually do something. It doesnt help to catch the ball 75% of the time only to get tackled right away for a gain of 1. Jones has shown that although he drops the ball a lot, he can make people miss and pick up yardage.
December 3rd, 2020 at 1:40 pm
Many years ago ran into Jaws in a bar down South during week leading up to a SB. Went up to him to ask a question, bet a friend he would answer Dan Marino (thats how long ago). I said to Jaws, “Best QB in the Game?”. He said, “yes I was” and walked away.
December 3rd, 2020 at 2:20 pm
Good god what are they paying Jason Licht? Too much if you ask me. Even Stevie Wonder could see that they need someone who Brady can check down to, and all Licht managed to find him was Fournette and a washed up Shady???
December 3rd, 2020 at 3:03 pm
Any knuckle dragger who has watched a recent Bucs game can see that Brady hasn’t lost a dang thing on his arm.
That being said, we don’t need to go all Dan Fouts every single drive.
December 3rd, 2020 at 3:59 pm
Jaws breaking down film is my single favorite part of nfl pregame shows ever. They should have done a video series called “Espn’s Monday Night Countdown Presents, Ron Jaworski Teaches The Game of Professional Football aka Jaws on Film.”
December 3rd, 2020 at 6:28 pm
Joe should be kissing 6 superbowl winning, age- defying, salary sacrificing, humble and professiinal, super competitive Tom Bradys ass. Instead of kicking it. Ya call it criticism, I call it a kicking sensation. Yo forgiven.
December 3rd, 2020 at 7:37 pm
Joe I’m not going to tell a lie, I was and am still concerned about Atlanta once Raheem was named interim coach. Players loved him in the beginning of the sad time called “the youth movement” where a lot of Bucs greats just got dropped and a new Coach who at the time was too young. But, everyone watching the games saw he was learning game management better than lockeroom “being to much of a friend ” so they said. Now he gets the Defense reigns and his views on how to run it. Im sure having Dirk Koetter siting down with Ryan and Jones having success in the past work out what ever kinks that needed to be done in that side of the ball and 1 of if not the only loss has been to the Saints since?
December 3rd, 2020 at 8:09 pm
Tom brady is doing good and the bucs are going to win
The super bowl in tampa I visoned it
December 4th, 2020 at 3:15 pm
Tony Romo said pretty much the same, not to mention Dan Orlovsky’s putting Arians on the hot spot
December 4th, 2020 at 7:06 pm
This loaded roster went from 6-2 to 7-5.
ugly November.