Garrett Gilkey At Center Of Jameis Winston Pain
August 15th, 2015
Joe can’t sugarcoat this. Backup center Garrett Gilkey should not play center for the Buccaneers any longer.
It’s dangerous. As Roberto Duran eloquently said, “No Más.”
It’s no surprise that when Gilkey stepped aside in the second quarter for third-stringer Jeremiah Warren tonight, Jameis Winston, America’s Quarterback, settled into a rhythm against the Vikings. Before that, Jameis took two vicious hits directly related to bad snaps from Gilkey. (See the photo above).
With Warren under center, Jameis suddenly relaxed. Hell, Joe can’t blame the guy.
In comes Warren, and Jameis passes complete to Luke Stocker. Then a pass complete to Bobby Rainey, followed by a laser of an 18-yard pass complete to Louis Murphy. After a run, Jameis hits Murphy again.
Think that was a coincidence? No chance.
Gilkey was the notorious virgin center mistake last year. And the guy just has too many snapping issues. Joe’s seen it in practice this month.
Enough already. Experiment over. Let Gilkey stick to guard, or let him walk.
August 15th, 2015 at 11:17 pm
Joe, WHY does Lovie do this? He falls in love with guys like Gilkey, and Jenkins. Gilkey is not setting the world on fire, let Marpet play. Gilkey needs to go.
August 15th, 2015 at 11:18 pm
Stubborn?
August 15th, 2015 at 11:19 pm
I cannot watch this o-line if one started gets hurt, unless the waiver wire has some promise, hopefully Dotson is just a sprain
August 15th, 2015 at 11:22 pm
That guy needs to go. That was painful to watch.
August 15th, 2015 at 11:30 pm
thunderchunkyPA Says
Joe, WHY does Lovie do this? He falls in love with guys like Gilkey, and Jenkins. Gilkey is not setting the world on fire, let Marpet play. Gilkey needs to go.
Its preseason. He’s trying things out. Gilkey may not make the team at all. And, btw…LOVIE DOESN’T RUN THE OFFENSE!!!
Joe, Evans had more issues last year than Gilkey.
August 15th, 2015 at 11:31 pm
We need the big guy in free agency for the oline. Everyone knows the guy I’m talking about. It’s not a long leap.
August 15th, 2015 at 11:32 pm
Dotson is out for the season according to rumors.
August 15th, 2015 at 11:33 pm
Lovie is just loyal to a fault. It really seems like he doesn’t want to step on Warthops toes or something, by telling him to stop/get rid of Gilkey.
Its time to step up and be the damn Head Coach Lovie! Make some tough decisions, your career quite literally depends on it.
August 15th, 2015 at 11:36 pm
Damn that sucks about Dotson, it was about to be a fairly tale, now it turns into horror story.
August 15th, 2015 at 11:37 pm
I’m going to have nightmares about Gilkey at center. There are just way too many issues to even consider him being a center at this point. I’d seriously feel better if we put Mike James at center over this guy. It’s beyond pathetic.
August 15th, 2015 at 11:42 pm
Thunderchunk is right. Lovie hangs on to his losers. Lovie would be a disaster in the stock market. You cant get emotionally involved with your picks. Lovie’s ego is out of control. Jenkins and especially Gilkey have to be reassigned, waived whatever, it is not working out, make the cut and get on with it.
August 15th, 2015 at 11:44 pm
Gilkey should’ve been gone last year. Y is he still playing center or on the team. The red flags r resurfacing…bad snaps, no run blocking, n dropped balls. Lovie favorites i.e., MJenkins, Gilkey,n LJohnson r back to their old tricks without the treats. I never get hyped about Bucs big plays against each other during practice. Gee…our defensive pass rush has been AWOL for some years. What happened to the hype regarding Jaqueis Smith n George Johnson? I know it’s only preseason, but so was last year.
August 15th, 2015 at 11:45 pm
FIRE GILKEY now!!! WarFLOP should know better but he keeps trying to push his Brownie pet. Move Marpet to Center now and let EDS compete with Edwards for RG. I hated to see our best Tackle go down, but that is on WarFLOP too because Dotson should have been out of there since he is first string RT and the second string line was supposed to be in there. I said it was a mistake for Koetter to keep WarFLOP when Koetter was hired. He should know that error now. He should fire WarFLOP ASAP and make the OL decisions until a competent OL Coach is hired. Trade off Glennon for a veteran tackle now who can also play Guard while they have time to learn our offense. Koetter also made a mistake thinking Glennon could drive our team to a comeback win. He has only done that once in 19 Buc’s games and he lost the rest and gave up tons of half time leads doing so. Labato is better than Glennon the albatross.
August 15th, 2015 at 11:49 pm
Gilkey is fine as a rotational guard. Putting him at center is was probably just a test. We wont see it again.
August 15th, 2015 at 11:53 pm
warflop is the worst and if lovie is going to be stubborn then there will be a new HC here next year after the 4-12 this year
August 16th, 2015 at 12:01 am
Garret Gilkey is too tall to play center, let Warren be the backup center.
August 16th, 2015 at 12:33 am
It sucks about Dotson. Now Warhop can blame that on bad O-line performance this season. This game didn’t confirm what we already knew – the Bucs have the worst O-line coach in the NFL.
August 16th, 2015 at 12:57 am
Dotson isn’t a starting RT on 3/4 of NFL teams.
August 16th, 2015 at 1:01 am
Gilkey may be the nicest guy in the world but he couldn’t be center on a bad CFL team. If versatility is his strong point and the reason he stays on this roster then the Bucs are screwed.
August 16th, 2015 at 1:09 am
The guy that cuts Joe’s lawn is a nice guy, too. Sure as hell wouldn’t hire him to block for any football team.
August 16th, 2015 at 9:24 am
In a previous life, I coached OLine at a very low HS level. I saw something from Garrett Gilkey I don’t think I ever saw from a JV player. On three out of four snaps, Gilkey:
1. Snapped the ball over the QB’s head (QB took an unnecessary hit);
(possession break)
2. Solid snap;
3. Snapped the ball early (QB took an unnecessary hit);
4. Snapped the ball late (resulting in a false start penalty)
I know I’m playing the part of Captain Obvious here, but a guy who can’t snap out of the shotgun and can’t remember the snap count really does’t need to be in the NFL AND protecting your franchise QB. Two of those hits could have SERIOUSLY hurt Jameis.
August 16th, 2015 at 9:41 am
Please get Gilkey outa here. Je has no value on an NFL team. He sucks. Just looking at a picture of that sloppy, unskilled waste pf a roster spot makes me furious to the point where I wana just go up to Minnesota and slap the spit outa Lovie for putting that loser on a real NFL team when he barely deserves to be on the practice squad. Heck, let me get a couple snaps at center. If you get paid all that money and dont need any talent or skill I want in!
August 16th, 2015 at 1:42 pm
Who’s worse. Gilkey or Sean Mahan?
August 16th, 2015 at 4:09 pm
I never want to see Gilkey snap the ball for an NFL team ever again. Well, except maybe for Atlanta! Lol