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“You Bucs Fans Are Going To Love His Ability”

March 16th, 2026

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For the first couple of years that Rachaad White was with the Bucs, it drove Joe bananas how he had terrible vision.

There would be a hole, sometimes rather large, to both his right and his left and instead, he would run right into a defender. Drove Joe crazy.

Most of Joe’s readers blamed Robert Hainsey.

And Joe was raked over the coals for pointing this out regularly that White couldn’t read blocks.

That should not be an issue with new Bucs running back Kenneth Gainwell. The free agent signee from Pittsburgh has no such issues reading blocks or finding holes.

In fact, Gainwell is excellent for smelling daylight and running to it.

Former NFL offensive linemen Brian Baldinger took to Twitter for a film breakdown of Gainwell. It just jumped off the screen how Gainwell had a sixth sense for where daylight was, and he often darted to it.

This man has vision.

“Two foot stop — like presses the hole and then he finds the daylight,” Baldinger yelped on Gainwell. “His ability to change direction — bam! — and quickly finds the daylight … where you want.”

Baldinger also raved about Gainwell’s special teams skills, specifically his kickoff coverage skills.

“You Bucs fans are going to love his ability to play the game at every phase,” Baldinger said.

While White may not have been much of a runner — he was actually an underrated runner inside the tackles on short-yardage plays — Gainwell is a better running than White and might be his equal in the passing game (Joe was a huge believer of White in the passing game and it was borderline irresponsible how little Josh Grizzard used White in the passing game).

It seems, maybe, the Bucs upgraded at backup running back and special teams with the signing of Gainwell in an otherwise awful week when they clearly took a step backwards.

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3 Responses to ““You Bucs Fans Are Going To Love His Ability””

  1. Paco Says:
    March 16th, 2026 at 12:18 am

    He and Bucky seem like twins and should be pretty interchangeable = Both smaller/shorter, both quick but not very fast, both are willing blockers (although size limits their effectiveness)and best of all both are EXCELLENT pass catchers.

    There should be no “tells” when either he or Bucky are in and it will be fun to see if Zac puts them in together. He (Zac) was pretty creative with Bijon as a runner and especially as a pass catcher…..Wonder if we’re going to try and run a lot of wide zone again

  2. garro Says:
    March 16th, 2026 at 1:16 am

    White drove me nuts for dancing around in the backfield Joe. He was not quick enough to do the Barry Sanders impression back there. When there were blocks in front of him he refused to just lower his shoulder and get what yardage he could. I think if you asked his coaches, including Bowles what frustrated them the most? That would be a comon thread. White had enough size to get tough yards but refused.

    Go Bucs!

  3. Buccaneer Bonzai Says:
    March 16th, 2026 at 1:20 am

    This one excites me!

 

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