According To Jameis Winston, He Turned His Season Around (Huh?) By Actively Ignoring His Coaches2/14/2019 JoeBucsFan- One question posed to Jameis by Tampa’s own Leger Douzable, the former 10-year NFL defensive end, was an inquiry into how Jameis turned things around midseason, specifically how he got himself right mentally to return from an October benching. Jameis said it was all about self-evaluation. “I had to look at myself in the mirror and say, ‘Hey Jameis, what do you have to do?’ Jameis explained. “And that was simply, ‘Get back to playing Jameis Winston football. Be yourself. Have that swag. Don’t try to be something that a coach is trying to get you to be.’ You know, you gotta go and be you.” ------ Ah yes, because when has Jameis Winston listening solely to the voices in his own head and operating on instincts ever backfired? The question we've spent years asking, what could help move along the maturation process of someone who still has issues throwing inexplicable interceptions, apparently didn't learn from his first (alleged) sex crime, and can't put one foot in front of the other without it somehow ending up in his mouth? The answer was goofily smiling right in our stupid face this entire time...less mentorship, MO' JAMEIS!!! I don't want to take away anything Dirk Koetter's complete failure of a tenure in Tampa Bay. That being said, regardless of how many questions arose because of it, Jameis Winston being himself neither was, is, or will be the answer to a single one of them. The mere suggestion that going off the books in carefully studying his own swag is what turned things around for him is so preposterous that it distracts from the fact that he went 2-6 down the stretch of a season highlighted by FitzMagic after his performance allegedly hooked a U-ey. To be honest, I almost feel like I'm beating a dead horse here, as it's long been proven that anything that gratuitously leaks from the gums of someone who I'm certain has taken quite nicely to playing the role of Freddy Krueger in the nightmares of the Buccaneers' PR staff is bound to be problematic. Jameis Winston's mouth is getting pretty close to being considered a handicap, and I'm not down with picking on the disabled. Still, the idea that he took a long, long look in the mirror following a well-deserved benching that came a mere month after a sexual assault suspension and went full-Stuart Smalley is not exactly a great sign of things to come either in the pocket or in the passenger seat. Though we'll see how long he survives solely on self-affirmation with Bruce Arians hogging all the real swag on the sideline.
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