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Jameis Winston: Bucs Hope At Quarterback In 2020 Needs Blocking To Succeed
Mark Walton Accused Of
This is a very tough pill to swallow for Bucs fans and rightfully should be. Jameis’ talent is undeniable yet he has already thrown 18 inter- ceptions this season and will likely throw more. This style of football is unsustainable of course, but it is not totally on the shoulders of Jameis. In his first season Bruce Ari- ans has been far from good and should shoulder much more of the blame than Win- ston.
JAMEIS WINSTON
Winston has been stuck in an incredibly difficult situ- ation since his drafting.
Jason Licht has been flat out bad and yet he continues to be the general manager for the team even though Bruce Arians is starting to take on more of Licht’s duties. These two have put some great re- ceivers around Jameis but have failed to provide their quarterback with the protec- tion that he desperately needs to succeed. How can Win- ston succeed with No block- ing? The Buccaneers has to address this in 2020.
NFL Scouts Believe Tua Tagovailoa Could Still Be Top Ten Pick
TUA TAGOVAILOA Tua Tagovailoa’s draft
stock will probably be im- pacted by his hip injury, but it sounds like he still has a very good chance to go in the top 15, at the very least.
Three NFL evaluators said that they would still expect Tagovailoa to go in the top half of the first round, and possibly still in the top ten.
“Right now, I’d still say top-15 for him,” one scout said. “Every year, you have 15 blue-chip players, and he’s one of them.”
“Let’s just say he did fall out of the top-five or top-10,” another longtime NFL evalu- ator said. “I think there would be a pretty big scramble to take him, even if you had to redshirt him next year. ... May not go top two or three just because there’s uncertainty there and some reservations with all the injuries. But, like Miami and ‘Tanking for Tua,’ they’ve won a couple games and are going to be picking third or fourth probably. Would he get past a team like that? I don’t know.”
Miami Dolphins running back Mark Walton was waived by the team on Tues- day morning following his lat- est bout of legal trouble, and his NFL career could be over if the allegations against him are true.
The Dolphins announced in a statement that they are parting ways with Walton after they were “made aware of a police matter” involving the 22-year-old.
According to multiple re- ports, Walton was charged with aggravated battery of a pregnant woman after he al- legedly punched a woman who is five weeks pregnant with his child “several times in the face and head.”
Walton, a former star at the University of Miami, is
MARK WALTON
currently serving a four-game suspension for violating the NFL’s personal conduct and substance abuse policies. That suspension stemmed from separate incidents involving the police, but Dolphins head coach Brian Flores said ear- lier this month that Walton’s behavior had been good since he joined the team and that he would be back following the suspension.
Punching Woman Who Is
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Bruce Arians On Bucs’ Plan: 'Win Them All'
The Buccaneers are 3-7, and have lashed themselves to the mast of a quarterback who leads the league in inter- ceptions.
Coach Bruce Arians is not giving up the ship, how- ever.
Via the Associated Press, the Bucs coach had a clear an- swer when asked his focus for the rest of the season.
“Win them all,” Arians said. “You can’t win them all until you win one.”
The Bucs aren’t exactly on a hot streak, having lost five of their last six games. Which means they’re likely to miss the playoffs for a 12th straight year, the one thing consistent about the franchise.
They’re still trying to fig- ure out what to do with Jameis Winston, whose contract year performance has not been stellar (18 picks), and makes it hard to determine next steps.
“This team, we have a gift habit,” Arians said. “We
BRUCE ARIANS
keep giving away points early in games and then try to fight ourwayback....It’sbeena habit, and it’s one that we have to break, no matter whose fault it is.
“It’s frustrating as a coach because I see us practicing and preparing extremely hard. Guys are staying extra hours to prepare, but then it’s not showing up on Sunday. And for me as a coach, it’s my job to figure out why. That’s kind of where we’re at right now.”
Nowallhehastodoiswin the next six games.
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