Jameis Winston Talks 2019 Failures, Struggles With Loneliness And Celibacy
July 29th, 2025
Joe does not miss the The Lost Decade of Buccaneers football, but it sure remains a thought-provoking time in Bucs history.
The former America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, now a Giants backup, hopped on The Pivot podcast that dropped today. Joe had a plate of Hooters crab legs and a cold drink ready to go.
The subject of Jameis’ incredulous 2019 season arose, and Jameis acknowedged that the Bucs’ failures were his fault because he threw so many interceptions.
Jameis threw 30 interceptions in 16 games. Baker Mayfield led the NFL last season with 16 picks in 17 games. Of course, Jameis also tossed 33 touchdown passes and more than 5,000 yards passing.
“I look at that year all the time,” Jameis said. “There were so many games when I go back and watch that film that we could have won, and it was because of me turning the ball over.”
Jameis added that the Bucs were “set up for greatness” with the Bruce Arians’ coaching staff and through how freely and fearlessly he was playing. Jameis also said he thinks about how much income he lost because of his failures.
Interestingly, Jameis said his 2019 life outside football was in turmoil because his father told him he didn’t want to talk to him during the season. His dad had stopped attending Bucs games, Jameis said, but made it clear he would not provide a reason for his absence.
Following the season, Jameis said, he learned his father was dealing with the health demise of his brother, Jameis’ uncle.
In past seasons, Jameis said he talked weekly with his father and called his dad “my rock.” Jameis said he felt very much alone in 2019.
At the time, Jameis had an infant son and a fiancée but Jameis said he moved out of their house to stop “shack’n,” and to practice celibacy and “to do right by the Lord.” He said that was difficult and his personal struggle was reflected in his play, extreme highs and lows.
“I separated myself from her, from society, really,” Jameis said.
This whole story is just another example of how so much happens behind the scenes with every NFL team but most of it is never disclosed.
The end result for Bucs fans was Tom Brady showing up in March of 2020. The football gods work in mysterious ways.
July 29th, 2025 at 2:49 pm
Celibacy? rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrright
July 29th, 2025 at 2:58 pm
Bucs dodged a bullet with this guy being replaced. Jameis just shows how much of a crapshoot the draft is, guy lit it up one year of college with a stacked team then played how he played here when the team wasn’t as talented.
So much of being successful in this league is what’s between the ears and Jameis just didn’t have that part down pat. Good luck to him but man am I glad the Jameis roller coaster is no longer located in Tampa
July 29th, 2025 at 3:03 pm
Jameis sure is a strange ranger
July 29th, 2025 at 3:03 pm
Where does the story end? Is his life good now? Did he marry his fiance and have a normal life now?
As for football, I’ve never seen anything like Jameis’s quarterback play. Strong arm, accurate, makes dazzling plays…then throws the dumbest interceptions imaginable. And he was doing it as recently as last year in Cleveland. I like Jameis, but I’m glad he isn’t our QB anymore.
July 29th, 2025 at 3:05 pm
Abandoned his fiancée and infant child.
July 29th, 2025 at 3:09 pm
He was drafted by the wrong team, a 2-14 team
And he was rushed onto the field as a savior
I always said he need a complete team for him to develop
But every OC wanted to make a Gunslinger out of him
Gunslingers don’t win Super Bowls
Ask Dan Fouts, Dan Marino,
Too bad he was never taught game management
July 29th, 2025 at 3:10 pm
Accountability!
For what it’s worth 2019 Mike & Chris combined for 153 receptions, 2,490 yards & 17 scores. Just couldn’t keep the ball out of the opposing teams hands. That’s partly why Shaq was able to get to 19.5 sacks, defense was also on the dang field.
July 29th, 2025 at 3:11 pm
You’re still ok with me. It looks like you’re in a better place in your life. Hang in there!
July 29th, 2025 at 3:12 pm
He even had his eyes fixed and attended “QB school” after leaving the Bucs but still can’t seem to shake those INT’s.
July 29th, 2025 at 3:13 pm
Thank you Jameis without your struggles we may have never got Tom Brady and another championship..
July 29th, 2025 at 3:18 pm
He was a turnover machine before, during, and after 2019. If the Bucs signed him to a long term deal we’d all be talking about The Lost Generation instead of The Lost Decade.
July 29th, 2025 at 3:24 pm
should have traded mariota to chip kelly for picks
July 29th, 2025 at 3:25 pm
Winston can try to brand himself in reform and religion, but he’s among the most reprehensible professional athletes I’ve followed. You never wish someone ill will, but I do wish he were erased from Bucs’ history and never mentioned again.
July 29th, 2025 at 3:25 pm
Was this the year he thought Arians was not caucasian?
July 29th, 2025 at 3:26 pm
I guess “ this “ Joe will never get over Jameis !!
July 29th, 2025 at 3:30 pm
Not sure Winston was a crap shoot… he had history in college with bad decisions.
What would make you think he was going to act differently based on his history?
This why a player’s character matters. Thankful for the “I am that man” strategy.
I don’t think Licht had that in place during the Winston decision.
July 29th, 2025 at 3:44 pm
That’s why he threw so many picks, the plumbing was backed up.
July 29th, 2025 at 3:51 pm
It is interesting to compare Jameis and Baker. Both flashed ability early on but had shaky starts to their careers. But Baker was able to learn from the tough times, mature and figure out how to play at a high level. For whatever reason, Jameis has not been able to learn these lessons.
July 29th, 2025 at 3:53 pm
“Gunslingers don’t win Super Bowls
Ask Dan Fouts, Dan Marino, (Brett Farve)
Too bad he was never taught game management”
what lakeland buc said was true. Trent Dilfer was a horrible turnover machine until Dungy taught him game management, a qb doesn’t have to be a savior just don’t turn the ball over and occasionally make some plays
Baker has to learn this if he wants a ring, Jameis never learned it
July 29th, 2025 at 4:06 pm
Jamie’s not a bad guy just stupid. Never lost a high school game or a game at fsu. Always won. Just didn’t mature mentally. Still has a cannon for an arm. Just doesn’t get it upstairs o rain department. Shoulda been a Gaytor loser like Trask
July 29th, 2025 at 4:29 pm
The QB that won the Super Bowl last season,
Threw for only 2,903 yards, 18 TDs
But he also ran for 62 FDs, and only threw 5 INTs
That’s what you call game management, moving the chains
Resting your defense, not put them in bad situation
Controlling the clock, keeping the other offense off field
July 29th, 2025 at 4:34 pm
Jameis who?
July 29th, 2025 at 4:36 pm
Dlavid Says:
I guess “ this “ Joe will never get over Jameis !!
^^^^^^
Great observation. The one thing I’ve heard Licht say on multiple occassions is how much he hates when Joe references the Bucs “Den of Depression.” ???? Joe retired the Den of Depresson nickname during the 2020 season. –Joe
Joe obviously loves to hang out in that room. Lock the door and throw away the key, Joe! 4x NFCS Champ + 2020 Super Bowl. We’re in a half-decade of awesome! The next 3 years will be even better.
In relevant NFCS news:
>Atlanta Facons are publicly stating their offense is UNSTOPPABLE.
>Saq Barkley said Beejan Robinson is the next great NFL back.
>Fights have broken out in Carolina and Atlanta camps.
>Saints suck.
July 29th, 2025 at 5:00 pm
I.m sorry! I have ALL those issues and then some without the $$$ to pay for them. These guys make more in 1 year than most of use will make in a lifetime of 9-5. I have ZERO sympathy for this BS. You’re paid extravagantly to DO YOUR JOB and now cause Daddy is hurtin, Mommy is hurtin, so am I…BOO F’ing HOO!
Give me that paycheck and give me those problems (oops, already have them) I’d cherish them. Whiny A$$ b!!tches. Cry me a river and work a working mans job where no one cares about your “vision” daddy/mommy issues. You suck and that’s why your a backup. Luckily for you, other teams are willing to give a POS a job! That would’nt happen in the “REAL WORLD”!
July 29th, 2025 at 5:01 pm
most of use
July 29th, 2025 at 5:02 pm
As Paulo Coehlo says of forgiveness…”Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.”
I wish the best for Jameis. But I’ll never be able to forget perhaps the biggest betrayal in Bucs history, maybe the NFL.
A player who was the clear #1 choice in the draft..EXCEPT for ALL his myriad off field issue revealing a lack of character. Charges included rape allegations and yes JW was “cleared of rape”, but getting a girl drunk and having sex with her while a couple of your “boys” watched, even if she knew and consented hardly represents the “character” today’s Bucs are manifesting. JW was immature and SELF CENTERED from the very beginning.
The team takes a massive gamble, overlooking all the signs, and JW repays them in the very first off season getting, by his definition “blind drunk”, while hanging out with a convicted rapist and another guy with “character issues” in his posse. I do not care whether he groped or not, he clearly DISSED the Bucs big time. IT was so bad they had to remove the pic of their #1 overall draft pick off of RayJay.
Enough venting. What I’d really like to know is who actually made that decision!
Lovie? Jason? Other player personnel types hyping JW and pooh poohing his character issues?
Father Dungy was against it, he got the character issues but missed out on talent due to his Oregon prejudice. Hindsight is 20-20 WITHOUT the obvious character issues JW is probably a first rounder but NOT the #1 OVERALL. Mariota was even a first round talent. Who the hell said sign JW? Did the fact he was a “local” star influence the choice?
July 29th, 2025 at 5:04 pm
@Jameis Go coddle another Uber driver…you’re a puke of a person. If the Bucs were drafting today, they would NEVER draft your garbage a$$
July 29th, 2025 at 5:28 pm
I’ve never seen this room quite so blood thirsty. It reminds me of watching the caretaker feed 40 hunting dogs on an English estate. Joe, I love ya, but maybe it’s time to let sleeping dogs lie, as they say.
July 29th, 2025 at 5:40 pm
not sure what to say about mr happy feet. 30 ints was a small price to pay to be done with him in hindsight? he played himself off the team, half that many and who knows what might have happened or not happened…
July 29th, 2025 at 5:42 pm
I forgot the Uber driver incident. Kind of throws the celibacy theory out the window.
July 29th, 2025 at 5:55 pm
How about just marry your fiancee and then it’s not “shack’n?” Duh.
July 29th, 2025 at 6:08 pm
These comments are something else….
July 29th, 2025 at 6:39 pm
You can criticize Jameis for a lot of things, but you can’t criticize him for lack of effort. He never left anything out on the field, even when the game was out of reach. He definitely loves football, or he would have quit several years ago. It’s not like any of the teams had a shot at making the playoffs.
July 29th, 2025 at 8:03 pm
It’s takes a certain kind of high processing mind to excel as qb. No mystery here. What an amazing arm he has. Just not the whole package. Should have stuck with baseball. Go Bowles.
July 29th, 2025 at 8:03 pm
“LakelandBuc Says:
July 29th, 2025 at 3:09 pm
He was drafted by the wrong team, a 2-14 team
And he was rushed onto the field as a savior
I always said he need a complete team for him to develop
But every OC wanted to make a Gunslinger out of him
Gunslingers don’t win Super Bowls
Ask Dan Fouts, Dan Marino,
Too bad he was never taught game management”
Maybe you disagree —- BUT I think Arians could have been the right coach… As Jameis own comments show — It was Jameis that still was not prepared.
Glad the Bucs moved on.
July 29th, 2025 at 8:27 pm
when you draft madness…
madness is at play
July 29th, 2025 at 9:33 pm
Sounds like he’s finally teachable. He wouldn’t listen when he was here.
July 29th, 2025 at 9:53 pm
I always wonder what would have happened had the Bucs won the Atlanta game at the end of the season in 2019. Would the Bucs have explored what’s behind Door 2? I am still sensitive about the loss to the Giants that year.
July 29th, 2025 at 9:58 pm
What an entertaining season that was, week after week. Cardiac Kids but the patient died too many times.
I don’t know how someone could call Jameis reprehensible. He’s beloved wherever he goes. Just a little daffy.
July 29th, 2025 at 10:47 pm
That season sucked.
July 30th, 2025 at 1:43 am
i went to the podcast on youtube…
and i was a big jameis supporter when he was a buc…
and…
jameis is kind of amusing or sort of interesting to listen to for a bit…but then it kind of begins to wear on you in some undefinable way…he’s fast talking and energetic, almost on point – yet almost off kilter at the same time…
i got maybe about half way thru it before you actually just begin to tune him out…
that’s it…his bloviating makes you sort of begin to tune him out…
but heck…i tried…
he looked good and vibrant – like he’s upbeat about his arrival to new york…
i’m no jameis hater…once a buc always a buc…wish him well
July 30th, 2025 at 4:29 am
Didn’t realize Jameis was going through problems with his dad. Family issues can be hard, especially if you are going through other struggles. Unfortunately, even if mental health services are offered, many African American men don’t seek services due to different reasons. Fortunately, he did find help in other ways.
It’s good to see him with a brighter attitude. He did very well during the SB as a Fox participant interviewing others. He has that charisma. Wishing Jameis well on the Giants!
July 30th, 2025 at 8:54 am
So just marry your baby mama
July 30th, 2025 at 8:56 am
You can blame Bradys lost third season on Gisela skanking with the Karate teacher.
July 30th, 2025 at 9:47 am
Why are we rehashing Jameis again, are we going to rehash Josh Freeman next? Just move on already.
July 30th, 2025 at 12:07 pm
Interesting hearing some of these off the field details, though you also have to wonder what the real truth of it all is too.
That said, I have no ill will towards Jameis, like it seems so many others around here do. Glad he’s not our QB anymore lol, but I wish him well and I hope he’s doing right by his baby mama and child.
July 30th, 2025 at 2:37 pm
Has there been another player in history whose first and last pass for a team was a pick 6?
July 30th, 2025 at 8:00 pm
What a mental basketcase…