Prediction: Jameis Winston Will Have Sophmore Slump

[SmokeyRone]

FSU was light years ahead of us in 2014, and it will only get worse. Even under Radio, the FSU game wasn't a guranteed blowout loss. Thanks, Golden.

There will be no slump. Media favorites, with easy schedules, prosper.

 

[eliteproxy]

i don't see him having a "slump" but he is going to be without one if his top WR (TBenjamin) so he may struggle very little the beginning but by third game he will find his favorite targets.

the guy is good.. needs some lasik surgery but otherwise he will be a top 1st round pick.

 

[GrozDozer]

I know the fame has gotten to him. Dude just straight up freaked out over getting carded at Primetime Bar and Lounge up here in Tally.

 

[SeatStripper52]

i really like your thinking here, while he played great (near perfect) games against the patsys, he did have some quarters where he would get flustered and make bad decisions and jimbo would go to the old dump to freeman/throw it up for benjamin. Good teams with tape on him will take advantage. the only thing that gives me doubt is how well he bounced back after beinfg so obviously flustered (rose bowl, even a few drives there in the UM game anf that one gets much worse if AQM doesnt whiff on him and another bailout call that eludes me,,) if you notice they didnt get the offense churning in the UM game until the dink and dunk and freeman making a few rediculous plays...

 

[813_jrock]

I went back and watched a lot of Jameis Winstons games, and needless to say he had a heck of a year in 2013, but I believe he will have a set back year in 2014 and heres why:

For starters, there wasn't a more dominant receiver in college football this past season than Kelvin Benjiman. Benjiman was simply too good for college with his Calvin Johnson esqe ability. There was no corner in college who could cover him one on one which caused defenses to roll coverage to his side more often than not, which also caused Rashaad Greene or Kenny Shaw to have one on one coverages. But when Benjiman did have one on one coverage, Winston could simply lob it up to him at any point on the field and it was, of course high percentage that Benjiman would come down with it. You just can't gameplan for Benjiman, especially when he wasn't the only weapon.

Secondly, Kenny Shaw was thee best slot receiver in the ACC. His route running/catching ability is elite and when Winston went through his progressions and couldn't find Benjiman or Greene, it was high percentage that Shaw was open as he has a knack for finding open windows to sit in. Kenny Shaw to me, will have a long productive career in the NFL. I can just imagine the Patriots drafting him to be Tom Brady's new go-to-guy.

I'll conclude that, yes they bring back Rashaad Greene and he is pretty good, but after Greene there aren't any proven receivers. There is no Benjiman who you can simply just "lob it up" to, and there is no Kenny "I keep them chains moving" Shaw. Winston will have to think and go through his progressions way more and longer than he did last season. No question that Winston has the goods, but as a result of not having Benjiman and Shaw, I will bet that he will face the adversity that should have faced as a freshman. I think he will throw more picks, get hit a lot more, look more confused and not look so "unphaseable" if you will. Like I said, he undoubtedly has got the goods, but he will go through the rigors in 2014

And oh, they better hope Karlos Williams can be "the guy" and not just the guy who racked up all those yards in mop up duty, because there isn't any proven backs either with the departure of Freeman and Wilder.

Jameis normally took what the defense game him and spread the ball around, he almost had 3 1000 yard rec

R Greene 76 rec 1128 yards 7TD
Benjamin 54 rec 1011 yards 15TD
K Shaw 54 rec 933 yards 6TD
N Oleary 33 rec 557 yards 7TD

Benjamin is a freak with his size and speed but looking at his game by game stats only had a couple dominate games

PIT - 5rec 73 yards
NEV - 2rec 37 yards
BCU - 2rec 26 yards
BC - 3rec 103 yards
MARY - 5rec 60 yards 2TD
CLEM - 3rec 62 yards 1TD
NC State - 3rec 69 yards 1TD
MIA - 2rec 46 yards
WAKE - 2rec 23 yards 1TD
CUSE - 6rec 66 yards 1TD
IDAHO - 3rec 61 yards 2TD
UF - 9rec 212 yards 3TD
DUKE - 5rec 119 yards 2TD
AU - 4rec 54 yards 1TD

 

[813_jrock]

Cook will be F$U's 1st 1000 yard rusher in years, as a true freshman.

Freeman rushed for 1000 yards this season

 

[Cash]

Cook will be F$U's 1st 1000 yard rusher in years, as a true freshman.

Since Dunn (1996)... Only took 17 years??? Lol
Devonta Freeman games 14 Carries 173 yards 1016 apg 72.6 apc 5.9 LR 60 TD 14


Duke was on pace for 1500 yards..... Duke > Devonta "Miami never offered me!" Freeman

 

[Dingaan1828]

He might win four Heisman's.

In that case he better win 3 next year. And, that would make him better than Rn Powlus - no waaaaaay.

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[mdnole]

He might win four Heisman's.

That **** will never happen, not saying he won't be deserving, just the fact it's so political, and voters won't go for that ****. Plus he's gone after JR year.

Winston may go after next season, since he took a redshirt. That would be 3 yrs out of high school, and make him eligible.

 

[mdnole]

Cook will be F$U's 1st 1000 yard rusher in years, as a true freshman.

Freeman rushed for 1016 last season

 

[PuertoRiCane]

They don't lose a single game for the next 2 years.

But I'm an optimist. I see Jameis leaving after Jr year.

 

[KingRon2]

It's not a stretch to say he will struggle next year. Many do after such a successful year. People get fat and lazy. Plus, we all know what happens after a team has such success. Multiple arrests occur the following offseason. The message has been sent, right or wrong, that no matter what you do TPD will make it go away. Those players are going to go buck wild. Plus the civil suit is going to have players answering embarrassing questions about how often they watch each other have *** and video tape it.

The funny thing to me is that so many of our fans are so adamant about Winston and all the titles and trophies he is going to win. If he was our qb and just won a title and heisman they would be down on him and his future chances.

 

[kipsmithers]

Cook will be F$U's 1st 1000 yard rusher in years, as a true freshman.

Since Dunn (1996)... Only took 17 years??? Lol
Devonta Freeman games 14 Carries 173 yards 1016 apg 72.6 apc 5.9 LR 60 TD 14


Duke was on pace for 1500 yards..... Duke > Devonta "Miami never offered me!" Freeman

uh Duke is our only RB worth anything.....Freeman's backups Karlos Williams and James Wilder had like 1,400 more yards combined this year.. that's part of the reason FSU didn't break the streak recently because Jimbo uses a 3 RB system.

 

[Cash]

Cook will be F$U's 1st 1000 yard rusher in years, as a true freshman.

Since Dunn (1996)... Only took 17 years??? Lol
Devonta Freeman games 14 Carries 173 yards 1016 apg 72.6 apc 5.9 LR 60 TD 14


Duke was on pace for 1500 yards..... Duke > Devonta "Miami never offered me!" Freeman

uh Duke is our only RB worth anything.....Freeman's backups Karlos Williams and James Wilder had like 1,400 more yards combined this year.. that's part of the reason FSU didn't break the streak recently because Jimbo uses a 3 RB system.

If your done sucking off Jimbob, how many carries did Wilder & Williams have? I'll answer that for you... Williams had 91 carries, Wilder had 81 carries.... WINSTON had 81 carries! Williams avg 6.5 carries per game. Wilder avg 5.8 carries per game. Freeman avg 12.2 carries per game. On the real world we call that a feature back.

 

[Cash]

Oh yeah & that projected 1500 yards was for 12 games not 14 games like fsu played.