Jason Licht Talks Baseball & Jameis
May 9th, 2017
Remember last month with America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, was talking about playing professional baseball?
Well, today, general manager Jason Licht responded.
Licht joined the ProFootballTalk.com guru Mike Florio on NBC Sports Radio this morning. Of course, Joe was huddled around the radio feed listening at JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters, as Ira Kaufman inhaled bacon flown in from a farm just east of Sea World.
Florio asked Licht how he reacts to hearing Jameis saying he might make a living playing baseball one day.
“I don’t think anything of it,” Licht said. “I know he loves football. We don’t have to answer that question or check that box anymore. Football is his love. He wants to be a quarterback. He wants to win Super Bowls as a quarterback. That’s his main goal. Whatever he likes to do, whatever other sports he likes, baseball being one, is fine with us. It’s not like he’s out there throwing from the mound right now, or training with a Major League Baseball team. So he’s focused on football.”
That’s the right attitude and answer by Licht. Jameis leads the Buccaneers in win-now attitude. Unless that changes, the baseball talk is just talk.
However, that doesn’t mean Jameis doesn’t change his mind one day after winning a couple of Super Bowls with the Bucs and banking well over $100 million.
At that point, well, Jameis can do whatever the hell he wants, as far as Joe is concerned.
May 9th, 2017 at 11:22 am
given the glazer clowns track record it’s good to have options young man.
May 9th, 2017 at 11:25 am
You took the words out my mouth.
May 9th, 2017 at 11:29 am
“Hey, batter-batter-batter, hey, batter-batter-batter-swing-batter! He can’t hit, and he can’t hit, and he can’t hit, and he can’t hit, swwwing batter!” – Ferris Bueller
May 9th, 2017 at 11:32 am
More importantly, where did Ira get the bacon from?
May 9th, 2017 at 11:40 am
If he gets TB two rings, he can go to Kellen Winslow II’s Motorcycle School, for all I care.
May 9th, 2017 at 11:41 am
….as long as he doesn’t go to Boston Market with him.
May 9th, 2017 at 11:42 am
Love and Warrick Dunn
i thought winslow opned a jerk chicken cooking school
May 9th, 2017 at 11:49 am
And if he doesn’t win a ring by 2020 he’d still have to seriously consider baseball. Have you seen what these guys get paid?
May 9th, 2017 at 11:53 am
@Tmax – that’s grad school level. First you have to blow your knee out.
May 9th, 2017 at 12:18 pm
If he wins two Super Bowls I doubt anyone cares what he does next
May 9th, 2017 at 1:36 pm
Only one thing to do after a guy wins a super bowl.
Run his butt out of town.
May 9th, 2017 at 3:39 pm
Ira eating bacon = cannibalism.
May 9th, 2017 at 4:14 pm
TMax – Jerk Chicken? That’s juvenile! I LOVE it… but still juvenile..and I can’t stop laughing!
May 9th, 2017 at 6:24 pm
Didn’t one of our draftees say he loved baseball? Coulda sworn Joe ran that in one of the stories a few weeks back.
May 9th, 2017 at 6:27 pm
Oh meant to say if it’s true see how fast he and Fameis become best buds. Before you know they’ll be catching games at the Trop soon.
May 10th, 2017 at 6:54 am
Jameis next contract will be 200 million.