Day 11 — Training Camp Notes & Observations
August 17th, 2015
It was an underwear football day at Bucs practice this afternoon –no hitting with Tampa Bay coming off a Saturday night preseason game.
Joe’s got highlights.
*Joe isn’t sure of the song or the name of the artist, but the singer keeps repeating the same lyrics over and over and over and over, “DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… ” If Joe didn’t know better, he would have thought it was Gene Simmons singing “Calling Dr. Love.” (Trivia: Simmons openly admits inspiration for the song came from watching The Three Stooges episode, “Men in Black.”)
*Doug Martin has not forgotten how to bite a football. He takes a handoff from Jameis Winston and rolls right and heads to the house, biting the football.
*The Bucs are practicing in half-underwear today. Helmets and shoulder pads but no leg pads. To give you an idea of how little hitting there is, linebackers will initially (softly) make contact with a ballcarrier and them pull up as if they are a victim of a stickup.
*Michael Jackson.
*Vincent Jackson hauls in a bomb from Jameis down the middle.
*Charles Sims up the middle. Joe seems to be seeing many more run plays than last week, especially between the tackles.
*Brace yourselves: Patrick Omameh is getting work in at first-team right tackle.
*ZZ Top.
*Jameis is flushed out of the pocket and rolls left. He throws on the run and perfectly hits VJax in the hands on a crossing pattern from the right. Couldn’t throw it any better. The blocking on the right side? Wwweeellllll….
*Jameis continues to throw to tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins and this time ASJ hauls it in down the right sideline for a big gain.
*Jacquies Smith is on floppy hat patrol with Orie Lemon, Kevin Pamphile and some others. Alterraun Verner had a family issue to attend and was not at practice. Sterling Moore was getting work at first team corner and at nickel.
*Jameis rolls right and is a little too high for Brandon Myers.
*Jameis throws deep to the left corner for VJax and Bradley McDougald camps under the can of corn and picks it (VJax didn’t even try to jump for the ball which Joe can’t blame him. Why rise up and blow out a leg in practice?). Jameis is so peeved, apparently, he chases McDougald down running back and forth to catch him. But Jameis didn’t run McDougald down in a Cam Newton sort of way.
*Jameis recovers quickly to find VJax over the middle for a nice gain.
*Jameis is a little out of sync with Mike Evans.
*Wide receiver screen: Mike Glennon to Tavarres King. Well executed.
*After practice, a handful of Bucs head to the ball machine for extra catching work. Kenny Bell is barked at and told he’s at his limit of 15 and it’s time for the next guy. Bell barks back,”Gimme 20.”
August 17th, 2015 at 6:49 pm
Gilkey would look better in Sons of Anarchy than on the Bucs roster.
August 17th, 2015 at 6:50 pm
Give him 30
August 17th, 2015 at 6:54 pm
Give him 40….or all he wants…..
August 17th, 2015 at 6:58 pm
Per: Joe
“*Joe isn’t sure of the song or the name of the artist, but the singer keeps repeating the same lyrics over and over and over and over, “DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… DJ… ” If Joe didn’t know better, he would have thought it was Gene Simmons singing “Calling Dr. Love.” (Trivia: Simmons openly admits inspiration for the song came from watching The Three Stooges episode, “Men in Black.”)”
Joe was it this song?
Lil Wayne – Go D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNS-Ho5tWo0
August 17th, 2015 at 6:59 pm
Lil Wayne – Go DJ
August 17th, 2015 at 7:03 pm
Nice that they’re working on the hands with receivers and dbs but it wouldn’t hurt to see those linebackers going over there as well because they need to be able to haul in ints in this defense as well.
August 17th, 2015 at 7:05 pm
Any news on Hall’s injury?
August 17th, 2015 at 7:09 pm
I was there today and noticed Gilkey back in at center. The only reason I even noticed is because the entire offensive line moved, but the ball wasn’t snapped. At this point, I feel like the Gilkey at center is just to drive everyone nuts. It’s working.
August 17th, 2015 at 7:24 pm
Any info on Joey Iosefa and how he is doing? Didn’t see him play Sat.
Have the bucs written him off already?
August 17th, 2015 at 7:36 pm
What do the coaches see in Gilkey. Damn the guy really hasnt improved. He hurt us lastyear, continues in practice, and preseason. No other team would have him on their roster. Almost every other team drafts an olinemen in the later rounds and gets a starter. All we have are projects. Come on guys. Jeez. Please tell me that k. Edwards and K. Pamphile werent wasted picks. That other OL freeagents arent garbage. We got to bring in a 31 year old guy with knee issues to probably start. We have 5 tackles. One may be a starter, and 4 are only depth? Please send Warhop packing if he cant get the best out of his players. Lets get this train going. We need a winning season. Go Bucs!!!
August 17th, 2015 at 7:45 pm
I heard Alexander was getting first team reps at mlb. Is this true Joe?
August 17th, 2015 at 8:57 pm
You morons working out against Gilkey are really showing how little you watched the game.
I’m rewatching it now and the guy hasn’t missed a pass block and has done well run blocking.
The guy is a guard, not a center. He is working at being a center. He had never played the position before when he was forced to start against the Bengals.
You guys really are clowns.
August 17th, 2015 at 8:58 pm
Why is gilkey still snapping the ball? I don’t know why Lovie continues shove these players down our throat. Makes me miss Schaino. I have zero confidence in Lovie to get Jameis going in the right direction.
August 17th, 2015 at 9:04 pm
@drdneast,
We are saying we don’t want him at center!!!!! I’m open to him playing guard (even though he was awful at guard last year), but I never want to see him snap the ball again. I mean like never.
August 17th, 2015 at 9:16 pm
No drdneast you are wrong, Gilkey is an awful player at any position on an NFL. His highlight film from his NFL days would grade out negative on PFF.
August 17th, 2015 at 9:16 pm
Yes..keep Gilkey far way from center.
August 17th, 2015 at 9:18 pm
PT- Read the article about it Joe wrote earlier today.
All the grades I read on Gilkey play at G this weekend were positive. I think too many people are conflating improved G play with a bad Center snap & exchange.
August 17th, 2015 at 9:46 pm
Gilkey is an ok guard. But he has a LOT of work to do ar center. Im fine with him practicing at center, if he is the back up then he needs all the work can get. Ideally id love to see marpet be the back up center, but being a rookie he has to focus on being a guard before he can even think about center.
August 17th, 2015 at 10:07 pm
hardy has his unit playing extremely well. Kudos to the lbs.
August 17th, 2015 at 10:43 pm
Keep Gilkey AND Evans away from center. Move Ali Marpet to center. Move Evans to his guard spot.
Problem solved. Oline fixed.
August 17th, 2015 at 11:16 pm
Agree totally with Buccaneer Bonzai. But I would fire Gilkey and his protector, WarFLOP, who just keeps trying to start his pet no matter how that causes the Buc’s to lose. He knows that Gilkey is no competition for Marpet at RG. There is no way that Koetter should be putting up with WarFLOP’s stupid schemes. He needs to be finding ways to beat his former team, the Browns, instead of helping them by putting Gilkey back at Center with the first string!!!
August 18th, 2015 at 12:16 am
I agree owlykat, we all know that gilkey is not and never will be a center. I played center from age 10 to high school and you do not botch snaps like that. Too many of those last season and this season. Maybe backup guard material?
August 18th, 2015 at 7:13 am
dndneast is WARHOP
August 18th, 2015 at 9:08 am
OK–Gilkey, Glennon, Carter and Warhop–package deal for a young aggressive defensive end
August 18th, 2015 at 8:14 pm
I was hoping to see a bit more of Reid Fragel.
Just think- if he developed into a wall on the front line-,his nickname could be
“Fragel Rock”
( lmao!! )