It's just this negative stigma. He played extremely well against Atlanta, but the fans bash him because of the two interceptions and blame him for the loss. They then refuse to acknowledge neither turnover cost the team points and Winston drove the offense for scores on subsequent drives. Then he compiles the most yards by any player in the NFL this week and they want to bury him again for two turnovers that weren't his fault after he leads the team on 3 TD drives and TWO game winning FG drives. That dime to DeSean was a rope after taking two sacks to give Catanzaro a chance to redeem himself in OT.
The dude brought a lot of it on himself, but there isn't a whole lot of objectivity about his actual play on the field. He's only 24. When Drew Brees was 24 he threw 11 TD's and 15 INT's.
This fan base is going to run him out of town and he's going to have a great career somewhere else. It's frustrating.
I'm going to call bull#### for a whole host of reasons which I don't have enough time to get into.
1) Winston is 2nd in the NFL over his tenure in turnovers - to Blake Bortles. Flat out: Teams with high turnovers (which the Bucs have always had with Winston) do not win consistently.
2) When you have a bad defense you can't turn the ball over. You have to play situational football.
3) Jameis is in his 4th year and
still struggles to identify defenses, make the right reads, lead his WRs in the quick game, and hit a deep ball.
4) Jameis is one incident away from a year-long suspension.
5) Comparing Winston to Brees is a straw man because Brees played in a completely different NFL. This is the most QB friendly era (and QB friendly year) in NFL history.
6) Winston throws for lots of yards but doesn't score many points. Bucs have been 16th or worse in scoring every year he's started.
7) He struggles in the red zone.
I could go on and on and on. The reality is that Winston is a high ceiling low floor QB who is incredibly inconsistent. He combines highlight reel plays with unbelievably boneheaded ones. But at the end of the day his no. 1 problem is he turns the ball over too much. You cannot win in the NFL with any consistency with so many turnovers. And he hasn't changed.