The only garbage time stats Jameis has based on standard garbage time metrics (4th quarter down 2+ TDS) was during the Bucs game. Also, if it is such a small sample size, how do we use that to determine performance, especially when Derek Carr's numbers wasn't that far off. Makes you wonder.
I'm a big fan of Jameis' ceiling but that's besides the point. How can we say that Jameis ran an offense well with one coach and bad with another and what we see on tape is what we have but then turn around and say that coaching held Derek Carr back and ignore everything that tape shows us? Derek Carr played poorly to start the season and poorly to finish it?
Tape was out there for both.
He's ours now and let's just hope DA/PC can actually make this work
They were down by 15 with 2:22 in the 4th when he racked up a bunch of yards and then threw a reckless pass that probably wasn’t even intended for Callaway, who caught it for a TD. Call it garbage time or whatever. But the bulk of his “good” numbers this season came when the team was in scramble mode trying to come back because they were down.
Between bad decisions, bad throws and failing to properly identify protections and hot reads, it was brutal to watch. And that was WITH Michael Thomas.
And if you really want to talk about sample size? Let’s look at Winston and Carr’s entire careers. One of them finished 3rd on mvp voting, consistently had bad defenses playing for one of the most dysfunctional organizations in sports and still led them to the playoffs just two years ago during a season in which his coach was fired. The other one had a promising 5-game stretch with one of the greatest coaches of this generation, but was generally disappointing beyond that, despite being surrounded by great weapons in Tampa.
Jameis is clearly smart and has great arm talent and I hope it works out for him well elsewhere. But his performance was awful in 2022 and, unlike Carr, he doesn’t have years of positive play to support the idea that 2022 was a one-off.