The Buccaneers replaced Jameis Winston with Tom Brady and are now playing Super Bowl LV.
But Winston’s long NFL career can still be brilliant: he signed a one-year contract to be a replacement in New Orleans in 2020 and left a lasting positive impression on head coach Sean Payton.
Winston is expected to be a loose agent in March. But as Drew Brees is expected to retire, Payton said Wednesday that he needs Winston back.
“We had a wonderful display for a year with Jameis Winston,” Payton said in an interview with NFL Network’s Good Morning Football on Wednesday. “And we didn’t have an overall offseason, but we had enough time to see what we had with him. As a player, as a leader, as an athlete, I like what we were lucky enough to see. He’s been a wonderful leader for this team, and It’s hard to do it when you’re new to losing your first year as a trade quarterback, so it will be a vital step for us.
“And occasionally you need to keep your cards closer to the vest and he’s an independent player. But he, with Taysom Hill, who is in the building, we have said: let’s expand and exercise those boys. And Jameis is doing it, one of the guys we’re very interested in.
Winston did not play much in 2020, while Hill in the four quarterback games that Brees missed due to injury, but Winston threw a landing pass in the Saints’ loss in the playoffs to the Buccaneers.
In 2019 with the Bucs, Winston led the league with 5,109 air yards, but was also the first player to pitch 30 touchdowns and 30 interceptions in the same season.
Indicate it for a lucrative term contract. Signed, Buc fan since 1980. Go Bucs!
Winston came in and replaced Brees when he was injured, and I think he threw 10 or 12 passes in total, one of them was right in the abdomen of a supporter, who dropped the interception.
The next 4 or five games, Taysom Hill as the starter.
I don’t know if the two things are related, but I do know that Payton hates interceptions. You’d better do what Dirk Koetter and Bruce Arians couldn’t do: get JW to keep the ball from flipping.
I can’t see him stay. There will be wonderful features for him in the relaxed agency. He did the internship in Brees last year. The Saints have a strong interest in bringing him back, as long as he’s back with the minimum of veterans. The Saints have a boundary situation. More than $100 million above the roof.
The Saints don’t have space on the roof, so that may not happen.
The rest of the NFL has a keen interest in the Saints, who make Taysom Hill the 8-8 full-time starting team every year. Maybe the replacement for 7-9. 3-1 looks good, until you realize that the records for those 4 groups were 17-46-1. Besides, if you saw Hill pass the long, very ugly ball.
hahaha how much you think it’s going to cost
Maybe he’s telling the fact since the Saints didn’t sniff Stafford
Everyone is looking to act like Winston was horrible, Favre pitched 29 and Manning pitched 28 in a season, and never had to worry about locating a task the following year. This is not a Goff control game. The Bucs were also the third highest offense. Last year Buc’s defense has been terrible all its time since the end of last year. The only time he averaged was 9-7.
And, of course, the Saints have no plans to make Hill the opener . . .
Jameis Winston is what he is: a guy who can do big numbers but is careless with football. The only way to succeed over a passive like that is with a more sensible 6 defense. Otherwise, you live in territory 7-9 to 9 -7. His numbers are intriguing, but rotation will be a challenge for him. Many coaches have tried to “fix” Winston without success. Be careful with the buyer.
Or maybe you need to tell JW a big contract to get this compensatory draft!
Yes, Winston will be the headline next year. Yes, it might not work, but I will accept Payton’s vision and remarks about Winston as true in relation to everything I hear or read in the national media or the public right now.
I’d have Winston, in a controlled offensive (first race), at $5-10 million a year than Dak at $38-40 million a year.
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