Former Bucs Safety Frustrated With Usage In Tampa Bay

Have you ever ever had a single state of affairs at work eat at you?

I imply, actually gnaw at your core.

Perhaps it was a single unhealthy buyer who actually reduce you deep. Maybe it was a promotion you had been hoping to get that you simply in the end bought handed over for. These conditions sit with us. And sometimes, they stew and develop.

Quickly, you end up searching for different issues to strengthen that unhealthy occasion as a development. The one unhealthy buyer causes you to keep in mind that different one unhealthy buyer. Then one other.

Fairly quickly, all you keep in mind are the unhealthy clients and the 91% of shoppers you work together with who’re good-to-amazing fall away out of your consciousness. The missed promotion reminds you of the opposite occasions you didn’t get a increase. Ultimately, you neglect the coaching and funding the corporate has made in you that can assist you get to the place you at the moment are. It appears former Bucs security Jordan Whitehead can establish with the remainder of us.

Following an OTA exercise with the Jets on Wednesday, Whitehead spoke briefly about a few of his frustrations from his time with the Bucs.

“I might come out on third down, typically. I simply felt like I used to be making sufficient performs, and I used to be being a pacesetter on the group. It simply felt like I ought to have been within the recreation,” he mentioned. “I’m a group participant, and it’s a team-first mentality, however I positively was annoyed. I believe anyone can be.”

So, How A lot Did The Bucs Use Whitehead?

Whitehead takes situation together with his utilization with the Bucs. That is curious contemplating how a lot he performed. Through the common season, Whitehead was in on 88% of the Bucs’ defensive snaps. Through the playoffs, that quantity scaled as much as 91%.

However let’s face information.

Whitehead wasn’t on the sector for the play. 

You recognize which one I’m speaking about. In the event you don’t, let me refresh your reminiscence.

Zero blitz.

Cooper Kupp.

Yeah, that one. In that second, with the sport on the road, Todd Bowles elected to go along with a defensive backfield of Antoine Winfield, Jr., Carlton Davis III, Sean Murphy-Bunting, Jamel Dean and Mike Edwards. However not Whitehead. In the event you had been an elite athlete taking part in on the largest stage doable, wouldn’t you need to be within the recreation through the play that in the end determined the end result? Whitehead actually did.

Whitehead Needs To Be A Half Of The Huge Moments

It’s one factor to play quite a bit. It’s one other to be within the recreation when it actually issues. The NFL world was up in arms when Josh Allen by no means bought an opportunity to reply the bell after Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs scored in time beyond regulation of their AFC Divisional Spherical matchup. The concept that throughout essentially the most essential moments of the sport, Allen didn’t actually have a probability to get on the sector didn’t sit effectively with Allen, Payments followers and NFL followers as a complete.

It stands to motive that Whitehead would really feel equally about not having the ability to have an effect on the end result of an enormous recreation he was taking part in in.

However the distinction between the 2 is that Allen was the sufferer of a horrible time beyond regulation rule. Whitehead was the sufferer of Bowles’ determination. And following an offseason the place he had to consider that closing drive and the way he wasn’t part of it, Whitehead doubtless started to think about all the opposite performs he wasn’t on the sector for that he felt he ought to have been.

Followers and training staffs alike need passionate gamers who need to be part of the massive moments. Whitehead actually is a passionate participant who desires to be in through the recreation’s largest moments. He has been candid about how he felt a couple of determination he didn’t agree with.

He has additionally been extraordinarily complimentary of his coaches over time. I don’t at all times agree with my bosses. Most individuals don’t. Whitehead shows lots of similarities to all of us in how he handles skilled adversity. The distinction, although, is he has to do it on a really public stage. I get it, Jordan. I hope others do as effectively.