“I Gotta Do A Better Job”
October 20th, 2022
Byron Leftwich
Offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich was hit with a question today about Bucs-fan piñata Luke Goedeke.
The rookie left guard had a very rough outing in Pittsburgh on Sunday, and part of that likely was due to him being overmatched 1-on-1 against Steelers veteran Pro Bowler Cam Heyward.
Leftwich was asked about Goedeke often being left to fare without help from a running back, etc.
Interesting to Joe, Leftwich didn’t flinch or reject the premise of the question. Leftwich simply said it’s on him.
“I gotta do a better job of helping [Goedeke] out in those situations. Obviously it wasn’t that simple, but I just gotta do a better job of helping him out,” Leftwich said. “That’s really what it comes down to.”
Joe agrees with Leftwich, but Joe also isn’t pinning the loss on Goedeke. In fact, it was an all-phases loss: defense, offense, special teams and coaching.
Joe heartily expects a bounce-back game from Goedeke and Leftwich on Sunday in Charlotte.
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October 20th, 2022 at 3:05 pm
As they say, “Time cures everything”. Focus on the fundamentals, and the rest will follow.
October 20th, 2022 at 3:07 pm
so, now he is HELPING Goedke out by not being a nuckle dragger with zero intellect or play calling abilities. this coaching staff keeps getting more classy.
October 20th, 2022 at 3:07 pm
Thats an understatement. Leftwich is in over his head. Life as BA’s puppet was so easy.
October 20th, 2022 at 3:10 pm
Robert heartily expects a bounce-back game from Goedeke and Brady on Sunday in Charlotte….about mid way into the 2nd quarter when you see Brady throw away the play calls on his arm.
October 20th, 2022 at 3:10 pm
dude sure can make some SHRIMP though!
October 20th, 2022 at 3:16 pm
[Leftwich was grilled by many other reporters today like Joe has never seen. Joe never said he would go after Leftwich because that is unethical but Joe did say he would be here today and Joe was. Interestingly one of the themes of the questions was predictable play-calling. Joe asked Leftwich about that back in 2019 and it didn’t go over well at all. Joe’s glad others are (finally) seeing the light. Ira was not at today’s presser. Unexcused absence! — Joe]
October 20th, 2022 at 3:18 pm
I’m sure the Bucs had zero.zero plans to start Goedeke this year, or next year. Not fair to the kid either, but they have no other choice until Jensen gets back
October 20th, 2022 at 3:20 pm
Man this guy is driving me crazy with his coach speak!
He literally says nothing and offers up nothing material.
BTW, his playcalling on Sunday’s reflect that sediment.
October 20th, 2022 at 3:29 pm
Gotta do a better job.
Followup question……When?
Finally, Leftwich says something we can all agree with.
October 20th, 2022 at 3:33 pm
Wonder why Jason drafted him???
Ingram from lsu went right behind him.
Dude was a monster in the sec and it’s carried over to the bigs.
Didn’t get it then don’t get it now
October 20th, 2022 at 3:34 pm
Only thing he can do better is pack his suitcase.
October 20th, 2022 at 3:35 pm
Sure seems like the same offensive game plan every week with similar results. You’d think the level of execution would be higher.
October 20th, 2022 at 3:36 pm
Wrong choice of words on my part. I didn’t think Lee and Ira was going to go after Lefty, but just as you posted, ask the tough questions about the play calling and his thoughts behind of how he handled the Steelers game. Not expecting you all going full crazy on coaches. 🤣
October 20th, 2022 at 3:39 pm
The brain dead boob cannot be trusted to do anything competent. Promote him to an office kid and give BA the OC job. Now.
October 20th, 2022 at 3:40 pm
Or going full Antonio Brown on coaches
October 20th, 2022 at 3:42 pm
Whenever he accidentally runs a play that works, he needs to go back to it once in a while.
October 20th, 2022 at 3:48 pm
Joe … ‘Ira was not at today’s presser. Unexcused absence!’
Did you just throw The Sage under the bus Joe? And the wheels go round and round. Thump thump.
October 20th, 2022 at 3:53 pm
I mean, if any of us didn’t get better at our jobs in 2 years and now has one of the worst performing units. We would lose our jobs.
The same needs to happen for Byron.
October 20th, 2022 at 3:59 pm
Damn leftwich where have I heard that before. Can’t remember if it’s after every blow out of before getting benched by the team your coaching
October 20th, 2022 at 4:08 pm
Among a dozen other things, if they didn’t have a colossal mess up in special teams, they would have won.
October 20th, 2022 at 4:34 pm
Well, BA always said he did not do much in offense. He pretty much left that up to Brady and Left. He repeated it several times. But he DID make a big deal of competition for sacks and interceptions. He almost made it a contest to motivate players. I do not see Todd doing this, at all. They may need something more to motivate them besides winning. I know that sounds weird but I think BA did other motivational things.
October 20th, 2022 at 4:35 pm
Your Mom,
On the Ira podcast that dropped today, they shared that the Steelers guy who had that 89-yard return had the 5th fastest MPH in the league so far this year. So he was a burner.
Also, they pointed out that since Jamel Dean was 5 yards behind the guy, yet still caught him, they wondered just how fast Dean is?
NextGen Stats, we (at least I) wanna know Dean’s speed on that play.
But yes, that was a huge negative play for us.
October 20th, 2022 at 5:08 pm
This maroon should be fired IMMEDIATELY after that pathetic press conference.
October 20th, 2022 at 5:15 pm
Deflection 101, subtle way of BL blaming Goedeke for the loss. What a dic.
#firehisarseNOW
October 20th, 2022 at 6:59 pm
WE’RE STILL TALKING ABOUT GOEDEKE
When you’re talking about a OL it means they SUCK! We talk about Goedeke every day.
October 20th, 2022 at 7:02 pm
For some reason we continually try to run to the left side when we have to real good run blockers on the right. Instead of running away from the Steelers strength we ran right at it. That is just pure stupidity.
October 20th, 2022 at 7:05 pm
Too late bro…your elevator only goes so far up, time for it to go down 1 level where you get off and leave….Adios!
October 20th, 2022 at 7:19 pm
This years Bucs team is not capable of pulling off a win against any team without maximum preparation.
October 20th, 2022 at 7:21 pm
@MadMax
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The Realist taught me this. 😁
October 20th, 2022 at 7:36 pm
@DRok, yes Dean was burning…but it had more to do with the angle the runner took though, while Dean held his line.
October 20th, 2022 at 7:38 pm
If you want to pin that loss on someone, pin it on the QB. He missed practice, missed the team flight, looked out of sync all day and threw to the wrong receivers. He targeted Evan’s 4 times I think. Brady gets all of the accolades, let him take this one to the chin.
October 20th, 2022 at 7:55 pm
Took 6 weeks to figure out he needs help?
I know this is the new NFL and all that but maybe a two back set would help
It’s not like we have TE’s anyway
KO should be a FB and we should be smashing people
The play action becomes immediately better
Why does a pee wee coach have to help a guy making millions???
October 20th, 2022 at 8:03 pm
Help him to the bench.
October 20th, 2022 at 8:21 pm
Only way our playcalling is worse is if Biden grabs the headset
October 20th, 2022 at 8:31 pm
I realize that Brady runs like his feet are encased in cement, but if Goedeke can’t get it done on his side, whatever happened to designed roll outs and draw plays? You don’t have to be Usain Bolt to roll a few steps right or left. Brady can do more than drop straight back every snap.
And Lenny racked up big yards against Dallas week 1 with Ko as a lead blocker. Where did that concept go? Lenny and Ko in the backfield, keep one in to pass pro and let the other leak out into a short route/hot read.
Brady can see if they stack the box or not with a 2 back set. If they don’t, hand it off. If they do, there’s bound to be open real estate in the short middle. It’s not like they haven’t done this before. Did BA copyright all of his plays so BL can’t use them now or face legal action? Good grief. Lol
October 20th, 2022 at 10:09 pm
Byron begon….. Stupid is as Stupid do does..m
October 20th, 2022 at 10:45 pm
play calling is very drab and generic. We can’t even block on a screen pass. PATHETIC!!!
October 20th, 2022 at 11:36 pm
I’ve been reading this stuff for 5 days, you guys don’t deserve Tom Brady.
October 21st, 2022 at 12:29 am
same speal-which is getting old……
October 21st, 2022 at 3:36 am
All this means is every game plan will be the same as the Steelers’. NFL coaches have the most incredible penchant for repeating their ego-driven stupidity. This I know, the fan base is turning away from this team as it is obviou the HC & OC are hapless.
October 21st, 2022 at 11:40 am
@Hunter Awesome! thanks bud.
October 21st, 2022 at 3:06 pm
👍
October 21st, 2022 at 11:02 pm
It wasn’t all Goedeke. I saw Hainsey beat on a reach block at the goal line and the guy that beat him stuffed Fournette for a two yard loss. In fact Goedeke blocked well on that play and if Hainsey didn’t get beat Fournette might have scored.