Underwear Football Practice Notes
May 25th, 2022
Bucs underwear football practice Wednesday.
Some notes from Bucs underwear football practice today. Once again, a disclaimer: This is underwear football. There is no hitting of any sort. No tackling. No pads. Just shorts, a uniform jersey and a helmet. Think flag football without the flags.
* Scotty Miller raced in from the right side to near midfield but he had to stop in order for Blaine Gabbert’s pass not to sail behind him. Yeah, Miller caught it.
* Tyler Johnson down the left sideline and Kyle Trask overthrows him.
* Trask is flushed to his left but avoids the rush, pumps once and ropes a pass to Deven Thompkins in traffic down the left seam as Thompkins then turned to the post.
* Trask hits Miller on the right sideline but Joe wasn’t sure if it was inbounds or not due to the wall of humanity standing on the sideline.
* There is a run! Gio Bernard runs around the left corner and up the left sideline.
* Gabbert throws left but nobody’s home. The ball lands on the turf. There is an awful lot of hollering.
* Gabbert throws a bubble screen to the right for the immortal Cyril Grayson, who quickly turns on the jets and flies up the right side.
* Gabbert throws to the right sideline incomplete. Joe could not see the intended target but Zyon McCollum took credit for the pass defense. He raised his right arm flashing the standard “No. 1” symbol.
* Robert Hainsey and Nick Leverett take turns snapping the ball at center with the first team. Yeah, so too is Ryan Jensen. Hainsey sure looks like he has bulked up.
* Trask to Bernard for a short pass down the middle and Bernard hauls it in from the crowd.
* Gabbert with a perfect belt-high pass to the right that is about six inches from J.J. Howland who seemed to alligator-arm the ball. Joe isn’t sure if the pass touched his fingertips. Almost like the pass was too perfect and Howland took his eye off the ball to turn upfield.
* Gabbert hits rookie tight end Ko Kieft with a short pass on the right side. This Kieft sure seems to be a better receiver as a tight end than he was given credit for coming out of Minnesota.
* Gabbert is run out of the pocket to the left by many red (defense) jerseys. That’s a sack.
* Miller is in triple-coverage on the left side and Gabbert somehow gets him the ball.
* Offensive line goes right as does Gabbert for a step or two, but then he quickly pivots and throws left to Grayson along the left sideline.
* Gabbert throws to Breshad Perriman short over the middle and Perriman is coming in from the right side. But the pass was way ahead of Perriman who dove for the ball but couldn’t come up with it.
* Gabbert tries to hit Jaelon Darden along the left sideline but it seems the ball hung up in the air a little too much trying to float the ball over a defender. Antoine Winfield came racing in, skied and broke up the play. Mike Edwards was also there on coverage.
* Trask tries to go high to connect with Tyler Johnson on the left side but Edwards goes higher to break up the play.
* Same play this time with Winfield in coverage. And this time Johnson hangs onto the ball.
* In a two-minute drill, from about 15 yards out, Trask finds Travis Jonsen open over the middle for a touchdown.
May 25th, 2022 at 3:26 pm
Yeah, Ko Kieft might be “OK” as a pass target:
1. Once again, he hails from the run-heavy U of Minnesota offense. Lots of run blocking, lots of stacked boxes, and probably little opportunity for a TE to develop into a pass-catcher.
2. He catches with his hands. That’s a plus, too many blocking TEs are body catchers.
He also played some basketball. My guess is that he’s more athletic than folks realize.
May 25th, 2022 at 3:29 pm
Was Trask as good as you made him sound today?
May 25th, 2022 at 3:39 pm
Sounds like Johnson has worked off the cheeseburgers early…..that’s a good sign.
May 25th, 2022 at 4:05 pm
How cool will it be to see Ko Kieft reminding us of Alstott catching passes!
May 25th, 2022 at 4:20 pm
I’m glad Perriman was able to catch a pass in practice without getting injured…
Fingers crossed.
May 25th, 2022 at 4:35 pm
i am liking this Ko Keift pic. blocking and can also catch passes!
May 25th, 2022 at 4:35 pm
Kieft is the sixth olineman. Gonna continue with the two TE set with Otton.
May 25th, 2022 at 6:14 pm
I can envision a 2 TE-set, with Lenny and Kieft in backfield. Run? Pass?
Great notes as usual, Joes. They get us fans excited.
May 25th, 2022 at 6:17 pm
Agree Viking Ko is the extra lineman at short yardage / run /goal line who can make the occasional catch
May 25th, 2022 at 6:57 pm
Did you see the video on the main site where #80 caught the ball then juked the defender out of his soul like Chronicles of Riddick? It was so sweet I bit on it too!
May 25th, 2022 at 7:03 pm
Joe. You actually saw Trask pass? More than once? OMG. Give us some opinions, please!
May 25th, 2022 at 7:07 pm
Anyone see the video on the main site where #80 caught the ball then juked the defender out of his soul like in Chronicles of Riddick? It was so sick I bit on it! It’s gonna be a while before he lives that down and this is underwear football
May 25th, 2022 at 7:47 pm
You have to throw to Ko so you don’t telegraph plays.
Alstott mowing down the secondary is a welcome memory. Cool if Ko can really go!
May 25th, 2022 at 8:08 pm
Seemed to have less bad throws than Gabbert.
May 25th, 2022 at 8:16 pm
Trask and Gabbert are even playing underwear QB poorly.
On the plus side, Kieft. I hope he’s breakout and a future Pro Bowler. Would be a great story.
May 25th, 2022 at 10:52 pm
It’s only a hunch and feeling that I think Licht hit another homer with this draft class, but we will see soon enough. I’m going to go on a limb and say we’ll have a perfect season. Will someone notify the 72’ Dolphins to get ready to pass the torch. Suh and Gronk are both coming back for Brady’s final Super Bowl Ring. It’s going to be epic 😂
May 26th, 2022 at 8:25 am
Marine Buc, that was funny! Kudos!
May 26th, 2022 at 12:13 pm
Joe Says:
“Joe. You actually saw Trask pass? More than once? OMG. Give us some opinions, please!
Seemed to have less bad throws than Gabbert.”
LOL Joe can’t bring himself to say something positive about Trask. Has to put it in not-as-bad language. Sad.
May 26th, 2022 at 12:25 pm
Question: I only see Zyon mentioned once.
Are the QB’s not picking on the rookie or is he blanketing his receivers?
It will be interesting to watch Zyon once the big dogs enter practice.
May 26th, 2022 at 12:28 pm
“In a two-minute drill, from about 15 yards out, Trask finds Travis Jonsen open over the middle for a touchdown.”
No no no no no! That can’t be! I’ve read all of Joe’s negative articles on Trask and he has to suck. And, our very own FSU-fan-Jameis-jersey-wearing-couch-potato Rod Munch has posted numerous eloquent comments right here on how he has personally seen and studied Trask videos on YouTube and Trask can’t throw!
May 26th, 2022 at 12:36 pm
So based on Joe’s notes Trask was 4-6 / 1 TD. Shhh … don’t tell the haters.
May 26th, 2022 at 3:54 pm
What do you want Joe to do, get on all four and polish Trask’s knob? Joe isn’t sure he was better than Gabbert yesterday — in underwear football. Is that good or bad? No clue.
You want Joe to lie and say he looked like Dan Marino???
Joe believes readers expect more from Joe than naked cheerleading. If Joe thought he was good, Joe would write Trask was good. If Trask was bad Joe would type Trask is bad.
Overall, Trask and Gabbert — in Joe’s eyes — were about even yesterday. Be your own judge if that is good or bad.
If you don’t like honest critique, Joe is confident you can find some website that claims Gabbert and/or Trask looked like Pat Mahomes. That way you can hug your Gators stuffed doll tonight in bed and sleep soundly.
May 26th, 2022 at 4:01 pm
No idea as Joe is not on the sidelines and has no clue what the inspiration/motivation/rationale is for the playcalls in underwear football or why the quarterbacks choose to throw to a certain receiver. And unfortunately, we don’t have access to Bucs practice video so we can’t rewind a play to see who is covering what receiver. Also remember often reporters have obstructed views from players standing on the sidelines/in the end zone.
Sadly, Todd Bowles doesn’t share this intel with media at his press conferences.
May 26th, 2022 at 7:42 pm
Joe,
If the Bucs had drafted Justin “Sack” Fields and he went 4-6 with a TD in practice you and 90% of your commenters would be shrieking like little girls.