A microcosm of Winston’s career
This exposes your bias in plain view. That first TD to Olave was a great throw, he put it where only Olave had a chance to catch it, Brees made these type of throws all the time and folks constantly praised him.....
The 2nd throw was a 50/50 ball that AT Perry (who inexplicably has been a healthy scratch all year) won.....
And folks much like the same detractors back in 2021 are acting like all of Jameis TD's are happy accidents or something.....my god.....
Yeah, no matter what anyone might think of Jameis, that TD to Olave was a hell of a throw. He's always been able to make those throws. Winston's issues have never been about arm strength and talent. His negatives, which are significant, are his lack of consistency and not reading the field well.
He's more than capable of forcing it into tight windows, he just misses those windows too often. Brees could do it consistently because his accuracy was second to none. Winston has never been all that accurate.
He's also not read defenses well. He's often late when identifying a blitz and going to a hot read. I'm trying to recall where he's done that well. There have been several still shots posted where he's either missed or ignored short/medium wide open options in early down and short yardage situations.
And of course, he's always had issues protecting the football. He throws a lot of interceptions, precisely because he tries to force it into those tight windows, or just made outright poor reads.
I genuinely want Winston to succeed, and the only time I've ever seen him do well was his injury shortened season when he was the starter from the outset under Payton.
I always wonder what things would have been like had he not been injured that season. I'm convinced they would have made the playoffs. Iirc, they missed getting in by one game. Winston would have been the difference in at least 1 of those losses.