Todd Bowles Wants More Underneath Stuff From Trey Palmer
August 7th, 2024
So Trey Palmer caught another home run ball from Baker Mayfield at practice today, as Joe will detail in practice notes later.
Palmer’s chemistry with Mayfield certainly seems better this season.
After practice, Joe asked Todd Bowles about Palmer’s deep ball improvement this summer and if Bowles evaluates it that way.
Bowles took his answer slightly in another direction.
“Well, we know he can run,” Bowles began. “He’s been getting them. Obviously not as many by coverage has been taking it away, but that’s one thing I know he can do. We want to see the underneath stuff improve.”
Interesting take from Bowles. Palmer certainly seems behind rookie receiver Jalen McMillan when it comes to short routes and getting open in zones and in the middle of the field. McMillan, however, has not shown Joe that he’s a deep threat.
Big preseason ahead for both those guys.
August 7th, 2024 at 11:33 am
How long is it going to take JMac to steal Treys’ thunder?
August 7th, 2024 at 11:39 am
Bucs would be crazy if they can not get the ball to Palmer underneath and let him run…. just go copy Chiefs and Dolphin playbook on how they use Hill.
August 7th, 2024 at 11:52 am
LFG
August 7th, 2024 at 11:59 am
I completely understand what Todd Bowles is saying. Everyone knows Palmer has the speed to go deep, however, he’ll be a much better player if he can get open underneath i.e. against zone coverages, but it takes better route running and nuance. If Palmer can improve on the latter, this receiving core can be impossible to cover.
August 7th, 2024 at 12:25 pm
Jmac and Palmer should be tearing it up for years to come
August 7th, 2024 at 12:32 pm
secure the ball and don’t fumble it
August 7th, 2024 at 1:05 pm
kgn4life … ‘If Palmer can improve on the latter (route running and nuance), this receiving core can be impossible to cover.’
Bucs have a great mix of threats … Evans & Palmer mostly deep & intermediate; Godwin & McMillan mostly intermediate & short. Throw in Otton & White & Irving & Edmonds (all of them with good hands) and Mayfield has an abundance of receiving threats to throw to.
But as we saw in 2022 with Brady, our OLine has to buy Baker enough time (protection) to let the routes develop & to let Baker run through his reads or it’s all for naught. It’ll be interesting in the worthless preseason to see IF our Oline has actually improved, and HOPEFULLY get a sense of how good Coen is at play design & play calling.
August 7th, 2024 at 2:01 pm
DefR, right on
And last I checked they’re still calling it a football game, so……
August 7th, 2024 at 2:31 pm
Wants more underneath stuff because he knows Mayfield is wildly inaccurate when throwing downfield.
August 7th, 2024 at 6:27 pm
That’s right, Rod. Otherwise they’d throw every pass to the end zone, no doubt. lol
August 7th, 2024 at 7:04 pm
What do you mean, “Can he get open short?” Didn’t Joe do an article a couple of months ago about just that… Palmer should be used more in the short pass game because of the gadgets they put on their uniforms saying how open he got so quickly off the ball? Now all of a sudden, he can’t get open short/quickly?
August 7th, 2024 at 7:59 pm
“All’s he does is catch downfield bombs!”