Luke Goedeke And Dumb Penalties
July 14th, 2025
Too many silly penalties.
Luke Goedeke has become one of the better right tackles in the game. That’s fantastic. And as long as he stays healthy, he’s going to bank quite a bit of Team Glazer loot come March.
Now it’s time for Goedeke to work on his head. And no, Joe isn’t referencing the nasty concussion last year that cost him four games.
Joe is talking about Goedeke being smart.
A lot of NFL players need various methods to get themselves prepared to play. Some guys hatch fake narratives and then take to Twitter, frothing at the mouth about how no one respects them when in fact no one disrespects them. The huffing and puffing on social media is all ghosts and goblins nonsense. Kwon Alexander was notorious for this.
But hey, whatever works to get motivated.
Goedeke’s motivation seems to be that he needs to be the Bucs’ version of an NHL enforcer. The black hat dude. The guy who will come charging into a scrum to set things straight.
It’s good that the Bucs have such a guy. But does this get to Goedeke’s head? Joe brings this up because, per handicapper turned stathead Warren Sharp, Goedeke is one of the most penalized players in the game.
Per Sharp’s list below, the top offenders are offensive tackles. Ah, ha! These guys are holding. Not Goedeke.
Last year, of the nine penalties opponents accepted against Goedeke, six were false starts. That’s just dumb.
There is no excuse for a false start. Of all the dumb things a player can do, that’s at the top of the list, or bottom of the list depending on your point of view.
Not knowing the count is head-up-your-arse football, that’s all there is to it. Joe doesn’t know if Goedeke has revenge on his mind to blast someone across the line for payback that causes him to lose his focus.
Joe saw last year in the playoff loss to Washington how a silly five-yard penalty can really screw up a team.
So for Goedeke to take that next step to becoming an elite right tackle, he’s got to start focusing on the task at hand and knock off these dumb false starts.
most accepted penalties last 2 yrs:
31 – Jawaan Taylor (KC-OT)
30
29
28
27
26 – Laremy Tunsil (WAS-OT)
25
24
23
22 – Ronnie Stanley (BAL-OT)
21 – Ikem Ekwonu (CAR-OT)
20 – Dion Dawkins (BUF-OT)
20 – Garett Bolles (DEN-OT)
20 – Spencer Brown (BUF-OT)
19 – Luke Goedeke (TB-OT)
18…— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) May 9, 2025
July 14th, 2025 at 10:39 am
Keep wearing that helmet shell, Luke!
For a minute there, I thought his promising career might be over because of that concussion last year.
July 14th, 2025 at 10:50 am
another case of the support behind the point being too weak to be useful.
imo, keep the nasty if you are only average for the top guys in your profession in penalties
July 14th, 2025 at 10:56 am
I remember Jeremy Trueblood used to be a magnet for false starts and holding penalties.
July 14th, 2025 at 11:50 am
I’ll take 19 flags over 19 turnovers all day
July 14th, 2025 at 11:52 am
I wonder what the breakdown is home vs. away on the false starts. Maybe some stadiums make it hard to hear the snap count when you’re all the way on the edge of the line?
July 14th, 2025 at 12:50 pm
Pretty interesting that the list all the way down to Goedeke are protecting QB’s that are pretty elusive and unnecessary although some of the competition actually could say they had an edge rush.
Ekwonu had 21 penalties but was a 6th overall pick, has his 5th year option picked up after his 3rd season, a I would more than fine with penalties for now with an 80.5 Run Blocking Grade and a 95.9 Pass Protection Rate. Especially if he is anchored on then of a line where the G-C-G has done a great jump of providing a pocket Young can feel comfortable in going into the first game of the season.
Be nice to see how many and the amount of lost offensive yardage was lost on penalties that were not pre snap of those on the list.
Also what was the damage done from the multiple Unsportsmanlike Conduct Penalties committed by the WR’s in 2024. Those are also Head Related Mistakes.
July 14th, 2025 at 12:50 pm
Coaching matters. You are what you emphasize. Situational football isn’t a Bowles strength. He manages the games poorly, and apparently doesn’t emphasize details like snap count in practice. Why are we not surprised.
July 14th, 2025 at 12:56 pm
Funny to see Sean Murphy Bunting and Micah Parsons so high up. I’m guessing SMB had a lot of pass interferences.
Was Parson’s caught off sides a lot or was he roughing passers… or a little of both?
Not worried about Luke. He’ll have a better year. I guarantee Warren Sharp didn’t bring this up as news to anyone on our offensive line staff.
July 14th, 2025 at 1:56 pm
I have an idea for how to minimize the penalties – stop using 67 as your number. That was Kenyatta Walker’s number. I still here the echoes of “false start, number 67, offense” from those days. It’s astonishing my tv remote survived those days for all the times I threw it.
July 14th, 2025 at 2:06 pm
Julius Peppers just worked the guy. smh
July 14th, 2025 at 2:18 pm
LOL! Pinyatta Walker, otherwise known as Mrs Julius Peppers!
July 14th, 2025 at 5:17 pm
Auqalung…….. 😂😂
Sad but true….
It might have been that Walker couldn’t stand the dresses Peppers picked out for him to wear (must have fit a bit too tight in certain areas)… Or if it was the shade of lipstick….
The Definition of “Rent Free”
July 14th, 2025 at 6:19 pm
Aqualung
“Why are “”we”” not surprised.”
Speak for yourself loser…there is no “we” here sharing your Bowles obsession or at least they are clearly in the minority. That post is provably fallacious with a simple poll.
July 14th, 2025 at 6:42 pm
That being said, I’m glad I’m not the person tasked with stopping Julius Peppers in his prime.
July 14th, 2025 at 9:12 pm
While I absolutely agree that false starts by ANYONE on the offense are asinine, as are illegal formation and illegal motion penalties, I question the setup in this article that alluded to Goedeke’s aggression and desire to be a bad ass.
A badass gets penalties for late hits, personal fouls and taunting. A dumbass gets penalties for pre-snap violations. So, which is it? I don’t buy the whole getting revved up to hit somebody schtick, so I’m going with dumbass, or at least someone who is distracted and not paying attention in the huddle.
July 14th, 2025 at 10:47 pm
Ooh when a cupcake tries to bully! LOL!!!!!😝
July 15th, 2025 at 2:21 am
I am not buying the enforcer thing at all Joe. I look at most of Goedeke’s holding penalties as refs failing to call it right. Holding calls were because guys were hooking Luke and doing the old soccer flop. Refs called it because the opponents were fooling them. Disgusting on the refs and the players. In most cases he had them beat and they knew it! False starts are mental mistakes. O linemen should rarely miss the snap count. Getting off early is usually because a defensive player is giving an O lineman fits. Guessing the snap count is common and that is when Baker needs to get in their heads by changing it up. Helping his O line by keeping the D line honest.
Go Bucs!
Go Bucs!