![]() ![]() Take all that data and Winston’s “adjusted interception” total is a whopping 40. ![]() Winston had more such passes than any other quarterback in the NFL last year.įootball Outsiders also reduces a quarterback’s interceptions for any pass he throws where the interception bounced off a receiver’s hands, as well as interceptions on Hail Mary passes, as those interceptions are really no worse than an incompletion. The stats at Football Outsiders track not just a quarterback’s interceptions but also his “adjusted interceptions,” which add an interception to the quarterback’s total when he throws the ball into a defender’s hands but the defender either drops it or an offensive player hits the defender just in time to force an incompletion. He also led the NFL in dropped interceptions, according to. ![]() Winston didn’t only lead the league in interceptions last season with 30. We can learn from it.Everyone who follows the NFL is well aware that Jameis Winston was an interception machine last season. If you get one of those, you probably don’t get that result, but (there was) a lot of borderline stuff that happened. You put all those three together and you kind of get that result. It’s all a thin line really right there with all of those three. “It’s probably ball location not where you want it and it’s probably if it should even go there ― that’s all in one. “It’s a guy making a play on the ball,’’ Leftwich said. "That’s why you take the offseason, you look at it, you improve on it get better."Īccording to Leftwich, most of Winston’s 28 interceptions are the result of bad decisions with the football or poor placement. It’s not one thing that you can really put your hand on and say, ‘This is the reason why,' " Leftwich said. Sometimes we’ve gotten beat maybe up front. “Sometimes we haven’t been there because maybe our footwork was too quick. ![]() That said, why can’t the Bucs run the football effectively? They would, and so would Winston.īut to the degree that it would greatly reduce his turnovers? Hardly. That’s not to say the Bucs wouldn’t benefit from running the football more efficiently. I don’t know if we’ll ever do that when we have this personnel." “I don’t know if you have that personnel if you can ever just be a smashmouth team where you’re lining up with two tight ends and a fullback. Sometimes your best option is to throw two of the better guys in the league the ball (and) to throw Cam (Brate) the ball, to throw O.J. I think sometimes when you get in games - especially when we were healthy, when you’ve got Mike (Evans) and Chris (Godwin) ― sometimes your best option is to throw Mike and Chris the ball. “That’s what I’m saying ― I never feel as a play-caller as though we’re deficient there. We asked offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich if the lack of production in the running game has led to more Winston turnovers. The NFL is now a passing league due to its rule changes that discourage contact with a receiver. The offense is designed to get the football in their hands as often as possible. It’s enough to make the play-action passes work in sucking up linebackers and creating space for receivers to run behind them.īut the biggest reason the Bucs aren’t as worried about the impact of the run game is that they recognize their best players on offense are Pro Bowl receivers Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. ![]()
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