The Myth of Jameis

It is now gaining some mainstream popularity, but I do not think anyone has fully understood just how average Jameis Winston has been. No, I am not just talking about strange pregame speeches. He has been a really really average quarterback for his career, and is having his most underwhelming season so far. Preseason I saw some MVP discussion for him, so consider this blog post to be my victory lap at those people that I laughed at for saying that.

Generally, I would like to support an argument like this with some really high level statistics that make me seem smart, but I do not even need that for this. The reason for that that, and something that I believe is not getting enough attention in the conversation of Jameis’ 2017 season, is because Jameis has only won TWO games this year. People forget that the other two Buccaneers wins were games started by Ryan Fitzapatrick. Well who were those two wins against you might ask? The two win New York Giants and the four win Chicago Bears. Not great teams. Some might even say, bad teams. I feel like for some reason we all just assumed Jameis was going to be good an it was not up for debate, but he simply is not very good. I will concede that the stats I mentioned are all team stats, and the Buccaneers are terrible, but Jameis has also shown that he lacks some intangibles needed to lead a franchise. The pre-draft questions about his maturity and leadership seem to be coming true and those will be very difficult things to pick up. A new coach may help him, but Jameis has as much work as any player this offseason in order to grow into the franchise quarterback he has been expected to be.